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Good idea bad execution
The app is functional but barely. Needs polishing. Even renaming file names doesn’t work 90% of the time. The whole app feels like a student’s project and does not feel native.sadpatheticme
Full of bugs and doesn’t work.
My PDFs aren’t read in correctly, so the AI reader jumps to random parts of every PDF I’ve tried loading into the app. For reference, I was trying to get it to read routinely formatted, published academic papers. It should have worked according to the app’s description. This has a lot of potential, but it’s unfair to be charging people money for a broken product.Show lessacademon13
bare-bones but good bones
It’s a good app. It could be great with a few tweaks. The process for downloading on the phone is cumbersome. It would be super-helpful to have easily accessible FAQ’s & tutorials IN THE APP, not just in the marketing materials & sign-up process.
Easiest procedure: download a pdf to your computer, upload to your account via the web page (app.listening.io) on your computer, and listen on your phone.
Wish list:
-Easy to find login link at listening.io. I know it’s a marketing page, but please add a login button at the top; when you purchase the app through appstore, finding the login url on a browser is needlessly difficult.
-Variable reading speeds
-No autoplay! Clicking a title should open an article & let the reader control when it starts playing. OR provide that option in a real settings page.
-Access to help/FAQ & documentation & contact info (for sending feedback) on both smartphone app & web app.
-“Settings” on the web app just tells me my membership status. It should actually lead to settings.
But don’t get me wrong! These are tweaks, and the core functionality is really good.Show lessCedricAndRowena
Reads citations
Reads all in-text citations which makes one lose focusHBL2410
Good ground work, but needs figures
This app has great potential, but I need to be able to see figures in my papers.Thunderbolt284
More voices?
Just started on a trial and loving it so far. My only question is if there’ll be more types of voices later? I tried another similar app before and my favorite was a child’s voice - it made some research papers less boring!Temporubato
Fantastic
It really delivered for me. It’s about as happy as I’ve been about an app in a very long time. It doesn’t disappoint!davehuish
Can’t listen to the whole document
I tried to download the whole paper to listen but only the title I could hear. The rest I could not listen. The instructions are not clear and I could not find any sources in the app how to fix this.Tammyhanfi
TOTAL SCAM! Unable to cancel billing
DO NOT SUBSCRIBE TO TRIAL. Developer doesn’t allow you to cancel! Report this app!! TOTAL SCAM!!Krissy_FL2
Not suited for math papers
So the app advertises itself as being able to read arXiv papers, which would be amazing if implemented. However, right now it is not able to do it at all. Idk maybe some CS or Physics papers are intelligible, but for math it’s completely useless: it just reads out loud a sequence of symbols. I asked it to read a category theory paper reasoning that there would be few calculations there hence few formulas, but it is still unable to form something even remotely resembling words. I really hope that the app would work in the future because the concept is fantastic. Update: for some papers the app works (still not parsing formulas though), so I am updating to 2 stars, but it would really help if there would be a clear guideline on how to import PDFs so the app would be able to parse them.Show lessGrisha T.
