HushBook: Audiobook Read Along

Word-by-Word Text & Ebook Sync

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

New in 1.3.5: highlight a line or save a quote while the book plays, and find it again in Quotes & notes. Hold your iPad sideways for a two-page spread. Your mind wanders, and the narrator keeps going. HushBook turns audiobooks and ebooks into word-by-word karaoke. Read while listening, and never lose your place. Add an audiobook you own and HushBook transcribes it on your iPhone or iPad. That part is free, for every book. Have the ebook too? Add it, and the page follows the narrator. Your audio never goes to a cloud service, and there's no account to make. READ ALONG, WORD BY WORD • Each word lights up as it's spoken, at any speed from 0.5x to 3x • Press and hold any line to play from there • A calm cover view for listening, and a full reading page when you want the text • Hold your iPad sideways for a two-page spread, like an open book • Text a beat off from the voice? Nudge it one word at a time with Align narration • Not in English? The Universal engine transcribes books in many other languages AUDIOBOOK AND EBOOK, IN SYNC • Read the real ebook text, lit word by word as the narrator reads • EPUB, PDF, MOBI and TXT. Sync works with English ebooks • Search inside the ebook • Your first ebook is free. More ebooks need HushBook Pro HIGHLIGHTS, NOTES AND QUOTES • Highlight a line or save a quote while the book keeps playing • Add a note to anything you mark • Quotes & notes keeps them by book. Tap one to go back to that exact moment • Share a quote as an image card YOUR BOOKS, YOUR FILES • Import from Files: MP3, M4B, M4A, AAC, FLAC, WAV, OGG, Opus and more • Connect your Audiobookshelf server and download your books • Search by title, author or narrator, and swipe to mark a book finished • Home shows the book you're on, your streak and the words you read today FREE CLASSICS Thousands of public-domain audiobooks from LibriVox and the Internet Archive, free to download and play offline. Browse themed rows and genres, or filter by language and length. Hear a 30-second sample before you download. BUILT FOR HOW YOU READ Pick a reading profile and HushBook sets the app up around it. • Dyslexia & ADHD: OpenDyslexic, a colored reading overlay and adjustable text size • Low Vision: Atkinson Hyperlegible, extra-large captions, stronger contrast and bold text • Focused Reader: a calm serif reading page and a quick focus check-in after you listen Eight reading fonts in all, including Lexend, Andika and Comic Neue. A LITTLE COMPANY • Pick a hand-drawn companion from 14 animals. It greets you on Home and lives in your Profile's reading nook • Map who's who: hand-drawn faces for the characters, and the ties between them THE SMALL THINGS • Rest days: earn one for every 7 days in a row, so a missed day doesn't break your streak • Smart Rewind backs up 3 to 20 seconds when you press play, depending on how long you were away • Sleep timer by minutes or at the end of a chapter. In its last minute the screen warms and dims • ±30 s skips from the Lock Screen, Control Center and AirPods • Home Screen quick actions, and Light, Dark or Auto appearance FREE AND PRO Free: transcription and read-along for every book, highlights, notes and quotes, Discover, Audiobookshelf downloads, the character map, companions, streaks with rest days, milestone badges and your first ebook. HushBook Pro (subscription or one-time purchase) adds: • Analytics across This week, Habits and Books: a reading engagement score, finish-by forecasts, personal records, goals, a listening calendar, and month and year in review • Per-book Insights: your pace, sessions and check-in journal • Unlimited ebooks • Audiobookshelf progress sync • An English dictionary for the words you don't know • Extra cover designs and four alternate app icons • HushBook Desktop: transcribe on your computer, and move a book with its transcript and ebook as a .hushbook file Terms of Use (EULA): https://hushbook.app/terms-conditions Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://hushbook.app/privacy-policy

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This isn't an update so much as a move into a bigger house. Your books came with you, and every room got redone. (We stopped counting at 1,600 changes.) A NEW PLAYER • A calm cover view and a real reading page for read-along, with a lamp that lights up for play and pause • Mark as you listen: highlight words, add a note or save a quote, in transcripts and e-books • Tablets get an open-book, two-page spread • Align narration: nudge the text a word at a time if it drifts from the narrator • The sleep timer warms and dims the screen in its last minute QUOTES & NOTES • Every highlight, note and quote in one place, grouped by book. Tap one to jump back to that exact moment HOME & LIBRARY • A new Today card: your streak, words read today and your week at a glance • The Library is now one searchable reading list: Continue, filters, list or grid, and swipe to mark finished or set aside • Narrators show on the book page ("Read by"), and you can search by them • Audiobookshelf books show up on Home and in your Library DISCOVER • A fresh look with themed rows, genres and filters for language and length • Play a 30-second sample before you download YOUR READING, IN NUMBERS • Analytics rebuilt into This week, Habits and Books: finish-by forecasts, personal records, a listening calendar, month and year in review (Pro) • Each book's Insights tab fits on one page: where you are, time left and your pace • Rest days: miss a day now and then without losing your streak A LITTLE COMPANY • Pick a hand-drawn companion from 14 animals. They live in a cosy reading nook on your Profile and switch the lamp on in dark mode • The character map gets hand-drawn faces and simpler ties UNDER THE HOOD • Sharper transcripts: fewer skipped lines, and no phantom "thank you" at the end of a chapter • E-book sync matches better and runs on more phones • Pair HushBook Desktop to transcribe on your computer, and move a book with its transcript and e-book between devices as a .hushbook file (Pro) • Appearance: Light, Dark or Auto • ±30 s skips on the Lock Screen, Control Center and AirPods, Home Screen quick actions, and dark and tinted app icons • Plenty of fixes and speed-ups Happy listening!

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Seller
Rakesh Aditya
Size
331 MB
Category
Books
Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 16.4 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 13.3 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Languages
English and 18 more
  • English, Arabic, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Age Rating
4+
In-App Purchases
Yes
  • HushBook Pro Lifetime $99.99
  • HushBook Pro Annual $29.99
  • HushBook Pro Monthly $9.99
Copyright
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