Voice Aloud Reader vs Text to Speech Reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Voice Aloud Reader
This application transforms written text into spoken words, making it ideal for those who are busy or have difficulty reading. It supports a wide range of document types and languages, offering a customizable listening experience.
- Reads text aloud
- Supports various document formats
- Over 40 languages supported
- Customizable reading speed, pitch, and volume
- Customizable interface and read modes
- File sharing via iCloud/iTunes
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Listen to anything, anywhere. The app reads aloud text documents, e-books, websites, and printed books—perfect for commuting, multitasking, relaxing, or making written content easier to access. Designed for all users, including blind and low-vision users, with support for VoiceOver, Larger Text, sufficient contrast, and Reduced Motion. Use iCloud or iTunes to share files between your computer and the app. VOICES SUPPORT Choose from 40 languages, listen in different voices BOOKS SUPPORT Supports the most popular text formats CUSTOM INTERFACE Customize the font and the read mode at your own discretion CUSTOM SETTINGS Change pitch, volume, and speed of reading Supports text-to-speech in the following languages: English, Chinese, French, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Catalan, Afrikaans, Danish, German, Russian, Finnish, Haitian Creole, Dutch, Czech, Latvian, Romanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish, Slovak, Swahili, Turkish, Welsh, Spanish, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Hindi, Indonesian, and Vietnamese. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Text to Speech Reader
This app converts text from various sources into natural-sounding audiobooks. It supports numerous file formats, offers advanced AI voices in multiple languages, and includes features like word-by-word highlighting and text summarization to enhance comprehension and save time.
- Convert text to audiobooks with AI voices
- Supports PDFs, web articles, and scanned documents
- 120+ natural-sounding voices in 27 languages
- Word-by-word text highlighting
- Summarizes text and extracts keywords
- Adjustable speech rate
- Personal reading habit tracker
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Your fastest reading companion! Read aloud everything with natural AI voices! ReadBit is a free text-to-speech reader that helps you to read aloud books, PDFs, docs, web articles and many other file formats. It saves a lot of time by instantly converting any text to an audiobook, reading all the information at your desired speech rate and providing an excellent listening experience with natural lifelike voices. Features - Convert text files to audiobooks with advanced text-to-speech in 27 languages - Supports websites, ePub, pdf, jpg, png and more - Scan physical documents with your camera and listen - Amazing listening experience with more than 120 voices - No more robotic voices! Listen to everything with the most natural voices in the market - Text reader highlights the document word by word as it reads to enhance engagement and comprehension - Summarizes text and extracts valuable insights such as keywords, places, and characters across chapters - Change the speech rate. Listen faster! - Track your progress with a personal reading habit tracker A Free Text to Speech (TTS) Reader Text-to-speech is an amazing technology that converts all text into audiobooks, whether it’s an online book, a pdf, a school assignment, or a lengthy report. Read Aloud Books, PDFs and Websites with Natural AI Voices Driving? Or maybe taking a long walk? Listen to your books and web articles with natural, lifelike voices using our cutting-edge text-to-speech reader. Reading Coach Strong habits start with small steps! Reading Coach is a tool that serves your document in bites like IG stories, tailored for your daily reading time. We call them Bits, and they make reading easier and more fun than ever! Create Playlists Create a list of your favorite blog posts, articles, books, or pdf and take them with you anywhere you go! You can create playlists to listen to your files back-to-back in your preferred order. Highlight and Focus The text reader highlights every word while reading out loud. You can scan physical documents and books to read along while listening. Highlighting the text increases your focus and helps you retain more information than just reading. Need a spell checker? Do you know what is one of the best things about a text-to-speech reader? You can use it as a spell checker. ReadBit will convert your file from text to speech, pronounce every word, and let you spot any misspelled words instantly. Summarize and Save Time ReadBit is not only a text reader but also a summarizer. It digs out the most relevant information like keywords, characters, and places. ReadBit is developed by Mediate, an MIT spinoff AI start-up based in Boston. As Mediate, we develop innovative computer vision systems with the support of the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Veterans Affairs. Subscription Plans: ReadBit has limited access to some advanced features such as Natural Voices, Font Adjustments and Keywords. If you would like unlimited access, we have created subscription plans. 1 Month: $11.99 6 Month : $59.99 ~ $9.99/month 12 Months: $95.99 ~ $7.99/month If you choose to purchase a subscription plan, the payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. All plans automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Auto-renew may be turned off by going to your iTunes Account Settings after purchase. The account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours before the end of the current period. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. If you don't choose to purchase a plan, you can simply continue using designated ReadBit features for free. You can read our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy from here: https://mediate.tech/policies
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Text to Speech Reader at none against Voice Aloud Reader's shown. Text to Speech Reader also leads on review sentiment (74% vs 59%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Voice Aloud Reader's advantage is ratings volume (19K vs 240) and rating (4.6 vs 4.3). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Voice Aloud Reader sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Text to Speech Reader sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Voice Aloud Reader holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Voice Aloud Reader has 19K ratings behind it against 240, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 59% of Voice Aloud Reader's written reviews are positive against 74% of Text to Speech Reader's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Voice Aloud Reader ships an update every 2 months, Text to Speech Reader every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Voice Aloud Reader | Text to Speech Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (19K ratings) — better | 4.3 (240 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 58.7% of reviews | 73.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 19K — better | 240 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marcin Olawski | Virtual Collaboration Research Inc. |
Customer experience
Voice Aloud Reader
Text to Speech Reader
User reviews
Voice Aloud Reader
From 19K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 Reads text quickly
- 💡 Helpful for people with reading disabilities
- 🤑 Good value for the price
- 🎉 Excellent text-to-speech quality
Room to improve
- 🐛 Inconsistent behavior when pausing/resuming
- 🤖 Robotic-sounding voices
- 💰 Subscription model too expensive
- 🔍 Difficulty finding place in long documents
- 🤷♀️ Limited customization options
Text to Speech Reader
From 240 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎙️ Natural, human-like AI voices
- 👍 Free version with good functionality
- 📚 Excellent for students and dyslexic readers
- 🚀 Fast reading speed and multitasking capability
- 📱 User-friendly interface and easy to use
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezing
- ⏸️ Random pausing and stopping during playback
- 📄 Poor handling of PDFs and documents with images
- 🔤 Skips words, sentences, and entire paragraphs
- 💰 Expensive subscription model
Bugs and requests
Voice Aloud Reader
Reported bugs
3 issues- Randomly jumps to different sections of text
- Struggles with formatting of multi-column documents
- Occasional crashes when switching between apps
Requested features
5 requests- Add bookmarking/resume functionality
- Improve voice quality and pronunciation
- Allow custom voice speed increments
- Implement a way to delete documents from library
- Add support for iBooks library integration
Text to Speech Reader
Reported bugs
14 issues- App crashes when opening or loading large libraries
- Random data loss and document disappearance
- Text syncing issues causing data to vanish
- OCR misreads words and scrambles sentence order
- App freezes when adding multiple books
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- Playback stops or pauses unexpectedly
- Login/logout loops and session disconnections
- Scanner fails with multi-column text and images
- Electronic humming sound when slowing playback speed
- Reads content in brackets and parentheses despite settings
- Doesn't recognize text on certain websites
- Incompatibility with older iPhone models
- In-app feedback form non-functional
- App doesn't respond to language selection changes
Requested features
12 requests- One-time lifetime purchase option instead of subscription
- Offline download capability for entire books
- Chrome browser extension
- Custom pronunciation settings for character names
- Option to skip footnotes, page numbers, and citations
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- Default voice selection feature
- Ability to edit scanned text
- Better margin crop functionality
- Ignore brackets/parentheses option
- Share playlists with friends
- Automatic language detection
- Improved Turkish and non-English voice quality
In-app purchases
Voice Aloud Reader
- Pro + Premium Voices 1m3 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Premium OCR 100$0.99
- Premium OCR 800$1.99
- Pro version$8.99
Text to Speech Reader
- Weekly Premium$5.997 Days
- Monthly Premium$11.991 Month
- 6 Months Premium$59.996 Months
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- Yearly Premium$95.991 Year
- 50.000 Words$14.99
- 75.000 Words$19.99
- 150.000 Words$19.99
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- 150.000 Words$29.99
Questions
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