Audory: PDF to Audiobook
Turn any PDF or EPUB into an audiobook, offline
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Import a PDF, EPUB or text file and Audory reads it aloud with natural voices that run on your device. No account, no upload, works offline. The current sentence is highlighted as it reads, and a free public-domain library is built in.
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PH · launched Nov 2, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 17%)
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- B2C
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Android
- iOS
- Books
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Yes It combines standard PDF/EPUB parsing libraries, on-device open TTS models such as Piper or Kokoro, and a text-highlighting reader UI, all of which a solo builder can assemble.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 629 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #61 of 630 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 353 days after the earliest competitor.
- OBook Text To Speech · ph · 2026-09-26 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- I built an iOS app that turns EPUBs into audiobooks · hn · 2026-02-24 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- SnowReader · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- DocsToAudio · ph · 2026-10-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Steer · ph · 2026-11-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Sandbook · ph · 2026-10-09 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Maryanne: read or listen to ebook & PDF · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Outloud Reader - Text to Speech · ph · 2026-10-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53