RSSum vs Text to Speech
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RSSum
A streamlined RSS reader designed for efficient content consumption. Stay updated with your favorite news sources and blogs in a clean, ad-free interface. Easily manage your subscriptions and discover new content.
- RSS feed aggregation
- Ad-free reading experience
- Subscription management
- Content discovery
- Clean user interface
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Rss Reader
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.
- Unlimited free text-to-speech
- Reads PDFs, web pages, and pasted text
- High-quality natural voices
- Adjustable playback speed
- Save audio files
- Accessibility friendly
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Text to Speech at 67% against RSSum's 0%. Text to Speech also leads on rating (4.6 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (620 vs 1). RSSum's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Text to Speech holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text to Speech has 620 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of RSSum's written reviews are positive against 67% of Text to Speech's.
RSSum ships an update every 5 days, Text to Speech monthly. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.
| Parameter | RSSum | Text to Speech |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.6 (620 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 620 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #56 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 482 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joao Valente | PDF GEAR TECH PTE. LTD. |
Customer experience
RSSum
Text to Speech
In-app purchases
RSSum
No in-app purchases
Text to Speech
No in-app purchases








