App Detail » Candide - Voltaire

What's New

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

App Description

This app combines "Candide” by French philosopher Voltaire with professional human narration. The app offers the book in 3 languages: English, French and German.

This is a book for those desiring to contemplate life. It tells the story of Candide, who gets kicked out of the castle, forced to serve on a boat, shipwrecked, robbed, tortured, and on and on, without losing his desire to continue forward in life.

With sync audio feature you can both read and listen to your favorite book.

The app will highlight the sentence being narrated so that you can follow along as the words are read aloud.

Benefits of sync audio feature:
● allowing everybody to enjoy their favourite book by reading, listening or reading+listening
● a useful tool for kids to learn reading or for people to learn a foreign language
● a valuable tool for people affected by reading disorders and dyslexia


● Long press a word and tap "Play" to activate sync narration

Thanks to sync narration feature, you can change from reading to listening or vice versa easily.

● other features:
- bookmark
- change font size and style
- night and day reading mode
- highlight text
- book with original illustrations
- Audio play in background (you can listen to the audio, while using other apps)

● If you want to give feedback, please use the feedback feature in the settings

App Changes

• June 16, 2019 Initial release