Banana Reader – Privacy-first iOS text-to-speech player with encoding repair

Summary: Banana Reader is an offline iOS app that plays text files using text-to-speech while repairing encoding errors like Mojibake and fixing formatting issues. It processes all data locally without tracking or ads, ensuring privacy and usability for older or poorly formatted text files.

What it does

It automatically repairs garbled text caused by encoding problems and includes a built-in editor to fix bad formatting such as broken line breaks. All processing is done offline on the device.

Who it's for

Users needing a robust local text-to-speech solution for older or poorly formatted text files on iOS.

Why it matters

It solves the problem of unreadable or badly formatted text files without requiring internet access or compromising user privacy.