Storyteller

Shane Friedman

About this app

Storyteller is a self-hosted platform for creating and reading ebooks with synced narration. It's made of of three components: the API server, the web interface, and the mobile apps. Together, these components allow you to take audiobooks and ebooks that you already own and automatically synchronize them, as well as read or listen to (or both!) the resulting synced books.

Storyteller provides two relatively unique use cases:

- Providing a better experience for readers that wish to be able to switch between listening to a book in audiobook format and reading it as a digital, visual book
- Providing a guided narration experience for users that would like to listen to a book's narration while reading it.

Storyteller is also self-hosted software. This means that instead of running on servers owned by a company or other organization, it runs on your servers. You own your content and your data, and it will always be available to you!

Ratings and reviews

Absolutely stellar app. I mostly use the aligned books for language learning and it's a great asset. An amazing improvement that could be made in the future is dictionary support. Perhaps by creating a 'dictionary mode' that lets the user double tap a word and shows a little pop-up bubble with the translation.

Great e-reader app for the self hosted platform for aligning and reading ebooks and audiobooks. Clean interface and easy to use once set up, with supportive developers and community.

It works very well and interface etc. is quite good. Missing things are android auto interface (for audio book portion of course) and if possible a android wear app.

What’s new

- Add tap-to-hide for statusbar