Turn any ebook into an audiobook
You bought them. You may as well hear them.
You own the books. You have simply run out of eyes. PhonoLeaf reads them
aloud so they come along with you, on the walk, the commute, or the
washing up. It keeps playing when your screen locks. It remembers your
exact place, down to the paragraph. And it never makes you wait for a
whole book to convert, because the voice is made on your phone as it
reads.
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- Keeps reading with the screen locked
- Remembers your exact place
- Works offline in a tunnel or on a plane
- Natural voices made on your phone
- 0.5× to 2× reading speed
- Sleep timer for bedtime chapters
- Follow-along highlighting
- Your Google Drive or a phone folder
- English and French
- Listening stats and a yearly Wrapped
- Friends only with your code
- No account to invent
- Keeps reading with the screen locked
- Remembers your exact place
- Works offline in a tunnel or on a plane
- Natural voices made on your phone
- 0.5× to 2× reading speed
- Sleep timer for bedtime chapters
- Follow-along highlighting
- Your Google Drive or a phone folder
- English and French
- Listening stats and a yearly Wrapped
- Friends only with your code
- No account to invent
Four ways other apps let you down
The other apps in this category fail in roughly the same four places. We
know, because we read their one-star reviews. These are the four.
✓Survives your pocket
Playback carries on when your phone is locked or buried in a coat, with play, pause, page and chapter controls on the lock screen. It does not go silent thirty seconds after the screen does, leaving you to discover it four streets later.
✓Remembers, so you do not have to
Your position is saved per book, down to the paragraph, across pauses, chapters, restarts and days. Not roughly where you were. Not the start of the chapter. Where you were.
✓No waiting room
Nothing is uploaded and nothing joins a processing queue, so you never wait for an entire book before you can hear a word of it. The voice is made on your phone as it reads, sentence by sentence, which means the voice never waits on a server having a bad morning. Your voice downloads once, when you pick it, and after that a new page starts in about a second.
✓Entirely at ease in a tunnel
Save a book and it plays in airplane mode, on the metro, or in the stretch of countryside where your map app quietly gives up. The voice stays exactly the same. It never swaps itself for a robotic one just because your signal looked a bit thin.
Everything else, done properly
A voice that lasts a whole novel
A neural voice that runs entirely on your device, with a choice of accents and voices to suit the book. On a phone that cannot manage it, your system voice steps in and the reading carries on regardless of what your hardware thinks of the idea.
It looks like an actual bookshelf
Real cover art pulled out of each ebook, search, chapter jumping, and reading speed from 0.5× for poetry up to 2× for the business book someone made you read.
Numbers to feel quietly smug about
Hours listened, a day streak, and a breakdown by author, book, genre or book length. Nobody sees them unless you choose to share, so the smugness is yours to ration and the boasting still happens in person.
Warm paper, or a dark forest
A warm paper theme by day, a dim forest one at night, or it follows your system and settles the matter for you, which is one decision back.
Three steps, and the hardest part is choosing the book
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Sign in with Google
Used only to reach the ebook files in your own Drive. There is no PhonoLeaf account, no password to invent, and no newsletter.
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Choose the folder your ebooks live in
Pick a folder in Google Drive or on your device. Drop more ebooks in later and they simply turn up, with nothing to select again.
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Press play and go do the dishes
Pick a book and listen. PhonoLeaf remembers exactly where you stopped, in every book, including the one you abandoned in March.
The numbers, without the games
Everything is included whichever one you pick. Every book, every voice, no
charge per title, and no cap on hours. You already paid for the books once.
Monthly
$2.99 / month
Billed monthly. Cancel from your store account, with no phone call to make.
Save over 40%
Annual
$19.99 / year
Works out to $1.67 a month, for people who prefer deciding once.
First 500 only
Founding Member
$49.99 once
A single payment, for access lasting as long as PhonoLeaf runs. Limited to the first 500. We say "as long as PhonoLeaf runs" rather than "forever" because forever is not ours to promise.
How the plans differ
| Plan detail | Monthly | Annual | Founding Member |
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| You pay | Every month | Once a year | Once, and never again |
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| Over three years | $107.64 | $59.97 | $49.99 |
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| Renews automatically | Yes, until you cancel | Yes, until you cancel | No, there is nothing to cancel |
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| If our prices change | 30 days’ notice first | 30 days’ notice first | Never affects you |
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| Gift codes for friends | No | No | Up to 5 a year, 30 days each |
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| Available | Always | Always | To the first 500 buyers only |
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US dollars before taxes. The store shows your price in your own currency before you pay.
Every plan includes
- A 7-day free trial, with no card needed to start
- Unlimited books and unlimited listening
- Background playback and lock-screen controls
- Offline listening with no connection at all
- Every natural voice, at no extra cost
- English and French, on Android and iPhone
Purchases are handled by Google Play or the App Store, in your own currency.
You cancel from your store account, with no retention email asking whether
you are absolutely sure.
Escaping something else?
A straight, feature-by-feature look at how PhonoLeaf differs from whatever
you are currently arguing with.
How PhonoLeaf uses your Google Drive data
PhonoLeaf asks for read-only access to Google Drive (the
drive.readonly scope). It uses that access for exactly one purpose:
to list the ebook files (EPUB) in the folder you choose and download them so
they can be rendered and read aloud.
What PhonoLeaf never does
- Never creates, edits, moves or deletes anything in your Drive: the access it holds is read-only.
- Never sends your book files to any server of ours. Your books travel from Google straight to your device. The optional backup keeps only a small record of your reading, such as titles, authors and your place in each book, as the Privacy Policy explains.
- Never uses your data for advertising, and never sells or transfers it.
- Never opens anything outside the folder you pick. The permission Google grants is broader than that, because it is the only one that lets new books appear without you re-picking them each time, but PhonoLeaf only ever lists and downloads the ebooks in the one folder you connect.
Your reading position, listening stats and settings are stored on your own
device. If you turn on backup, a copy of your reading record is also kept for you, so a new phone can pick up where you left off. Signing out revokes PhonoLeaf's access to your
Google account. Full detail is in the
Privacy Policy.
Those books are not going to read themselves
Free for seven days. Nothing to upload, nothing to convert, and your books
never leave your device. The unread pile stays your business.
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