Lumen Reader: Audiobooks
Read or listen, any URL or PDF
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Paste any link, get a clean book + audiobook in seconds. Lock-screen playback, sleep timer, full offline. Built-in library of classics. No ads. No account.
Lumen Reader turns any webpage, EPUB, PDF, or DOCX into a clean audiobook with on-device narration, lock-screen controls, and word-by-word highlights. Paste a link, tap Listen — no ads, no account, no subscription.
PASTE A LINK. GET AN AUDIOBOOK.
Found a 10,000-word essay you'd never sit down to read? An hour-long blog post? A web-novel chapter buried under five ad slots? Paste the URL into Lumen. The page is stripped of pop-ups, trackers, cookie walls, newsletter dialogs, and "related articles" carousels — then handed to a natural narrator that starts reading aloud while you keep walking, cooking, or driving.
POCKET AUDIO PLAYER
Lumen feels like a podcast app, not a reading app, when you want it to. The big Listen button is on every book and every imported article. Lock-screen controls let you play, pause, scrub, skip back 15 s, or jump chapter without unlocking your phone. AirPods double-tap, CarPlay, Dynamic Island, and Bluetooth headphones all work out of the box. Background audio keeps the narrator going when the screen is off.
OR READ INSTEAD
The same content is also a beautifully typeset, minimalist reader. Three themes (Dark, Sepia, Light) and four type families (Georgia serif, sans, rounded, OpenDyslexic) tuned for multi-hour sessions. Sentence-granular highlights in five colours, per-chapter bookmarks, and a notes catalog searchable across every book. A soft amber word-highlight scrolls along the page in time with the audio when you read and listen at the same time.
BUILT-IN LIBRARY
Open the app and there's already something to read or listen to. A curated catalog of public-domain titles is one tap away:
• The Holy Bible (King James Version)
• The Holy Qur-ān (public-domain English translation)
• The Bhagavad Gita
• The Dhammapada · Tao Te Ching · Analects of Confucius
• Meditations (Marcus Aurelius) · The Art of War · Walden
• Pride and Prejudice · Frankenstein · Dracula · Moby-Dick
• Sherlock Holmes · Alice in Wonderland · The Iliad & The Odyssey
• …plus developer docs (Snowflake, Databricks) rendered on-device.
Books download straight from canonical archives like Project Gutenberg in seconds — no account, yours forever.
YOUR OWN FILES TOO
Drop EPUB, PDF, DOCX, TXT, Markdown, or HTML in from Files, iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, or OneDrive. Lumen parses chapters into the same clean reader and audiobook UI.
ONE LIBRARY ON EVERY DEVICE
iCloud syncs your reading progress, highlights, notes, and imported books across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro — silently, with no login. Start a chapter on your phone, finish it on your iPad with the audio resuming at the exact word.
OFFLINE BY DEFAULT
Every page and audio session is generated on-device. Once a book is downloaded, you never need a signal to re-open it.
PRIVACY
No account. No analytics. No tracking. Highlights, notes, and progress stay in your own iCloud — never on our servers. The app talks only to the page you explicitly paste, or runs entirely offline against the bundled library.
FINE PRINT
Every catalog title is public domain or permissively licensed. Lumen does not bundle copyrighted prose and does not redistribute from its own servers — downloads go straight from the canonical archive to your device. For pages or files you import, you're responsible for the rights.
Read it. Hear it. Pocket it.
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1.0.6 — Long downloads now survive your phone locking. Fixes a bug where a multi-chapter web novel would lose every chapter it had already downloaded if the screen turned off mid-import.
• Lock your phone, walk away, come back — your in-flight downloads pick up exactly where they left off. Previously, locking the device for more than ~30 seconds during a long download could wipe the partial book from the library and force you to start over from chapter 1. Now the already-downloaded chapters stay in your library (and stay readable), and the rest of the scrape resumes automatically the moment you unlock the phone.
• Auto-resume across app launches. If iOS shut Lumen down while a 900-chapter import was running, opening the app again now continues the download from the next un-downloaded chapter instead of leaving it paused. Manually paused downloads still wait for you to tap Resume — only OS-initiated pauses auto-restart.
• No other user-visible changes in this build.
The developer, SAMANTH GURRAM, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- SAMANTH GURRAM
- Size
- 103.1 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Samanth Gurram
