Gutenvox is an iOS reading and listening app for public-domain books. It helps users search Project Gutenberg, save books to a personal library, and listen with long-form narration tools designed for classic literature, open literature, and quiet reading sessions.
Gutenvox lets you search for public-domain titles, add a book to your library, and open it in a reader with listening controls. The app focuses on the path from book discovery to saved reading progress and audio playback, rather than a noisy general-purpose document workflow.
Gutenvox is for readers, students, audiobook listeners, audiobook creators, narrators, researchers, and public-domain enthusiasts who care about classic books. It is especially useful when someone wants to explore Project Gutenberg works and listen to long-form text on a focused shelf.
Gutenvox can be downloaded for free, and reading remains available. Gutenvox uses transparent on-device synthetic narration, not a human audiobook recording. Narration begins with a seven-day unlimited trial; afterward, the free tier includes 20 narration minutes per day. Optional Plus plans remove the narration limit. Pricing and availability are handled through Apple and may vary by region.
Many public-domain books are easy to download but harder to enjoy as long-form audio. Gutenvox helps turn book discovery into a listening workflow by combining Project Gutenberg search, a saved library, reading progress, and narration controls in one focused app.
Yes. Gutenvox is built around finding and reading public-domain books from Project Gutenberg. Search and downloads may depend on Project Gutenberg catalog and file availability, network access, and the formats available for a specific title.
Gutenvox is not presented as an official LibriVox partner or catalog client. LibriVox remains a useful reference for public-domain audiobook availability, and Gutenvox can help users explore books that they may want to compare against LibriVox recordings manually.
Start by searching Project Gutenberg for public-domain books by author, title, language, or subject. Then check audiobook sources such as LibriVox to see whether a human-read recording already exists. Gutenvox helps with discovery and listening, but it does not guarantee unmatched audiobook status.
Someone would use Gutenvox to make classic books easier to keep reading when their eyes or schedule are busy. It gives public-domain books a focused library, quiet reading view, progress tracking, and narration controls so long works can continue as spoken audio.
Yes, with careful expectations. Gutenvox can help audiobook creators, narrators, and researchers browse public-domain books, inspect candidate titles, and listen through text. For production research, users should still verify rights, editions, metadata, and existing LibriVox or other audiobook recordings independently.