PageEcho 1.5.3 is on the App Store. It is a listening update first, with a few things the library had been missing. Here is what changed, in the order you are likely to notice it.

Listening by time, not by sentence count

The chapter scrubber now runs on time. Drag it and you land at a moment in the chapter, the player shows an honest "time left" for the voice and speed you are using, and a second track shows how far ahead the audio is already prepared. At 1.5× and 2× the buffered track was off before; it is accurate now.

Two small controls for people who listen to learn: pause after each sentence, and A–B repeat, which loops a span of sentences until you clear it.

Cleaner pauses between sentences

Every voice now trims the silence at the start and end of each clip, and the gap between sentences follows your speed instead of staying fixed. This had been true of some engines and not others; with 1.5.3 it applies to all six, including MOSS, which also gets the same pacing as the rest. The engines are compared in On-device text-to-speech voices on iPhone.

One fix in the same area: the sentence highlight no longer runs ahead of the voice.

Highlights that follow the book

A highlight can now be global: mark a passage once and every matching passage in the book carries the same highlight. Notes can be exported and imported as JSON or CSV, filtered, and deleted in bulk.

Share from Safari, as you saw it

When you share an article from Safari, PageEcho now receives the page you were actually viewing rather than fetching the link again. Articles behind a login and pages drawn by scripts come in as they appeared on screen. The page itself is no longer requested from the site in that case; only its images are. The Network Transparency screen in settings says the same thing, and How to listen to web articles on iPhone has the details.

Bringing books back in

Re-importing a book you already have offers to replace its file and keep your progress, bookmarks and highlights. Remove Download frees a book's local copy while it stays in iCloud, and restoring a backup now checks the file first and can be undone.

Smaller things

  • A short guide the first time you open the reader, with contextual hints and a tour for PDFs.
  • TXT chapter rules: automatic, from a preset, or your own pattern.
  • Simplified and Traditional Chinese view, tap-zone presets, and time left in the page footer.
  • Saved AI prompts, "sentences to revisit" in the library, "almost finished" in statistics, and an option to let AI organize your library.

What stays the same

Everything above happens on your device. Voices, translation, summaries and answers run on the iPhone, there is no account and no PageEcho server, and the Network Transparency screen lists every place the app can connect to.

The full list is in the App Store release notes. If something in this update does not behave as described here, write to us; the guides on this site are checked against each release and this one was checked against 1.5.3 on November 4, 2026.