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Writing about Morrow?

Everything here is yours to use. Quote the lines, run the pictures, link the App Store. For anything else, or to talk to the maker, write to [email protected]; he answers within two days.

In a line

Morrow is a free ebook reader for iPhone and iPad with a narrator built in: read a chapter, listen to the next, and pick up at the very sentence you left.

In a paragraph

Morrow turns any DRM-free EPUB into a book you can read and hear. The page is set like a printed book, with the word being spoken underlined as it’s read; switch to listening and the same book goes on aloud, on the Lock Screen, in the car, with a sleep timer that ends with the chapter. The narrator runs entirely on the device, so nothing a reader reads or hears ever leaves it, and no internet is needed after the download. On newer iPhones and iPads an optional narrator called Expressive reads with feeling, pausing before a reveal and lifting a question. Morrow is free, with no account, no ads, no subscription and nothing to buy inside. It was made by one person, Derek Gottfrid, who wanted his own books read to him.

The facts

NameMorrow: Read and Listen (on the home screen, Morrow)
ReleasedOctober 2026, version 1.0, on the App Store
PriceFree. No account, no ads, no subscription, no in-app purchases.
Runs oniPhone 11 or later on iOS 26, and any iPad on iPadOS 26. Expressive needs iPhone 15 Pro or later, or an iPad with M2 or later or A17 Pro.
BooksEPUBs without DRM, from Files, Safari, Mail or AirDrop. Pride and Prejudice and The Odyssey come with it.
NarrationTwo narrators made on the device: Standard, inside the 150 MB download, and Expressive, an optional 1 GB download for English books on devices with 8 GB of memory.
PrivacyBooks, notes and narration never leave the device. Anonymous usage counts, which can be turned off. The policy, in plain English.
Made byDerek Gottfrid, independently. There is no company behind Morrow and no business model.
Contact[email protected]

Pictures

The icon as a vector and at 180 pixels, the link card, and screenshots from a 6.9-inch iPhone and a 13-inch iPad. Please show them as they are, without recolouring.

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The link card: Your books, read and heard, beside two iPhones showing a page and the audio screen

Pride and Prejudice, chapter I, as a page on iPhone, the word being read underlined

Listening on iPhone: the cover across the top, the words being read, the playback controls

An iPhone lock screen, Morrow still reading

Morrow's shelf on iPhone: covers, each book with its page and hours left

Reading Life on iPhone: time with books this month, a chart of days, the books read and finished

Pride and Prejudice as a two-page spread on an iPad held sideways

Listening on an iPad set sideways: the cover beside the sentence being read

Hearing it

The home page plays five of Morrow’s voices, each reading a different book, recorded from the app. The recordings are yours to use with a credit to Morrow.

The story, briefly

Derek wanted his own books read to him: not the handful a publisher had recorded, but the ones on his shelf. So he made a reader whose narrator runs on the phone alone, so that nothing a reader owns is sent anywhere. A public beta in the autumn of 2026 brought readers who caught what he had missed, and version 1.0 followed in October.