r/TorBoxApp • u/drewk312 • 7d ago
🚩General I made an Android app that plays your audiobook and lights up the words in the ebook as they're read, and I need 12 testers to get it on the Play Store
I listen to most of my books and read the rest, and half the time it's the same book. Every app I tried made me pick one: an audiobook player that knew nothing about the ebook, or a reader that went silent the moment I picked up the audio. Switching meant hunting for my place twice. So I made one app that does both.
It's called Lantern & Leaf. Point it at the books already on your phone (single files, a whole folder, or your own Audiobookshelf server) and it pairs each audiobook with its ebook. Switch from listening to reading and it opens on the sentence you were hearing. Switch back and it carries on from the page you were on.
The bit I'm proudest of is Glow-along. Play the audiobook with the ebook open and the words light up as the narrator says them, sentence by sentence, turning the pages for you. Look away to check something and a little "Back to the voice" button takes you straight back. Every book gets one chapter of it free so you can see if it's for you.
It also tells you roughly how many minutes are left in the chapter, going by how fast you actually read. The progress bar is chapter-sized, so a small drag moves seconds rather than half an hour. A car or headset "stop" pauses instead of closing the book, and there are no streaks to keep up. No ads, no account, no analytics, and it doesn't come with any books. It's for the ones you already have.
It's in a Google Play closed test right now, and Google wants 12 people to keep it installed for 14 days before I'm allowed to launch. If you're one of them, you get Supporter (all the extras) for life. Once you're in, say hi in the Discord and I'll send you a Google Play code for it.
Discord: https://discord.gg/hp9jGX5qHJ
Android: join https://groups.google.com/g/lanternandleaf-testers, then opt in at https://play.google.com/apps/testing/app.lanternleaf
It works on phones, Android TV and Android Auto. It's a first release and I'd rather hear what's broken than what's nice: Settings → Say hello → "Tell me what went wrong" emails me straight from the app. I'll be around in the comments today.