Dunesies Book
From PDF to infinite scrolling.
A reading app for iPhone and iPad. Import any PDF, scanned books too, and read it in chunks, word by word or aloud, with every page processed on your device.
A reading app for iPhone and iPad. Import any PDF, scanned books too, and read it in chunks, word by word or aloud, with every page processed on your device.
Overview
Three ways to read
Short chunks sized to your screen, one word at a time, or read aloud. Switch whenever you like and your place follows you.
Scanned books too
Pages that are only pictures of text are read with on-device text recognition, so old scans become real, readable books.
Read while it imports
Open a book as soon as its first pages are ready. The rest keeps loading in the background.
Two books at once
Pick several PDFs together. Two import side by side and the rest start on their own.
Listening that keeps going
Voice mode carries on with the screen locked, with play and pause on the lock screen and pauses for calls.
Made for iPad too
On iPad the whole app scales up to fill the screen, so reading feels like a bigger iPhone, not a stretched one.
Your place, always saved
Every book remembers where you stopped and the mode you were in. Continue Reading takes you straight back.
Private by design
No account, no analytics and no tracking. Your books never leave your device.
Requirements
iOS
iOS 18.0 or lateriPhone and iPad
Books
PDF filesText based and scanned books both work
Languages
Text based PDFs in any languageScanned pages in the languages Apple’s text recognition supports
Disk space
About 110 MBPlus your books, each stored as plain text
Internet
Not needed to readOnly the App Store, when you subscribe
Price
Free for 4 booksThen Dunesies Book Pro, $4.99 a month. No account needed
Comparison
A PDF viewer shows you the page as it was printed. Dunesies Book turns the page into text, so it can fit your screen, set your pace and read to you.
| Dunesies Book | A typical PDF viewer | |
|---|---|---|
| Reading on a phone | Text sized to your screen | Pinch and zoom around the printed page |
| Scanned books | Turned into real text on your device | Shown as pictures of pages |
| Listening | Read aloud, keeps going with the screen locked | Not built in |
| Reading pace | Word by word from 60 to 600 words per minute | Not built in |
| Your place | Saved as you read, in every mode | Usually the last page |
| Account required | No | Sometimes |
| Where your books go | Nowhere, they stay on your device | Depends on the app |
Technical
Text recognition
On deviceA dedicated model for English scans, Apple’s text recognition for other languages
Text checking
VerifiedA PDF’s own text is used only after sample pages match text recognition
Imports
Saved page by pageClosing the app mid import loses nothing, it resumes where it stopped
Voice
Natural voices made on your deviceBella and Bruno for English, iOS voices for other languages. Background audio, lock screen controls, calls and headphones handled
Size
About 110 MBEverything it needs ships inside the app, voices included
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Chunks
Word by Word
Voice
Male
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