Voice Aloud Reader vs Page 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/
Page Reader
Transform any page into an audiobook with intelligent text recognition and an audio player. Scan pages with your camera, import from photos or PDFs, and edit the recognized text. Save narrated pages as audio clips or export text for later use.
- Scan pages with camera
- Import from photos/PDFs
- Read scanned text aloud
- Save narrated audio clips
- Export text to other apps
- Organize pages into books
- Choose from various voices
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Page Reader turns printed pages, PDFs and copied text into clear, natural speech. Scan a page with your camera, open a photo or PDF, or import text from another app. Page Reader recognises the content, preserves its structure and reads it aloud at your pace. Live Page Viewer keeps the original page on screen while speech follows along. Track the spoken word, follow paragraph highlighting, tap through the page and switch between Text and Live Page whenever you want. Use Page Reader for everyday reading, accessibility, study, work, travel and anything else you want to hear. FEATURES • Scan pages with the camera • Use page-alignment guides, tap-to-focus and zoom • Open photos from your photo library • Choose individual photos when using limited Photos access • Import selectable-text or scanned PDFs • Import PDFs up to 25 MB and five pages • Recognise paragraphs, numbered lists and natural sentence structure • Read with smoother pauses and improved handling of printed line breaks • Choose from Automatic, Premium, Enhanced, Standard and other voices • Adjust speech speed, pitch and volume • Follow spoken text automatically • Save pages to history • Organise scanned pages into books • Edit recognised text • Copy or export text to other apps • Save narrated pages as Audio Clips • Choose an accent colour and customise reading behaviour • Reopen your last page • Send pages to Page Translator Live Page Viewer is available for photo and camera scans. PDFs and pasted text remain available in the main reading view. Page Reader helps turn reading into listening, giving your pages a voice wherever you go.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Voice Aloud Reader at 4.6 against Page Reader's 2.3. Voice Aloud Reader also leads on ratings volume (19K vs 3) and review sentiment (59% vs 50%). Page Reader's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). 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 Page Reader sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Voice Aloud Reader holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Voice Aloud Reader has 19K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 59% of Voice Aloud Reader's written reviews are positive against 50% of Page Reader's.
Voice Aloud Reader ships an update every 2 months, Page Reader every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Voice Aloud Reader | Page Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (19K ratings) — better | 2.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 58.7% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 19K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 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, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marcin Olawski | THE CLEVER APP COMPANY LIMITED |
Customer experience
Voice Aloud Reader
Page Reader
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
Page Reader
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
Page Reader
- Remove Ads$2.99
Questions
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