Bookshare Reader vs Text To Speech
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bookshare Reader
Access a vast library of ebooks designed for individuals with reading barriers. Enjoy high-quality audio narration and customize your reading experience with adjustable fonts, colors, and speeds. Continue reading seamlessly from where you left off.
- Access millions of ebooks
- High-quality audio narration
- Customizable reading experience
- Adjustable font size and colors
- Follow along with highlighted text
- Offline reading
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Get the official Bookshare Reader app. Access millions of ebooks from Bookshare, the world's largest library of ebooks for people with reading barriers like dyslexia, blindness, low vision, and physical disabilities. Listen to books in high quality audio and customize your reading experience in ways that work for you. Read bestsellers, new releases, textbooks and educational books, children’s books, young adult, mysteries, biographies, and more. Read your way with these customizable features: • Listen to books in high quality audio • Adjust reading speed, font size, and colors • Follow along with highlighted text • Navigate by page and chapter • Stop reading and pick up from your last spot • Download books and read offline To use Bookshare Reader, you must have a Bookshare membership. Learn more by visiting the Bookshare website.
Text To Speech
Transform any text into spoken audio, creating personalized audiobooks from articles, books, or scanned documents. Enjoy listening in over 40 languages with customizable HD voices and reading speeds.
- Listen to articles, texts, or books as audio
- Supports 40+ languages
- Multiple HD voice options
- Adjustable reading speed
- Scan physical books with camera
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With “Text Reader” you can listen to any texts at any time, when it is convenient for you. Our app will help you easily turn your reading material into interactive audio books. Try it! FEATURE LIST: • Listen to articles, texts or paper books AS AUDIO. • Listen to audio in 40+ languages • Listen to audio with different HD voices • Toggle your reading speed as you see fit. • Scan physical books with your device’s camera and listen to them. Privacy policy: https://webrain.ltd/text-reader-privacy-policy.html Terms of service: https://webrain.ltd/text-reader-terms-conditions.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Text To Speech at 3.9 against Bookshare Reader's 3.3. Text To Speech also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). Bookshare Reader's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 7) and review sentiment (35% vs 19%). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Text To Speech sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Bookshare Reader asks for nothing beyond the download.
Text To Speech holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 67 and 145 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 35% of Bookshare Reader's written reviews are positive against 19% of Text To Speech's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Bookshare Reader ships an update every 3 weeks, Text To Speech every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on August 13, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bookshare Reader | Text To Speech |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (67 ratings) | 3.9 (145 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 34.5% of reviews — better | 18.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 67 | 145 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Benetech | WeBrain |
Customer experience
Bookshare Reader
Text To Speech
In-app purchases
Bookshare Reader
No in-app purchases
Text To Speech
- Voice Aloud Reader$2.997 Days
- Text Reader3 Days trial$2.997 Days
- Premium Subscription$5.991 Month
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- Text to Speech Reader3 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Audio text reader$7.991 Year
- Premium Subscription$14.991 Year
- Premium Subscription3 Days trial$14.991 Year
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