Lextra vs Mihari
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/
Mihari
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■ The app that watches you. "Today I won't doomscroll" — how many times have you broken that promise? Mihari stops phone and social media overuse with surveillance and penalties, not willpower. Set your limit, and Mihari stands watch. Break it, and you're locked out. Push through anyway, and the penalty roulette spins. It works solo. Invite friends, and there's truly no escape. ■ Break the limit, get locked out - Set watched apps and a daily time limit - The moment you pass the limit, iOS Screen Time shields your apps - OS-level blocking you can't dodge by deleting the app ■ Opening it anyway? Spin the wheel - Breaking through the shield auto-spins the penalty roulette - Your own penalties get locked in: "20 push-ups", "no late-night snacks", and more - Fully customizable. No escape is what makes it work ■ Clean days stack up - Every day you hold out builds your streak - Hourly heatmaps and per-app stats make you face your phone habits - Generate a result card and share your progress on social media ■ Invite friends, and the watching gets serious (optional) - Create a group and every member becomes your watcher - When someone breaks their limit, sirens ring on everyone's phones and it's posted to the feed - Group-shared penalties and a solidarity streak: one slip takes everyone down - The "exposure" is friendly teasing between friends — designed to keep you laughing and going ■ For people who - Melt hours into social media and short videos - Keep disabling their own Screen Time limits - Need to focus on studying or work - Want to quit phone overuse together with friends or a partner ■ No account needed Solo use requires no sign-up. Download, set a limit, and the watching starts today. Sign in is only needed for group features. ■ Privacy Your screen-time data (usage minutes and counts) is processed entirely on your device through Apple's Screen Time framework. Only the fact that you broke your limit (with a timestamp) is shared with our server, and only when you join a group. Raw usage numbers never leave your device. Set your limit. Mihari is watching. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://mihari.stellaps.co.jp/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Mihari at none against Lextra's shown. Mihari also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26). On price, in-app purchases 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 and Mihari sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Lextra ships an update every 3 weeks, Mihari weekly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Lextra | Mihari |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (970 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 22.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 970 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Storch | Stellaps Inc. |
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
Mihari
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
Mihari
- Mihari Pro (Monthly)$2.991 Month
- Mihari Pro (Yearly)$22.991 Year
Questions
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