• The play and pause control no longer shows the wrong state after you skip or change speed. What the button shows now matches what you are hearing. • About shows the build number next to the version, which makes a support message easier to answer.

Pictures, and a font that helps. • Illustrated books now show their illustrations, in place between paragraphs and sized to the page rather than stretched to fill it. • OpenDyslexic joins System, Serif and Monospaced in the font picker. It was drawn to make letters harder to mistake for one another, and it grows with your text size the same way the other faces do. • Books open faster, illustrated ones most of all, and the app stays responsive while a long book loads. • The page follows the voice more closely, and "Back to current" reliably returns you to the word being read, including when a full-page picture sits between you and it.

Reader now shows a single banner ad above the text while you read - no full-screen ads, and nothing that interrupts playback. In the EU, UK and Switzerland you'll be asked once about your data; you can revisit that choice in About › Privacy Options.

Words that read two ways now read the right way. "There was a tear in his shirt" and "a tear rolled down her cheek" are spelled the same and spoken differently. Until now one of them came out wrong. This release decides them by meaning, so tear, wind, bow, row, lead, sow, dove, bass and wound get the reading the sentence actually calls for. The work happens on your device while the next chapter is being prepared, so playback never waits on it and nothing about your book is sent anywhere. Requires an iPhone with Apple Intelligence; everything else in the app works as before. Also in this release: - Playback starts sooner. Each passage is prepared as it is queued instead of all at once. - Starting partway through a paragraph keeps the right pronunciation instead of resetting it. The word list is the real lexicon, not invented: bass, bow, dove, lead, row, sow, tear, wind, wound and their plurals.