Landfall — read, listen, and talk back

Chapter I

Talk back to the great books — and the great podcasts.

Read 98 bundled classics and sacred texts, explore 629 more public-domain books and poems, or bring your own. Stream or download finished Landfall Studio editions where the small audio mark appears, with no Premium minutes required. When a line stops you, stop it back: discuss the passage, save your thought to the exact words that caused it, or meet a clearly labelled AI persona inspired by an author or major character.

You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

noted · Meditations · Book II

“This is the same thing my father kept trying to tell me the year the business failed. Write about this.”

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Chapter II

A practice, not a feed.

New · finished editions

One book. One voice. Ready when you are.

Look for the small audio mark in Books. A finished Landfall Studio edition can stream immediately or download once for offline listening. It stays synced to the text and never consumes Premium minutes.

Stream freeDownload offlineNo AI minutes

i · LISTEN

Read to you

Follow the text sentence by sentence—even through screen locks. Where a finished Landfall Studio edition is available, stream it or download it for offline listening with one consistent narrator and no Premium minutes. Live Marin narration remains available and follows easier rewrites.

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light…

ii · SPEAK

Think out loud

On compatible iPhones, Apple On-Device Jam is free, private, and works offline with the passage on screen. Cloud Talk can explain, challenge, or search farther. Say “note that” to keep your thought.

“…note that — I don’t buy his argument here.”

iii · MEET

The people in your books

Discover selected authors and major characters from your library. Build a source-linked profile, then start a persistent conversation with a clearly labelled AI persona inspired by them.

Author
Jane Austen · source-linked profile

Character
Sherlock Holmes · persistent memory

Clearly labelled
AI persona, never the real person

Landfall Books showing famous classics available to add and included sacred texts — 727 public-domain books and poems

The Landfall reader following a book aloud with Talk and Notes available — the line, lit as it’s read

Landfall People showing reviewed authors and characters from the reader's books — meet the people in your books

A podcast episode in Landfall with streaming, notes, and Jam controls — stream · note · talk it through

Chapter III

Ninety-eight included. Fifty more ready to add.

Browse sacred texts as a complete collection, explore the famous-classics shelf, or bring your own book in Word, Markdown, or plain text.

Any of them can be rewritten at an easier reading level — the whole book, chapter by chapter, with the original always one tap away.

Editions

Ten editions. One tradition at a time.

Each Landfall edition keeps the reader, the notes and Talk you know from Landfall and gives them a shelf chosen for a single tradition — every title with a finished Landfall Studio audiobook. Landfall itself keeps the whole library.

i · Buddhism
Landfall Buddhism

The Dhammapada, the suttas and Zen, narrated in full.
Coming soon to the App Store
ii · Catholic
Landfall Catholic

The saints, unabridged and narrated.
Coming soon to the App Store
iii · Christianity
Landfall Christianity

The Bible and the Christian classics, read aloud — and they talk back.
Coming soon to the App Store
iv · Hinduism
Landfall Hinduism

The Gita, the Upanishads and the epics, read aloud and open to your questions.
Coming soon to the App Store
v · Islam
Landfall Islam

The Qur'an's meaning, Rumi and Sa'di, read aloud.
Coming soon to the App Store
vi · Judaism
Landfall Judaism

The Tanakh, the sages and the stories, narrated.
Coming soon to the App Store
vii · Mythology
Landfall Mythology

Norse, Greek, Egyptian and Celtic myth, unabridged and narrated.
Coming soon to the App Store
viii · Restoration
Landfall Restoration

The standard works and the Restoration classics, narrated.
Coming soon to the App Store
ix · Stoicism
Landfall Stoicism

The Stoics, unabridged and narrated.
Coming soon to the App Store
x · Taoism
Landfall Taoism

The Tao Te Ching and the Chinese sages, unabridged and narrated.
Coming soon to the App Store

Chapter IV

The old questions, still being asked.

For You learns from listening history kept on this iPhone and puts a visual recommendation shelf above a finite set of daily picks from the top podcast charts. Follow shows, stream or download, and leave notes at the exact timestamp.

Jam tells you what it knows: Full transcript, Current excerpt, or Description only. When no transcript is available, it says it cannot verify the hosts’ exact words instead of pretending it heard them.

34:12 · With & For · Faith and doubt

“He’s describing exactly what the Psalmist meant — note that.”

Chapter V

Quiet, by design.

No accountNothing to sign up for. Open it and read.
No feedThe daily digest is finite. You can finish it.
Finished audio comes with PremiumEvery published Landfall Studio edition can stream or download without consuming AI minutes. Available books carry a small audio mark.
Free on-device choicesA downloaded high-quality Apple voice reads offline. Apple On-Device Jam stays on compatible iPhones.
No ads inside LandfallOptional install attribution never includes your books, notes, prompts, transcripts, or listening activity. Declining tracking changes no feature.
Your route is visibleUse a capped Landfall Premium allowance or your own verified OpenAI key for eligible cloud features. The app shows which one pays.
One clear Talk allowanceEvery published finished audiobook plus 30 minutes of Talk each month, shared across books, podcasts, authors, and characters—with no AI overage charges.