Listenify vs RottenPDF
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Listenify
Convert any text into natural-sounding audio with AI-powered voices. Enjoy articles, documents, and more while multitasking or for accessibility needs. Customize playback for a personalized listening experience.
- AI-powered text-to-speech
- Lifelike AI narrators
- Adjustable playback speed and volume
- Convert PDFs and web articles
- Multitasking friendly
- Accessibility features
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Listenify: Your AI-Powered Text-to-Speech Companion Turn text into lifelike audio instantly—no hassle, no extra steps. Listenify converts PDFs, articles, notes, and more into natural, human-like voices, helping you absorb information anywhere, anytime. Listenify isn’t just another text-to-speech app; it’s your personal audio assistant that brings words to life. Here’s how Listenify transforms your experience: Immersive Voices Select from a variety of expressive AI narrators. Whether you’re studying, working, or relaxing, find the perfect tone and accent to match your content. Total Control Customize your listening flow. Adjust playback speed, volume, and even choose different narrator styles to make learning and multitasking more comfortable. Seamless Conversion From a highlighted paragraph on a webpage to entire PDF documents, Listenify instantly turns written text into smooth audio—so you don’t have to pause your day. Designed for Multitaskers Stay productive while you move. Listenify lets you enjoy articles, notes, and books while cooking, exercising, commuting, or winding down. Accessibility First Listenify makes content easier to consume for everyone, including people with visual impairments or learning challenges. It transforms reading into an inclusive and enjoyable experience. Listenify: Don’t just read—experience. - For Unlimited Features some Premium subscriptions are needed. - Payment will be made from your iTunes account after you confirm the purchase. - Subscriptions will auto-renew at the end of each term if it is not canceled 24 hours before the end of the purchasing term. - The user can manage subscriptions. Auto-renew can be turned off from iTunes account settings. - Privacy Policy: https://laidbackapps.com/privacy-policy-2/ - Eula: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
RottenPDF
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RottenPDF reads your documents out loud and shows the words while it speaks them: the current sentence large and centred, each word lighting up exactly as it is pronounced, the lines around it dimmed. You follow with your ears and your eyes at once. Reading and listening are free, paid for by ads. If you would rather not see them, RottenPDF Plus is an optional monthly subscription that removes them. No account to create. YOUR DOCUMENTS STAY ON YOUR IPHONE Your documents are never uploaded anywhere. They are opened, turned into speech and read aloud on the device, with the voices already installed on it. We run no server and no cloud, so there is nowhere for them to go. Reading works in airplane mode. The app goes online for two things only: to download a web page when you paste its link, and to show ads. ADS NEVER INTERRUPT THE READING Ads are what pays for the app, and they stay out of the way: a banner at the bottom of the library and under the player controls, and now and then a full-screen ad before a document opens or after you have closed it. Never while something is being read to you. Ads are served by Google AdMob, and you decide whether they may be personalised. WHAT IT DOES • Opens PDF, DOCX, RTF and TXT files, from Files, Mail, or any app that can share a document • Reads web pages too: paste a link and it reads the article • Reads any text you copied: paste it in the library and it is read like a document • Reads them aloud with the voices already installed on your device • Karaoke subtitles: the word being spoken is highlighted in real time, with a scale pop and a saturated colour • Speed from 0.5x to 3.0x with the pitch preserved — fast, without the chipmunk voice • Tables, figures, code and formulas are read too, and shown in views built for them • Picks up where you stopped, in every document • Interface in twelve languages, and it reads in every language your device has a voice for WHAT IT DOES NOT DO YET Being straight about this is cheaper than a bad review: • Scanned PDFs — pages that are only images — are not read yet. The app tells you the document is a scan instead of reading you nothing. • EPUB is not supported yet. • Playback stops when you leave the app. Background listening is next. WHO IT IS FOR Anyone who reads a lot and would rather listen. Students with a stack of course notes, anyone with a long report to get through, people who take text in faster by ear, and anyone who finds a wall of text easier to follow when the words move. ROTTENPDF PLUS An optional subscription that removes every ad — the banners and the full-screen ones — and changes nothing else: no feature is reserved for subscribers. It is billed monthly and renews automatically until you cancel. The price is shown in the app before you subscribe, and you can cancel at any time from your App Store account. Payment is handled by Apple: we never see your payment details. NOTHING IS LOCKED Every feature works without paying: no trial that expires, no feature behind a paywall, no account. The ads are what keeps it that way, and Plus is only for those who would rather pay than see them. RottenPDF itself collects nothing about you or your documents; the ad provider collects what its own policy describes, within the choices you make. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://fedeinfe.github.io/rottenpdf-privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Listenify at none against RottenPDF's shown. Listenify also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, 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. Listenify sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days and RottenPDF sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Listenify | RottenPDF |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (20 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lb Mobil Teknoloji Ve Ticaret Limited Sirketi | Federico Infelici |
In-app purchases
Listenify
- Weekly Premium3 Days trial$9.997 Days
- Yearly Premium$49.991 Year
RottenPDF
- RottenPDF Plus$1.991 Month









