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.