Lextra vs Read Aloud For Me
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/
Read Aloud For Me
This app converts printed text from documents, photos, or screenshots into spoken words, highlighting each word as it's read. It offers offline functionality, adjustable reading speeds, and the ability to translate text and summarize long passages using AI.
- Scan and read printed text aloud
- Offline text-to-speech functionality
- Adjustable reading speed
- Text highlighting as it's spoken
- Translate text offline
- AI-powered text summarization
- Catalog of 640+ AI tools
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Point your camera at a page and listen. Read Aloud For Me reads printed text aloud: books, letters, worksheets, menus, PDFs and screenshots. It works without internet, and your pages never leave your phone. READ ALOUD, ON YOUR DEVICE - Scan pages with the document camera, choose a photo or screenshot, open a PDF or text file, or paste text. - Each word is highlighted as it is spoken, and the text scrolls along, so you can follow. - Tap any paragraph to start from there. Skip forward or back a paragraph. - Choose the speed, from slow to twice as fast. - Keeps reading with the screen locked, with play and pause on the lock screen and your headphones. - Detects the language and picks a matching voice. Sounds best with Apple's free Premium voices: the app shows you how to download them in Settings. - Scanned PDFs are recognised too, not just PDFs that already contain text. - Everything you read is saved in Recent, so you can listen again later. TRANSLATE AND SUMMARIZE - Translate a text into another language with Apple's built-in translation (iOS 17.4 or later; works offline once the language is downloaded). - On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, get a short summary of a long text and listen to it. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Text recognition, speech, translation and summaries run on your iPhone. No account. Your pages are not uploaded and not stored anywhere but on your device. WHO IT HELPS People with dyslexia or low vision, language learners, students with long readings, and anyone who would rather listen than read. A CATALOG OF 640+ AI TOOLS The second tab is a searchable catalog of more than 640 AI tools in over 100 categories, with free and open-source tools flagged. Tools marked Test Inline open in a panel inside the app. FREE, WITH ADS The app is free and shows ads. You can watch one short ad to remove ads for 24 hours. Read Aloud For Me PRO is our separate app with no ads, for one payment and no subscription. The tools in the catalog are made and run by their own developers; their names and trademarks belong to their owners. FOR SCHOOLS Using Read Aloud For Me in a classroom? Read Aloud For Me PRO has the same reader with no ads, so it suits students and shared devices. Schools can buy PRO through Apple School Manager with a 50% education discount on 20 or more copies.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Read Aloud For Me at 100% against Lextra's 22%. Read Aloud For Me also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.1) and in-app purchases (none vs 16). Lextra's advantage is ratings volume (971 vs 1). On price, update cadence 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 16 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Read Aloud For Me asks for nothing beyond the download.
Read Aloud For Me holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lextra has 971 ratings behind it against 1, 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 100% of Read Aloud For Me's.
Lextra ships an update every 3 weeks, Read Aloud For Me every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lextra | Read Aloud For Me |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (971 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 22.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 971 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Storch | DjamgaTech Corp |
Customer experience
Lextra
Read Aloud For Me
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
Read Aloud For Me
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Lextra
- Monthly$4.991 Month
- Yearly$24.991 Year
- English US$4.99
- English UK$4.99
- English Irish$4.99
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- Czech$4.99
- Portuguese Br$4.99
- Russian$4.99
- Spanish Mex$4.99
- Spanish$4.99
- English AU$4.99
- French$4.99
- Chinese$4.99
- Italian$4.99
- Portuguese$4.99
- PDF Voice Reader Pro$49.99
Read Aloud For Me
No in-app purchases
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