Comparison

Voice Aloud Reader vs Genogram Creator

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

About

Genogram Creator

Create detailed family trees with emotional and medical histories. This tool maps complex family structures and relationships across generations, ideal for therapists and genealogists.

Highlights
  • Map family structure across generations
  • Record emotional relationship types
  • Track medical and mental health history
  • Visualize cultural heritage and religion
  • Professional-grade visual canvas
  • Import GEDCOM and JSON files
  • Export to PDF, PNG, and SVG
Features
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Genogram Creator is a professional genogram tool for iPhone, iPad and Mac — a visual canvas for mapping a family across generations, with all the structural detail clinicians need and an editorial design that's pleasant to look at. SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED Genogram Creator offers a 7-day free trial, then requires an auto-renewing annual subscription: • Standard — $49.99/year: up to 20 genograms, full editor, all symbols, PDF/PNG/SVG export • Unlimited — $99.99/year: everything in Standard plus unlimited genograms, JSON/GEDCOM import, and premium templates Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel in Settings > Subscriptions. A genogram is a family tree with feelings. Beyond names and dates, it captures emotional patterns, medical history, cultural heritage, religion, social class, and the relationships that hold (or strain) a family together. It's the standard tool used by family therapists, social workers, genealogists, and researchers — and now it fits in your hand. WHAT YOU CAN MAP • Family structure across generations — marriages, divorces, partnerships, parent-child, adoption, surrogacy, donor conception • 40 emotional relationship types — close, distant, conflict, cutoff, fused, hostile, caretaker, and more • Twins (fraternal and identical), step-families, blended families, multi-partner relationships • Medical conditions, mental health history, cause of death • Cultural heritage with 80+ pattern fills and country flags • Religion, social class, education level, sexual orientation • Custom notes, secrets, family groups, and free-floating annotations DESIGNED FOR PROFESSIONALS • Visual canvas with 60fps rendering and smooth pinch-to-zoom • 80+ person properties per node • Auto-arrange layout engine — drop in nodes and the canvas tidies itself • Two-finger pan, one-finger drag-to-pan, lasso select • 20-level undo/redo • Family group support — visualize entire households at once • Layered view modes — toggle religion, heritage, social class, medical, location independently IMPORT, EXPORT, AND SHARE • Import GEDCOM and JSON files (Unlimited plan) • PNG, PDF, and SVG export for reports • Files.app integration — your genograms live alongside your other documents • Works 100% offline — no account, no cloud, no analytics 48 TEMPLATES (Unlimited plan) • Family structures — three-generation, blended, single parent, same-sex with adoption, adoptive, foster care, grandparents raising grandchildren, chosen family, co-parenting • Clinical patterns — anxiety, depression, substance use, PTSD, bipolar, ADHD, enmeshment, cutoff, parentification, triangulation, grief, military deployment, elder care, genetic counseling • Cultural and community systems across six traditions • Historical families — Freud, Darwin-Wedgwood, Queen Victoria, Kennedy, Brontë, Lincoln, Curie, Henry VIII, Bach, Hemingway, Woolf, Tubman PRIVACY-FIRST All your data stays on your device (or in your own iCloud Drive if you enable it). No analytics. No third-party SDKs. No cloud transmission. Your family is yours. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Genogram Creator is free to try for 7 days, then requires an auto-renewing subscription (Standard $49.99/year or Unlimited $99.99/year — see SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED above). Subscriptions auto-renew annually unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings → [Your Name] → Subscriptions. Terms: https://genogramcreator.com/terms. Privacy: https://genogramcreator.com/privacy.

Screenshots

Voice Aloud Reader4 screens
Genogram Creator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Voice Aloud Reader at free with in-app purchases against Genogram Creator's subscription. Voice Aloud Reader also leads on ratings volume (19K vs 2). Genogram Creator's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Voice Aloud Reader sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Genogram Creator sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $49.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Genogram Creator 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 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Voice Aloud Reader ships an update every 2 months, Genogram Creator every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Voice Aloud Reader versus Genogram Creator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVoice Aloud ReaderGenogram Creator
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (19K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews58.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings19K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB6 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperMarcin OlawskiC6 Labs LLC

Customer experience

Voice Aloud Reader

All ratings18,809 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral3.5%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews1,028 reviews
Positive58.7%
Neutral7.8%
Negative33.6%

Genogram Creator

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Genogram Creator

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Voice Aloud Reader

Subscriptions1
  • Pro + Premium Voices 1m3 Days trial$9.991 Month
One-time3
  • Premium OCR 100$0.99
  • Premium OCR 800$1.99
  • Pro version$8.99
2 purchases

Genogram Creator

Subscriptions2
  • Standard Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Unlimited Annual7 Days trial$99.991 Year

Questions

Is Voice Aloud Reader free?
Voice Aloud Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Genogram Creator free?
Genogram Creator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Voice Aloud Reader or Genogram Creator?
Genogram Creator is rated higher. Voice Aloud Reader averages 4.6 out of 5 from 19K ratings, while Genogram Creator averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Voice Aloud Reader or Genogram Creator have ads?
Voice Aloud Reader shows ads; Genogram Creator does not.
Which is updated more often, Voice Aloud Reader or Genogram Creator?
Voice Aloud Reader ships an update every 2 months, and Genogram Creator every 2 weeks. Most recently, Voice Aloud Reader was updated on October 14, 2026 and Genogram Creator on October 3, 2026.

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