What a book, just started it and I’m loving the narration the story line, and especially the funny bone Ryland is

I finished Odessey but I see that the movie lacked a lot of details which I can understand, I’m currently going to read this on audiobooks

What was your experience with this?

These amazing books are the ones im targeting to read with utmost sincerity.

How many have you read from these? and how was it.

Starting off with Monte cristo first.

Hi, this app was a personal project that happend to take tons of my time and love into, with how audibles' policy to control ownership of my audiobooks. I made this.

With Hushbook you can download and synchronise audio with text. It gives you a read along screen with custom themes. Well suited for your late night reads.

Profiles to help low vision readers, readers with ADHD get dedicated fonts that makes reading easy.

Hushbook learns from your reading/listening habits and helps achieve your word count goals, gets familiar with the kind of book genres you listen to.

Quote any text transcribed and make it as a post with wide customisations.

Frames 🖼️ help you to put up your book covers on your selfies to share to the world

Transcribes audiobook in 99 languages.

Some Core features

1. Download 50k+ audiobook (open library) for free.
2. Zero ads, No tracking, nothing goes to cloud.
3. Create characters and map them to each other characters to create beautiful tree of all the cast that helps you visualise your audiobooks better.
4. Track reading metrics, words read, favourite genres and a lot more (the data features took the most of time as i had to use ML heuristics to learn from your audiobook listening experience)
5. Upload your favourite audiobooks .M4B .MP3 .FLACC + much more
6. Creates quotes out of your audiobooks and share it with friends and family
7. Enabled advanced analytics which helps you visualise your reading metrics and give summary of your reading habits. Helps build reading momentum
8. Core ML heuristics that generates a reading summary on each book you read
9. AUTO-rewind - major of audiobooks lacks this HushBook remembers where you left off and auto rewinds based on how long you went away - this helps you remember where exactly you left off in the chapter.
10. Comprehension checkpoints, these sliders auto trigger that helps asses each points to know how well you are able to understand those chapters

If these feature interests you, try out the app and Please leave a review! I read them all :)

Also supports audiobookshelf servers import.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hushbook.hushbook

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/hushbook-read-while-listening/id6783243597

Hi, this app was a personal project that happend to take tons of my time and love into

Hushbook synchronises audio with text. It gives you a read along screen with custom themes. Well suited for your late night reads.

Profiles to help low vision readers, and those with ADHD get dedicated fonts that makes reading easy.

Hushbook learns from your reading/listening habits and helps achieve your word count goals, gets familiar with the kind of book genres you listen to

Quote any text transcribed and make it as a post with wide customisation

Frames 🖼️ help you to put up your book covers on your selfies to share to the world

Transcribes audiobook in 99 languages.

Some Core features

1. Download 50k+ audiobook (open library) for free.
2. Zero ads, No tracking, nothing goes to cloud.
3. Create characters and map them to each other characters to create beautiful tree of all the cast that helps you visualise your audiobooks better.
4. Track reading metrics, words read, favourite genres and a lot more (the data features took the most of time as i had to use ML heuristics to learn from your audiobook listening experience)
5. Upload your favourite audiobooks .M4B .MP3 .FLACC + much more
6. Creates quotes out of your audiobooks and share it with friends and family
7. Enabled advanced analytics which helps you visualise your reading metrics and give summary of your reading habits. Helps build reading momentum
8. Core ML heuristics (this too alot of my time and its the premium) that generates a reading summary on each book you read
9. AUTO-rewind - major of audiobooks lacks this HushBook remembers where you left off and auto rewinds based on how long you went away - this helps you remember where exactly you left off in the chapter.
10. Comprehension checkpoints, these sliders auto trigger that helps asses each points to know how well you are able to understand those chapters

If these feature interests you, try out the app and Please leave a review! I read them all :)

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hushbook.hushbook

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/hushbook-read-while-listening/id6783243597

Hushbook now supports Audiobookshelf add in your servers and import your audiobooks, transcribe, read, make quotes, post to friends do everything.

Last time i abruptly posted here without having this feature and realised that ABS makes importing your fav audiobook the easiest, I went ahead and added them (Beta) on the demo i have cut the adding of the server part, rest is same.

let me know what you think

Get it here: Hushbook.app

About HushBook
It's an audiobook app which synchronises with text, It has profiles to help people with ADHD, low vision read better. It has no tracking, no ads and unlimited audiobook uploads and download over 20,000+ open library audiobooks on the app, the app supports over 15+ languages and transcribes them in chunks so that you dont have to wait, and can start reading while listening as soon as first few chapters are done.

10th book for this year. Trying to gain back my patience for reading good books

I have bunch of audiobooks that i want to enjoy reading by this month, but i either get carried away with work, trivial tasks or get lazy.

What hacks did work on you that enabled you to come back from reading slump?

Hushbook synchronises audio with text. It gives you a read along screen with custom themes. Well suited for your late night reads.

Profiles to help low vision readers, and those with ADHD get dedicated fonts that makes reading experience interactive

Hushbook learns from your reading/listening habits and helps achieve your word count goals, gets familiar with the kind of book genres you listen to

Quote any text transcribed and make it as a post with wide customisation

Frames 🖼️ help you to put up your book covers on your selfies to share to the world

Transcribe in 99 languages.

Get it here
download now

Looking for feel good books in Genre: Life/Memoir/fiction etc
Im gravitating towards audiobook version of those but physical or ebook will also do

Its quite fascinating listening to how this guy has each and every thing he takes measured and wants to not die, the science aspect of this book is interesting but also beyond my understanding on how he will be able "Live longer" just by doing these scientific things.

But interesting read/listen -- kinda wanted it to have some more revolutionary discoveries but im still early to say so.

The learning from what he says is Sleep is the most important metric to fix, once you fix the sleep go about food, workout and etc

What were you thoughts on this book if you gave it a go?

At the start of July

...I set my goal to have 100 users

At that time HushBook didn't even fully launch

Now, I have 550 happy users with handful of Lifetime users and subscriptions

Almost instantly lots of user already who were suffering started dm-ing me that they always wanted something like this and would this also have X features for their Y Problem (yes it did)

How did I reach? And how can you?

Find the value hooks

The problem is best broken and solved when you personally have dealt with it, with my case I hated audible's app so bad that i made a spec sheet of all the things i wanted in an app for me as an audiobook reader. I understood that somedays i would have zero attention span thanks to social media doomscrolling and I needed to build an audiobook app that would help me overcome it and have read along features that i always wanted.

Read Reviews

I went about scanning 1-3 star reviews of users using the competitor apps, started talking to reddit users putting rant posts on respective subreddits kept in constant feedback with them.

Plan > Build, test ,test ,test alot of test.!

This space is crucial because even if you use AI to build your app do not overly rely on it to provide you the value proposition to make this app killer, you need your logics to be super clear.

Like my first point the reliance of the problem statement should be personal to you and each and every solution should solve the mini problems that you broke the main problem down into.

Once launched

Pick the most relevant subreddits started posting focused on the hooks like
"I got tired of Audible's app, so I built my own"
"Created a free Audiobook app that reads along as you listen"
"An audiobook app that works like a karaoke read along"

Put value proposition first, the most hooks that your potential users pain points relate to that will generate more attention to your posts and increase interaction. You can drive conversion from thereon.

Read subreddits' rules

Reading their rules will help you navigate the ban and also be appreciative of the audience that they joined in for. We can promo abuse their walls which could annoy the readers. A subtle value heavy posts will help you long way even tho they attract less views initially. You will know automatically what works and what doesnt.

Run LTD free for 100 users

To get to 100 users open up your paywall that gets your fast 100 users keep 10% (more the better) of users in touch who will be your power users that give you feedback that matters the most.

I went quality over quanity. Took time to notice bans (its okay to test waters) and then reiterated with following their policies.

Possibilities are endless.

Now im opening this post as a two way sharing where you comment what worked for you and others can chime into to ask more info about your strategies, i have lots to learn from all of you in this community.

Beta tested with Reddit community and now the app HushBook is live on both platforms!

Some Core features

1. Download 20k+ audiobook (open library) for free.
2. Zero ads, No tracking, nothing goes to cloud.
3. Create characters and map them to each other characters to create beautiful tree of all the cast that helps you visualise your audiobooks better.
4. Track reading metrics, words read, favourite genres and a lot more (the data features took the most of time as i had to use ML heuristics to learn from your audiobook listening experience)
5. Upload your favourite audiobooks .M4B .MP3 .FLACC + much more
6. Creates quotes out of your audiobooks and share it with friends and family
7. Enabled advanced analytics which helps you visualise your reading metrics and give summary of your reading habits. Helps build reading momentum
8. Core ML heuristics (this took alot of my time that generates a reading summary on each book you read
9. AUTO-rewind - major of audiobooks lacks this, HushBook remembers where you left off and auto rewinds based on how long you went away - this helps you remember where exactly you left off in the chapter.
10. Comprehension checkpoints, these sliders auto trigger that helps asses each points to know how well you are able to understand those chapters

If these feature interests you, try out the app and Please leave a review! I'm open for feedbacks :)

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hushbook-read-while-listening/id6783243597
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hushbook.hushbook
Website: https://hushbook.app/

• HushBook : Read while you listen (audiobook App)

Link: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hushbook.hushbook

Detailed Description

HushBook turns any audiobook into word-by-word karaoke.

Every word highlights as it's spoken — follow along at any speed, without ever losing your place. The transcript scrolls with your voice. Tap any word to jump straight to that moment in the audio.

No more drifting off mid-chapter. No more rewinding to find where your focus slipped.

ON-DEVICE TRANSCRIPTION

HushBook transcribes your audiobooks using that runs entirely on your device. No upload. No cloud. No data leaving your phone. Every word is timed to the audio — tap any line to search instantly.

THOUSANDS OF CLASSIC

Import your own or browse thousands of public-domain titles inside the app. Classic literature, philosophy, history — to download and play offline.

BUILT FOR HOW YOU ACTUALLY READ

• Dyslexia / ADHD mode — OpenDyslexic font, reading overlay, adjustable text size, and night mode for lyrics
• Low-vision mode — Atkinson Hyperlegible font, large captions, high-contrast display
• Reading comprehension mode — checkpoints and focus metrics to measure what you actually retain
• Quote capture — tap two words to save a passage and share it as a highlight card

TRACK WHAT YOU ABSORB
See your streaks, words read, reading-along time, and comprehension scores. Track your reading pace, genre spread, and attention trends over weeks and months.

PRIVACY FIRST

All Transcription runs on your device with the Engine. Your books and transcripts never leave your phone. NO Ads. NO Tracking.

• Freemium (Core features free forever)
Advanced Analytics [Paid] - this also helps support HushBook development.

Edit: Reposted as Mods highlighted to follow template.

It makes me happy to say that HushBook adoption by reddit users have made it much more interesting with all the features audiobook readers wanted.

Auto Rewind, Read along, Unlimited Transcription, Upload in 8 Formats, Advanced Analytics, Streaks, Daily Goals, Download from Store + much more.

If you haven't checked find the app here:
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hushbook-read-while-listening/id6783243597
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hushbook.hushbook

This one of my personal project, an audiobook i always wanted to use! with months of work into this I present HushBook: Read while you listen.

Some Core features

1. Download 20k+ audiobook (open library) for free.
2. Zero ads, No tracking, nothing goes to cloud.
3. Create characters and map them to each other characters to create beautiful tree of all the cast that helps you visualise your audiobooks better.
4. Track reading metrics, words read, favourite genres and a lot more (the data features took the most of time as i had to use ML heuristics to learn from your audiobook listening experience)
5. Upload your favourite audiobooks .M4B .MP3 .FLACC + much more
6. Creates quotes out of your audiobooks and share it with friends and family
7. Enabled advanced analytics which helps you visualise your reading metrics and give summary of your reading habits. Helps build reading momentum
8. Core ML heuristics (this too alot of my time and its the premium) that generates a reading summary on each book you read
9. AUTO-rewind - major of audiobooks lacks this HushBook remembers where you left off and auto rewinds based on how long you went away - this helps you remember where exactly you left off in the chapter.
10. Comprehension checkpoints, these sliders auto trigger that helps asses each points to know how well you are able to understand those chapters

If these feature interests you, try out the app and Please leave a review! I read all of them I'm open for feedbacks aswell :)

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hushbook-read-while-listening/id6783243597