Comparison

Easy Text to Speech Reader Pro vs SFD

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

Head to head
About

Easy Text to Speech Reader Pro

Convert written text into spoken audio with a vast selection of voices and languages. Import various document types or web pages to have them read aloud. Customize playback and export audio files.

Highlights
  • Text to speech conversion
  • Export to audio file
  • 152 voices in 50+ languages
  • Import 19 file types
  • Web page reading
  • Customizable playback speed and pitch
  • Background listening
Features
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Easy Text to Speech Reader Pro has no ads, subscriptions, or in-app purchases. Now you can instantly clone a voice using just 5 seconds of audio and use that voice to read your text aloud 100% local on your device. It will save every voice that you cloned in "My Voices" category and it is unlimited. Type, paste, or import text and instantly hear it read aloud. You can also export your speech as an audio file. INSTANT VOICE CLONING Clone a voice from just a 5-second audio clip and immediately generate speech in that voice. Voice cloning and speech generation happen directly on your device, without needing to upload your recording to a server. It saves every voice that you cloned in "My Voices" category and it is unlimited. TEXT TO SPEECH • Read text aloud with 152 voices in 50+ languages • Customize playback speed and pitch • Follow along as the app centers and highlights the word currently being read • Continue listening while using other apps or with your screen locked • Your text and reading position are saved when you close and reopen the app EXPORT AUDIO Export your generated speech as an audio file whenever you want. IMPORT TEXT & DOCUMENTS Import 19 different file types: .pdf / .txt / .doc / .docx / .pages / .rtf / .md / .epub / .mobi / .azw / .azw3 / .fb2 / .lit / .pdb / .prc / .djvu / .cbr / .cbz / .csv READ WEBPAGES Paste in a webpage link and Easy Text to Speech Reader Pro will read the webpage for you. NO ADS. NO SUBSCRIPTIONS. NO IN-APP PURCHASES.

About

SFD

This app helps you overcome writer's block by forcing you to write a first draft without the ability to edit or reread. It uses timed bursts and nudges to keep you moving forward, allowing you to flag sections for later revision.

Highlights
  • Forward-only writing
  • Timed writing bursts
  • Cursor nudges for stalls
  • Flagging sections for revision
  • Plain text export
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Writing apps help with the easy half — outlines, fonts, folders, word-count trophies. The hard half is producing a bad first version of something, and that's all SFD does. SFD is forward-only. You write in a burst, the earlier lines dim and scroll away, and you can't go back to fix them. You can't edit a draft into existence, so SFD won't let you try until it's out. How it works: — A go is a timed burst. You write. You don't reread. — Stall for a few seconds and you get a shove — a nudge that gets blunter the longer you stare at the cursor. — Hit a line you hate? Drop a later and keep moving. Your flags become a punch-list for when you revise. — A finished part is a chunk. A stack of chunks is the Pile — your whole first draft. — When it's done, send it out as plain text, to wherever you actually revise. Drafting is free. Every go, every later, every export — no account, no trial clock, no nagging. THE BIG MONTH is free too: 50,000 words of a novel's first draft between November 1 and 30. SFD shows your words today and how many a day finishes it, lights up a November calendar on every day you write, marks 10,000, 25,000 and 50,000, and gives you a BIG MONTH 2026 stamp and finisher card you can only earn that November. One thing costs money: SFD Habit Tracking, a 99-cent one-time unlock for the habit layer — the streak map and year wall, the month goal, the quiet reminder, stamps, share cards, and the home-screen widget, which carries THE BIG MONTH in November. The scoreboard, not the game. If you bought SFD back when the app itself cost money, the habit layer is yours automatically. What SFD won't do: format, outline, sync, collaborate, or write the draft for you. You write the bad version. A chunk has to get written; inside that, anything goes. Your words stay yours. Every chunk is a plain-text file on your device. No proprietary format, no servers. SFD makes no network calls at all — it can't lose your words and it can't trap them. Get the first draft out. You can make it good later, somewhere with a real keyboard.

Screenshots

Easy Text to Speech Reader Pro4 screens
SFD4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: SFD at Free against Easy Text to Speech Reader Pro's $14.99. SFD also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months) and device support (3 vs 1). Easy Text to Speech Reader Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On rating, ratings volume, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

SFD is free to download; Easy Text to Speech Reader Pro costs $14.99 up front. SFD sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Easy Text to Speech Reader Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Easy Text to Speech Reader Pro against 5.0 for SFD. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Easy Text to Speech Reader Pro ships an update every 2 months, SFD every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Easy Text to Speech Reader Pro versus SFD: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEasy Text to Speech Reader ProSFD
Price$14.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size226 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJerome PullenDaniel James Kinney-Spears

Customer experience

Easy Text to Speech Reader Pro

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

SFD

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Easy Text to Speech Reader Pro

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

SFD

One-time1
  • SFD Habit Tracking$0.99

Questions

Is Easy Text to Speech Reader Pro free?
Easy Text to Speech Reader Pro costs $14.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is SFD free?
SFD is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Easy Text to Speech Reader Pro or SFD?
Easy Text to Speech Reader Pro and SFD are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Easy Text to Speech Reader Pro or SFD have ads?
Neither Easy Text to Speech Reader Pro nor SFD shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Easy Text to Speech Reader Pro or SFD?
Easy Text to Speech Reader Pro ships an update every 2 months, and SFD every 8 days. Most recently, Easy Text to Speech Reader Pro was updated on October 8, 2026 and SFD on October 10, 2026.

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