Lextra vs Slate Reminders
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/
Slate Reminders
This app simplifies reminder creation by processing natural language input. It leverages your device's local AI to set tasks, and offers integration with live activities, widgets, and the dynamic island for easy access.
- Natural language reminder creation
- Local AI processing
- Live Activities support
- Widget integration
- Dynamic Island compatibility
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Slate is a reminders app designed to make creating reminders easier. Instead of manually adding in every detail, slate processes your language and creates the reminder for you using your Apple device's local foundation model. Use live activities, widgets, and the dynamic island to keep tabs on your to-dos.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Slate Reminders at 100% against Lextra's 22%. Slate Reminders also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.1) and in-app purchases (none vs 16). Lextra's advantage is ratings volume (970 vs 3). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Slate Reminders asks for nothing beyond the download.
Slate Reminders holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lextra has 970 ratings behind it against 3, 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 Slate Reminders's.
| Parameter | Lextra | Slate Reminders |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (970 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 22.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 970 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 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 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 81 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Storch | Richard Oti |
Customer experience
Lextra
Slate Reminders
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
Slate Reminders
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
Slate Reminders
No in-app purchases
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