Turn any ebook into an audiobook

A voice for every page

PhonoLeaf turns the ebooks you already own into an audiobook library, and then gets out of the way. It keeps playing when your screen locks. It remembers your exact place, down to the paragraph. It does not stall on a loading screen, because the voice is generated on your phone rather than fetched from a server, so a weak signal or no signal at all changes nothing about how it sounds.

Connect a folder from Google Drive or your device once, and every ebook in it becomes something you can listen to, on a walk, doing the dishes, or on the commute. Nothing is uploaded, and nothing about your reading leaves your device.

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How it works

Sign in with Google Used only to reach the ebook files in your own Drive. PhonoLeaf has no separate account to create.
Choose the Drive folder your ebooks live in Browse your Drive inside the app and pick a folder. Add more ebooks to it later and they simply appear, with nothing to re-pick.
Press play Pick a book and listen. PhonoLeaf remembers exactly where you stopped, in every book.

What it does

Keeps reading with the screen off Playback continues when your phone is locked or in your pocket, with play/pause, page and chapter controls on the lock screen. It does not quietly stop a minute after the screen goes dark.

Picks up exactly where you left off Your position is saved per book, down to the paragraph, across pauses, chapters, restarts and days. Not near where you were. Where you were.

Nothing to wait for No upload, no processing queue, no spinner between you and the next sentence. The voice is generated on your phone as it reads, so there is no server that can be slow or down.

The same voice on one bar or none Save a book and it plays with no connection at all. The voice never downgrades to a robotic one because the network looked weak.

Natural speech A neural voice that runs entirely on your device, with a choice of accents and voices. Falls back to your system voice where that isn't available.

Your library, as a library Real cover art pulled from each ebook, search, chapter jumping and adjustable reading speed from 0.5× to 2×.

Listening stats Hours listened, a day streak, and a breakdown by author, book, genre or book length.

Light and dark A warm paper theme by day, a dim forest one by night, or follow your system setting.

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 files or your Drive data to any server of ours. PhonoLeaf has no backend for your books: they travel from Google straight to your device.
Never uses your data for advertising, and never sells or transfers it.
Never reads anything outside the folder you connect, in normal use.

Your reading position, listening stats and settings are stored locally on your own device, not in an account. Signing out revokes PhonoLeaf's access to your Google account. Full detail is in the Privacy Policy.

Where you can use it

PhonoLeaf runs in the browser on phones, tablets and desktops, and can be installed to your home screen as an app. An Android build is currently in private testing.

Want to know more? Read about reading ebooks aloud, turning an EPUB into an audiobook, listening to your Google Drive ebooks, offline text to speech, text to speech for dyslexia, or why audiobook apps stop when the screen turns off.

Coming from another app? See how PhonoLeaf compares to Speechify, Voice Dream Reader, ElevenReader, NaturalReader, Google Play Books, or @Voice Aloud Reader.

From the blog: turning an ebook into an audiobook, listening to your Google Drive ebooks, reading your Calibre library aloud, why on-device text to speech is more private, and the best text to speech apps for books you already own.