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24 alternatives to I built an iOS app that turns EPUBs into audiobooks
I had a bunch of ebooks with no audiobook version available. So I built an iOS app that converts EPUB files into audiobooks using text-to-speech. Two voice options: - Free on-device voices (processed locally, no server needed) - Natural cloud voices (one-time purchase per book, no subscription) Cloud conversion runs chunk by chunk. You can start listening other chapters generate in the background. Once done, the audiobook lives on your device. No account required. No subscription. You import your own EPUBs and either use device TTS for free or pay per book for the cloud voices. Nothing…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 2 we have checked on their own sites, 2 of them free or with a free tier.
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Turn any EPUB into an audiobook with AI voices in iOS
Jun 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Turn Ebooks into Audiobooksfree tier▲34Create AI voiceovers with 1500+ voices in 80+ languages. Use text to speech, voice cloning, and studio controls for videos, audiobooks, courses, and ads.
2019 · auditus.cc · its alternatives →
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I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-Speechfree tier, from $15/mo▲140Hey HN. I’m Ivan, hacker from Ukraine. For about a year, I was working on Listenly — an app to listen to text content with OpenAI's natural-sounding text-to-speech model. At some moment, I realized that it would be cool to take all the public domain e-books and create audio versions for them. So I did it... kind-of. It would cost an immense amount of money to generate all the audio right away (OpenAI TTS costs approximately $0.84/hour of audio; 11labs, for comparison, is 10 times more expensive). So, I took a more gradual approach. I took all the metadata from the Project Gutenberg…
2024 · listenly.io · its alternatives →
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A way to generate .mp3 files from ePUB. I wanted to continue "reading" even after my eyes got tired or if I went away from the screen. For these cases, what I did was select a given text, and select "Speech". If you've used this before, you know it's fine for small sections, but not for big chunks of text. So, I challenged myself to create a project that would "text-to-speech" a given book. After some attempts, I came up with a good-enough initial version using Golang. It will parse an ePUB into sections and run MacOS's `say` command to generate audio files. For now it's quite basic, but…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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QuickPiperAudiobook locally generates an mp3 audiobook on Linux with one easy command. It can convert PDFs, epub, mobi, and many more by using ebook-convert. It uses any piper TTS model, and thus supports a wide variety of languages. I've had great success using it to read more while reducing eye strain and computer usage. I think I've probably read 30 or so books this way now over the past year. Being able to listen to any content you want in audio form free and offline while going for a walk is extremely handy. I hope it helps you as well! Cheers
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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EPUB.to converts EPUB to PDF, MOBI, AZW3, TXT, and more. Convert any document to EPUB for e-readers. The easiest way to manage, convert, and optimize eBook files online for free.
2021 · epub.to · its alternatives →
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Hi, I made a thing! This is by far the most work I've ever sunk into a side project; I've been working on this thing for over two years, and I'm super proud of it, even though there's still a lot more to do! Storyteller is a self-hosted platform for ebooks with synced narration. This is basically self-hosted WhisperSync, for anyone familiar with that Amazon product. It's currently made up of two self-hostable backend systems and a mobile app for reading and listening to the books it produces. Technically it uses an open spec, EPUB 3's "Media Overlay", for syncing the narration, but very few…
2023 · smoores.gitlab.io · its alternatives →
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Outtloud▲208Create unlimited audiobooks & podcasts from your documents!
2025 · outtloud.com · its alternatives →
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HearIt▲81Create your own audio books from any file for free.
2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Read faster, stay focused & absorb more - Create Audiobooks
2017 · speechify.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN community! I'm excited to introduce a project I've recently launched: Oration, an iOS app designed to convert PDFs into audiobooks. This idea was inspired by my experiences as an engineering student with ADHD, struggling to engage with dense academic papers. Relying on Text-to-Speech tools, despite their robotic quality, was a workaround for me and others with similar learning preferences or challenges, such as Dyslexia. Recognizing the limitations of existing tools—difficulty with complex formats, inability to skip over citations or footnotes, and inadequate handling of tables,…
2024 · oration.app · its alternatives →
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ElevenLabs & Spotify make audiobook publishing effortless
2025 · findawayvoices.com · its alternatives →
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Audiorista▲87No code app builder for audio, podcasts, ebooks & video
2023 · audiorista.com · its alternatives →
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Convert EPUB into audiobook with high-quality neural voices
Feb 2026 · audiobook-maker.com · its alternatives →
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Generage audiobook from .epub using cloud GPU. Contribute to haron/epub-to-audiobook development by creating an account on GitHub.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Shown HN: Lue - Terminal eBook Reader with Text-to-Speech Hello, Just went live on GitHub with this project. I really enjoy listening to my eBooks as audiobooks but was frustrated by the available options. Converting books into audiobooks with scripts is tedious, and most tools stumble over footnotes, headers, or formatting. I wanted something simple: just throw a book at it, and it starts reading immediately without any clicking or loading. I also wanted it to be customizable and modular because new, better TTS engines are released all the time. For this initial release, I settled on Edge…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ReadBit▲122Read wisely & save time with text-to-speech audiobook reader
2021 · readbit.app · its alternatives →
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Heard is an offline iOS EPUB reader with natural text-to-speech. Listen to your own EPUB books or 56 included classics on iPhone—no ads or accounts.
Jul 2026 · heard.quest · its alternatives →
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