HushBook
Audiobook Read-Along App with Synced Text
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HushBook transcribes your audiobooks on your phone or your own computer, and the page follows the narrator word by word. Your audio never goes to a cloud service, and there is no account. Read-along is free for every book. New: a free HushBook for computers that syncs reading progress and transcribes audiobooks super fast. Add your own MP3 or M4B, or download 50,000 free classics. Analytics, more e-book syncs, phone to PC.
PH · launched Nov 8, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: ebook and reading apps · 190 launches, 18 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Vertical SaaS
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Windows
- Books
- Audio
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More like this: all 190 launches in ebook and reading apps →
Could you build this?
Yes On-device speech-to-text models such as Whisper with word-level timestamps can drive a read-along view, and the app is mainly UI plus local model integration.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 464 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #222 of 465 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 329 days after the earliest competitor.
- Read while you listen to your Audiobooks · hn · 2026-09-26 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- LibriWave: Classic Audiobooks · ph · 2026-11-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- SnowReader · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- All to Audiobook · ph · 2026-11-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Steer · ph · 2026-11-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Compendium · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Readnara · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- I built an iOS app that turns EPUBs into audiobooks · hn · 2026-02-24 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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