Text Reader vs Text to Speech
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.
Text to Speech
This app transforms any text into spoken words, supporting multiple languages. It allows you to import content from various sources like websites, documents, and images, and offers customization for playback speed, language, and voice.
- Convert images to audio
- Scan any text
- Type text with keyboard
- Add website posts
- Convert library text to audio
- Automatic scrolling while reading
- Select playback speed, language, voice
- Share text with friends
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Text to Speech is an app that converts any text to speech and can read out loud in any language. The app has large storage for creating your personal library. You can use it for different content of your choice: websites, emails, notes, e-books, PDF/TXT files and documents. To make it easy to use, the app features various options for adding text: you can type the text yourself or paste the copied fragment with unlimited characters, scan the required number of pages or add a photo from your gallery. The app will recognize the text and read it to you at a comfortable speed. KEY FEATURES: • Convert images to audio; • Scan any text; • Type text with the keyboard; • Add website posts; • Convert any text added to the library to audio; • Scroll text automatically while reading out loud; • Select playback speed, language and reader’s voice; • Share any text from your library with friends. Enjoy reading and save your time with our app. Please choose from our standard subscription options below: 1-week subscription from $2.99; 1-month subscription from $5.99; 12-month subscription from $10.99. Prices may change depending on your country. Privacy Policy: https://appliks.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://appliks.com/terms-of-use
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Text to Speech at 4.5 against Text Reader's 2.3. Text to Speech also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (528 vs 3). Text Reader's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). On price, review sentiment 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. Text to Speech sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Text Reader asks for nothing beyond the download.
Text to Speech holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text to Speech has 528 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Text Reader's written reviews are positive against 48% of Text to Speech's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Text Reader ships an update fortnightly, Text to Speech monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Reader | Text to Speech |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (3 ratings) | 4.5 (528 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 47.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 528 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 180 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | won jun lee | AppLiks Sp. z O.O. |
Customer experience
Text Reader
Text to Speech
Bugs and requests
Text Reader
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Text to Speech
Reported bugs
10 issues- App pauses randomly during playback
- Skips sentences or entire paragraphs
- Text highlighting misaligned with audio (2-3 paragraphs ahead)
- Phrase repetition (2-3 times)
- Pause and skip buttons unresponsive
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- Reading stops after few seconds
- PDF reading glitches on iPhone
- Speed control malfunctions
- Voice switching bugs
- Support button non-functional in app
Requested features
7 requests- Background playback capability
- Folder organization system for documents
- More flexible speed variability options
- Additional voice options
- Duration/timestamp display for text-to-speech playback
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- Improved PDF format preservation across pages
- Increased free document limits
In-app purchases
Text Reader
No in-app purchases
Text to Speech
- Text to Speech: Version Pro3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Weekly Access$4.997 Days
- Text to Speech: Reader Pro3 Days trial$14.991 Month
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- Monthly Access$14.991 Month
- Text to Speech Premium3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Yearly Access$29.991 Year
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