Comparison

Pharos Secure Release vs Paper2Audio

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Secure printing across networks
  • Remote print job submission
  • Modify job list within the app
  • QR code printer release
  • Ensures document confidentiality
  • Reduces printing waste
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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

Screenshots

Pharos Secure Release4 screens
Paper2Audio4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Pharos Secure Release versus Paper2Audio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPharos Secure ReleasePaper2Audio
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings)4.9 (784 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews97.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3784 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size89 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPharos Systems InternationalPaper2Audio

Customer experience

Pharos Secure Release

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Paper2Audio

All ratings784 ratings
Positive99.2%
Neutral0.5%
Negative0.3%
Written reviews173 reviews
Positive97.1%
Neutral1.7%
Negative1.2%

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

None

Pharos Secure Release

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Paper2Audio

Subscriptions2
  • Paper2Audio Plus Monthly$20.001 Month
  • Paper2Audio Plus Annual$191.991 Year

Questions

Is Pharos Secure Release free?
Pharos Secure Release is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Paper2Audio free?
Paper2Audio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pharos Secure Release or Paper2Audio?
Paper2Audio is rated higher. Pharos Secure Release averages 3.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Paper2Audio averages 4.9 from 784 ratings.
Do Pharos Secure Release or Paper2Audio have ads?
Neither Pharos Secure Release nor Paper2Audio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pharos Secure Release or Paper2Audio?
Pharos Secure Release ships an update every 3 months, and Paper2Audio every 5 days. Most recently, Pharos Secure Release was updated on November 6, 2026 and Paper2Audio on November 8, 2026.

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