# Narrate - Text to Speech — user reviews

> 7 indexed App Store user reviews of Narrate by Chetan Alla, rated 4.30/5 from 13 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/narrate-text-to-speech/id6747409212/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/narrate-text-to-speech/id6747409212.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 9 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 1

## Most critical reviews (7 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Can’t do much with it.

*2026-05-12*

The narration sounds really good but it is not fully functional and lacks key features. It says it supports epub files, but it will not let me import any. Can’t even import epubs I have made that work everywhere else. 

There is no support for pdf files! 

You can add web links but since you cannot have it start playing the next article when the current one finishes it is not practical to use when driving.

Update: epub support is bad. There are missing words ever few sentences. It’s not the epub because it fully works in other apps.

### 4/5 — French voices and French store.

*2026-04-12*

Please make this app available on the French store and add French voices. 

Only one English voice available. It reads the French text with an English accent. I can’t understand any of this. 

Thanks.

### 4/5 — French voices and French store.

*2026-02-16*

Please make this app available on the French store and add French voices. 

Thanks.

### 5/5 — Great ElvenReader alternative

*2026-04-26*

Free, offline and private ElevenReader alternative. The voice is much better than in any other free apps and the text highlighting is amazing. Would be great if there was an iPad support and a sleep timer.

### 5/5 — Almost perfect! Needs a sleep timer :)

*2026-04-12*

If this had a sleep timer and at least 1 male voice it would be so perfect! 

It’s free, so not complaining, but the lack of sleep timer makes it hard to listen before bed, because I wake up the next day and tue book is finished ;)

### 5/5 — This is the direction of the future

*2025-07-31*

The quality far surpasses any of the out-of-the-box options offered by Apple, and it’s completely on-device. No big corporation taking my text and storing it in their database. Just peace, and clear speech. For the next version, I would love to be able to use this on documents that are already on my iPhone (Documents in Files, for example). If that was in place the world will open up because I can download webpages onto my device from the web. But I can’t take my existing files on my device and publish them onto a website. It would also remove the need for internet to be involved (I would have a few books in PDF/EPUB format on my iPhone, and listen to the audio during long flights)

### 5/5 — The best narration app

*2025-06-21*

I had a really tough time reading articles while driving and now I can listen to them on the go while focusing on the road!

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