# Text To Speech Audio Reader — user reviews > 67 indexed App Store user reviews of Text To Speech Audio Reader by 洁 刘, rated 4.32/5 from 1,731 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/text-to-speech-audio-reader/id1497859770/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/text-to-speech-audio-reader/id1497859770.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,261 · 4★ 153 · 3★ 103 · 2★ 32 · 1★ 181 ## What do users think of Text To Speech Audio Reader? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 👍 Simple and free - 🚀 Works well for basic text-to-speech - 💡 Customizable voice settings **Cons** - 🐛 Inconsistent performance, app gets stuck or repeats lines - 🔇 Robotic and unnatural-sounding voices - 🔍 Difficult to change settings during playback - 🔒 Privacy concerns with ads **Commonly reported bugs** - Keyboard gets stuck in the up position, making the app unusable - App crashes or stops working randomly - Unable to import or paste text into the app **Most requested features** - Option to download text-to-speech audio files - Repeat/rewind function for audio playback - Import/paste text from external sources - Ability to pause and resume reading without issues ## Newest reviews (13 of 67) ### 4/5 — Simple and effective *2026-09-03, version 2.0.0* Ad pop-ups after it reads the text that can be a little annoying, but it’s great to put in text and haven’t read it. It’s fairly simple a pretty basic app that doesn’t try to fondle you for cash. ### 4/5 — Help someone who’s got dyslexia although this review things bloody annoying *2026-07-15, version 2.0.0* ? ### 3/5 — Good Free Tool *2026-02-23, version 2.0.0* I’ve copied chapters worth of books (100+ pages) and it will skip forward a lot of times. But hey it’s free so I deal with it. Great to read along with ### 2/5 — Inconsistent *2025-10-23, version 2.0.0* OK, gets stuck, repeating the same line over and over. Voice is hard to change into legibility. ### 4/5 — YES! Basic, Free, No Ads, & Works fine ! *2025-07-28, version 2.0.0* Read the title again for my quick take on this app. Kudos and thanks go out to the developers! ### 3/5 — I would give it a five star but *2025-06-23, version 2.0.0* I thought there was an option to download the text voice speech, I would appreciate if you added that😣 ### 1/5 — Me *2025-04-15, version 2.0.0* Not good ### 3/5 — Good but needs a tweak *2025-03-17, version 2.0.0* Should have repeat function on audio file, if your trying to revise notes using audio. ### 1/5 — Worthless *2025-03-15, version 2.0.0* This doesn’t work ### 1/5 — App does not work *2025-01-30, version 2.0.0* something is seriously wrong with this app. It does not work at all. It will not let you import. It will not do anything should be taken off the App Store. ### 1/5 — Unusable since keyboard cannot be brought down *2024-11-19, version 2.0.0* Worked for me pretty well one time. After this, it would not allow me to do anything because the keyboard is stuck in the up position. What a huge oversight rendering this app useless. ### 1/5 — Terrible 😡😡 *2024-11-19, version 2.0.0* Choosing another voice doesn’t work. No way to change settings. ### 3/5 — Nice voices but they tend to repeat on a sentence. *2024-10-12, version 2.0.0* They keep on repeating a sentence, not sure if it’s a glitch or not. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Not impressed *2026-09-01, version 2.0.0* It’s difficult to understand. I’ve got the speech working once and now I can’t find the controls the reason I’m trying to get this as I’m visually impaired and now I still have a problem trying to read what the hell to do you could’ve made things a little bigger I don’t think I’ll be keeping it ### 1/5 — It’s ok *2026-05-27, version 2.0.0* Idk it doesn’t do much you just type and it reads it to you ### 1/5 — Fix it *2026-05-17, version 2.0.0* Fix it or delete it ### 1/5 — PDFs? *2026-04-21, version 2.0.0* Won’t accept my PDF documents. ### 1/5 — I was hopeful but it was terrible *2026-01-10, version 2.0.0* It barely worked and when it did it just repeated one sentence over and over and over and nothing I could do would fix it ### 1/5 — No good *2025-09-29, version 2.0.0* Awful app ### 1/5 — Horrible for privacy *2025-09-18, version 2.0.0* Spam inducing ### 1/5 — Awful *2025-09-09, version 2.0.0* This app is horrible, repeats the same line over and over, every voice sounds like a talking can, and it STILL has ads ### 1/5 — Natural voice *2025-08-11, version 2.0.0* The voice sounds robotic. ### 1/5 — too many glitches *2025-06-29, version 2.0.0* It’s cool considering it’s free but it won’t update the settings during reading and it kicked me out multiple times ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — My review *2026-05-10, version 2.0.0* Had this app for an couple of years now, yeah it’s not crazy amazing and yeah it acts up at some points. But it’s always there when I need it, and it’s always reliable. Small bugs that I personally don’t mind at all. It just works and I like it for that. ### 5/5 — Finally a good TTS app *2026-03-01, version 2.0.0* No payments, easy formatting, and I could paste my entire book in for it to read (about 140 pages) and it did it with no hassle ### 5/5 — Ok *2026-02-27, version 2.0.0* $ ### 5/5 — Good *2025-09-14, version 2.0.0* It works well I’ve used it for 1 year and it has never let me down, nor has it been overly forceful with the ads it’s a good utility app ### 5/5 — Free and works *2025-07-15, version 2.0.0* A free text to speech with a settings menu to customize voice. Perfect for ez listening ### 5/5 — 6.11.25 Dalasia’s *2025-06-11, version 2.0.0* Dalasia was extremely helpful with my auto and home policy ! She was knowledgeable and very kind and courteous with me , as well as patient. She helped me to resolve something I have been waiting to hear from Farmers. It was dropped because of “error”. I was quite disappointed to learn that. She got it up and running again. Good worker. Thank you. ### 5/5 — PHP *2024-11-30, version 2.0.0* phpMyAdmin ### 5/5 — Very simple *2024-09-11, version 2.0.0* A few adds here and there but very effective very simple! ### 5/5 — Simple and free - no gimmicks or in-app purchases *2024-01-01, version 2.0.0* Thank you! ### 5/5 — Me gusta *2023-11-06, version 2.0.0* Es la aplicación más funcional todo trabaja bien y es muy fácil de usar --- *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 2026-09-08.*