Readobook: читалка книг вслух

Actually does

• ✓E-book reader95% of reviews
• ✓Text-to-speech92% of reviews
• ✓Offline-first75% of reviews
• ✓Ad-free33% of reviews
• ✓No account required8% of reviews
• ✓Multi-Format Support25% of reviews
• ✓Редактор произношения (ударения, омографы, произношение)33% of reviews
• ✓Free tier25% of reviews

Claimed, but not confirmed by reviews

• ⚠Bookmarks Management
• ⚠Progress Tracking
• ⚠Background playback
• ⚠Sleep timer
• ⚠Dark mode

Common complaints

• ✗Incorrect word stress in pronunciations (especially in homographs) and issues reading numbers in "1.1" format (reads as fractions)42% of mentions

  «chapter numbers "1.1", "1.2" are read as "one point one", "one point two"; stress handling is off»

• ✗Complex text navigation during playback — can only start from paragraph beginning, not from a specific word33% of mentions

  «improve text navigation during playback (start not only from the beginning of a paragraph, which can be huge, but also from a specific word)»

• ✗Stress editor selects incorrect word; unable to edit stress in headers and author name17% of mentions

  «you click on one word, but it turns out to be editing some other word, not the one you need; won't let you change the stress on the title text»

• ✗No customizable rewind; rewind in mini player doesn't work25% of mentions

  «why not implement customizable fast-forward/rewind like in all other readers; rewind in the mini player window doesn't work»

• ✗Unclear how to add a second and subsequent books to the library17% of mentions

  «I, for example, just couldn't find how to add another book to the library»

What people praise

• ★Natural and high-quality voices — sound like human speech, incomparable to Google TTS

  «the voice acting is just gorgeous; Google TTS is just tongue-tied, nasally robotic mumbling next to it; it reads normally»

• ★Works fully offline with built-in voices (Silero) — no server downloads, no limits

  «a lifesaver for my FB2 library; all voices are already built into the app and work offline»

• ★Completely free, no ads or subscriptions

  «no ads, subscriptions, or paid features»

• ★FB2 support (including .fb2.zip) and other popular formats

  «a lifesaver for my FB2 library»

• ★Convenient and beautiful interface

  «the app is good from the perspective of interface and convenience»

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