# Narrly: Read Aloud PDF & Text — user reviews > 97 indexed App Store user reviews of Narrly by Beaver Dynamics Inc., rated 4.80/5 from 205 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/narrly-read-aloud-pdf-and-text/id6495368857/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/narrly-read-aloud-pdf-and-text/id6495368857.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 178 · 4★ 18 · 3★ 6 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 2 ## Newest reviews (16 of 97) ### 4/5 — Озвучивает кавычки((( *2026-06-12* Все замечательно кроме озвучки кавычек бэкслиш, глаз дергается 🙈 ### 4/5 — Бэкслэш *2025-12-07* Неплохо, но всё портит «бэкслэш, Бэкслэш» ### 4/5 — Sugerencia *2025-11-23, version 1.5.0* Hola quisiera hacer una sugerencia que me ayudaría mucho si la implementan. La app está perfecta lo único que le falta es un marcador ya que es fundamental marcar los texto cuando se lo lee. Espero que les llegue mi mensaje, saludos! ### 5/5 — 긴 줄글을 읽어주는 심플한 TTS *2025-11-13, version 1.5.0* 숏츠에 붙이는 더빙 음성이 아니라 긴 줄글을 귀로 듣고 싶었는데 다른 무료 어플은 길이제한이 워낙 짧게 잡혀있어서 곤란했거든요. Narrly 덕분에 소원을 풀었습니다. 아주 간단하고 심플하고 기본에 충실한 TTS 음성 프로그램을 찾으신다면 이 어플을 추천해요. ### 5/5 — Küçük bir düzeltme talebi *2025-11-07, version 1.5.0* Merhaba sayın geliştirici uygulamanızı VoiceOver adı verilen ekran okuyucuyla büyük bir keyifle kullanmaktayım öncelikle böyle güzel bir uygulama yaptığınız için çok çok teşekkür ediyorum uygulamada klasör oluşturma özelliği var fakat klasör içerisine dosya ekleme işlemi yapamıyoruz klasör içerisine dosya ekleme özelliğini de eklerseniz çok çok memnun olurum iyi çalışmalar. ### 5/5 — Spoko aapka *2025-10-25, version 1.5.0* Spoko aapka działa bez zarzutu, przydało by się kilka opcji głosu po polsku. Jest ok ### 4/5 — Voce metallica però fa il suo *2025-10-21, version 1.5.0* La voce è quella che c’è nel pc, abbastanza metallica, però l’app è comoda da usare. Si incolla o importa il testo e lei legge ### 5/5 — Narrly A Blessing *2025-10-10* I love the application, however I wish it can highlight on the book as I listen. I appreciate the ability to read at the speed of my liking and different accents offered. I would however need to know how to highlight if app has that function. ### 5/5 — An Actual Good Text-to-Speech App *2025-10-09* So far, this has been the best Text-to-Speech app. No subscription or payment needed, clear voices, no lag, and easy to import documents. I like the feature where you can edit where you crop the document for what content you want to be skipped. ### 5/5 — love *2025-09-30* Fantastic service, thank you for creating this app! ### 5/5 — Dificultades al leer *2025-09-26, version 1.5.0* Durante mucho años he tenido dificultades al leer y durante mi infancia leer en público era una tortura, con el pasar de los años descubrí que era algo en mi cerebro y que está bien tener dificultades, con Narrly es completamente placentero poder leer un libro guiado por el audio es una labor increíble y que recomiendo mucho a personas con hijos con el difícid de atención o dislexia, en hora buena a quienes trabajan en la aplicación y esto si cambia el mundo y rompe las barreras. Un fuerte abrazo y agradecimiento. ### 5/5 — Helpful! *2025-09-05* I was looking for a free resource that would help me easily complete readings for my freshman year of college, after looking through many resources I found that this one was the best! It has been a great help to me, very easy to understand the voices, and easy to work the app. I recommend! ### 5/5 — Sent from Heaven *2025-08-23* There are no paywalls whatsoever and it’s so easy to use. It’ll actually block each work as it reads it, I can skip to exact words instead of a block of text, and I can change the pace and voices as I please. I’m so glad that I could download this on both my phone and PC , such a lifesaver. Thank you so so much for making this app! ### 5/5 — Finally a TTS app that is simple but it works well *2025-08-21* I am most pleased with Narrly! The other apps I tried either did nothing or they required a CompSci degree. Simple interface, works extremely well. I recommend it wholeheartedly! ### 5/5 — とってもよい *2025-08-04, version 1.4.7* シンプルで使いやすくてとっても良いです 文字数が多いせいか途中で何回も落ちましたが それでも使いやすさが優っています ワードだと 文の頭がアルファベットだと1分がフランス語みたいて何を言っているかわからない読み上げになってしまうのだけど、それも問題なくクリア アプリ内課金ありということですが 課金のタイミングはよくわかりません ひとまず無料でも文字数の制限もなく とにかく音声で読み上げて欲しい人には最適★ お金払ってでも使いたいアプリです ### 5/5 — Una app perfecta *2025-08-04, version 1.4.7* Permite leer cualquier archivo pdf ☺️ ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Keeps crashing *2025-05-01, version 1.4.5* Stops 14-15 minutes in. Tried deleting & reinstalling but doesn’t work. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2025-03-18, version 1.4.3* I paid for subscription but the app doesn’t work ### 1/5 — Đánh giá *2025-03-07, version 1.4.2* Lỗi nhiều ### 2/5 — Giọng *2025-06-08, version 1.4.6* Giọng giở ### 2/5 — 讀到一半會中斷 *2025-02-21, version 1.4.2* 超難用 ### 2/5 — Bug多、手機超級燙！ *2025-01-05, version 1.3.5* 不知道是不是我的問題？我使用的都是txt格式，但在報讀時不是無法時時調整速度，就是會跳針回之前段落，而且手機發燙嚴重。 另外，手動跳行的操作也不方便、無法讀取page格式的檔案。 ### 3/5 — Good, not perfect *2026-05-05, version 1.5.1* Works well but is completely robotic. I enjoy the voice options, just wish it was a smoother read. ### 3/5 — What happened to voice options? *2026-01-19* It works perfectly for reading texts, but it used to have different tone of vice options and choices of male and female. Now all the options are gone. Now there’s only one voice per language and female voice only. I don’t mind taking away the different tone of vices, but taking away the choice of male voice? Hope they would give each language a male voice reading. ### 3/5 — Voix artificielle *2025-09-15, version 1.4.8* Intéressant, malheureusement voix trop mécanique qui manque de naturel dans le ton et la lecture, rythme, flux, intonation. Mais bon j’en demande peut-être beaucoup. ### 3/5 — Così Così *2025-08-18, version 1.4.8* Potrebbe essere più precisa la pronuncia delle parole, e manca totalmente di espressività ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Thank you *2026-06-16* Escaping Natural Readers abusive app update to this was a breath of fresh air. It’s like all the best parts of all the paywalled apps combined into this one for FREE! (Cherry on top is having the default voice my favorite voice) Please don’t change, please no overbearing ai updates. Thank you for existing! (App found from a Reddit recommendation) ### 5/5 — R *2026-06-13* It’s so cool you didn’t even have to sign in. I think it’s off-line. I’m not sure if it’s off-line or not but I don’t think it is but other than that you didn’t have to sign in so maybe it’s on my laptop. ### 5/5 — Thoroughly impressed! *2026-04-14* This is the first time I’m writing a review for an app, because I felt like it deserved the recognition. And I’ve used many apps! As a developer myself, I can tell that a lot of thought and consideration was put into the design of this app. The things that make or break good design, user experience, ease of use, etc. are 1) a solid understanding of your user and their needs and 2) attention to detail to the small things that would otherwise be invisible if done right but painfully noticeable if not addressed. The developer placed earnest effort into both areas and it shows. I like how the developer allows for the user to navigate to other areas of the text mid-session but be able to “snap” back to auto-scrolling / following the text as its spoken, I like how the text is highlighted and how there are two layers of highlighting (listening to and following a visual cue of spoken text is quite effective for me in absorbing a book and staying focused), I like how this is offline so that I can use it anywhere without internet and leverages native TTS using enhanced/premium voices, I like the custom animations the developer built and the thorough instructional video for enabling enhanced/premium voices, I like that you can export as an audio file and that you can search within the document which helps me to easily navigate to other sections based off of memory. I mainly use this for epubs, but I thought it was smart that the developer allowed for the user to set reading area which solves for the difficultly of doing OCR for non-standard formats typically in PDFs, anything that is not in “book” form. Rarely do I ever feel that the developer has anticipated what I wanted or known what I wanted in a system before I was aware of what I wanted. It’s great that I could freely use this app without paying for it, like there is a 5 document at a time max but I suppose one could game it by deleting one and adding more. There is definitely a lack of appreciation from people that aren’t even paying for this. Ultimately, I paid for the lifetime access because I think this app deserves it. Some features that would nice to have are just some coloring and text size options, small black text against stark white background could be straining over time, and if there could be grayscale or sepia plus larger text sizes that would be appreciated. ### 5/5 — It’s the best! *2026-04-11, version 1.5.1* This Text-to-Speech app is remarkable. I’ve tried many and Narrly is without competition or peer. ### 5/5 — Great job! *2026-02-15, version 1.5.1* The best reading app. Thanks. ### 5/5 — Kindle *2026-01-22, version 1.5.1* You have a very powerful and beautiful tool. If you could add Kindle access (to login into one’s kindle account on amazon) that would be great. Also, the app could be faster on the iPhone. One more, please provide the option to export the pdf or at least to show the path by right-clicking the icon, which can also be made to dynamically increase a bit more. Could you also integrate the dictionary — take a look at how it is down on Kindle for the Desktop on Mac. Thanks ### 5/5 — 10/10 *2026-01-20* I love it works great and goes with many files only problem is the ai voice sounding robotic ### 5/5 — guay *2025-12-03, version 1.5.0* bien pero si la voz es más natural y menos robotica seria mejor ### 5/5 — La mejor *2025-11-23, version 1.5.0* Gratis, buenas voces la mejor APP ### 5/5 — Yapaylığın minimuma indiği uygulama *2025-11-20, version 1.5.0* İstenilen dilde istenilen hızda okunan metin. Çok başarılı bir uygulama. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-04.*