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Ghost Reader Live
Turn PDFs, EPUBs and web pages into narrated audio, entirely on your iPhone
You get natural-sounding narration of your own documents with no account and nothing uploaded, for a one-time price rather than a Speechify-sized subscription.
Ghost Reader Live reads PDFs, EPUBs, web articles and text files aloud on the iPhone, with all speech generated on the device so documents never leave it. Words and sentences highlight as they are spoken and the page scrolls along. There are several voices, speeds from 0.5x to 2x, chapter navigation and bookmarks for EPUBs, lock-screen and headphone controls, a sleep timer and MP3 export. A library keeps your place in each document. No signup is needed. Thirty minutes of narration a day are free, and lifetime access is $19.99. It needs iOS 18 and an iPhone 12 or newer, and is 357 MB.
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