Rewind 30 seconds or replay the current sentence from the expanded player. Share web pages and supported documents directly from Safari or Files into Ghost Reader. Choose 15, 30, or 45 minutes of prepared audio with clearer, more accurate readiness progress. Improved long-listening stability and playback recovery across prepared sections. General reliability improvements.

EPUBs just got better. Jump between chapters, bookmark favorite passages, and browse your book with ease. Read-along mode is now smoother and keeps the narration in focus. Plus, enjoy 30 free minutes of narration every day.

• Free listening now includes 15 minutes of narration each day. • Improved lock-screen, headphone, and sleep-timer playback controls. • Open documents directly in Focus mode while your selected voice prepares. • A new location control makes it easier to move around long documents.

A LIBRARY WORTH OPENING Your home screen just grew up. Every document now shows its cover, source (PDF · EPUB · WEB · MD), reading time, and progress at a glance. The book you were last listening to gets a hero spot at the top — one tap and you're back where you stopped. PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF Set it and we'll send a gentle nudge to come back to your reading. Tap the notification and you're playing in seconds. POCKET TTS, POLISHED Word-by-word highlighting now stays glued to the voice — no more drift on long, multi-clause sentences. Switching voices mid-listen works exactly as you'd expect: instantly, no restart. Read on.

Stability fix — crashes during background playback are resolved. Narration now runs in the foreground for smooth, uninterrupted listening.

New in Ghost Reader 1.4.5: POCKET TTS ENGINE (BETA) A second neural voice engine is now available with 8 new voices. Pocket TTS uses CPU-only inference for lower memory usage — great for longer listening sessions. Find it in the voice picker, marked as Beta. EXPANDED DEVICE SUPPORT Ghost Reader now runs on iPhone 12 and newer — previously required iPhone 15 Pro or later. Both Kokoro and Pocket TTS engines are optimised for 4 GB devices. EXPANDED DEVICE SUPPORT Ghost Reader now runs on iPhone 12 and newer (previously required newer hardware). Both Kokoro and Pocket TTS engines are optimised for 4 GB devices. BUG FIXES - Improved engine recycling to prevent memory buildup during long narrations - Performance improvements

Bug Fixes: - Fixed numbers like "5.20" being mispronounced as abbreviations - Fixed unnatural pauses on hyphenated words (e.g. "well-known") - Fixed "twenty" and numbers in the 20s being read incorrectly - Fixed word highlight drift in long sentences

Try before you subscribe — Ghost Reader now includes 5 free narrations so you can experience the app before committing. No paywall on first  Lifetime access — prefer to pay once? A new one-time purchase option gives you permanent access with no recurring charges.