Comparison

Tentacle Pulp vs Text to Speech

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

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About

Tentacle Pulp

Discover a curated collection of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror short stories in Spanish. Enhance your language skills while enjoying exclusive digital and unpublished tales from talented authors. The app offers customizable reading settings and progress saving.

Highlights
  • Sci-fi, fantasy, and horror short stories
  • Spanish language practice
  • Exclusive and unpublished digital stories
  • Content and news index
  • Customizable user settings
  • Progress saving and orientable reading
  • Categorized selection
Features
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Tentacle Pulp, short stories in the digital age. Your app of sci-fi, fantasy and horror stories in Spanish. Practice your spanish language by reading fantastic short stories of fantasy, sci-fi and terror. Hundreds of entertainment pages on your device. Annual subscription and periodic novelties. New stories in each content update. App contents reviewed and approved by editorial team. A permanent selection of stories chosen with care to read the best. Exclusive digital stories and unpublished stories. Meet great authors through their short stories. Some of its features are: - Contents and news index. - Customization of user settings. - Orientable reading and saving your progress. - Selection by categories or authors and more. - Order the stories according to your available time for readings. - Illustrated covers. ABOUT FULL ACCESS TO STORIES With our annual In-App subscription you will have full access to all stories. Prices: Annual subscription: 1 year = € 9.99 The Tentacle Pulp subscription gives you access to all the app's stories for a fixed annual fee. This amount will be charged automatically through your iTunes account. Your subscription will be renewed automatically every year, unless the “Automatic Renewal” feature is deactivated in your iTunes account preferences, at most 24 hours before the end of the subscription period. General terms and conditions: https://www.tentaclepulp.com/tp_legal.php Privacy Policy: https://www.tentaclepulp.com/tp_legal.php

About

Text to Speech

This app converts any text into natural-sounding audio, allowing you to listen to articles, PDFs, and more. It offers unlimited, free text-to-speech with customizable voices and playback speeds, acting as a helpful reading assistant for various needs.

Highlights
  • Unlimited free text-to-speech
  • Reads PDFs, web pages, and pasted text
  • High-quality natural voices
  • Adjustable playback speed
  • Save audio files
  • Accessibility friendly
Features
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Listen Without Limits — truly free, unlimited Text to Speech (TTS). SayTXT instantly converts text into clear, natural audio. Open a PDF, an EPUB book, a Word document, a TXT file, a webpage, or just paste any text — and have it read aloud in a single tap. No subscriptions, no character limits, no signup. Share webpages from Safari or notes from Apple Notes directly to SayTXT and have them read aloud. Connect your own OPDS catalog by URL to browse and import DRM-free eBooks. Read Mode gives PDFs a cleaner, text-focused view. Optional filters let you skip detected tables, URLs, headers, footers, formulas, and text inside parentheses, brackets, or braces — useful for papers, textbooks, and reports. With the built-in web browser, open any website inside SayTXT and listen to the page you're viewing — articles, blogs, research, recipes, anywhere on the open web. Follow along with synced word-by-word highlighting across PDFs, TXT, DOCX, EPUB, photos, scans, URLs, the built-in web browser, and Read Mode. Focus Reading View shows the current sentence in large text. Scroll away without being pulled back, then tap the return button to return to the sentence being read. SayTXT supports natural voices in 31 languages — from Arabic and Hindi to Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, and more. Auto language detection switches to a matching voice — Spanish reads in Spanish, French in French, no manual setup. Use your Personal Voice to read English or Spanish text aloud. For English, choose fun voices for stories, character dialogue, or just for fun. For real-world content, point your camera at any text — books, notes, menus, printed documents — and SayTXT extracts and reads it instantly. Built-in OCR plus image editing tools (crop, rotate, reorder) replace traditional scanner apps with a single capture-to-listen flow. Turn your commute, workout, study session, or daily chores into productive moments. SayTXT works as a reading companion for people with dyslexia, ADHD, low vision, or anyone who simply prefers listening over reading. Choose from multiple high-quality voices, listen at up to 3x speed, save audio with supported voices for offline playback, and use the sleep timer for bedtime listening. [KEY FEATURES] - 100% Free, Unlimited Text to Speech No subscriptions, trials, hidden fees & no character limits. - Reads Anything Aloud PDFs, EPUB books, DOCX documents, TXT files, web pages, articles, and pasted text — ideal for PDF to speech, ebook reader, and read-aloud app use. - Built-in Web Browser Browse the web inside SayTXT and have the full page read aloud. - Focus Reading View Synced word-by-word highlighting across all reading views, plus large sentence text in Focus Reading View. - Auto Language Detection · 31 Languages Natural voices for Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. SayTXT detects the language of your text and switches to the right voice automatically. - Scan & Read (Camera / Photos / Images) Camera, photo library, or images — instant text extraction and read-aloud. Includes built-in OCR and image editing (crop, rotate, reorder). - Shortcuts, Spotlight & Widgets Find recent files by name in Spotlight, use App Shortcuts, and open SayTXT from Control Center, the Lock Screen, or Home Screen widgets with synced playback status. - High-Quality Voices & 3x Speed Clear, natural narration with adjustable speed up to 3x. - Save Audio Files Export speech from supported voices as downloadable audio for offline listening. - Accessibility Friendly Built for dyslexia, ADHD, low vision, and anyone who prefers listening to reading — now with synced word-by-word highlighting.

Screenshots

Tentacle Pulp4 screens
Text to Speech4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Text to Speech at none against Tentacle Pulp's 1. Text to Speech also leads on ratings volume (665 vs 1) and chart position (#60 vs unranked). Tentacle Pulp's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18). On price, ads 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. Tentacle Pulp sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $8.99 per year. Text to Speech asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tentacle Pulp holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text to Speech has 665 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tentacle Pulp ships an update every 2 months, Text to Speech monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Tentacle Pulp versus Text to Speech: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTentacle PulpText to Speech
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.7 (665 ratings)
Positive reviews—66.3% of reviews
Number of ratings1665 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscriptionFree — better
Best chart rank—#60 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better18
Further details — not scored
Size398 MB482 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperFrancisco Javier Gimenez CarreroPDF GEAR TECH PTE. LTD.

Customer experience

Tentacle Pulp

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Text to Speech

All ratings596 ratings
Positive91.1%
Neutral2.2%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews101 reviews
Positive66.3%
Neutral8.9%
Negative24.8%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Tentacle Pulp

Subscriptions1
  • Annual subscription$8.991 Year
None

Text to Speech

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tentacle Pulp free?
Tentacle Pulp is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Text to Speech free?
Text to Speech is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tentacle Pulp or Text to Speech?
Tentacle Pulp is rated higher. Tentacle Pulp averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Text to Speech averages 4.7 from 665 ratings.
Do Tentacle Pulp or Text to Speech have ads?
Neither Tentacle Pulp nor Text to Speech shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tentacle Pulp or Text to Speech?
Tentacle Pulp ships an update every 2 months, and Text to Speech monthly. Most recently, Tentacle Pulp was updated on November 3, 2026 and Text to Speech on November 8, 2026.

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