Voice Aloud Reader vs Listen To Notes
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/
Listen To Notes
Convert written text into spoken words for easy listening. Access your notes and documents hands-free with intuitive text-to-speech technology. Ideal for education, personal journaling, and accessing information conveniently.
- Text to Speech conversion
- Read notes aloud
- Daily diary function
- Supports education and personal notes
- Unlimited notes (PRO)
- Work Notes category (PRO)
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Listen to your notes, documents. App to read text. It allows you to listen to your notes and documents with ease using text-to-speech technology. With its intuitive features, you can read your notes out loud whenever it's convenient for you. The app is designed for a variety of uses, including education, personal note-taking, and more. By converting written text into spoken words, this app helps users access their information in a new and convenient way. Features: - Text to Speech - Read notes aloud - Notes - daily diary - Education, Personal notes PRO features: - unlimited notes - Work Notes category Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Listen To Notes at none against Voice Aloud Reader's shown. Listen To Notes also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 11 days vs every 2 months). Voice Aloud Reader's advantage is ratings volume (19K vs 1). 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 Listen To Notes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Listen To Notes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Voice Aloud Reader has 19K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Voice Aloud Reader ships an update every 2 months, Listen To Notes every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Voice Aloud Reader | Listen To Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (19K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 19K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marcin Olawski | Piotr Mackiewicz |
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
Listen To Notes
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
Listen To Notes
- PRO$7.991 Month
- PRO1 Year trial$29.991 Year
Questions
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