Text to Speech User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience60.3% of reviews
Neutral11.1% of reviews
Negative experience28.6% of reviews

~ Based on 63 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Text to Speech Safe?

Text to Speech - SayTXT Reader appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Text to Speech is 91/100.

This assessment is based on 309 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

90.9% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
6.8% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 309 App Store ratings for Text to Speech.

Is Text to Speech Legit?

Text to Speech - SayTXT Reader appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Text to Speech is 65/100.

Based on 65 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Awesome!

I’ve been trying to find a free text to speech app or website for a long time. Almost all the ones I used before needs purchase, and this one is all free, and the voices are so good and natural too!

Voice

You should let people use the voice on iPhones, specifically the Ava voice

Non responsive

App works as long as you only want it to read and not back up or pause. Buttons are non responsive for these and then suddenly it will jump from 20% read to 68% read and will not let you back up.

Response from developer

Hi Janie, thank you for your feedback. We’re sorry to hear that you’re having trouble with the pause and rewind controls while reading. We’d like to investigate this further and help resolve the issue. Could you please share the document you were reading when this happened? The document type and file will help us reproduce the issue and improve SayTXT. You can reach us here: https://www.pdfgear.com/contact-us/ When submitting the form, please include “SayTXT” in the subject line so we can identify your report more quickly. Thank you for helping us improve SayTXT.

Free and functional

This app is actually free and has great functionality. I am very grateful!

Really free

I have an iPhone and iPhone users have to pay for most everything that an Android phone user gets for free. Thanks TXT Reader!!!

This app constantly crashes

No matter what I type to speak, the app crashes as soon as I press play. Not a reliable app, and really disappointing.

Weird bug

Downloaded the app on my MAC somehow the app is turned left 90° degrees. Can’t turn it normal please fix. Love pdf gear that’s how I found this. The View option doesn’t work to change it from Landscape to Portrait

Response from developer

Thanks for reporting this. This is a macOS compatibility issue on our side. We’ll fix it in the next version.

One of the best Apps Text to Speech The Voice is very powerful

One of the best Apps Text to Speech The Voice is very powerful

It was great, but now crushes

The app is great; however it crushes. I gave 5 stars before in advance but how I decreased it to only one and would give zero because it crushes all the time.

It started to read PDFs better, reading sentences in full, but after reading several sentences the application crashes. This has never happened before the last update. Now this single application makes the iPhone freeze so that it's impossible to do anything. It crushes whatever text you try to read: PDF or txt, small or big — doesn't matter. I reached the developers but it seems they just blamed my iPhone saying it doesn't have enough free space, which isn't the case, because I found several other apps which doesn't do anything I wrote here, and are much better being free as well.

Also the app stuffs an iPhone with wired tiny pieces of m4a files in many folders and doesn't clean them up.

After all, I had to just delete the app and update my review so others could be aware of. I will not get it back.
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Response from developer

Hi Amenkir, thanks for the review! This is a known bug — caused by an overly long sentence in the PDF. A fix is ready and will ship in the next update. Sorry for the trouble!

Falta de suporte para outros idiomas

Achei um ótimo app. Leve, funcional e de fato oferece tudo o que promete. Mas o que deixa a desejar é a falta de suporte para a fala em português Brasil. Por vários momentos, o aprendizado se compromete por conta dos sotaques da outra língua e acabo perdendo um pouco do foco

App incrível, mas…

O app é incrível. Exatamente o que estava procurando. Uma pena que não tenha suporte para português do Brasil.

Awesome!!!!

This free program works great. As an attorney, I have to read a lot. This makes my work easier on the eyes.

Thank you so much for providing it.

Finally!

It is so weirdly hard to find a decent free text to voice reader. This is fine and functional and free. Thank goodness.

Beggars can’t be choosers

This app is free. It works. I’m thankful to the creators. That said it is not on par with commercial text to speech apps like Speechify.

It's great, but crushes

The app is great; however it crushes. I gave 5 stars in advance though the app - after the last upgrade — started cruising all the time.

On the one hand, it started to read PDFs better, reading sentences in full, which was not the case before, but on the other hand, the application began to crash all the time and because of it, the iPhone began to freeze. This has never happened before. And now this single application makes the iPhone freeze so that it is impossible to do anything, and after a few moments it crashes by itself too. At first, the application turns black, and then crashes.
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Response from developer

Hi Amenkir, thanks for the review! This is a known bug — caused by an overly long sentence in the PDF. A fix is ready and will ship in the next update. Sorry for the trouble!

Need optimisation

The reader stops abruptly after reading a few lines. It hangs after two lines.

Needs app intents and Qwen 3 voice for custom voice creation

The app is a good idea and one day be the SOTA go to

Response from developer

Thanks so much — App Intents is on our roadmap for SayTXT! To prioritize, which scenario matters most to you? 1. Share Sheet → "Read with SayTXT" from Safari, Mail, PDFs 2. Shortcuts → read clipboard or selected text 3. Siri → "Hey Siri, read this with SayTXT" 4. Action Button → one-tap read-aloud 5. Focus modes → auto-read during commute or workout 6. Other — tell us your use case! Your input shapes what ships first.

Funciona!

Direto, simples e funciona sem pedir 1001 perguntas etc

Very excellent

Best app ever not gonna lie

期待支持中文和日文

希望支持中文和日语