# Text to Speech - SayTXT Reader — user reviews > 69 indexed App Store user reviews of Text to Speech by PDF GEAR TECH PTE. LTD., rated 4.60/5 from 349 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/text-to-speech-saytxt-reader/id6751571213/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/text-to-speech-saytxt-reader/id6751571213.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 292 · 4★ 22 · 3★ 10 · 2★ 7 · 1★ 18 ## Newest reviews (15 of 69) ### 4/5 — Please add Bookmarks *2026-08-19* Yes, the pronunciation is not perfect, but the readers voices have enough naturalness that I don’t mind. And I really like the read along window. But here’s the thing - on a full size book - ePub PDF format - I have no way to bookmark and come back later. I have to screenshot as a reminder of where I was, and it’s still hard to zero in once I try to resume again. **Developer response:** Thanks for your feedback! SayTXT automatically saves your reading progress for each document. Could you tell us why you still need screenshots? Does the app fail to return to the exact position when you reopen a book, or would you like to save multiple bookmarks within one document? This will help us better understand your needs. You can reach us here: https://www.pdfgear.com/contact-us/. Please include “SayTXT” in the subject line so we can identify your report faster. Thank you! ### 4/5 — Almost perfect *2026-08-17* Almost perfect! The text-to-speech quality is excellent overall. My only issue is that there is always a slightly too long pause at the end of each sentence, and unfortunately there’s no way to adjust this manually. This makes the speech flow sound a bit choppy and less natural than it could be. Apart from that, the app is basically perfect. If the sentence pauses could be customized or shortened, it would easily be a 5-star app. **Developer response:** Thanks for the detailed feedback! We'll improve the pauses between sentences in version 2.4 to make playback smoother and more natural. Thank you for supporting SayTXT！ ### 4/5 — Voice *2026-07-11* You should let people use the voice on iPhones, specifically the Ava voice ### 3/5 — Weird bug *2026-06-14* 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 **Developer response:** [Update on Aug 4, 2026]The 90-degree rotation issue on Mac has been fixed in version 2.2. Please update SayTXT to the latest version. [Jun 27, 2026]Thanks for reporting this. This is a macOS compatibility issue on our side. We’ll fix it in the next version. ### 3/5 — Falta de suporte para outros idiomas *2026-06-11* 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 ### 4/5 — App incrível, mas… *2026-06-09* O app é incrível. Exatamente o que estava procurando. Uma pena que não tenha suporte para português do Brasil. ### 3/5 — Beggars can’t be choosers *2026-05-29, version 2.0* 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. ### 3/5 — Need optimisation *2026-05-17* The reader stops abruptly after reading a few lines. It hangs after two lines. ### 5/5 — Needs app intents and Qwen 3 voice for custom voice creation *2026-05-13* The app is a good idea and one day be the SOTA go to **Developer response:** 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. ### 5/5 — Funciona! *2026-05-07* Direto, simples e funciona sem pedir 1001 perguntas etc ### 5/5 — Very excellent *2026-05-06, version 1.9* Best app ever not gonna lie ### 5/5 — 期待支持中文和日文 *2026-04-24* 希望支持中文和日语 ### 5/5 — Really wish it would support epubs *2026-04-23* The voices are great though. Very natural **Developer response:** Thank you for your kind words about our text-to-speech voices! EPUB support is already on our to-do list and will be available in an upcoming version. You'll soon be able to listen to your EPUB ebooks and documents with the same natural, high-quality voices you love. Stay tuned for the update — we can't wait for you to enjoy your EPUB audiobook experience! ### 3/5 — 🤟 *2026-04-17* I like it but sometimes it has something wrong like cupboard ### 5/5 — Works perfekt for me *2026-04-08* I need English output. It‘ ai isn‘t so good with reacting to what it reads, but speach is clear and good to understand . Perfect to read out loud ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — No functional audio *2026-08-08* Reviews enticed me in as I’m trying to listen to some scrap writes for various books but alas the audio doesn’t even remotely work, I hope it’s just A temporary issue. **Developer response:** Hi, sorry to hear that the audio isn’t working. Could you please share your iPhone/iPad model, iOS version, and the type of file or text you tried to read? We’d love to help troubleshoot this issue. You can reach us here: https://www.pdfgear.com/contact-us/ Please include “SayTXT” in the subject line so we can identify your report faster. Thank you! ### 1/5 — Non responsive *2026-07-01* 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. **Developer response:** 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. ### 1/5 — This app constantly crashes *2026-06-16* No matter what I type to speak, the app crashes as soon as I press play. Not a reliable app, and really disappointing. ### 1/5 — It was great, but now crushes *2026-06-11* 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. **Developer response:** 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! ### 1/5 — PDFs *2026-04-15, version 1.9* Won’t scan or read them. I uploaded two PDFs and the app would collect no content, and list the upload at 100% complete. ### 1/5 — Doesn't work at all *2026-03-18* while it will technically turn some text into speech, it is nearly impossible to get it to accept any text or any files. You cannot select 99% of the text files on your phone to import. You cannot paste any text into this app. ### 1/5 — Wieder eine überflüssige App... *2026-02-21* ... und kein Querformat fürs iPad, keine deutsche Sprache. ### 1/5 — 没有中文不友好 *2026-02-08* 没有中文 ### 1/5 — Un catastrophe en française *2026-01-22* La lecture ne distingue pas les mots les pause pas plus vraiment pas bon ### 1/5 — I’d like my text read in order please *2026-01-06* Program will not play my files correctly, constantly jumps around and will not read text in order. I’m talking reading one paragraph and then jumping 13 pages ahead to a new paragraph. Completely unusable. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Just amazing *2026-08-19* Thank you so much for this app and making it fully free! To a student, this is an invaluable resource! The voices are great too! ### 5/5 — Superb *2026-08-06* Best so far just tried today ### 5/5 — Awesome! *2026-07-25* 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! ### 5/5 — Perfect *2026-07-17* Very good app, perfect for what I need. Potrzebowalem jej do sluchania dokumentow pdf w jezyku polskim. Lektor brzmi troche sztucznie, cyfry czyta w innym jezyku ale jak na darmowa splijacje ta jest naprawde bardzo dobra. **Developer response:** Thank you very much for your feedback! We're glad SayTXT helps you listen to Polish PDF documents. We really appreciate your notes about the voice naturalness and number pronunciation. We're continuously working on improving the reading quality and language handling. If you could share a specific example (such as a PDF file or a sentence where numbers are pronounced incorrectly), it would help us investigate and improve faster. You can contact 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. Thanks again for supporting SayTXT and helping us make it better! ### 5/5 — Free and functional *2026-06-26* This app is actually free and has great functionality. I am very grateful! ### 5/5 — Really free *2026-06-17* I have an iPhone and iPhone users have to pay for most everything that an Android phone user gets for free. Thanks TXT Reader!!! ### 5/5 — One of the best Apps Text to Speech The Voice is very powerful *2026-06-14* One of the best Apps Text to Speech The Voice is very powerful ### 5/5 — Awesome!!!! *2026-06-08* 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. ### 5/5 — Finally! *2026-06-05* It is so weirdly hard to find a decent free text to voice reader. This is fine and functional and free. Thank goodness. ### 5/5 — It's great, but crushes *2026-05-19* 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. **Developer response:** 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! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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