Dolphin EasyReader

Dolphin EasyReader


Reading app for Dyslexia & VI


Free

10.08for iPhone, iPad and more
6.5
48 Ratings
Dolphin Computer Access Ltd
Developer
13.2 MB
Size
Oct 31, 2023
Update Date
Books
Category
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Age Rating
Age Rating
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Apps in this category do not contain restricted content.
9+
Apps in this category may contain mild or occasional cartoon, fantasy or real-life violence, as well as occasional or mild adult, sexually suggestive or horrifying content and may not be suitable for children under 9 years of age.
12+
Apps in this category may contain occasional mild indecent language, frequent or intense cartoon or real-life violence, minor or occasional adult or sexually suggestive material, and simulated gambling, and may be for children under 12 years of age.
17+
You must be at least 17 years old to access this App.
Apps in this category may contain frequent and intense offensive language; Frequent and intense cartoon, fantasy or realistic violence: frequent and intense adult, scary and sexually suggestive subjects: as well as sexual content, nudity, tobacco, alcohol and drugs, may not be suitable for children under 17 years of age.
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About Dolphin EasyReader

EasyReader offers convenient access to your favourite accessible book libraries and talking newspaper stands, in one place.

Neurodivergent readers – especially readers who have dyslexia – can customise their reading experience with dyslexia-friendly fonts, adjustable colour schemes and word highlights that synchronise with audio.

Designed for accessibility, EasyReader enables blind and partially sighted readers to read with magnified text, with audio, or a combination of both - where each word is highlighted on screen as it’s read aloud. It also links to braille displays for braille readers.

EasyReader is fully optimized for use with iOS VoiceOver and iOS supported Braille displays.

EasyReader Features:

Open a World of Accessible Books
EasyReader provides global access to millions of books from accessible book libraries around the world. Log in to your favourite library to read accessible versions of classic books, the latest bestsellers, non-fiction, school textbooks and children’s storybooks.


Customise to Read Your Way
Text magnification in EasyReader is easy to adjust. Simply pinch in and out on the screen to find the text size that’s best for you. With EasyReader the text is always sharp and visible on screen. It’s an exceptional experience for readers with visual impairments.


Read in fonts that work best for you, including dyslexia-friendly fonts. In EasyReader you can customise the colour of text, background colour and contrast. Adjust letter and line spacing to make your reading experience even better.


Audio Books & Text-to-Audio
Listen to narrated audio books or listen to text-only books and newspapers, which EasyReader converts to human-sounding synthesised speech. Audio perfectly synchronises with on-screen text highlights, so you can read along as you listen.


In EasyReader, you can modify pronunciation, choose the reading voices you prefer and adjust reading speed and volume.


Read a Range of Formats
EasyReader reads a wide range of book and document formats, including:

• HTML
• Text files
• DAISY 2 and DAISY 3
• Microsoft Word (DOCX only)
• PDFs (with RNIB Bookshare)
• Any text copied to clipboard


Easy to Navigate
Access your favourite libraries, then browse and download books easily, with intuitive navigation and accessible controls.

In EasyReader you can move around books quickly. Skip forward or back when reading and skip to any page or chapter.

Type keywords in the search facility to quickly find the information you need.

Add Bookmarks & Notes
To help navigate books, readers can bookmark favourite pages and sections. To help with study or reference, readers can also add text notes.

Libraries & Talking Newspaper Services in EasyReader

Global:
• Project Gutenberg
• Bookshare

UK:
• Calibre Audio
• RNIB Bookshare
• RNIB Newsagent
• RNIB Reading Services

USA & Canada:
• Bookshare
• CELA
• NFB Newsline
• SQLA

Sweden:
• Legimus
• MTM Taltidningar
• Inläsningstjänst AB

Europe:
• Anderslezen (Belgium)
• ATZ (Germany)
• Bookshare Ireland (Ireland)
• Buchknacker (Switzerland)
• CBB (Netherlands)
• DZB Lesen (Germany)
• DZDN (Poland)
• Eole (France)
• KDD (Czech Republic)
• Libro Parlato (Italy)
• Luetus (Finland)
• NBH Hamburg (Germany)
• NCBI Overdrive (Ireland)
• NLB (Norway)
• Nota (Denmark)
• Oogvereniging (Netherlands)
• Passend Lezen (Netherlands)
• Pratsam Demo (Finland)
• SBS (Switzerland)
• UICI (Italy)
• Unitas (Switzerland)
• Vereniging Onbeperkt Lezen (Netherlands)

Rest of World:
• Blind Low Vision NZ (New Zealand)
• LKF (Russia)
• NSBS (Suriname)
• SAPIE (Japan)
• Vision Australia (Australia)



Please note:
Membership is required for most accessible libraries. It’s easy to set these up on the library websites. To help, we have listed all of these in the EasyReader app.


You can apply for membership with your diagnosis of a print impairment - which includes dyslexia and other neurodiverse conditions, vision impairments and other physical disabilities.
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What's New in the Latest Version 10.08

Last updated on Oct 31, 2023
Old Versions
- Fix applied for sideloading certain books from Éole, France.
- Fixes for login issues with libraries: Getem, Turkey and Éole, France.
- Increased search timeout value to 30 seconds for CELA Library.
- Added two more colour settings for sentence and word highlight.
- Error messages from libraries are now displayed in a new pop up view, with additional library information.
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Version History
10.08
Oct 31, 2023
- Fix applied for sideloading certain books from Éole, France.
- Fixes for login issues with libraries: Getem, Turkey and Éole, France.
- Increased search timeout value to 30 seconds for CELA Library.
- Added two more colour settings for sentence and word highlight.
- Error messages from libraries are now displayed in a new pop up view, with additional library information.
10.07
Aug 21, 2023
- Members of Bookshare, Bookshare Ireland and RNIB Bookshare with an Education Subscription can now assign a book to a student in the EasyReader App.
- It’s now even easier to access EasyReader Premium features. With an invitation code or a QR code sent out by your school, inviting you to join EasyReader Premium for Education.
10.06
Jul 26, 2023
• NEW: Bookshare libraries. Titles that have been assigned to a member of Bookshare, RNIB Bookshare or Bookshare Ireland are now listed in EasyReader App.
• NEW: Getem library. The Turkish library Getem is now available in EasyReader App.
• NEW: Translations. EasyReader App is now translated into Hebrew.
• FIX: Book navigation. If the user is attempting to navigate to a page that does not exist, EasyReader provides options for the user to move to a different page instead.
• FIX: Éole library. A new system is included for signing in and downloading titles from the French library Éole.
• FIX: Sleep timer. The sleep timer now stops the book playback correctly if the device goes into a low power mode.
• PLUS: Additional fixes and improvements.
10.05
Jun 14, 2023
Premium: Open and read files from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive
Premium: Improvements for reading text-based PDFs
DAISY text and audio: new option to switch between using the recorded audio and TTS audio
My Books: New graphics to indicate whether the book is text, audio or text and audio
EPUB: Improvements for Media Overlay support
Translations: Updated prompts for Swedish and Turkish
Plus: Various fixes and improvements
10.04
Mar 3, 2023
• NEW: EasyReader Premium. EasyReader Premium subscribers can now open and read text-based PDFs in the Reader. Once open, PDFs can be read in their original layout or in a text-only view for a more accessible experience.
• NEW: DAISY 2.02 text and audio books: Improvements have been made to the way annotations, footnotes are block quotes are displayed in the Reader.
• NEW: RNIB Reading Services. The audio speed can now be adjusted in the Reader for all audio books downloaded from RNIB Reading Services.
• NEW: Bookshare Ireland. A new login system has been made available for logging in to Bookshare Ireland.
• FIX: RNIB Reading services. Fix to prevent the audio from distorting after adjusting the voice speed on a small selection of audio books from RNIB Reading Services.
10.03
Dec 9, 2022
- NEW Full range of reading voices available free with EasyReader Premium
- NEW Listen to voice samples before selecting the reading voice you like
- NEW Unlimited selection of reading voices with EasyReader Premium
- NEW MTM Legimus library subscribers get 4 reading voices free
- Various fixes and improvements to make your reading experience better.
10.02
Nov 4, 2022
NEW: Sign in to EasyReader App with a Bookshare Account
NEW: Sign in to EasyReader App with a Microsoft Account
NEW: Support devices which have Dark mode enabled
NEW: Greater choice of text, highlight and background colours to choose from in the Text Settings
NEW: Option to ‘Give Feedback’ in the Help and About screen
PLUS: Additional fixes and improvements
10.01
Sep 22, 2022
NEW: EasyReader Premium. Customers who are subscribed to EasyReader Premium can now sign in to Google Classroom and Microsoft Education in EasyReader App for Windows. Once signed in, subscribers can view a list of supported files and open them in the Reader.
FIX: Bookshare. Teachers can now download titles from the Bookshare library on behalf of students.
FIX: Legimus. Cover images for titles from the Legimus library are now displayed as expected.
FIX: PassendLezen. Text-only newspapers and magazines from Passendlezen are now downloaded as expected.
FIX: Reader. After re-opening EasyReader, the Reader now resumes text-based books from the last word read (not from the start of the paragraph).
FIX: Translations. Updates have been made to the German translation of the app.
FIX: VoiceOver. The speed slider for audiobooks can now be adjusted whilst using VoiceOver.
PLUS: A host of additional fixes and improvements.
3.08
Aug 24, 2022
- Bookshare: Support for Human Narration Audio collection
- New Dolphin Account web login
- Added link to "My Dolphin Account" preferences web page
- Image highlight support in some DAISY books
- Updated colour themes
- Various fixes and improvements
3.07
Jun 1, 2022
NEW: Two new fonts in Text Settings (Arial and Times New Roman)
NEW: New libraries: Bind Low Vision, Unitas
NEW: Added skippability options
NEW: EPUB3 Media Overlay improvements
FIX: Translation update (langs 0007, 0031, 0033, 0034, 0039, 0048 & 0049)
FIX: Side loaded books on a device no longer appear in the ‘My Books’ list on other devices
FIX: Other general Fixes and improvements...
3.06
Mar 25, 2022
- NEW: Blind Low Vision (NZ). Newspapers and EPUB files from Blind Low Vision are now available to download and read.
- NEW: The Suriname library NSBS is now available.
- FIX: RNIB Newsagent (UK). Following changes made by RNIB, a fix has been applied to ensure newspapers can be downloaded and read as expected.
- FIX: Calibre Audio (UK). Fix applied to ensure books can be returned as expected.
- FIX: Page numbers and footnotes in DAISY books have now been made more clearly identifiable in the Reader.
- PLUS: Additional fixes and improvements.
3.04
Dec 20, 2021
-Potential fix to ensure the reading position is always remembered in audiobooks
-Bookshare: can now download books from the “My History” category in Bookshare
-Bookshare Ireland: PDFs from Bookshare Ireland can now be opened in the reader
-CELA Library: When the device settings are set to French, messages and sub-categories within the CELA Library are now also displayed in French
-Various fixes and improvements
3.03
Oct 18, 2021
Fixed the reading position issue where the position did not appear to save for Audio books
3.02
Oct 8, 2021
Fixed: Books from RNIB Reading Services can now be read whether or not they are invalid.
3.01
Oct 5, 2021
- DOCX files can now be sideloaded into EasyReader from other apps on the device.
- Users can now add a title to any texts opened from the clipboard in EasyReader. Clipboard texts can now also be sortedby date.
- A new text setting has been added to set the highlight to the centre of the screen.
- CELA, Canada: A new category system has been added to search and browse the CELA library.
- Bookshare, US: Members of Bookshare can now view their ‘Assigned Titles’ in EasyReader. Users can now also view cover images when browsing the available titles in Bookshare.
- EasyReader now requires iOS 12.1 and later.
- Various bug fixes and improvements.
2.15
May 7, 2021
- Introducing three new features for people with dyslexia and these are limited to text-only documents only:
- "Lines Visible" allows you to display 1, 3 or 5 lines of text on screen with a black overlay
- "Show Image Descriptions" allows you to show or hide any existing image description in the book (if they exist)
- "Finger Reading" allows you to double tap on a word to speak out the word
- Voice Over fixes made for announcing the side menu buttons correctly
- Added support for text-only newspapers from Passend Lezen
2.14
Mar 1, 2021
- Calibre Audio: a fix have been made for some books where the last audio track was not available
- Updated Spanish translation
- Various additional fixes and improvements
2.13
Dec 14, 2020
- New library: Calibre Audio (UK)
- Added support for Dynamic Fonts
- Norwegian translation update
- Various additional fixes and improvements
2.12
Oct 28, 2020
- Passend Lezen, NL: The downloaded EPUBs are now DRM protected on the device
- Blind Low Vision, NZ: We have added book categories and support for magazines
2.11
Sep 14, 2020
- Translation updates for Dutch, French, Italian, Polish, Russian, Turkish and Finnish.
- Support for EPUB from Passend Lezen (NL) and NLB (NO) has been added.
- Bug fixes and improvements for some books from RNIB, Bookshare, NLB, SBS and Libro Parlato.
- Various additional fixes and improvements
2.10
Aug 13, 2020
- RNIB Reading Services: Searches for books from the audiobook collection by default. Text-only EPUB files are still available in the "Search all" category
- Bookshare: New category added for ISBN search. Several improvements made for periodicals
- Nota: Cover images are now included for titles from the Nota library
- EPUB: Books in EPUB format are now split by page
- VoiceOver: An option to change the audio speed has been added to the VoiceOver rotor
- You can now sign into the Dolphin Account using ‘Sign in with Apple’
- Remaining reading time is now displayed in ‘Where am I?’
- Various additional fixes and improvements
2.9
Apr 30, 2020
Several fixes and improvements have been made to the remote command center for handling of media player events. Bluetooth usage have been improved and the next/prev commands now navigates according to your navigation mode setting.
2.8
Apr 1, 2020
- New library: Blind Low Vision, NZ
- Login improvements for RNIB Reading Services
- Fix: App start issues
- Fix: Memory leak in device TTS playback caused the app to crash
- VoiceOver fixes and improvements
- Other various fixes and improvement
2.7
Feb 25, 2020
- New book library: RNIB Reading Services (UK)
- New newspaper library: UICI (Italy)
- Improvements made for CELA Library's text-only content
- Improved support for Media Overlays in EPUB3
- New font Luciole available in Text Settings
- Sideloading fix from the Files app and Safari downloads (iOS 13)
- Various VoiceOver improvements including new navigation methods through the VoiceOver rotor
- Various additional fixes and improvements
2.6
Nov 14, 2019
- We have added a new library named Bookshare Ireland, previously known as the NCBI Library.
- New languages: Spanish and Finnish
- We have added support for DAISY 3 text/audio books from the CELA library in Canada.
- EasyReader now includes support for SVG images for DAISY and EPUB books.
- We have increased the text zoom level from 600% to 1000%.
- Your smartphone or tablet will now auto-lock once the sleep timer reaches the end.

Dolphin EasyReader FAQ

Click here to learn how to download Dolphin EasyReader in restricted country or region.
Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of Dolphin EasyReader.
iPhone
Requires iOS 12.1 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 12.1 or later.
Mac
Requires macOS 10.15 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 12.1 or later.
Dolphin EasyReader supports English, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

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