On-device only.
No cloud. No account. No telemetry. Your books and the audio they become live entirely on your iPhone.
00 — A reading companion for iPhone
Your books, read aloud
— privately, on your iPhone.
Local Narrator turns any EPUB or PDF in your library into a real audiobook. Powered by a neural voice running on the Apple Neural Engine. Nothing leaves your device. There is no cloud. There is no account.
01 — The Idea
A small, careful app for people who still read.
Drop a book in. Pick a voice. Press play. Local Narrator quietly handles the rest — the text, the speech, the page you stopped on last night.
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A state-of-the-art neural voice model running on the Apple Neural Engine. Warm, natural, and remarkably small.
Bilingual.
English and Spanish, with the right voice for each language. A Spanish book is never read by an English narrator.
Like a real audiobook.
Lock-screen controls, background playback, sleep timer, and a Home and Lock screen widget. It just behaves.
02 — Three steps
From the cover of a book to the sound of it, in under a minute.
01
Drop in your EPUB or PDF.
Use the share sheet, the Files picker, or AirDrop. The book stays on your iPhone — only your iPhone.
02
Pick a voice. English or Spanish.
Choose from neural voices that suit the book — or fall back to Apple's built-in system voices. Free either way.
03
Press play. Carry on with your day.
Walk, drive, do dishes. Local Narrator picks up exactly where you stopped last time you were listening.
03 — The voices
Quiet, warm, and language-aware.
A small, hand-picked roster shipped with the app. Each voice trained for the language it speaks. Switch between them at any time — your reading position is preserved.
Heart
EN-US
Bella
EN-US
Adam
EN-US
George
EN-UK
Dora
ES
Alex
ES
Apple's built-in system voices are also available, in every language your iPhone supports.
04 — The promise
A simple, unfashionable idea: your reading is your business.
We never see your books. We never see your reading. There is no server. There is no account. There is nothing to opt out of.
No accounts
No telemetry
No ads
Works offline
05 — The price
One small fee. Yours forever.
Free to download and try with one book and Apple's system voices. One in-app purchase unlocks the rest. No subscription, no upsell, no surprises.
— One-time purchase
$9.99
Family Sharing supported. No subscription. Future updates included.
- ✓ Unlimited books
- ✓ All neural voices, English and Spanish
- ✓ 0.5× to 3.0× playback speed
- ✓ Home & Lock-screen widget
- ✓ Sleep timer & unlimited bookmarks
- ✓ Every future update, on the house
Free to download · Try first, buy later