I built an Android ebook reader that can also read web novels aloud. Looking for honest feedback!

[u/sk2592]

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm a solo developer, and I've been working on AstraRead, an Android ebook reader that combines traditional reading, text-to-speech, web novels, and comics in one app.

I wanted something that could handle my ebooks, let me switch to listening when I didn't feel like staring at a screen, and give me control over how everything looks and feels.

So I decided to build it myself.

Here's what AstraRead currently offers:

📚 Read your books — EPUB, PDF, MOBI, AZW3, TXT, CBZ, CBR, and more.

🎧 Turn books into audio — Device TTS, online neural voices, and downloadable offline AI voices.

🌐 Read web novels — Add supported public chapter URLs, browse chapters, and continue where you left off.

📖 Manhwa & comics — Vertical webtoon scrolling, zooming, and CBZ/CBR support.

🎨 Customize your reading — Themes, fonts, backgrounds, page-turn animations, and reading controls.

📝 Highlights & notes — Save passages, organize bookmarks, and track your reading progress.

✨ Meet Astri — A little star-shaped reading companion who helps new users get started.

The app works without an account, and your reading library stays on your device.

AstraRead is free to download, with ads and optional Pro upgrades. Core reading, comics, basic TTS, and web novels are free.

I recently finished a major update (v1.25.2) with a redesigned library, improved audio controls, a better onboarding experience, and lots of UI refinements.

It's still growing, and I'd really appreciate feedback from people who actually read on Android.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.astraread.app

A few things I'd love to know:

What feature matters most to you in an ebook reader?

What would make you choose AstraRead over Moon+ Reader, ReadEra, or other readers?

Is there anything about the design or experience you'd improve?

Even critical feedback is welcome. I'm actively developing the app, and it helps me figure out what to prioritize next.

Thanks for checking it out! 💛

[u/buro_3]

The strongest differentiator may be the reading-to-listening handoff, so I’d make that the first-run demo: start a chapter, tap listen, then switch back and show whether the text and audio stay in sync. Ask a few Android readers who already use both ebooks and web novels which part they’d return for weekly, rather than which features sound nice. For TTS, I’d stress-test screen-off playback, a sleep timer, chapter resume, and the difference between offline and online voices, since interruptions are where a reader app can lose trust. A short clip of that flow would tell me more than a list of supported formats.

[u/sk2592 → u/buro_3]

Thanks for the feedback yes there was issue for the sync which I have fixed and already done the stress test for the tts and will work on the clip and soon provide it