Lextra vs Epicollect5
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lextra
Convert documents like PDFs and Word files into natural-sounding audio. Listen on the go with background playback, customize your listening experience with adjustable speed and voices, and visually track spoken text with color highlighting. Supports cloud sync, translation, and scanning of paper documents.
- Background audio playback
- Adjustable speech speed and voice
- Color highlighting of spoken text
- Cloud storage integration
- Text translation
- Document scanning to audio
- Web content to speech
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Give Your Eyes a Rest – Let Your Documents Speak! Tired of screen fatigue? PDF Voice Reader – Docs Aloud turns your PDFs, Word files, and more into natural-sounding audio, so you can listen anytime, anywhere. Perfect for studying, commuting, or simply giving your eyes a well-deserved break. Key Features: • Listen on the go – Supports background playback for multitasking • Customizable experience – Adjust speed, voice, and skip headers/footers • Color Highlighting – Visually track spoken text with customizable colors! Perfect for following along, studying, or improving comprehension as words light up in sync with the audio. • Seamless cloud sync – Works with iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive & more • Smart tools – Bookmarking, text translation, and multiple voice options • Accessibility-friendly – Ideal for students, professionals, and visually impaired users • Scan & Listen – Turn paper documents and books into audio with built-in scanning • Web-to-Speech – Listen to articles, blogs, and online content directly from websites! Just paste the URL, and the app will read it aloud. Following formats are supported: • PDF. • Microsoft Documents. • Rich Text Format. • Plain Text. Transform reading into listening—download PDF Voice Reader today! https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Epicollect5
This platform enables easy mobile data collection through custom forms and project websites. Gather data, including GPS and media, across multiple devices and view it centrally via maps, tables, and charts. Export your collected information in CSV and JSON formats.
- Custom form generation
- Mobile data gathering
- GPS and media capture
- Centralized data viewing
- Data export (CSV, JSON)
- Project websites for data collection
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Epicollect5 is a free and easy-to-use mobile data-gathering platform developed by the CGPS Team of Oxford BDI and publicly available at https://five.epicollect.net It provides both web and mobile applications for the generation of forms (questionnaires) and freely hosted project websites for data collection. Data are collected (including GPS and media) using multiple devices and all data can be viewed on a central server (via map, tables, and charts). Data can be exported in CSV and JSON format The User Guide can be found at https://docs.epicollect.net To report issues and bugs or just for more info, go to our community page https://community.epicollect.net About Us https://www.pathogensurveillance.net/our-software/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Epicollect5 at none against Lextra's 10. Epicollect5 also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.4 vs 4.1). Lextra's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (971 vs 7). On price 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. Lextra sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Epicollect5 asks for nothing beyond the download.
Epicollect5 holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lextra has 971 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 22% of Lextra's written reviews are positive against 39% of Epicollect5's.
Lextra ships an update fortnightly, Epicollect5 every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lextra | Epicollect5 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (971 ratings) | 4.4 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 22.0% of reviews | 38.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 971 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Storch | University of Oxford |
Customer experience
Lextra
Epicollect5
Bugs and requests
Lextra
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes frequently
- Paid version not working as expected
- Issues with syncing across devices
- Reading position not saved properly
Requested features
4 requests- Allow selecting reading start position
- Add more voice options and customization
- Improve page navigation and bookmarking
- Provide better customer support
Epicollect5
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Lextra
- Monthly$4.991 Month
- English US$4.99
- English UK$4.99
- English Irish$4.99
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- Portuguese Br$4.99
- Russian$4.99
- Spanish Mex$4.99
- Spanish$4.99
- English AU$4.99
- PDF Voice Reader Pro$49.99
Epicollect5
No in-app purchases
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