AnyToSpeech vs Aloud
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AnyToSpeech
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Turn anything into speech. AnyToSpeech reads your text, PDFs and photos aloud in natural AI voices, and now writes songs and makes podcasts too. Listen • Text to Speech: paste or type anything and hear it in a natural voice. Save it as audio and listen later. • Scan to Speech: snap a page from a book, your notes, a worksheet or a letter, and hear it read in seconds. • PDF Reader: turn any PDF into an audiobook. It reads page by page and keeps playing in the background. • Translate: point your camera at a menu, sign or document and hear it in your language. 1,100+ Natural Voices & fun characters • Choose from more than 1,100 voices across 70+ languages and accents. • Preview any voice with one tap before you use it. • Fun character voices: pirates, wizards, robots, Santa and dozens more. Create with your own voice • Voice Cloning: read three short prompts and speak any text in your own voice. • Podcast Generator: two AI hosts talk through any topic, your photos, a PDF or your own script. • Music Generator: describe a song in one sentence and get lyrics, vocals and a beat. Try your first song free. Practice and improve • Pronunciation: read a passage and get an instant score with tips to improve. • Accent and Singing: get scored on your accent, and on your singing pitch, rhythm and range. Transcribe • Turn recordings, YouTube videos and podcasts into text, and translate them. All in one place • Everything you create is saved in your Library, ready to play, download or share. • The app is available in 11 languages. Great for • Students reviewing notes and textbooks • Commuters catching up on articles and documents • Readers with dyslexia, low vision or reading fatigue • Language learners practicing listening and pronunciation • Creators making voiceovers, podcasts and songs Free to Start AnyToSpeech is free to download and use, with daily limits. Upgrade to AnyToSpeech Pro for longer texts and PDFs of any length, every premium voice, voice cloning, the podcast generator and more. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION AnyToSpeech Pro is available as a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings at any time. Terms of Use: https://anytospeech.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://anytospeech.com/privacy
Aloud
Convert any readable content into spoken audio with natural-sounding voices. Save articles, PDFs, or pasted text to listen to later, even offline. Customize playback speed and enjoy a private, ad-free listening experience.
- Convert articles, PDFs, and text to speech
- On-device voice generation for privacy
- Offline listening support
- Adjustable playback speed (0.5x to 3x)
- Hands-free autoplay and lock-screen controls
- Save and organize content for later
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No subscription. No ads. No tracking. Nothing you read ever leaves your iPhone. Aloud turns anything you can read into something you can listen to. Share an article from any browser, open a PDF or an EPUB from Files, or paste any text — Aloud reads it aloud in a natural voice, sentence by sentence, with your place kept perfectly. FOR THE READING LIST YOU NEVER GET TO Saving articles is easy; finding an hour to sit and read them is not. Aloud turns that pile into something you get through on the commute, the walk, the washing-up — so you keep up with the world without giving up an evening. Turn on autoplay and it announces the next piece and keeps going, hands free. AND FASTER, IF YOU WANT IT Read from 0.5× to 3× without the voice turning into a chipmunk, and switch on Shorten Pauses to trim the silence at every full stop. At 2× a thirty-minute article fits a fifteen-minute walk. The voices are generated entirely on your iPhone. There is no server doing the talking, which is why Aloud never needs an account, never meters your listening, and keeps working in airplane mode. Each voice downloads its model once — about 190 MB for the English voices, about 390 MB for the one that reads the other thirty languages — and after that, the internet is optional. LISTEN TO ANYTHING • Web articles — share from any browser or paste a link, Aloud extracts just the story • PDFs — including scanned ones, recognized on-device • Books — open an EPUB without copy protection and start from any chapter • Any text you paste, from notes to your own drafts • Your reading list — import your saves from Pocket or Instapaper TWO LANGUAGES, AND IPHONE DUO • Translate a piece on your iPhone and read the original and the translation together • On iPhone Duo, the cover screen is a large player and the open display shows the page A READER, NOT A MEDIA PLAYER • The sentence being spoken is lit; the rest of the page waits quietly • A margin rail shows the whole document — hold and slide to scrub • Your position is saved the moment it changes, per document • A speed dial from 0.5× to 3×, and time remaining that respects it • A sleep timer that fades out instead of cutting you off mid-word • Reader mode: hide the player, lift the whole page, read with your eyes • Find in article, and your choice of size, font, paper and column width MADE FOR LISTENING ON THE MOVE • Keeps reading with the screen locked • Lock-screen and AirPods controls: play, pause, skip 15 seconds • Optional autoplay: when a piece ends, Aloud announces the next and keeps reading • Two shelves — to read, and read — each sorted your way by date, length, or title, with search across titles and sites • An optional unread count on the app icon • Your place remembered in everything FOURTEEN NATURAL VOICES Ten US and UK English voices with real warmth, and four voices that read thirty more languages — all generated on your iPhone. Anything else falls back to the system voice that speaks it. Audition any voice with a tap. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE Once a voice is on your iPhone, Aloud makes no network requests to read to you. Articles are fetched by your phone the way a browser would, the voice models download once from a public host, and everything after that — extraction, speech, your library, your listening history — stays on the device. The App Privacy label says "Data Not Collected" because there is nowhere to collect it to. ONE PURCHASE, YOURS FOREVER Aloud is free to try: the shelf holds three pieces, with every feature included — the natural voices, PDFs and scans, the lock-screen player, all of it. A single purchase lets the shelf hold as many pieces as you like, forever. No subscription, nothing recurring, and your listening is never metered either way. If you read with your ears — long articles, research papers, contracts, fan fiction, your own writing — Aloud was built for you. And if you rely on spoken text every day, we would especially love to hear what you need next.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Aloud at every 2 weeks against AnyToSpeech's every 2 months. AnyToSpeech's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 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. AnyToSpeech sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and Aloud sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
AnyToSpeech ships an update every 2 months, Aloud every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | AnyToSpeech | Aloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Danial Noori | Fotios Avgidis |
In-app purchases
AnyToSpeech
- AnyToSpeech Pro Monthly$7.991 Month
- AnyToSpeech Pro Yearly$49.991 Year
Aloud
- Lifetime Unlock$9.99









