Comparison

Voice Aloud Reader vs Try Tally

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

Try Tally

This app provides a simple and colorful way to track your attempts and successes across various activities. Easily manage multiple categories, count your progress, and correct mistakes with intuitive swipe gestures. Focus on your practice without needing to remember the numbers.

Highlights
  • Track total attempts and successes
  • Support for multiple categories
  • Quick and simple counting
  • Subtract mistakes easily
  • Swipe to edit, reset, or remove entries
  • Colorful and simple interface
Features
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# TRY TALLY - ATTEMPT COUNTER How many tries did it take? **Try Tally** is a simple, colorful way to keep track of attempts and successes. Perfect for climbing projects, practicing skills, games, workouts, challenges, or anything else where you're trying again and again. Create a category, start counting, and watch your progress add up. **TRACK YOUR TRIES** • Total attempts • Total successes • Multiple categories • Quick, simple counting • Correct mistakes by subtracting • Swipe to edit, reset, or remove **MADE FOR TRYING AGAIN** Whether you're counting climbing attempts before a send, tracking how many shots you made, or seeing how many tries it takes to master something, Try Tally keeps the numbers out of your head and lets you focus on the attempt. - Colorful and simple - Count attempts and successes - Easily subtract mistakes - Swipe to manage categories - No ads - No subscription (finally) **Try it. Tally it. Try again.**

Screenshots

Voice Aloud Reader4 screens
Try Tally2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Try Tally at none against Voice Aloud Reader's 4. Try Tally also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Voice Aloud Reader's advantage is ratings volume (19K vs 1). On price 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

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. Try Tally asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Try Tally 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.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Voice Aloud Reader versus Try Tally: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVoice Aloud ReaderTry Tally
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (19K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews58.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings19K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB20 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperMarcin OlawskiSilo Interactive LLC

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

Try Tally

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
None

Try Tally

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Voice Aloud Reader free?
Voice Aloud Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Try Tally free?
Try Tally is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Voice Aloud Reader or Try Tally?
Try Tally is rated higher. Voice Aloud Reader averages 4.6 out of 5 from 19K ratings, while Try Tally averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Voice Aloud Reader or Try Tally have ads?
Voice Aloud Reader shows ads; Try Tally does not.

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