The sentence underlines as it is read.
The current word is marked in ink and the pages turn themselves. Stop listening mid-sentence and read on; your place is kept to the word.
Read the book,
or let it read to you.
Ecapsa is a reading and listening app for iPhone and Mac. A warm voice reads your books aloud, underlining every word, and your place follows you from one to the other.
Pl. I “The moving Moon went up the sky.”
Ecapsa keeps the books you own, and nearly fifteen hundred classics that belong to everyone. Read a page with your eyes, then let a warm voice carry on from the very same word. Pick it up again on your iPhone, or at your desk on the Mac.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!
Highlights, with notes and tags, kept beside your books in collections.
Pl. II “The ice was all around.”
1,497
classics from Standard Ebooks, free to add. Or import the EPUBs you own.
A graph of every read, and the hours behind it.
Pl. III “And the rain poured down from one black cloud.”
Nine sounds to read underAlso A page scanner: hold your iPhone over a printed page and Ecapsa finds the same place in your copy, or saves the line as a highlight. A sleep timer, speeds from 0.5× to 3×, downloads for the plane, and favourites for the books you return to.
Read by the fire.
Or under the rain, or beside the sea. Nine sounds play softly beneath the voice and stop with the sleep timer. Choose one, then press play on the page.
Nothing playing. Sound starts only when you tap.
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation.
On your Mac, too.
Ecapsa on the Mac is its own app, made for a window and a keyboard: two pages side by side, a Now Playing rail, highlights you can drag into collections, and ⌘K to search every book you have.
Press play at your desk, then hand the voice to your iPhone with Play on. Whichever screen you are looking at, the page follows the voice.
Pl. IV “He struck with his o’ertaking wings, and chased us south along.”
One library, two screens Whatever you are reading opens where you left it, whether you pick up the Mac or the iPhone. Library, place, highlights, collections and stats keep in step between them.
ecapsa, which read backwards is “a space”.
capsa n. LatinThe round case a Roman reader kept their scrolls in. Our mark is one, seen from a little above, and it is also an e: the mouth of the case is the eye of the letter, the seam where the lid meets the body its opening.
a space ecapsa, read backwardsThat is what we set out to make: a place for the books you own and the classics that belong to everyone, to read, or to hear read aloud, and to come back to.
The mark, set in the titles of the 1,497 classics in the library.
A space for literature, and for the hours you give it.
Ecapsa for iPhone and Mac
Free to begin.
Plus, for long listening.
Free
$0
- 10 hours of narration a month
- Up to 100 books, two imports a day
- All 1,497 classics to choose from
- Sync between iPhone and Mac
Ecapsa Plus
$4.99 a month
- Up to 24 hours of narration a day
- No limit on your library
- Up to 100 imports a day
- Everything else in Free
On iPhone and on Mac.
