Éist: PDF/Ebook to Audiobook

Cu Chulainn

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About this app

Unlimited listening, free. No ads, no account, no catch. Éist turns any EPUB or PDF into a natural-sounding audiobook — fully offline, with read-along mode that highlights every word in sync with the audio.

Éist (pronounced "esht", Irish for "listen") is a text-to-speech audiobook reader. Import an EPUB or PDF, pick a voice, press play. Your books stay on your device and work with no internet once a voice is downloaded. No ads, ever.

★ READ ALONG AS YOU LISTEN
Éist's read-along mode shows each word one at a time, perfectly in sync with the voice, with the focal letter highlighted — so your eyes follow the text as you listen. Tap the bolt icon to switch read-along on, and use the sync dial to fine-tune the timing. Read-along is great for focus, following along, dyslexia support, and language learning.

★ LISTEN TO ANY EPUB OR PDF
Import any EPUB or PDF ebook and Éist reads it aloud with remarkably natural text-to-speech voices. Perfect for commutes, workouts, chores, studying, or winding down at the end of the day. Turn the documents and ebooks you never find time to read into audiobooks you can listen to anywhere.

★ NATURAL AI VOICES
Choose from 60+ on-device AI voices across three text-to-speech engines — Kokoro, Piper and Supertonic — in 30+ languages, from Spanish, French and German to Polish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Each voice has its own character and accent. Preview any voice before you commit, and switch narrators any time mid-book.

★ SMART AHEAD-OF-PLAYBACK SYNTHESIS
Éist generates audio ahead of where you are listening, so playback stays seamless. Chapters you have already heard replay instantly from your device.

★ FULL PLAYBACK CONTROLS
• Adjustable speed from 0.5x to 3.0x
• Sleep timer
• Background playback with lock-screen and notification controls
• Chapter navigation, skip forward and back
• Bookmarks and reading progress

★ OFFLINE TEXT-TO-SPEECH
Download a voice once and listen forever with no internet connection. Your ebooks, your reading progress, and your audiobook audio all stay on your device — Éist is offline-first.

★ DISCOVER FREE BOOKS
Browse and download thousands of free public-domain ebooks from Project Gutenberg, right inside the app.

★ PRIVACY YOU CAN TRUST
No account required. No ads. We never sell your data. Usage analytics are anonymous, and email is entirely optional — we only ask if you would like a reminder before your trial ends, or if you choose to join our newsletter. Your books, your progress and your listening stay on your device.

ÉIST PREMIUM
Listening is free, forever — no credits, no per-book cost. The free plan includes 3 books and 3 voices. Éist Premium unlocks your full library, all 60+ voices, unlimited read-along and more, with a 1-month free trial.
• Unlimited audiobook library
• Every AI voice and text-to-speech engine
• Unlimited read-along
• Premium themes and fonts

Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Google Play account. Manage or cancel any time in the Play Store under Subscriptions.

Turn every EPUB and PDF into an audiobook you can listen to — with read-along, offline, in a natural voice. Download Éist and start listening.

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Ratings and reviews

Well designed: my wife is impressed with the feature that highlights the sentence and word as the reading happens. However, the screen doesn't stay on while it's reading so it's annoying to have to keep tapping or opening my phone again to see the text animations. The local voices are nice, I'm using Nicole (soft & conversational) which sounds like whispered ASMR. However, there's still pronunciation hangnails such as poorly reading stuttering and sound effects that are common in light novels.

This is such an unbelievable app, it turns any book into Audial records, helps people like me, who can't focus on books for too long

free audioreader for my epub with less robotic voice?I love it, thank you very much

What’s new

Stability update:
• Fixed a crash that could occur while generating speech.