Issa Reader

Read a book and hear it at the same time. Each sentence lights up as the narrator reaches it, the page turns itself to follow, and you can stop reading, keep listening, and pick up on the same sentence. Issa Reader is a native app for Storyteller, the self-hosted server that aligns an ebook with its audiobook. Bring your own server and your own books. There is no shop, no catalogue and no account with us. WHAT YOU NEED Your library and read-along come from a Storyteller server you run yourself. Without one, you can still read DRM-free EPUBs from Files or iCloud Drive, kept on this device alone. READ ALONG This is what Storyteller is for. Where a book has narration aligned to its text, each sentence lights up as it is spoken, the page turns itself to follow, and double-tapping a line starts the narrator there. Your place is shared between reading and listening, so the two stay in step. READ A real typesetting engine, not a web view. Pages are laid out natively, so turning one is instant and the type is properly set. Six bundled reading faces, including Literata, Source Serif 4 and OpenDyslexic, or add a font of your own. Four page themes for daylight, lamplight and the middle of the night. Size, line spacing and justification are yours to set, per book or for everything. LISTEN Variable speed with pitch correction, chapter and sentence navigation, skip controls, a sleep timer, and full Now Playing support on the Lock Screen and in Control Centre. ASK ABOUT THE BOOK Lost track of who someone is? Ask. On devices with Apple Intelligence, the answer is worked out on your device from the part you have already read, never from further on. MADE FOR IPHONE DUO Open and held wide, a book reads as two pages either side of the fold, and your shelf sits beside the book you chose. Prop it open like a laptop and a narrated book shows the sentence on the upper half and the player on the lower. Closed, the reader's tools stand in a rail down the side. IN THE CAR CarPlay gives you your shelves and chapters as proper lists, with Now Playing and a resume that lands on the sentence you left, not somewhere near it. Steering-wheel buttons, headphone controls and on-screen controls can each be remapped independently. YOUR WHOLE LIBRARY, ON DEVICE The catalogue is fetched once and kept locally, so searching by title, author, narrator, series or tag is instant and works with no signal at all. Download books to read and listen offline. ON EVERY SCREEN A Home Screen widget shows your current book, chapter and progress. Native apps for Apple TV and the Mac are included, and Handoff carries your place between them. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION No account with us, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking. The developer receives no data of any kind. Issa Reader is open source under the MIT licence, written in Swift, and respects Dynamic Type, VoiceOver and reduced motion throughout. Issa Reader is an independent client and is not affiliated with the Storyteller project.