Beautiful images, elegant formatting, graceful page turning or scrolling, and precisely customized color and contrast. Contents live from Project Gutenberg with last-minute update, more than 60,000 most important books ever published in history. Plus more than 7,000 human-read audio books.
Number of Books: No other apps have more Gutenberg books, and many competitors are missing some classic Gutenberg books.
Reading: Texts and images are presented by a sophisticated book reader: beautiful presentation, graceful page turning, and the most intelligent Table of Contents (better than any other book reader for the same book).
Listening: There are more than 6,000 human-read audio books. In addition. Full control through headset: pause, play, skip to next/previous track, forward/backward seeking.
Read-along: Audio and Text are synchronized when possible. You can read, listen, or read-Along, and switch between them at will.
Export: Export a book together with your bookmarks and the notes that you insert in the book to anyone and any device, or save it in google drive, one drive, or iCloud.
Used both the free and the paid versions. For $2.99 you are free from the pop-up. However, if you are unwilling to part with your $2.99, you can continue to use the free version without limit, that was what I did in the past until I finally decided that I deserve to enjoying my reading in peace.
TTS
Nansdogo
I use TTS and it works pretty good. The voices actually have some inflection in them so they sound pretty good. Every once in awhile it gets stuck and I get a spoken error message that I think says something like “evaluate the owner of string”. I just turn it off and restart it and go back to page.
Developer Response
Hi, NansdogoThank you for using the TTS feature in our app. It is our belief that TTS is improving rapidly in the last few years and it will soon be able to do most of the readings where the display of human emotion is not critical or needed and where human-read books are not available. One additional advantage of TTS is that the voice is always very clear and steady and no-objectionably human noises are present.Wish you many hours of happy reading and listening in Gutenberg App.Himalaya_soft Support
Nothing to see here
Rdwing64
This is nothing more than you can find on any one of a dozen free “classic” book apps. I’m reading some Hemingway on the free Gutenberg website, but the PDF formatting can be a bit challenging. So I figured I would find the same here in a more reader friendly format. Wrong. Just the same old Sherlock Holmes and Jane Austen that litter the free readers that are rampant in the App Store. Save yourself three bucks and run from this thing as fast as you can.
Developer Response
Hi, Rdwing64There is a free version of this app, identical in functionality to the paid version. Most people would use this free version before they feel the need to pay a $2.99.Please do contact Apple's App Store for a refund if you are not satisfied with your purchase. It is our desire to make all our customers appreciate the value of our product and service.Thank you for sharing with us your experience and wish you many happy readings of Gutenberg books.Himalaya-Soft Support
Updated for better compatibility with the latest iOS version.
Improved the book reading, text-to-speech, and audiobook listening experience.
Includes general bug fixes and performance improvements.
Version 26.5
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Information
Seller
Frank Young
Size
28.1 MB
Category
Books
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Infrequent Profanity or Crude Humor Mature or Suggestive Themes Horror/Fear Themes Medical Treatment information Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References Sexual Content or Nudity Guns or Other Weapons
Contains Unrestricted Web Access Advertising Health or Wellness Topics
