Augre
You next great read is a click away!
Details
- External ID
- 1253741
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Augre
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 21, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- eBook Reader, User Experience, Books
- Fetched at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
Augre is a free desktop EPUB reader for Mac, Windows and Linux. It has a built-in audio to read aloud without the internet. Customize your reading experience through different fonts, backgrounds and voices. You can choose a cute little reading companion to keep you company too! The main draw? no AI books/content!
Enrichment
- Theme
- voice dictation and control tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- book recommendation tool for readers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial An EPUB reader desktop wrapper is simple, but embedding local ONNX/ML TTS runtimes (Kokoro, Kitten, Piper) and building real-time WebRTC/audio live rooms across desktop platforms is non-trivial.
What it would actually take: The app requires an Electron or Tauri desktop wrapper integrating an EPUB parsing engine (epub.js), an embedded C++/Rust ONNX runtime to execute local speech synthesis models (Kokoro/Piper) smoothly without freezing the UI, and a WebRTC signalling server for synchronized voice reading rooms. Real-time audio sync with synchronized DOM text highlighting across multiple operating systems requires robust native audio pipeline handling.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 45 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #10 of 46 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 266 days after the earliest competitor.
- Common Reader · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- MuBooks · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Heard for iOS: ePub reader with on-device text to speech · hn · 2026-07-15 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- klibrary · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- I built an iOS app that turns EPUBs into audiobooks · hn · 2026-02-24 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Maryanne: read or listen to ebook & PDF · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Repy · hn · 2026-02-15 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Free EPUB Tools Online · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.