Pharos Secure Release vs Paper2Audio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pharos Secure Release
Securely print documents from your mobile device to any network-connected Pharos-secured printer. Manage your print jobs remotely and release them by scanning a QR code at the printer, ensuring document confidentiality and reducing waste.
- Secure printing across networks
- Remote print job submission
- Modify job list within the app
- QR code printer release
- Ensures document confidentiality
- Reduces printing waste
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The Secure Release app makes it easy for employees of organizations with Pharos Secure Release to print securely across networks to any Pharos-secured device on the network, improve the printing experience, ensure document confidentiality, and reduce waste. You can submit print jobs on your mobile device from any location or network, modify your job list within the app at anytime, and when it’s convenient, you can walk up to any secured printer and use the app to scan the QR code affixed to the printer to release your print job(s). This secure and intuitive workflow prevents sensitive information from being left unattended on printer output trays. It also improves convenience by allowing you to securely release your documents at any secured printer in your organization’s network. Note: This app requires a Pharos Cloud Secure Release account. iOS versions 15, 16, and 17 are fully tested and supported.
Paper2Audio
This app transforms your documents, PDFs, and web articles into spoken audio using high-quality, natural-sounding voices. It intelligently skips irrelevant content and summarizes complex elements, making reading hands-free and productive.
- Reads PDFs, EPUBs, .docx, .txt, and web articles
- High-quality, natural text-to-speech voices
- Summarizes figures, tables, and equations
- Intelligently skips junk text
- Reader View with word-level highlighting
- Playback speed control
- Table of contents navigation
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Paper2Audio is a free text to audio app that reads aloud your PDFs, ebooks, web articles, text documents, and plain text, turning complex reading into clear audio you can listen to anywhere. Paper2Audio’s text to speech (TTS) reader technology intelligently skips clutter like page numbers, footnotes, citations, and more. It summarizes figures, tables, and math so you can focus on what matters. Convert your documents and pdfs to audio to turn your commute, workout, or chores into productive learning time by listening to your documents hands-free. Over 700,000 documents converted to audio! Key features: • Read PDFs, webpages, EPUBs, .docx, .txt, scanned documents and copy-pasted text Turn your ebooks into audiobooks and your pdfs to audio to read text out loud • High quality text to speech voices Enjoy natural text to voice with engaging and realistic voices that make hours of listening engaging and easy to follow, including for people with visual impairments or learning challenges like dyslexia or ADHD. • Reads documents aloud with summaries of visual elements Summarizes equations, code, tables and figures in plain language instead of confusing symbol-by-symbol narration • A smarter audio text reader that cuts junk text you don't want to hear (page numbers, references list, ads, etc.) Our text reader skips the clutter and focuses only on the meaningful content • Read along with the audio with Reader View Reformats your documents for easier readability on small screens and shows images, math, formatting, and word-level highlighting in sync with the audio. • Highlighting and notes Keep track of key text with highlights and add your own notes • Familiar UI similar to a podcast or audiobook app Jump right in with an intuitive interface you already know how to use • Table of contents to select a section of your PDF or ebook Navigate instantly to any section that interests you most without endless scrolling • Read text aloud at your own speed with playback speed control from 0.5x to 4.0x in 0.05x increments Find your perfect listening pace whether you're a speed listener or prefer to savor every detail • Scan and read documents aloud Upload scanned PDFs to turn them into listenable audio. • Screen reader compatible and dyslexia-friendly fonts Pricing: Paper2Audio is a free text to audio document reader (up to 56 hours of audio generation per week) with no ads or annoying stuff. Paper2Audio Plus, our paid tier for business users, has higher limits and allows for audio file exports. Terms of use: https://www.paper2audio.com/terms-of-use Privacy: https://www.paper2audio.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Paper2Audio at 97% against Pharos Secure Release's 0%. Paper2Audio also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.7) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months). Pharos Secure Release's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Paper2Audio sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $20.00 per month. Pharos Secure Release asks for nothing beyond the download.
Paper2Audio holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Paper2Audio has 784 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Pharos Secure Release's written reviews are positive against 97% of Paper2Audio's.
Pharos Secure Release ships an update every 3 months, Paper2Audio every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pharos Secure Release | Paper2Audio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 4.9 (784 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 97.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 784 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pharos Systems International | Paper2Audio |
Customer experience
Pharos Secure Release
Paper2Audio
Bugs and requests
Pharos Secure Release
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Paper2Audio
Reported bugs
1 issue- Occasional issues with chapter/section detection in long documents
Requested features
4 requests- Add support for footnotes and citations
- Implement custom pronunciation dictionary
- Improve handling of multilingual content
- Expand compatibility to more file formats
In-app purchases
Pharos Secure Release
No in-app purchases
Paper2Audio
- Paper2Audio Plus Monthly$20.001 Month
- Paper2Audio Plus Annual$191.991 Year
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