Owloop vs Text To Speech
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Owloop
This app allows you to play audio files and text-to-speech in a continuous loop, with options to add silences or other audio in between. It's useful for studying, affirmations, business announcements, or street vending.
- Loop multiple audio files
- Add silences between audio playback
- Record custom voice messages
- Convert text to speech in 64 languages
- Create and save multiple loops
- Seamlessly integrate with other app audio
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Play audio in loop! Until you stop! Add Silences or let your music continue in between Ultimate player for... + Boost your small business by periodically announcing offers or discounts during music playback. + Listen to looping Affirmation while you sleep + Repeating key study materials alongside your favorite music. + Playing a welcoming message at your party, seamlessly pausing the music. + Street Vendor: Connect to a speaker, Record and play about what you're selling repeatedly. ... With an easy to understand and Cool interface Features: + Add many audios to your loop + Add silences in between... Owloop will resume music played through other apps during these silences + Record your own voice + Load audio files + Write in Text and turn it to speech * + In 64 languages + Nearly 500 Voice variations for you to chose from + Create multiple Loop Disks and save them. *** + Atmospheres — set the mood with background sounds and visual environments such as fire, train cabin, ocean. Swipe left or right on background to activate. + Playing on Locked device: no need to keep the screen on, atmosphere sounds will also play. **** + Stinger Sound Effects: Perfect announcement starters and enders to get the attention of the listeners. + Reminders to play the loop: Perfect for playing affirmations on commute or before sleep, reminds you at the same time you've played it before or at set times and days of week. Bonus features: + No Ads, We hate 'em! + Contact for support in the app * App comes with a free initial text-to-speech capacity, You can buy consumable "text-to-speech char packs" In-app purchases as you use this feature. *** In-App purchase required to create multiple loops. 1 loop is free with the app. **** To resume Music from other apps requires app to be open, device unlocked ** Owloop has following Text-to-Speech Voices : Afrikaans (af-ZA) : 1 voices Amharic (am-ET) : 4 voices Arabic (ar-XA) : 8 voices Bulgarian (bg-BG) : 1 voices Bangla (bn-IN) : 8 voices Catalan (ca-ES) : 1 voices Chinese (cmn-CN) : 8 voices Chinese (cmn-TW) : 6 voices Czech (cs-CZ) : 2 voices Danish (da-DK) : 9 voices German (de-DE) : 20 voices Greek (el-GR) : 2 voices English (en-AU) : 16 voices English (en-GB) : 24 voices English (en-IN) : 12 voices English (en-US) : 35 voices Spanish (es-ES) : 14 voices Spanish (es-US) : 15 voices Basque (eu-ES) : 1 voices Finnish (fi-FI) : 2 voices Filipino (fil-PH) : 10 voices French (fr-CA) : 12 voices French (fr-FR) : 18 voices Galician (gl-ES) : 1 voices Gujarati (gu-IN) : 4 voices Hebrew (he-IL) : 8 voices Hindi (hi-IN) : 12 voices Hungarian (hu-HU) : 2 voices Indonesian (id-ID) : 8 voices Icelandic (is-IS) : 1 voices Italian (it-IT) : 10 voices Japanese (ja-JP) : 11 voices Kannada (kn-IN) : 8 voices Korean (ko-KR) : 11 voices Lithuanian (lt-LT) : 1 voices Latvian (lv-LV) : 1 voices Malayalam (ml-IN) : 6 voices Marathi (mr-IN) : 6 voices Malay (ms-MY) : 8 voices Norwegian Bokmål (nb-NO) : 10 voices Dutch (nl-BE) : 4 voices Dutch (nl-NL) : 10 voices Punjabi (pa-IN) : 8 voices Polish (pl-PL) : 10 voices Portuguese (pt-BR) : 9 voices Portuguese (pt-PT) : 8 voices Romanian (ro-RO) : 2 voices Russian (ru-RU) : 10 voices Slovak (sk-SK) : 2 voices Serbian (sr-RS) : 1 voices Swedish (sv-SE) : 10 voices Tamil (ta-IN) : 8 voices Telugu (te-IN) : 2 voices Thai (th-TH) : 2 voices Turkish (tr-TR) : 10 voices Ukrainian (uk-UA) : 2 voices Vietnamese (vi-VN) : 10 voices Cantonese (yue-HK) : 4 voices
Text To Speech
Transform text, documents, and images into natural-sounding audiobooks. Listen to content while multitasking or offline, with customizable playback speeds and interactive highlighting. Supports over 100 languages.
- Text to audiobook conversion
- Natural-sounding AI voices
- Customizable playback speed
- Offline listening with MP3 download
- Interactive reading with highlighting
- Supports 100+ languages and accents
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Text to speech from Crikk lets you listen to PDFs, documents, articles, images, ebooks, and any text you read. Turn any PDF into a natural-sounding audiobook with one tap. Crikk is a fast-growing text to speech reader on iPhone, and the web. _________________________________________________________________________________ Reading is hard. Listening is easy. _________________________________________________________________________________ PDFs pile up. Textbooks. Reports. Research papers. Contracts. Ebooks. Crikk reads them all out loud in a human-sounding voice — so you can finish your reading list while you walk, drive, work out, or cook. FEATURES YOU'LL LOVE PDF Text to Speech Built for Real Documents Upload any PDF and hear it read in seconds. Crikk handles textbooks, research papers with footnotes, scanned PDFs, multi-column layouts, and image-based PDFs that other apps choke on. 4 Ways to Turn Text Into Speech Type or paste any text. Snap a photo with your camera. Pick an image from your gallery. Or upload a document — PDF, DOCX, EPUB, TXT, and more. Crikk reads them all. Natural-Sounding AI Voices Our voices sound like real humans, not robots. Listen for hours without fatigue and actually remember what you heard. Active Text Highlighting Every word lights up as it's spoken. Read along while you listen. Retain twice as much. Listen at Any Speed Adjust playback from 0.5x to 4x. Slow it down for hard topics. Speed it up to breeze through easy content. Learn more in less time. Snap a Photo, Hear It Read Point your camera at a book, menu, printed page, or handwritten note. Crikk reads it out loud instantly. Turn any physical book on your shelf into an audiobook. Listen Offline Download any reading as an MP3. No Wi-Fi needed. Listen on flights, road trips, or anywhere you go. Web + Mobile, Always in Sync Use Crikk on your iPhone, or in your browser at crikk.com. Your library syncs across every device, so you can listen anywhere, anytime. 100+ Languages From Afrikaans to Zulu. Multiple accents for English (US, UK, Canada), Spanish (Spain, Argentina, Cuba), Arabic (UAE, Bahrain, Iraq), French (France, Canada, Switzerland), and more. _________________________________________________________________________________ Stop reading. Start listening. _________________________________________________________________________________ Who is Crikk for? Crikk is for anyone who reads. Students drowning in PDF textbooks. Professionals buried in reports. Researchers reading paper after paper. Auditory learners. Second-language learners. Busy people who want to learn on the go. Crikk is also built for people with dyslexia, ADHD, low vision, concussions, and other reading challenges. We believe reading should never be a barrier — for anyone. Pricing Free Plan: Use core PDF text to speech features for free. Limited voices and character count per voiceover. Premium Plans: Unlock every voice, every language, and remove all character limits. Install Crikk today — for free. We can't wait for you to join the family. Privacy Policy: https://crikk.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://crikk.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Owloop at 100% against Text To Speech's 33%. Owloop also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.4) and ads (none vs shown). Text To Speech's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (30 vs 3). 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. Owloop sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Text To Speech sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Owloop holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text To Speech has 30 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Owloop's written reviews are positive against 33% of Text To Speech's.
Owloop ships an update every 3 months, Text To Speech every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Owloop | Text To Speech |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 3.4 (30 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 30 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thilina Solomons | Monster Incorporation Inc. |
Customer experience
Owloop
Text To Speech
In-app purchases
Owloop
- Regular$1.99
- Big$3.99
- 3 Additional Loop Slots$7.99
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- 5 Additional Loop Slots$10.99
- 10 Additional Loop Slots$19.99
- Mega$37.99
- 100 Additional Loop Slots$99.99
Text To Speech
- Crikk Unlimited Plan3 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Crikk - Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$12.001 Month
- Crikk Yearly Plan3 Days trial$34.991 Year
- Crikk - Lifetime Deal$126.99









