Speechify vs Spark Translate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Speechify
This app transforms text into spoken word with lifelike voices, reads documents, images, and articles aloud, and offers voice typing. It also features an AI assistant for summarizing and quizzing, and allows for AI podcast creation.
- Reads text aloud from various sources
- Voice typing for faster input
- AI assistant for summarization and quizzes
- Customizable listening speeds
- Human-like voices
- Cross-device syncing
- AI podcast creation
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Text to speech from Speechify lets you listen to docs, articles, PDFs, email, and various other formats — anything you read. With 50M+ users, it is the top rated TTS app in the AppStore. Sir Richard Branson Loves Speechify. It helps him read with Dyslexia ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Speechify is brilliant. I’m so glad to have it today.” – Sir Richard Branson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our users have listened to 6.5 billion words. FEATURES YOU'LL LOVE • Listen at Any Speed Our high-quality AI voices can read 4.5x faster than the average reading speed, so you can learn even more in less time. Ease into 300 words per minute & slowly increase the speed to as fast as you need it to be. • Natural-sounding Human Voices Our text to speech voices sound more fluid & human-like than any other AI reader. • Active Text Highlighting The text is highlighted and perfectly synced, word for word, with the voice reader to help you read along. Reading & listening helps you retain more. • Listen to Any Book on Your Shelf Use the app to snap a pic of a page in any book or printed material and hear it read out loud to you. Your favorite book sitting on your bookshelf? Turn it into an audiobook. • Screenshot Image to Audio Find an image with text on it, no matter the length, with one click, you can easily take a screenshot and sync it to your cloud. Speechify will read the text out loud. Letters from loved ones? Scan them and turn them into audible notes. • Desktop or Mobile Anything you’ve saved to your Speechify library instantly syncs across devices so you can listen to anything, anywhere, anytime. * Hundreds of Timeless Books Titles you get with Speechify: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll; Frankenstein by Mary Shelley; Moby Dick by Herman Melville; A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens; Ulysses by James Joyce; War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy; The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Great Expectations by Charles Dickens; Beowulf; Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy; The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Les Misérables by Victor Hugo; Walden by Henry David Thoreau; Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Gwyneth Paltrow Uses Speechify to Listen to Scripts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Speechify lets me listen to Goop blog posts out loud in the car and gets my friends through grad school. It's amazing for scripts." – Gwyneth Paltrow ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Features • Note taking tools • Save audio bookmarks • Floating widget • Exemplary customer experience • Inline player seamlessly integrates into all your websites • Get hundreds of timeless audiobooks for free • Cloud sync makes for a seamless listening experience across all your devices We created Speechify so that reading is never a barrier for anyone again. Designed to help people with dyslexia, ADHD, low vision acuity, concussions, and other reading disabilities. Speechify now helps hundreds of thousands of people to consume their reading content with ease. From those with reading disabilities to auditory learners, productivity fanatics, second language learners, hobbyists, and more, we love all of our users and strive every day to create a reading assistant that empowers them to read more and succeed in life. We can't wait for you to join the family :) Install Speechify today, for free! Privacy Policy: https://speechify.com/privacy/ Terms of Service: https://speechify.com/terms/
Spark Translate
Speak and translate your thoughts in real-time to your chosen language. Access leading AI and search engines like ChatGPT and YouTube through an embedded browser for enhanced queries. No personal data is stored or transmitted by this application.
- Real-time audio translation
- Embedded Apple Translate
- AI/Search engine integration (ChatGPT, Grok, YouTube)
- Embedded browser for AI access
- No data storage or transmission
- Audio playback on speaker
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Have you faced trouble to follow a language that you are not familiar with? Here is a simple app that will allow you to speak and translate your thoughts in real time to your language of choice. It provides simple audio play back and embedded Apple Translate features for real-time translation to multiple languages. In addition to this, you can ask the "Source Text" (in any of the supported languages in this application) to be probed against leading AI/ search sources such as ChatGPT/Grok/Youtube etc. where you can query your question after using your own credentials or stay logged out feature made available by the original AI vendor. This is achieved using an embedded browser for ease of use. No data is stored, collected, transmitted or retained by this application. The developer will not own any responsibility for the accuracy or effectiveness of the responses made available through Apple Translate or any other 3rd party systems being accessed by this application. Demo at https://www.sparktranslate.com DISCLAIMER: Please login on a separate safari browser to GROK, ChatGPT, Claude.AI, Google, Youtube etc. to validate you have access to these services. This application merely passes your text to these services and renders the response in an embedded browser. The owner of this application is not responsible for the accuracy or veracity of the content generated through these 3rd party services. This application neither stores nor transmits the interactions made through this application to the developer. All terms and conditions associated with these 3rd parties need to be adhered to prior to calling them using this application. Please do not keep extending recording (microphone button) as we have seen the phone getting heated up due to extensive processing of translations. The application will only render audio playback on speaker mode. Usage of bluetooth may crash the application due to frequency mismatch. For any inquiries, contact the developer on the email provided in the website.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Speechify at Free against Spark Translate's $1.99. Speechify also leads on ratings volume (528K vs 1) and chart position (#17 vs unranked). Spark Translate's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). On 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
Speechify is free to download; Spark Translate costs $1.99 up front. Speechify sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days. Spark Translate asks for nothing beyond the download.
Spark Translate holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Speechify has 528K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Speechify | Spark Translate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (528K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 34.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 528K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #17 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 531 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Speechify Inc. | Srinivasan Swaminatha |
Bugs and requests
Speechify
Reported bugs
5 issues- Frequent app crashes
- Text syncing issues
- Incorrect word pronunciations
- Inconsistent highlighting/pacing
- Unexpected voice switches
Requested features
6 requests- Ability to edit/annotate text
- Improved PDF/document handling
- More affordable subscription options
- Seamless integration with ebooks/websites
- Automatic removal of citations/formatting
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- Expanded language support
Spark Translate
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Speechify
- $160 Donation No HD voices$9.997 Days
- Premium Monthly$11.991 Month
- Premium Monthly$24.991 Month
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- Dyslexia Donation3 Days trial$139.991 Year
- Premium3 Days trial3 variants$139.991 Year
- Premium1 Month trial$139.991 Year
- Speechify Premium3 Days trial$159.991 Year
- Speechify Library$24.99
Spark Translate
No in-app purchases








