Text Reader vs TTS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Text Reader
Convert text from documents and articles into speech to avoid eye strain. Supports 22 languages and allows you to save texts to a personal list for easy access.
- Text-to-speech conversion
- Supports 22 languages
- Save texts to a list
- Reduces eye strain
- Reads documents and articles
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When you have to read some important text, document or article but your eyes get tired, you can easily convert text to speech with this app. 22 languages including Korean and English are supported (Arabic, Chinese, Dannish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish). Save the text in your own list.
TTS
Convert text from various sources into natural-sounding speech. This app can read PDFs, web articles, documents, and even scanned printed text, offering customizable playback options and accessibility features.
- Reads PDFs, web articles, and documents
- Scans printed text with OCR camera
- Supports 30+ languages with premium voices
- Adjustable speech speed, pitch, and volume
- Karaoke-style word highlighting
- Export audio as M4A
- Podcast/Dialogue mode for multiple voices
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Turn any text into natural speech — read PDFs, web articles, documents, and even printed text with your camera. TTS: Text to Speech Reader is the all-in-one text-to-speech app that reads anything, anywhere. Whether you're commuting, studying, cooking, or exercising — just paste, import, or scan and listen. WHAT YOU CAN READ - Paste or type any text - Import PDF (with a text layer), TXT and RTF from Files - Paste a URL to extract and read web articles - Scan printed text with the camera or a photo (on-device text recognition) LISTEN YOUR WAY - Adjustable speed, pitch, and volume - Keeps reading with the screen locked, with play and pause on the lock screen - Sleep timer: stop after 5 to 60 minutes - Karaoke-style word highlighting — follow along as it reads - Export audio as M4A to keep forever SMART FEATURES - Podcast/Dialogue mode - Translate + Read — translate text and read it aloud (iOS 18+) - Study mode — progressive speed, repetitions, bookmarks - Batch processing — convert multiple texts to audio at once - Reading history — find everything you've listened to - Siri Shortcuts FREEMIUM - 1,000 characters per day free - Upgrade to PRO for unlimited reading and no ads COMMON QUESTIONS Do I need an account? No. There is no login and no sign-up. Does it work offline? Yes, once the voice is installed on your iPhone. Where do the voices come from? From iOS itself. The app uses the voices installed on your device. Can it read a PDF? Yes, and TXT, web pages and a photo of printed text through the camera. Terms of Use: https://masaapps360.com/tts/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://masaapps360.com/tts/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TTS at 3.7 against Text Reader's 2.3. Text Reader's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and review sentiment (50% vs 17%). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. TTS sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Text Reader asks for nothing beyond the download.
TTS holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 6 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Text Reader's written reviews are positive against 17% of TTS's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Text Reader ships an update fortnightly, TTS every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Reader | TTS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (3 ratings) | 3.7 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 16.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | won jun lee | Grima Hdez |
Customer experience
Text Reader
TTS
In-app purchases
Text Reader
No in-app purchases
TTS
- TTS Voice Aloud Pro Week$0.997 Days
- TTS Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- TTS Voice Aloud Pro Year$7.991 Year
- TTS Voice Aloud Pro Lifetime$14.99
