# Speak • Speech Synthesizer — user reviews > 186 indexed App Store user reviews of Speak by Loic Verrall, rated 4.60/5 from 3,013 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/speak-speech-synthesizer/id806819422/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/speak-speech-synthesizer/id806819422.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,421 · 4★ 303 · 3★ 132 · 2★ 37 · 1★ 120 ## What do users think of Speak? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Easy to use - 👍 Helpful for communication - 👍 Variety of voices - 👍 Clear and natural sounding voices - 👍 Useful for vocal rest or loss of voice - 👍 Integrates with predictive text - 👍 Accessible with VoiceOver **Cons** - 🐛 Recording feature not working - 🐛 Crashes or stops working after updates - 🐛 Inability to pause or resume speech - 🐛 Inability to export recordings - 🐛 Inconsistent behavior across devices - 🐛 Difficulty saving or accessing previous text **Commonly reported bugs** - Recording feature not working - Crashes or stops working after updates - Inconsistent behavior across devices **Most requested features** - Ability to save and export recordings - Pause and resume speech functionality - More voice options, including Siri-like voices - Highlight or follow along with text during playback - Ability to copy text from app to other apps - Sync text and history across devices ## Newest reviews (17 of 186) ### 3/5 — Can you help me *2026-08-08, version 9.4.6* Good app, but after the keyboard came up, I couldn’t put it down ### 2/5 — I cannot send any the audio *2026-02-10, version 9.4.6* I have tried to send the audio to my other account to add it to a project and it would not let me send it I have tried multiple times to try and send the audio recording but it does not work it still sounds good please fix this problem ### 5/5 — I LOST MY VOICE FROM A COLD TEMPORARILY *2025-11-20, version 9.4.6* I am grateful that I found this app cause it help me communicate when I needed the most and for free! ### 5/5 — Thank You! *2025-09-12, version 9.4.6* If like me, you just wanted to put a few spoken words over a track with A.I./🤖robot effect - this is simply perfect! 👌🏻🙏🏻💯 ### 5/5 — Cool :) *2025-09-06, version 9.4.6* Really amazing app!! Clear voices, nice and easy mechanics, just what I was looking for ### 4/5 — Recent Update Made Things Worse *2025-08-11, version 9.4.6* I really really love this app. 1. It’s free. 2. I can handle really long pieces of text. 3. It sounds good and you can adjust speed and pitch. 4. It used to play in the background. But! after this recent update it doesn’t. Which means if I want to listen to my long pieces of text not only do I have to stay on the app while it plays but I have to change my settings so that my screen doesn’t fall asleep while it’s playing or I’ll have to restart. Also on my old device it played through fine but since using the app on my newer model phone it does something where it plays through the first several sentences and then plays the same sentences over and over until it stops completely. Or if it encounters a weird character it just stops completely. I love this app when it does what I need it to, but lately getting it to work is too complicated. ### 4/5 — Hi there *2025-07-11, version 9.4.6* So this app of your is good but recently, it’s been really bad last few days whenever I tried leaving the app or playing stuff and or turn off my computer starts coming out and even if I sit on the app and stuff, it stops playing after a little bit ### 4/5 — Good app *2025-05-31, version 9.4.5* This is great app but I need to reset it every morning or whatever I change volume outside of the app. ### 4/5 — Kids *2025-04-25, version 9.4.5* Access to communication with my kids since I am deaf parents ### 2/5 — musical brodway *2025-03-22, version 9.4.5* karoake by sean pak stage ### 3/5 — Good..but *2025-01-21, version 9.4.5* If I could export a file into GarageBand on my iPhone that would fulfill all my needs. ### 5/5 — “Speak” (app) *2025-01-11, version 9.4.5* As of January 2024, the best free Speaking (Text to Speech) app for iOS. The other ones are garbage. ### 5/5 — This is funny *2024-12-25, version 9.4.4* It has something ### 5/5 — I love this app *2024-12-22, version 9.4.4* I lost my voice completely from an illness and it was terrifying not being able to communicate properly without a voice. I was unable to communicate my needs or ask for help then I stumbled across this app as a solution. It’s helped give me a voice to ask for assistance. Thank you for helping me be able to have a voice ### 5/5 — 100 star rating *2024-08-07, version 9.4.4* When are you gonna make an application that do dictated reading or you can write a sentence ### 5/5 — Funny *2024-08-04, version 9.4.4* Night and night to the world world I am not going anywhere I’m going nowhere and I’m going At the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft announced a mobile version of Game Room for Windows Phone 7. Asteroids Deluxe was the only game announced, but a show floor demo revealed working prototypes of Centipede and Shao-Lin's Road. Format The Game Room front end can be downloaded at no charge from Microsoft's Marketplace online storefront. When launched, players are presented with a three-story virtual video arcade, each story containing four separate rooms. These rooms may be decorated however the player wishes, using the included themes and set pieces. The player can fill the rooms with virtual game cabinets that are used to play arcade and console games downloaded through the service, with each room holding a maximum of eight cabinets. Games for Game Room are made available through downloadable game packs. While the packs are free to download, individual games must be purchased in order to be played fully. Players may play each game in the pack once without charge, limited to ten minutes of game time. Games are purchased on a game-by-game basis, which allows unlimited play of the game. Previously, this was limited to Xbox 360 or Games for Windows, but a late update removed this distinction, defaulting the game purchases to the previous "Play Anywhere" model (a multiplatform spending model that would be expanded years later for Xbox One and Windows 10 as Xbox Play Anywhere). Gameplay Games in Game Room are launched by selecting them while players browse through their arcade. Each game offers a "classic mode", where one can set a number of gameplay options, dependent on the game's format. Arcade games have DIP switches that may be changed in order to increase difficulty or offer additional lives to the player, while console games have their original gameplay variations. Both are accessible using Game Room's on-screen interfaces. Also, some games can be played in a special "ranked mode," which allows scores to be posted to online leaderboards while limiting gameplay options to a single variation common to all players, as well as disallowing several Game Room options, seemingly to prevent falsifying rankings or other forms of cheating. While browsing their arcades, players see avatars of themselves and their online friends wandering around and playing the games; Xbox 360 players see their console avatars, while PC players see generic avatars instead. Similarly, players may visit the arcades of their online friends as well as play the games found there. If a friend's arcade has a game that the player does not own, the player may purchase plays or may use their in-game tokens. However, the player may play copies of a game they already own for free. Players may also challenge their friends at various games in both score-based and skill-based contests. During gameplay, players win medals based on their score or how long they have played the game (both for that individual play and all-time on that game). Medals are offered in gold, silver and bronze, with each being worth a certain number of points. As players earn medals, they can advance in levels, which will unlock new themes and set pieces to be used in their arcades. Like other LIVE titles, players also earn achievements based on their gameplay. Game selection The initial game pack releases for Game Room were a mix of arcade, Intellivision, and Atari 2600 games. Other arcade machines were also to be covered, with Microsoft promising at least 1000 virtual arcade cabinets over the subsequent three years. Despite Microsoft's promise, there have not been any new games or other content since Game Pack 13 was released on December 22, 2010. Initially, Microsoft announced plans to release game packs weekly, starting on April 28, 2010, although the first new release did not take place until May 5, 2010. Available games More information Title, Platform ... Additional themes Along with the several pre-loaded themes available at the start in Game Room, Microsoft has added other themes in the game packs. Unlike many of the pre-loaded themes, which require the player to have attained a certain level in order to be used, these themes are available to be used immediately. ### 5/5 — So grateful *2024-07-19, version 9.4.4* I have been using this app for years. I have a paralyzed vocal cord and this allows me to communicate with others when I’m having trouble talking. My son even has fun playing around with the settings. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Speak *2026-01-17, version 9.4.6* I have I am having a hard time getting back to it when I pause it. I can’t see what is reading and it does not follow along when it’s reading. ### 1/5 — Stops working….!!!!!! *2025-04-25, version 9.4.5* Useless junk stops working after 24 hrs. Move on. ### 1/5 — vocaloid rip-off. Do not get *2024-11-23* TO EVERYONE IN THE REVIEWS SAYING ITS THE BEST APP THEY EVER DOWNLOADED, DELETE THE APP NOW. IT IS A COMPLETE ILLEGAL RIP-OFF OF ANOTHER SOFTWARE CALLED VOCALOID. (Go check that out but if you can’t afford it try synthesizer V.) CRYPTON FUTURE MEDIA NEEDS TO SUE RIGHT NOW. Horrible rip off. Do not get and thanks for reading uwu ### 1/5 — The update caused me not to be able to create iMovies *2023-08-18, version 9.4.1* The update caused me not to be able to create iMovies to export. ### 1/5 — audio isn’t working *2021-09-26, version 9.3.11* when i type something into the box then press the speak button, nothing plays ### 1/5 — Save record *2021-06-07, version 9.3.11* Cannot upload new voices and it’s difficult to save recordings ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2020-11-13, version 9.3.10* It literally cuts off mid reading my paragraphs ### 1/5 — Ajakakkaa *2020-05-16, version 9.3.9* Ahaha Ajakaka Ajakakao ### 1/5 — Dosent work 🥺 *2020-03-29, version 9.3.9* Idk it was just doing great then it went wrong ### 1/5 — It spells period and you gotta stop *2020-01-24, version 9.3.7* If you have to stop every time you end a sentence and delete the word period to put one I’ll pass. If trial period a big problem is front and center. I’m not waiting to see what else is wrong. That’s one issue I am not wasting any more time on nonsense ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — FANTASTIC *2026-07-12, version 9.4.6* It uses no generative AI and if you are a person like me who wants to make a voice but also refrain from using our very limited clean water supply this is the app to use. You may now be thinking “there is no getting better than this”. That is where you’re wrong because there is a giant variety of voices to choose from like a robot or to a sweet grandma. You can also edit the voices by pitch and speed. It also has almost all of those analog horror voices. ### 5/5 — PERFECT FOR ANALOG HORROR *2026-07-03, version 9.4.6* It’s good for fictional entities like Gabriel from Mandela catalog this app has his same exact voice along with other unsettling voices thanks! ### 5/5 — Best app *2026-06-21, version 9.4.6* This app is very unique with its different voices and with no ads which is very surprising considering I always get ads and I just love to troll my friends with this app and they get surprised which I think it pretty funny,overall.this app is very fun and interesting 😁 ### 5/5 — Helpful *2026-05-25, version 9.4.6* I do rants and this app helps its free and doesn’t have text to speech locked behind a paywall ### 5/5 — Why u should try *2026-05-23, version 9.4.6* Speak is a great app it helps you become fluent on any language you are passionate about, for example me and my dad have struggled learning Spanish so we tried using Duolingo but it didn’t really work so we gave Speak a chance and it helped us out so much. Thank you speak for helping me learn Spanish and for the growth you have gave me!! ### 5/5 — Speak? More like PEAK *2026-04-07, version 9.4.6* This helped me with many of my upcoming projects. Thanks to you, the creator, for making this. ### 5/5 — ok but not perfect *2026-03-14, version 9.4.6* Before I was using Google Translate to make it read my text out loud when I need to check how something sound in english. It was working but you have to be online and sometimes the page reload and you loose what you typed. This app is more simple for that, I just type and it talks, no internet needed which is nice. The voice quality is about same level honestly, maybe little bit better because you can change the speed. One thing that bother me is some buttons are really small and I miss them on first tap.. my fingers are not tiny lol. Also after I leave the app and come back it goes to the main screen again not where I was. Is ok overall for what I need it to do, just wish those small things was fixed ### 5/5 — shany *2026-03-01, version 9.4.6* tom echanted ### 5/5 — Nice app *2026-02-26, version 9.4.6* Easy to use and fast ### 5/5 — Where’s Aaron’s voice??? *2026-01-28, version 9.4.6* I love using this app as it’s a great substitution for verbal communication due to my fear of public speaking and projecting my voice. But why has the voice option “English - Aaron (United States)” been removed? That was my favorite one. @Loic Verrall please explain. --- *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 2026-09-06.*