Text to Speech vs Simple Voice Reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Text to Speech
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Turn text, PDF documents, images, scanned pages, and web content into spoken words with Text to Speech. Listen to PDFs, documents, extracted text, web pages, notes, and more whenever you prefer listening instead of reading. Whether you are studying, working, commuting, or multitasking, use the app as a convenient text reader, PDF reader, document reader, OCR scanner, and read aloud tool. - Text to Speech & PDF Reader Convert written content into speech and listen at your convenience. Open supported documents, extract text from images, scan printed text, paste web links, or enter your own text and hear it read aloud. - Listen to PDF & Documents Open PDF, DOC, and TXT files and listen to their content using text-to-speech. Use the document reader to follow your content while listening with line-by-line highlighting. Turn PDFs and text documents into spoken content for a convenient reading and listening experience. Use it for: * PDF to Speech * Read PDF Aloud * Document Reading * Text to Speech * Text Reader * Read Aloud - Turn Images into Speech Have text inside a photo, screenshot, document image, or picture? Import an image and use OCR text recognition to detect visible text. Once the text is extracted, listen to it with text-to-speech without having to type everything manually. Use the image reader for: * Image to Text * Image to Speech * OCR Text Recognition * Screenshot Text Reader * Photo Text Scanner * Read Extracted Text Aloud - Scan Text with Your Camera Use your camera to scan printed text from notes, pages, signs, documents, and other physical material. The OCR scanner recognizes visible printed words and converts them into readable text that you can listen to using text-to-speech. - Read Web Pages Aloud Want to listen to an online article or webpage instead of reading it? Paste a supported web link into the app and listen to available webpage content with text-to-speech. Use the web page reader for articles, online reading, study material, and other supported web content. - Type or Paste Any Text Type or paste text directly into the app and listen to it instantly. Use the text reader for: * Notes * Messages * Articles * Study material * Written passages * Copied text * Everyday reading Turn written text into spoken words whenever listening is more convenient. - Text to Speech Assistant Use the built-in Assistant to learn how to use different features of the app. Ask questions or choose suggested prompts to learn how to: * Listen to PDF documents * Scan text with your camera * Extract text from images * Paste and read web links * Enter text for speech * Use other available app features - A Simple Reading & Listening Experience Customize your experience with: * App language settings * Light appearance * Dark appearance * System appearance * Privacy Policy and app information * Feedback and support * Rate the app * Share the app with friends - Listen. Read. Understand. From PDFs and documents to photos, scanned text, web pages, screenshots, notes, and everyday written content, Text to Speech helps you listen wherever you are. Whether you need a PDF reader, PDF to speech tool, document reader, OCR text scanner, image-to-text reader, web page reader, or simple read aloud experience, turn written content into spoken words with ease. Start listening to your content with Text to Speech. Our Privacy Policy: https://asraramin.com/privacy-policy-text-to-speech/ EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Simple Voice Reader
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Simple Voice Reader is a free text-to-speech app for iPhone and iPad that reads pasted or typed text, TXT files, RTF files, and PDFs aloud. Open supported documents from Files, use the import button, or drag text and files directly into the reader on iPad. American English Apple system voices work immediately. For the best Apple voice quality, download Apple's free Enhanced and Premium voices in Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content > Voices > English. On compatible iOS 26 devices, you can also download an optional American English Kokoro voice pack with Heart and 19 other natural voices. The pack is about 170 MB, downloads once from Apple, and can be removed at any time. Use Simple Voice Reader when you want to listen instead of read: long articles, notes, drafts, manuals, study material, book chapters, accessibility material, or anything else you can paste or import. Choose a voice, adjust speed, change the reading font and size, start from the cursor, pause and resume, and follow the highlighted words as the reader moves through the text. Apple speech continues when the app moves to the background or the screen locks, with pause, resume, and stop controls on the Lock Screen and in Control Center. If Kokoro cannot continue because the device needs more memory or the app moves to the background, reading continues with the selected Apple voice. Privacy: text-to-speech conversion with Apple and Kokoro voices is performed on the user's device. Simple Voice Reader does not send text, documents, or spoken audio to Walter Claw Software or to a cloud text-to-speech service. iOS may contact Apple only to download system voice assets and the optional Apple-hosted Kokoro voice pack selected by the user. Simple Voice Reader is free. No account, purchase, or subscription is required.
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The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Text to Speech at 15.0 against Simple Voice Reader's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Text to Speech | Simple Voice Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | — | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Asrar Amin | Walter Claw Software LLC |
In-app purchases
Text to Speech
No in-app purchases
Simple Voice Reader
No in-app purchases
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