Features
An ebook reader that illustrates the story as you read, reads it aloud, explains the hard parts and keeps you coming back. Here is all of it, in the app and on the web.
Scenes, places and faces appear as you read, right where they happen in the text.
Book2Life reads ahead and turns each chapter into a storyboard: the key moments painted and placed beside the passage they come from.
Each named character gets a portrait drawn from the author's own description, with a short note on who they are.
See a character differently? Describe them and Book2Life redraws the portrait, and their scenes follow your version.
Choose a moment and illustrate it: any passage you select, or one of the scenes suggested from the pages you just read.
Compose your own scene: pick characters from the book, describe the moment, and Book2Life paints it, with ideas drawn from what you've already read.
Have a picture in mind already? Add your own art from Photos or Files for a character, a place or an object, and it takes the AI version's place in your book.
Each book keeps its scenes, settings and your creations in one library, grouped by chapter, and pictures from pages you haven't reached stay behind a curtain.
Bring a book's AI cover to life as a short animated loop that plays in your library and in Discover.
Switch from reading to listening without losing your place.
Listen to any book while the words light up as they're read, in a natural AI voice, a voice generated right on your iPhone or iPad, or the free system voice.
Rain, forest, ocean, a thunderstorm and dozens more soundscapes, mixed quietly under your reading or listening.
Help when a passage is dense, a chapter is long or it's been a while.
Select any passage for a plain-English explanation, a picture of the moment, or a summary of what just happened.
Ask about a character, a plot point or an idea, and get an answer from the book that stops at the page you're on.
Back after a break? The book opens with a short recap of where you left off, like the start of a TV episode.
Chapter-by-chapter summaries and illustrated character pages for the classics.
Bring your own EPUB or PDF. Nonfiction chapters get the big ideas, real charts and a quick quiz instead of scene art.
Small nudges that add up to more reading.
Keep a daily reading streak, and get a reminder to pick the book back up where you left off.
Time read, pages turned, your streak history and the genres you keep coming back to.
Lock distracting apps with Screen Time and earn them back by reading: read for a set time, get the same time back.
Start on your phone, keep going on your iPad or in a browser.
A curated shelf of public-domain classics, search thousands more free classics, or add your own EPUBs and PDFs.
Your library, progress and favorites stay in sync between the apps and book2.life.
Choose the font, size, spacing and theme, with justified text and hyphenation if you like a printed look.