Great
Need more updates and not try to recharge me
This app has gone downhill
What happened to this app? I used it a few months ago and it worked great. It still sounded a bit robotic, but it wasn’t terrible. Obviously not perfect; but good enough to listen to. Well, I signed back up and paid for a year and it’s horrible now. For example, it pronounces the word “I’ve” as “ivy” and says the word “period” when there is a period present. And now, the integrated kindle app stopped working. I’m really frustrated and disappointed.
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Voice Dream over Microsoft Edge
Works better than Microsoft. Voices are too robotic, please change it! Thanks.
A true Study Aid
Great App, easy to adjust, bring a voice to help out with reading
Scam app
I didn’t free trial on this app, it renewed, so I cancelled the subscription and deleted my account. A year later they continue to take the annual subscription fee from my account despite me cancelling the subscription and account. Their support email also bounces back.
Accessibility degrading steadily
This app was the gold standard in versatility and elegant interface for reading with screen reader. New features such as AI summary are still not accessible although it was reported to developers. It still remains a powerful app compatible with many text and audio formats, but it feels like focus of developers may be less a-tuned to accessibility considerations. Still one of my main reading apps for taking notes while reading.
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Nightmare app
Difficult to use. Confusing interface.
Try to change speed of the voice. Good luck finding how to do so.
Want to skip a page? Good luck.
Try to change speed of the voice. Good luck finding how to do so.
Want to skip a page? Good luck.
No trial?
I will not even consider buying a Read Aloud without knowing what voices are included or available. Consider that if you want to increase customer engagement.
Love it- Voice Dream
I have been using this app for years, and I appreciate it. I like all the different aspects of it—the apps. I have Asperger‘s. I have a high IQ, but still, I need somebody to read something to me to understand what’s being read fully. it’s been one of the best investments I made myself. They got me to college and even working all these years. All my employers will install it as a see even dictation is better. I also use Grammarly.
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Ehhh
An absolutely ungodly amount of call to actions before you can even begin to give the product an actual run through. If you misclick anywhere, you can no longer access certain offers or options, and truthfully this userflow has been so frustrating that it shows that the application is built by marketing and not engineering, and I can’t trust it to deliver as a result.
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I have loved this app for years but recently
Since they added AI voices and AI features into the app, even though I’m not using them, using Voice Dream makes my phone heat up intensely and eats through my battery very quickly (and sometimes it’s so hot that it won’t let me charge the battery until it cools down - and this is on a iphone that’s only about a year old! I can’t imagine how it would work if it were any older.
I’ve tried several apps, I came back to this one, but I’m going to have to move on if they don’t fix this soon.
I’ve tried several apps, I came back to this one, but I’m going to have to move on if they don’t fix this soon.
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Vision and great resources
This is one of them.
This program on my phone got me through a very rigorous graduate level program with honors. I was able to listen to all textbooks and articles with ease. I could adapt the speed the color. The print.
This program on my phone got me through a very rigorous graduate level program with honors. I was able to listen to all textbooks and articles with ease. I could adapt the speed the color. The print.
Not impressed
When I scan a book it doesn’t do a good job getting the words correct a lot of mistakes which is super frustrating
Freezes in MacOS-Cannot Install
The installation stops at the enhanced voices window. And then there is a menu box at the top that says “Type to Speak”. The only way that I could get rid of that is by installing a new MacOS version. I still have not been able to install this application on my Mac computer. I don’t know what’s gonna happen when I try to install Voice Nightmare! Help!
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Early adopter- punished
I paid for lifetime access prior to the integration of AI and now the voice I paid for does not work anymore. Waste of money
Beats Speechify for academics!
Got this to read my research material for my PhD. Was working full time and taking care of my family.
Voice dream’s bookmark and highlight feature allows you to tab sentences while on a run or a drive and lets you export only your tabbed text into a single txt file with the push of a button! Saves me weeks of time writing notes, trying to find them for papers/dissertation, etc.
Phenomenal app!
Voice dream’s bookmark and highlight feature allows you to tab sentences while on a run or a drive and lets you export only your tabbed text into a single txt file with the push of a button! Saves me weeks of time writing notes, trying to find them for papers/dissertation, etc.
Phenomenal app!
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Inexcusably Buggy, and Getting Worse
Once upon a time, this was the gold standard of accessible reading. This app is the reason I stopped using an ancient reading device from 2003 that ran on AA batteries, used a very robotic-sounding voice, and required software that only runs on Windows XP. For a bookworm, it was life-changing. So it doesn't bring me joy to do this, in fact I've put it off for a long time. But my experience using this app has become so consistently frustrating that I don't know how much longer I can do it. I speak only for myself and the people I know who also use the app.
First, audiobooks, because it's simple: When I listen to a zipped audio book, VoiceDream occasionally skips entire chapters. I realized this when I had just started a new book and the app skipped from the end of chapter 1 to the beginning of chapter 3. It's very easy to miss this if you're not paying attention to chapter numbers, so if you find yourself confused often when reading audiobooks, you might want to check that you've actually listened to every audio file within the book. I stopped using it for audiobooks, so I don't know if this was fixed, but I heard another complaint about it in early 2026 so it would have to be a very recent fix.
When I read ebooks, the behaviour is very buggy in a complex way, and mostly seems to affect Bluetooth audio devices like AirPods. I'll just describe individual things that I experience, but it all seems to be linked back to some critical problem with the way it works.
I use system voices, specifically Eloquence.
If I pause the book from my AirPods and then immediately unpause it, nothing happens. As in, the book stays paused indefinitely. I have to go over to my phone and play it from there.
When I take out one AirPod and put it back in, the book resumes, even if it was previously paused. This is useful as a way of unpausing the book, but very annoying when I'm trying to do something else on my phone, I shift the position of my AirPod, and I suddenly hear the book I haven't been reading for three hours.
When I open the app after pausing from AirPods, the interface shows that the book is playing, even though it's not.
If I pause the book and leave the app in background, it doesn't let go of the audio device. I know this because I occasionally use hearing aids, which use a different sound profile when audio is being streamed to them over Bluetooth. When I pause my book, the hearing aids don't exit this mode until I force-quit VoiceDream on my phone. I also use a multipoint Bluetooth device which connects to more than one device, playing audio from only one at a time. Normally, when I pause Spotify or YouTube or a certain alternative reader app which is very EASY to use, I'm then able to interact with my Apple Watch and hear the audio through the headset. However, since VoiceDream never lets go of the audio device, I have to force-quit the app before I can use my watch. Multipoint is terrible and I don't blame VoiceDream for the way my headset works, but that behaviour does prove to me that VoiceDream is leaving the audio device open.
And lastly, sometimes VoiceDream seems to lose its handle on the audio playback and doesn't correctly account for it. So whether I use AirPods, the lock screen, or the play button in the app itself, my book simply will not play. This happens at least twice a week, and it just happened to me after I swapped from one pair of AirPods to the other, which is what prompted me to write this review. Once again, I had to force-quit VoiceDream before I could read my book again.
All of this results in a hilariously bad reading experience on Bluetooth, and the only reason I haven't ditched this app is because I still use wired headphones often. But when I don't, I have to pause and unpause from my phone, and if I forget to do that, I have to remove one of my AirPods for a couple of seconds and put it back in before my book will resume. And even then, it very often doesn't, leaving me to stop whatever I was doing, unlock my phone, and restart the app for the eleventeenth time that day.
I can confirm that many of these issues are more than six months old, but I binge-read several audiobook series in another app over the course of more than a year before switching back to VoiceDream in mid-2025, so I suspect many of the bugs described here have existed for much longer. I really enjoy this app, I used to have good email threads with its original developer, and I really hoped the acquisition would not result in longterm bugs like this, but these are reproducible, frequent, disruptive bugs. I sincerely hope this app gets better, because if the experience for others is anything like my own, it is in critical condition and on life support.
Update (June 2026):
I'm getting a daily pop-up asking why I unsubscribed from this app. It is not accessible for VoiceOver users at all, to the point that I can't dismiss the pop-up without closing and reopening the app. The only accessible part is re-subscribing to the app. It's very clear that the developers implemented this screen without actually testing it with a screen reader, and that is completely inexcusable when blind people make up a large chunk of their audience.
First, audiobooks, because it's simple: When I listen to a zipped audio book, VoiceDream occasionally skips entire chapters. I realized this when I had just started a new book and the app skipped from the end of chapter 1 to the beginning of chapter 3. It's very easy to miss this if you're not paying attention to chapter numbers, so if you find yourself confused often when reading audiobooks, you might want to check that you've actually listened to every audio file within the book. I stopped using it for audiobooks, so I don't know if this was fixed, but I heard another complaint about it in early 2026 so it would have to be a very recent fix.
When I read ebooks, the behaviour is very buggy in a complex way, and mostly seems to affect Bluetooth audio devices like AirPods. I'll just describe individual things that I experience, but it all seems to be linked back to some critical problem with the way it works.
I use system voices, specifically Eloquence.
If I pause the book from my AirPods and then immediately unpause it, nothing happens. As in, the book stays paused indefinitely. I have to go over to my phone and play it from there.
When I take out one AirPod and put it back in, the book resumes, even if it was previously paused. This is useful as a way of unpausing the book, but very annoying when I'm trying to do something else on my phone, I shift the position of my AirPod, and I suddenly hear the book I haven't been reading for three hours.
When I open the app after pausing from AirPods, the interface shows that the book is playing, even though it's not.
If I pause the book and leave the app in background, it doesn't let go of the audio device. I know this because I occasionally use hearing aids, which use a different sound profile when audio is being streamed to them over Bluetooth. When I pause my book, the hearing aids don't exit this mode until I force-quit VoiceDream on my phone. I also use a multipoint Bluetooth device which connects to more than one device, playing audio from only one at a time. Normally, when I pause Spotify or YouTube or a certain alternative reader app which is very EASY to use, I'm then able to interact with my Apple Watch and hear the audio through the headset. However, since VoiceDream never lets go of the audio device, I have to force-quit the app before I can use my watch. Multipoint is terrible and I don't blame VoiceDream for the way my headset works, but that behaviour does prove to me that VoiceDream is leaving the audio device open.
And lastly, sometimes VoiceDream seems to lose its handle on the audio playback and doesn't correctly account for it. So whether I use AirPods, the lock screen, or the play button in the app itself, my book simply will not play. This happens at least twice a week, and it just happened to me after I swapped from one pair of AirPods to the other, which is what prompted me to write this review. Once again, I had to force-quit VoiceDream before I could read my book again.
All of this results in a hilariously bad reading experience on Bluetooth, and the only reason I haven't ditched this app is because I still use wired headphones often. But when I don't, I have to pause and unpause from my phone, and if I forget to do that, I have to remove one of my AirPods for a couple of seconds and put it back in before my book will resume. And even then, it very often doesn't, leaving me to stop whatever I was doing, unlock my phone, and restart the app for the eleventeenth time that day.
I can confirm that many of these issues are more than six months old, but I binge-read several audiobook series in another app over the course of more than a year before switching back to VoiceDream in mid-2025, so I suspect many of the bugs described here have existed for much longer. I really enjoy this app, I used to have good email threads with its original developer, and I really hoped the acquisition would not result in longterm bugs like this, but these are reproducible, frequent, disruptive bugs. I sincerely hope this app gets better, because if the experience for others is anything like my own, it is in critical condition and on life support.
Update (June 2026):
I'm getting a daily pop-up asking why I unsubscribed from this app. It is not accessible for VoiceOver users at all, to the point that I can't dismiss the pop-up without closing and reopening the app. The only accessible part is re-subscribing to the app. It's very clear that the developers implemented this screen without actually testing it with a screen reader, and that is completely inexcusable when blind people make up a large chunk of their audience.
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Sounds terrible
This sounds awful. DON’T BUY! I purchased it for a month and even the paid versions are terrible. NaturalReader was much better and I’ll still with that. If I could , I’d give it a zero.
Shadow Charging
I was charged even though when I did free trial; I did not have a charge card attached to the account. After I added the card, the subscription section had no Voice Dream app listed as being due for Annual Subscription. So if person does a free trial, and there is no credit card attached; it will go into hiding and drag along for who knows how long.
The fact that there is no card indicates that subscriber is not interested in anything other but the trial. Please contact me to resolve this. Thanks
The fact that there is no card indicates that subscriber is not interested in anything other but the trial. Please contact me to resolve this. Thanks
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no.
why do I need a subscription to unpause it?? I can’t even read with this app.
