# Text to Speech Reader: ReadBit — Read Aloud PDF, Book, Web, Doc

> AI-powered text-to-speech reader for documents, web, and scanned text. (iPhone/iPad app by Virtual Collaboration Research Inc..)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/text-to-speech-reader-readbit/id1545366628 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Virtual Collaboration Research Inc.](https://appshunter.io/developer/1455753337)
- Category: Productivity, Education
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.30/5 from 240 App Store ratings · 115 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 51 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2021-01-21
- Data updated: 2026-08-27
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/text-to-speech-reader-readbit/id1545366628/reviews.md

## What is Text to Speech Reader?

Your fastest reading companion! Read aloud everything with natural AI voices!

ReadBit is a free text-to-speech reader that helps you to read aloud books, PDFs, docs, web articles and many other file formats. It saves a lot of time by instantly converting any text to an audiobook, reading all the information at your desired speech rate and providing an excellent listening experience with natural lifelike voices.

Features
- Convert text files to audiobooks with advanced text-to-speech in 27 languages
- Supports websites, ePub, pdf, jpg, png and more
- Scan physical documents with your camera and listen
- Amazing listening experience with more than 120 voices
- No more robotic voices! Listen to everything with the most natural voices in the market
- Text reader highlights the document word by word as it reads to enhance engagement and comprehension
- Summarizes text and extracts valuable insights such as keywords, places, and characters across chapters
- Change the speech rate. Listen faster!
- Track your progress with a personal reading habit tracker

A Free Text to Speech (TTS) Reader

Text-to-speech is an amazing technology that converts all text into audiobooks, whether it’s an online book, a pdf, a school assignment, or a lengthy report.

Read Aloud Books, PDFs and Websites with Natural AI Voices

Driving? Or maybe taking a long walk? Listen to your books and web articles with natural, lifelike voices using our cutting-edge text-to-speech reader.


Reading Coach

Strong habits start with small steps! Reading Coach is a tool that serves your document in bites like IG stories, tailored for your daily reading time. We call them Bits, and they make reading easier and more fun than ever! 

Create Playlists

Create a list of your favorite blog posts, articles, books, or pdf and take them with you anywhere you go! You can create playlists to listen to your files back-to-back in your preferred order.

Highlight and Focus

The text reader highlights every word while reading out loud. You can scan physical documents and books to read along while listening. Highlighting the text increases your focus and helps you retain more information than just reading.

Need a spell checker?

Do you know what is one of the best things about a text-to-speech reader? You can use it as a spell checker. ReadBit will convert your file from text to speech, pronounce every word, and let you spot any misspelled words instantly.

Summarize and Save Time

ReadBit is not only a text reader but also a summarizer. It digs out the most relevant information like keywords, characters, and places.

ReadBit is developed by Mediate, an MIT spinoff AI start-up based in Boston. As Mediate, we develop innovative computer vision systems with the support of the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Veterans Affairs.

Subscription Plans:
ReadBit has limited access to some advanced features such as Natural Voices, Font Adjustments and Keywords. If you would like unlimited access, we have created subscription plans.

1 Month: $11.99
6 Month : $59.99 ~ $9.99/month
12 Months: $95.99 ~ $7.99/month

If you choose to purchase a subscription plan, the payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. All plans automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Auto-renew may be turned off by going to your iTunes Account Settings after purchase. The account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours before the end of the current period. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. If you don't choose to purchase a plan, you can simply continue using designated ReadBit features for free.

You can read our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy from here: https://mediate.tech/policies

## Key features

- Convert text to audiobooks with AI voices
- Supports PDFs, web articles, and scanned documents
- 120+ natural-sounding voices in 27 languages
- Word-by-word text highlighting
- Summarizes text and extracts keywords
- Adjustable speech rate
- Personal reading habit tracker

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Monthly Premium | $11.99 | per month |
| 6 Months Premium | $59.99 | per 6 months |
| Yearly Premium | $95.99 | per year |
| Weekly Premium | $5.99 | per 7 days |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 75.000 Words | $19.99 | one-time |
| 50.000 Words | $14.99 | one-time |
| 150.000 Words | $29.99 | one-time |
| 150.000 Words | $19.99 | one-time |


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

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- 🎙️ Natural, human-like AI voices
- 👍 Free version with good functionality
- 📚 Excellent for students and dyslexic readers
- 🚀 Fast reading speed and multitasking capability
- 📱 User-friendly interface and easy to use
- 🌍 Supports multiple languages
- 📖 Works well with fiction and fanfiction
- 🎵 Multiple voice options available
- ⚡ Adjustable reading speed
- 📋 Playlist and library organization features

**Cons**

- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezing
- ⏸️ Random pausing and stopping during playback
- 📄 Poor handling of PDFs and documents with images
- 🔤 Skips words, sentences, and entire paragraphs
- 💰 Expensive subscription model
- 🔋 High battery consumption
- 📊 Struggles with multi-column layouts
- 🗂️ Data loss after updates or syncing
- 🎙️ Removed preferred standard English voice
- ⚙️ Glitchy performance with large libraries
- 🔐 Frequent login/logout issues
- 📸 OCR scanning errors and misread text

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes when opening or loading large libraries
- Random data loss and document disappearance
- Text syncing issues causing data to vanish
- OCR misreads words and scrambles sentence order
- App freezes when adding multiple books
- Playback stops or pauses unexpectedly
- Login/logout loops and session disconnections
- Scanner fails with multi-column text and images
- Electronic humming sound when slowing playback speed
- Reads content in brackets and parentheses despite settings
- Doesn't recognize text on certain websites
- Incompatibility with older iPhone models
- In-app feedback form non-functional
- App doesn't respond to language selection changes

**Most requested features**

- One-time lifetime purchase option instead of subscription
- Offline download capability for entire books
- Chrome browser extension
- Custom pronunciation settings for character names
- Option to skip footnotes, page numbers, and citations
- Default voice selection feature
- Ability to edit scanned text
- Better margin crop functionality
- Ignore brackets/parentheses option
- Share playlists with friends
- Automatic language detection
- Improved Turkish and non-English voice quality

## Recent user reviews (10 of 115)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/text-to-speech-reader-readbit/id1545366628/reviews.md

### 1/5 — Not what I’m looking for…

*2026-01-20, version 1.0*

The app appears to be written for readers of fiction and not for textbooks, or documents that have illustrations or like items in them, making them worthless for use with anything other straight text documents…

### 1/5 — Horrible After Update

*2025-12-10, version 1.6.152*

Took away the one standard English voice that I preferred above even the enhanced ones.

### 2/5 — App problems

*2025-10-11, version 1.6.151*

Hey, every time I login or like just try to use the app a couple seconds later I get kicked out or after I used it for a while. I think everything’s OK. I get kicked out again and every time I try to post my thing I get kicked out too sometimes when I go back and it’ll show up again, but it’s a hit or miss. Can you please fix this problem?

### 5/5 — Uygulama açılmıyor

*2025-09-19, version 1.6.151*

Uygulamayı satın aldığım halde açılmıyor sürekli donuyor parama yazık oldu ya.

### 1/5 — Skips words and whole paragraphs (useless)

*2025-07-24, version 1.6.150*

This app can’t read PDFs well at all. It’s basically useless since that ‘s all I really needed it to do. Ahh well.. a wasted 12 bucks!

### 1/5 — Don’t waste your money

*2025-07-23, version 1.6.150*

Tried this as an alternative to Speechify as you can pay monthly with ReadBit but quickly found out how bad the app is. AI voices sound fake and no where near as good as speechify. The AI just skips paragraphs at a time and there is no free trial, if there was I would’ve canceled the subscription instantly

### 3/5 — Pausing reader

*2025-02-07, version 1.6.141*

I like that app a lot actually. It’s just that sometimes the reader just stops or just pauses for a long time. It’s better than paying for audible tho but still annoying and should be fixed.

### 5/5 — Perfect

*2025-02-04, version 1.6.141*

This is exactly what i was looking for.

### 5/5 — Hayatımda en çıkarsız bir uygulama

*2024-12-23, version 1.6.141*

Harika tek kelimeyle emeğinize sağlık❤️

### 3/5 — Premium Voices

*2024-10-18, version 1.6.141*

Hi, The “expressive”voices are great, however it is ruined by the constant glitches and stop starts while listening. Please can you investigate. Thank you

## Frequently asked questions about Text to Speech Reader

### What does Text to Speech Reader: ReadBit do?

This app functions as a text-to-speech reader, converting written content from various sources into audiobooks. It utilizes natural AI voices to read aloud documents, web pages, books, and even scanned physical documents.

### What are the key features of ReadBit?

Key features include converting text to audiobooks with advanced AI voices in 27 languages, support for multiple file formats like PDF and web pages, the ability to scan physical documents with a camera, word-by-word highlighting, text summarization, and adjustable speech rates.

### How much does ReadBit cost?

The app is free to download and use, offering limited access to advanced features. Users can opt for subscription plans to gain unlimited access to features like natural voices and font adjustments.

### What types of files can ReadBit read aloud?

ReadBit supports a wide range of file types for text-to-speech conversion, including websites, ePub files, PDFs, JPGs, PNGs, and other text-based documents. It can also scan physical documents using your device's camera.

### Who would benefit from using ReadBit?

This app is beneficial for anyone who prefers listening to content over reading, such as commuters, students, individuals with visual impairments or reading difficulties, and those looking to multitask while consuming information.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.6.153 — 2025-12-17

Hello,

Below are the latest updates and improvements in this release:

1) Minor UI changes and bug fixes for a faster and more stable experience.

More exciting features are on the way! As always, we appreciate any feedback to provide the best solutions for our users. Let us know what you think about ReadBit by leaving a review or sending your thoughts to readbit@mediate.tech.

Best,
ReadBit Team

### 1.6.152 — 2025-12-04

Hello,

Below are the latest updates and improvements in this release:

1) Minor UI changes and bug fixes for a faster and more stable experience.

More exciting features are on the way! As always, we appreciate any feedback to provide the best solutions for our users. Let us know what you think about ReadBit by leaving a review or sending your thoughts to readbit@mediate.tech.

Best,
ReadBit Team

### 1.6.151 — 2025-08-14

Hello,

Below are the latest updates and improvements in this release:

1) Minor UI changes and bug fixes for a faster and more stable experience.

More exciting features are on the way! As always, we appreciate any feedback to provide the best solutions for our users. Let us know what you think about ReadBit by leaving a review or sending your thoughts to readbit@mediate.tech.

Best,
ReadBit Team

### 1.6.150 — 2025-07-01

Hello,

Below are the latest updates and improvements in this release:

1) Minor UI changes and bug fixes for a faster and more stable experience.

More exciting features are on the way! As always, we appreciate any feedback to provide the best solutions for our users. Let us know what you think about ReadBit by leaving a review or sending your thoughts to readbit@mediate.tech.

Best,
ReadBit Team

### 1.6.149 — 2025-05-10

Hello,

Below are the latest updates and improvements in this release:

1) Minor UI changes and bug fixes for a faster and more stable experience.

More exciting features are on the way! As always, we appreciate any feedback to provide the best solutions for our users. Let us know what you think about ReadBit by leaving a review or sending your thoughts to readbit@mediate.tech.

Best,
ReadBit Team

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