Best TTS reader bar none
Revised App Store Review
The reader interface has significantly improved, and I can now save my reading position and resume playback automatically. Thank you to the development team for this fix! Furthermore, buffering quality is now near perfect, and I am not noticing any playback issues whatsoever.
I also love that they implemented the unlimited playback option for a very reasonable annual price of $99 - that is easily the best and only tier I would want to use. That being said, I am not quite sure why the developers are focusing resources on limited-hour reading for traditional audiobooks. I think that feature is a distraction and does not match the core vision for this app. I already use other dedicated platforms for purchasing standard audiobooks, and it is honestly quite annoying to have them cluttering up my search results and in-app promotions.
Focusing on the real reason people use this app would be far more fruitful: high-quality text-to-speech conversion. There is a massive market and strong appeal for independent authors and creators to present their written work here, allowing more audiences to enjoy stories and articles because they prefer listening over reading.
Finally, they even added an offline download option for converted documents on the unlimited/ultra tier. I have no complaints now!
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Original review:
This app would be my favorite for text to speech if it only had two things:
Better audio player that can bookmark /save position.
Ability to convert and save offline. I suspect that will reduce the issues with the reader randomly stopping after some sentences.
The reader interface has significantly improved, and I can now save my reading position and resume playback automatically. Thank you to the development team for this fix! Furthermore, buffering quality is now near perfect, and I am not noticing any playback issues whatsoever.
I also love that they implemented the unlimited playback option for a very reasonable annual price of $99 - that is easily the best and only tier I would want to use. That being said, I am not quite sure why the developers are focusing resources on limited-hour reading for traditional audiobooks. I think that feature is a distraction and does not match the core vision for this app. I already use other dedicated platforms for purchasing standard audiobooks, and it is honestly quite annoying to have them cluttering up my search results and in-app promotions.
Focusing on the real reason people use this app would be far more fruitful: high-quality text-to-speech conversion. There is a massive market and strong appeal for independent authors and creators to present their written work here, allowing more audiences to enjoy stories and articles because they prefer listening over reading.
Finally, they even added an offline download option for converted documents on the unlimited/ultra tier. I have no complaints now!
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Original review:
This app would be my favorite for text to speech if it only had two things:
Better audio player that can bookmark /save position.
Ability to convert and save offline. I suspect that will reduce the issues with the reader randomly stopping after some sentences.
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Not user friendly at all
I am shocked that this app is so highly rated. It’s awful ! Where is my spot in the book!!? You keep losing my place and there is no way to scroll to it. I’ve been stuck rehashing the same pages if I get out of the app or touch a place on the screen. It’s horrible. It doesn’t tell me how much time is left in the book and just sucks with the user options. I love some of the narrator voices so that’s why I am sticking it out. But I am canceling soon.
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Sounds and works great
The AI voice reading has really improved! Really great at reading texts and links to online novels
Productiva
Fácil de usar
For Kindle books, needs improvement
I used to read most of my books through the Kindle app on my iPhone, but as life has gotten busier, I have switched to audio books, through Audible, Everand, and Libby mostly. I read (mostly listen to) around 125 books a year.
When I saw an opportunity to turn my Kindle books into audio, I was very excited, but it’s been kind of a disappointing experience.
I started with a book that jumped back and forth in time, but I had too much trouble following along. I switched to a rom com and it was easier to follow. Maybe that’s just my issue.
I chose the “Laura” voice for my rom com, and it’s great.
A few things are really annoying me though.
If I have to stop the book and then come back to it, sometimes it doesn’t remember my current place, but my past place instead, and I have to scroll through and figure out where I was.
It’s difficult to move your place in the book. You can’t just highlight a word and start there. You have to go to the table of contents and select the chapter, or skip forward or back.
It doesn’t announce chapters in this book. Maybe it appears as an image to the app and not words? And maybe it’s not that way in every book? But it’s annoying, because a new chapter often means time has passed, or a different viewpoint or location, etc, so it takes your brain a second to catch on.
My book includes some text messages between characters, shown in speech bubbles like on an iPhone, and again, the app doesn’t know how to handle that.
Occasionally it skips a line in the book for no apparent reason.
There are tons of voices to choose from, but I wish you could filter them by male or female, and by accent. There are lots of voices with an Indian accent, which is not where my book is set, nor is it my native language, so it’s not my preference.
The books available in the app are mostly really old, like Treasure Island and Dracula. There are newer books, but lots I’ve never heard of. On the Explore tab, they have books under the wrong genre - Jane Eyre is under horror and Demon Copperhead is under dystopian.
With some improvements, it could be a great app for books.
When I saw an opportunity to turn my Kindle books into audio, I was very excited, but it’s been kind of a disappointing experience.
I started with a book that jumped back and forth in time, but I had too much trouble following along. I switched to a rom com and it was easier to follow. Maybe that’s just my issue.
I chose the “Laura” voice for my rom com, and it’s great.
A few things are really annoying me though.
If I have to stop the book and then come back to it, sometimes it doesn’t remember my current place, but my past place instead, and I have to scroll through and figure out where I was.
It’s difficult to move your place in the book. You can’t just highlight a word and start there. You have to go to the table of contents and select the chapter, or skip forward or back.
It doesn’t announce chapters in this book. Maybe it appears as an image to the app and not words? And maybe it’s not that way in every book? But it’s annoying, because a new chapter often means time has passed, or a different viewpoint or location, etc, so it takes your brain a second to catch on.
My book includes some text messages between characters, shown in speech bubbles like on an iPhone, and again, the app doesn’t know how to handle that.
Occasionally it skips a line in the book for no apparent reason.
There are tons of voices to choose from, but I wish you could filter them by male or female, and by accent. There are lots of voices with an Indian accent, which is not where my book is set, nor is it my native language, so it’s not my preference.
The books available in the app are mostly really old, like Treasure Island and Dracula. There are newer books, but lots I’ve never heard of. On the Explore tab, they have books under the wrong genre - Jane Eyre is under horror and Demon Copperhead is under dystopian.
With some improvements, it could be a great app for books.
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This app saved my life
I’ve never ever written a review for an app before but here goes.
I can now read entire books and listen along with this app! I can only read books if I have the audiobook to accompany. I can now read ANY book I want. I can upload the .pdf of any book and follow along as it reads the book. Im extremely grateful for this app. DONT CHANGE ANYTHING! It’s perfect as it is!
I can now read entire books and listen along with this app! I can only read books if I have the audiobook to accompany. I can now read ANY book I want. I can upload the .pdf of any book and follow along as it reads the book. Im extremely grateful for this app. DONT CHANGE ANYTHING! It’s perfect as it is!
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Buggy
Very difficult to create and edit custom voices using the phone app. Same with editing content and managing files. I don’t recommend it for narrating your own material.
App do ano fácil!
Vai explodir a venda de ebooks. Tinha alguns livros abandonados no Kindle que terminei com esse app. E já ouvi alguns clássicos da literatura que já vem dentro do app também.
Response from developer
Thank you so much for your kind words! We're thrilled to hear how our app has helped you finish your Kindle books and discover literary classics. Your support means the world to us!
So impressive
I don’t review apps very often, but this app deserves 5/5 stars. It’s absolutely amazing how well it reads. You can replace audible with this and save yourself quite a bit of money if you read more than one book a month. It actually reads my books better than the human narrators do after the recent update. I did not realize this kind of thing existed. I tried speechify and dream reader and they leave a LOT to be desired whereas this app blows me away.
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Great potential, but frustrating navigation bugs
I tested this app to listen to books from my Kindle library. The core concept is excellent, but a few critical playback and navigation issues need to be resolved.
Pros:
• Natural-Sounding Audio: Fantastic selection of high-quality, realistic AI voices.
• Good Pacing: The playback speed and cadence feel incredibly smooth and natural.
Cons:
• Loses Reading Progress: The app frequently forgets where you stopped listening, forcing you to find your place all over again.
• Poor Navigation: Scrolling is the only way to move through a book. There is no option to jump ahead by pages or chapters, making it tedious to find your spot.
• Session Logouts: The app randomly logs users out of Kindle after a day of inactivity, compounding the progress-loss issue.
• Playback Errors: I've encountered occasional crashes that force a full app restart.
Bottom line: The audio quality is unmatched, but the developers need to fix the progress-saving bugs and introduce structured navigation features before I would consider upgrading to the paid version. In the current version I don’t see myself using this app very often if at all again.
Pros:
• Natural-Sounding Audio: Fantastic selection of high-quality, realistic AI voices.
• Good Pacing: The playback speed and cadence feel incredibly smooth and natural.
Cons:
• Loses Reading Progress: The app frequently forgets where you stopped listening, forcing you to find your place all over again.
• Poor Navigation: Scrolling is the only way to move through a book. There is no option to jump ahead by pages or chapters, making it tedious to find your spot.
• Session Logouts: The app randomly logs users out of Kindle after a day of inactivity, compounding the progress-loss issue.
• Playback Errors: I've encountered occasional crashes that force a full app restart.
Bottom line: The audio quality is unmatched, but the developers need to fix the progress-saving bugs and introduce structured navigation features before I would consider upgrading to the paid version. In the current version I don’t see myself using this app very often if at all again.
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No purchase necessary
Despite in app purchases required to purchase books or download, the app works beautifully without payment or subscription. I use it by scanning the text in owned books. When I’m busy, tired, or saving the scanned text to listen to without taking the book at a later time. The voices in the free version or clear, well pronounced and easy to listen to. Just use the camera to picture the pages (Trying to leave out page numbers as it will read these) and you have a great, clear, free reading app that will not need payment after a set time neither. Hopeful to purchase subscription later, but works perfectly fine without unlike most other reading apps.
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Unreliable
Downloading almost never works. Stuck at arbitrary % of completion. Sounds often stops or loops.
Very Easy Will Be Buying Premium
Very easy to use especially text to speech very very simple which was shocking, not forceful with paying for premium and very generous with free credits so for that reason I will be upgrading to pro subscription!
Best app ever
May God bless the creators of this app. May both sides of your pillows be cold for the rest of your lives. May you live until 130. Amazing app. Could you just make it so that the AI voice generator keep the accent I give it while it’s reading the book? For example when I put in the prompt that I want the narrator to have a Russian or French accent, the accent is there when it gives me the 3 voice options, but it doesn’t stay while the voice is actually reading. Thank you so much.
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Still can’t archive and delete missing imports.
2024 free tier user here. a lot of my old imports and files that i have already removed are still listed in your app. won’t let me get rid of them either.
I’m sending 3 stars based on customer service, wondering if this is a scam!
I got a reminder email on Friday, October 9, 2026 that my free trial was ending, so I immediately went to find out how to cancel it. There was no way to do it in the app. The website wasn’t even able to be found. I sent emails to support, and just kept being told to use the app, website, or cancel in my iPhone settings under subscriptions, which doesn’t have it there either! I told them I needed help and was trying to cancel my free trial right away, and did not want to be charged, and they understood, and said they were creating a ticket for me, and I got responses, but the same ones. I was just notified it was called eleven reader, a different app, and was charged anyway! I looked at this app, and still have the same issues with no website being found, not in my iPhone settings under subscriptions, and no other way to cancel! I am very disappointed, and feel as if I have been scammed! I am already dealing with a Bible app for nearly a year for the same reasons as they continue to confirm I canceled right away, and yet continue to charge me every couple of weeks!
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Too Buggy. Useless to Me.
I am on ios, using this app on my kindle books accessed through Kindle on the web. The app has two major bugs that prompted me to request a refund of my $74 subscription fee.
First, i cannot get it to change the spot at which it is currently reading. I got suggestions from AI, but nothing worked. Useless.
Second, it will randomly quit auto-scrolling the pages. I’ll be reading along following the yellow-highlighted word it is currently reading and it will continue going off the bottom of the screen while the completed page stays.
This company has no business charging money for it when it should be at-most a free-to-use beta test app.
On a positive note, the voices and narration are fantastic. It uses a neutral voice for the narrative parts. It gets voice inflections for questions beautifully. When a character speaks angrily, the narration is spoken in a raised voice in anger. When there was a Mexican man speaking in English to an American couple, it even spoke his words with a Spanish accent. (The above described narration was for Ray Bradbury’s The Next In Line).
I was blown away by the quality of the narration and couldn’t subscribe fast enough. TAKE MY MONEY!
Alas the 2 problems I’ve described ruin the reading/listening experience. What good is an audiobook if you can’t choose which spot to read from? What is the point of an auto-scroll that won’t scroll?
10 thumbs down.
First, i cannot get it to change the spot at which it is currently reading. I got suggestions from AI, but nothing worked. Useless.
Second, it will randomly quit auto-scrolling the pages. I’ll be reading along following the yellow-highlighted word it is currently reading and it will continue going off the bottom of the screen while the completed page stays.
This company has no business charging money for it when it should be at-most a free-to-use beta test app.
On a positive note, the voices and narration are fantastic. It uses a neutral voice for the narrative parts. It gets voice inflections for questions beautifully. When a character speaks angrily, the narration is spoken in a raised voice in anger. When there was a Mexican man speaking in English to an American couple, it even spoke his words with a Spanish accent. (The above described narration was for Ray Bradbury’s The Next In Line).
I was blown away by the quality of the narration and couldn’t subscribe fast enough. TAKE MY MONEY!
Alas the 2 problems I’ve described ruin the reading/listening experience. What good is an audiobook if you can’t choose which spot to read from? What is the point of an auto-scroll that won’t scroll?
10 thumbs down.
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The best readers
What I love , as a writer, about this app is the ability to listen to the words I create as often as I want. Drafting with the aid of the spoken voice provides so much more than reading alone. Thank you for creating such a tool with so many voices to chose from. I am constantly amazed at the quality that AI can produce in each of your readers
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Good voices, but it’s useless
I’ve been trying to use this thing to read my Kindle books because it has better voices than the auto reader in the Kindle app, but this garbage can’t remember where I left off from one listening session to the next and there’s no way to tell it to start reading at a point of my choosing. It’s trash and I would definitely not pay money for it.
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Amazing voices but very buggy
Love the app, voices are incredible especially for audiobooks. They capture the drama of it somehow. But the app is very buggy. Not being able to start playback, dropping out after 20 seconds, etc. has nothing to do with connection either cause this has been a problem for a while. Hope they fix it b
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