# Text to Speech PDF Reader — user reviews

> 134 indexed App Store user reviews of Text to Speech PDF Reader by Bret Lester, rated 4.50/5 from 552 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/text-to-speech-pdf-reader/id1519637964/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/text-to-speech-pdf-reader/id1519637964.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 427 · 4★ 48 · 3★ 22 · 2★ 13 · 1★ 42

## What do users think of Text to Speech PDF Reader?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 🚀 Simple and works
- 🚀 Saving my life
- 🚀 Fantastic app
- 🚀 Awesome app
- 🚀 Turns my PDFs to Audio Books
- 🚀 Best free App

**Cons**

- 🐛 Does not read alternate text
- 🐛 Not reading clear anymore
- 🐛 Rubbish
- 🐛 Garbage
- 🐛 Crashed every time I opened it
- 🐛 Beware of Extra Charges with This App's Premium Plan!
- 🐛 AI not working on Apple OS
- 🐛 Page cropping function is largely non-functional
- 🐛 Wont let me use premium service
- 🐛 Buggy
- 🐛 Broken words
- 🐛 SO annoying to work with
- 🐛 laggy
- 🐛 Crashes frequently

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Skips paragraphs and double plays when pausing
- Erased files without consent
- Doesn't work with two-column text
- Reads text backwards
- Unable to copy/paste or open certain files
- Skips sentences and doesn't read column text in the correct order
- Skips whole paragraphs
- Glitches and gets stuck in a reading loop

**Most requested features**

- Add ability to read alternate text (alttext) in PDFs
- Improve voice quality and options
- Add ability to organize files in folders
- Add mobile-friendly version
- Improve handling of scanned/column PDFs
- Add ability to skip headers/page numbers
- Improve pronunciation of uncommon words

## Newest reviews (12 of 134)

### 4/5 — Very bad

*2026-04-03, version 2.9.6*

if you don’t get premium the voice is indecipherable and so robotic that it doesn’t even read words right. also not user friendly.

### 4/5 — Does not read alternate text

*2025-12-29, version 2.9.1*

TTS does not read the alternate text (alttext) that is often added to images in PDFs to aid the blind. Adding this capability would be useful to a great many people.

### 2/5 — Not worker good

*2025-10-07, version 2.8.3*

It is not reading clear anymore. It skips paragraphs and it double plays when you’re trying to pause it.

### 4/5 — Review

*2025-06-18*

The app is very helpful for PDF reading. Still doesn’t read beginning words in sentences ( after points for example ) which sometimes bothers to understand the concept. Hope to see improvement , thank you.

### 2/5 — you cant change language

*2025-02-18, version 2.6.23*

if you submit a doc in spanish de reader.. reads in english and viceversa

### 1/5 — App is not letting me quit

*2025-01-24, version 2.6.22*

This app is so annoying, first It's not free and second it has a major flaw, since it only cares about money it prompts you to start the trial, you cant quit it on mac, not even restart, i tried dragging it to the trash can and that didnt even work, it doesnt let me press the X button.

### 1/5 — WONT LET ME GET OUT OFF APP!!!

*2024-12-18, version 2.6.22*

Someone else said this in the reviews but it I got the app because I thought it was free, realized it wasnt, and wanted to delete it. But oh wait, you have to quit the app to delete it. Thing is, the app won't let me quit!!! There is no X button, and it wont let me get rid of this app!

### 1/5 — Wouldn't quit unless I bought a subscription

*2024-12-08*

I wanted to try this on my computer but it when I realized that I didn't want to pay the expensive subscription fee I tried to quit the app but it literaly wouldn't physically let me quit normally or even delete the app. There was no way for me to navigate the app without the subscription so I had to force quit it eventually.

**Developer response:** Anyone who encounters this, please send me a screenshot at contact@weboutloud.io and let me know the version of MacOS you are in.

### 1/5 — Does not read my pdf

*2024-10-26, version 2.6.20*

Does not read my pdf

### 1/5 — Fraco

*2024-10-16*

A voz é horrível.

### 1/5 — great

*2024-10-15, version 2.6.19*

I can't get this to work on my laptop. No reason, just won't play :) super cool

### 2/5 — Hate the voice

*2024-09-28, version 2.6.18*

annoyng voices.  not many options.  does not sound like a person yet.  IN TODAY'S MODERN TIME OF DEVELOPEMENT-- THIS SHOULD BE BETTER.  

VERY EXPENSIVE FOR THIS QUALITY OF PRODUCITON

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Rip off - DO NOT DOWNLOAD

*2026-06-01, version 2.9.9*

This app is a total con. The pricing for the subscriptions are ridiculous and it cannot read a basic PDF.

### 1/5 — unusable after half an hour of use

*2026-04-28, version 2.9.9*

with limitend and very annoying voices, all of a sudden it stopped reading words and just started reading the l e t t e r s o f t h e w o r d s i n s t e a d. was that annoying to read? imagine hearing it

### 1/5 — Mirror Effect

*2026-04-25, version 2.9.9*

I've been trying to figure out this app.  And it wont stop reading the text backwards. Dont have the time to figure it out.

### 1/5 — Bad experience

*2026-02-09*

Trash app pause button does not work and voice overlaps when you try to pause and play

### 1/5 — Dishonest

*2026-02-05, version 2.9.1*

Doesn’t disclose how “unlimited” it is, it will draw you in promising unlimited but really is not you only have a limited number of words per month. You will only learn about said limited words after you give them money

### 1/5 — horrible

*2025-10-11, version 2.8.3*

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### 1/5 — Rubbish

*2025-09-29*

They charge me for the app but I only have access to free voice options. Can’t contact them using “contact us” button

**Developer response:** Please email me at contact@weboutloud.io. I’d be happy to help. I’m surprised the in-po “Contact Us” form did not work for you. I just tested it and it is working for me. Perhaps it was a temporary outage?

### 1/5 — Garbage

*2025-09-25, version 2.8.3*

All the files I saved on this app are gone. Erased with my consent

### 1/5 — Crashed every time I opened it

*2025-09-17, version 2.8.1*

It crashed every time I opened it

### 1/5 — Бессмысленное приложение

*2025-01-28*

По-русски не читает, после смены установок языка и голоса, выдает ошибку.

**Developer response:** Please send me screenshot of the error to contact@weboutloud.io. Also let me know which voice you are attempting to use

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — TTS

*2026-04-21*

It is the best text reader with many voice samples. Easy to use and is very handy to keep and to use.

### 5/5 — Simple and works

*2025-12-08, version 2.8.4*

Chose this one because it does exactly what it says it will, and because the developer doesn’t use it to collect your personal info - every other PDF reader app I could find seemed to be a thinly veiled attempt to collect as much user info as possible. All of it unnecessary.
I pay for the OpenAI voices. The natural diction makes the text a hundred times easier to listen to.

### 5/5 — Ty

*2025-03-29, version 2.6.25*

Y

### 5/5 — It works

*2025-03-23, version 2.6.24*

It works with a 90 megabyte file unlike others.

### 5/5 — Best free version I’ve seen so far

*2025-03-14*

The fact that the app uses the built in voices already installed on the phone is very smart. Obviously you get ads when you pause and replay but only then (as far as I’ve noticed so far). I use another two apps to help me stay focused when reading books, but they wouldn’t load a big pdf for free. This app did it with no issues.

### 5/5 — Perfecta para estudiar

*2025-01-28, version 2.6.22*

Buscaba una app que me ayudara con mis estudios de maestría y esta lo consiguió.  Simple de usar y muy práctica.

### 5/5 — Awesome app

*2025-01-26, version 2.6.22*

This is a great and extremely helpful app. Also, your content remains on your laptop so your PDFs remain safe (and not uploaded to the cloud).

### 5/5 — Awesome App for Research.

*2024-12-03, version 2.6.21*

A lot of the time it is taking ages to go thorugh research paper. And this system makes it so simple to place everything in context for your research review. Literally within one day or two max. You can go through a very complicated papers of about ten and more. And write the comprehensive understanding of your focus.

### 5/5 — 5star

*2024-09-17*

Best TTS app for PDF hands down.

### 5/5 — Fanatic

*2024-08-21*

Fantastic app.

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