Continuum: Read & Listen

Name: Continuum: Read & Listen
Rating: 2 (1 reviews)
Author: RJ DIGITAL HUB SLU

EPUB & Audiobook Sync

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

1 Rating
Age Rating

4+
Years
Category

Books
Developer

RJ DIGITAL HUB SLU
Language

EN
+ 9 More
Size

30.7
MB

Read and listen to the same book without losing your place. Switch between text and audio whenever you want, now also from CarPlay. Read your ePub and listen to its audiobook, at the same time. Continuum is the only app built for immersive reading: text and audio playing together, always in sync, always at your pace. Import your own files, link them once, and read or listen interchangeably, your furthest point is always saved, regardless of format. IMMERSIVE READING MODE Follow the ePub text while the audiobook plays. The chapter starts when the audio chapter starts. Ideal for language learners, students, and readers with dyslexia. ONE PROGRESS BAR. TWO FORMATS. Read 3 chapters. Listen to 2 more. Continuum tracks your furthest point across both, automatically. No confusion, no lost place. SCAN A PAPER PAGE. JUMP TO THE EBOOK. Reading a physical book? Photograph the page you stopped on. Continuum uses OCR to find that exact spot in your ePub instantly. Switch from paper to digital without losing your place. CHAPTER SYNC WIZARD Link your ePub to your audiobook chapter by chapter, once. Continuum handles the rest. Edit any pair manually when chapters don't match exactly. EPUB READER Customizable fonts, sizes, line spacing, and background color. Highlights, annotations, bookmarks. Full-text search across the entire book. OpenDyslexic font support. AUDIO PLAYER Supports MP3, M4B, and M4A. Speed from 0.5x to 3x. Sleep timer up to 1h30. Skip forward 30s / back 15s. Chapter navigation. YOUR LIBRARY Shelf or list view. Sort by title, date added, or recently played. Track hours read, hours listened, and your reading streak. Full backup export and import. iCloud sync across all your Apple devices. YOUR FILES. YOUR DEVICE. Your privacy. No account. No subscription. No tracking. Works exclusively with DRM-free files. Import from iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, or Humble Bundle. No store lock-in. No ecosystem restrictions. One-time purchase. Yours forever. Terms of Use: https://continuumreader.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://continuumreader.app/privacy.html

Ratings & Reviews

2.0

out of 5

1 Ratings

Promising but needs work & trust
16 Aug
YohoTB
The idea is good but I had to pay (and refund) £5 to discover ebooks and audiobooks don't sync instantly, line spacing setting doesn't work and unless I'm mistaken, there is no highlighting of the words spoken aloud. It would be great if you could let people try the app before asking them to commit money upfront, to see how it works. So many apps are slop nowadays without any quality control, so it would be a good step towards gaining trust and goodwill towards potential customers

Developer Response
Thank you for taking the time to write this. I'm sorry it cost you a purchase to find out the app wasn't what you pictured, and your point about trying before paying is a fair one, I'll come back to it.On how the sync works: Continuum matches a text to its audiobook by creating sync points through a guided wizard where you set them. It's assisted syncing, not instant automatic alignment, and that's described in the App Store screenshots and text. If that wasn't clear enough before purchase, that's on me to make plainer.Word-by-word highlighting as the narrator speaks is a different beast: doing it would require an infrastructure (full audio transcription and mapping) that only a subscription model could sustain, and staying a one-time purchase with no subscription matters more to us than that feature. So it's deliberately not there, and we've never claimed it.On quality: I'll gently push back, with respect. Continuum is something we build and use ourselves, heavily, every day, precisely because we're as tired as you are of apps shipped without care. It's had a lot of testing. That doesn't mean it fits everyone's expectations, clearly it didn't fit yours, but it isn't shipped carelessly.And on trying before buying: you're right that paying blind is a poor experience, and it's the feedback I'm sitting with most. Thank you for it.— Xus, Continuum
Promising but needs work & trust
16 Aug
YohoTB

The idea is good but I had to pay (and refund) £5 to discover ebooks and audiobooks don't sync instantly, line spacing setting doesn't work and unless I'm mistaken, there is no highlighting of the words spoken aloud. It would be great if you could let people try the app before asking them to commit money upfront, to see how it works. So many apps are slop nowadays without any quality control, so it would be a good step towards gaining trust and goodwill towards potential customers
Developer Response 18 Aug
Thank you for taking the time to write this. I'm sorry it cost you a purchase to find out the app wasn't what you pictured, and your point about trying before paying is a fair one, I'll come back to it.On how the sync works: Continuum matches a text to its audiobook by creating sync points through a guided wizard where you set them. It's assisted syncing, not instant automatic alignment, and that's described in the App Store screenshots and text. If that wasn't clear enough before purchase, that's on me to make plainer.Word-by-word highlighting as the narrator speaks is a different beast: doing it would require an infrastructure (full audio transcription and mapping) that only a subscription model could sustain, and staying a one-time purchase with no subscription matters more to us than that feature. So it's deliberately not there, and we've never claimed it.On quality: I'll gently push back, with respect. Continuum is something we build and use ourselves, heavily, every day, precisely because we're as tired as you are of apps shipped without care. It's had a lot of testing. That doesn't mean it fits everyone's expectations, clearly it didn't fit yours, but it isn't shipped carelessly.And on trying before buying: you're right that paying blind is a poor experience, and it's the feedback I'm sitting with most. Thank you for it.— Xus, Continuum

Minor bug fixes

Version 2.2 8 Aug

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Information

Provider: RJ DIGITAL HUB SLU
Size: 30.7 MB
Category: Books
Compatibility: Requires iOS 17.0 or later.

iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.

iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.

Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Languages: English and 9 more

English, Catalan, Finnish, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
Age Rating: 4+

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In-App Purchases: Yes

Continuum £4.99

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