Speakify Reader vs Yomiage
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Speakify Reader
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Speakify is a reading and listening app for books, novels, PDFs and audiobooks — with natural read-aloud in your language, and a cat companion who listens along with you. Discover thousands of free classics and serial novels, or bring your own: PDFs, EPUBs, web articles, pasted text and scanned pages. Read them in a clean, beautiful reader, or have any of it read aloud. READ OR LISTEN • Natural read-aloud for any book, with sentence highlighting • A distraction-free reader with real page turns, themes and adjustable type • Import PDFs, EPUBs, web pages, pasted text or scanned pages • Thousands of free books, novels, comics and audiobooks • Tap a word to look it up and keep your own word list • Sleep timer and offline downloads A CAT WHO LISTENS WITH YOU • Adopt a cat companion — it listens with you and grows closer with every session • Listening earns coins, food and Word-Light, which brings a faded world back to colour • Follow the stolen pages through an 8-act story adventure, voiced in 10 languages • Walk a living town, open shops run by the bosses you free, and find hidden places • Build a squad of up to three cats for hunts, the Trial Tower, challenges and the Arena • Collect cats of every element and rarity, gear them up and send them on missions AND MORE • Back up your account with Sign in with Apple or Google • Daily rewards, streaks and collectibles • Available in 10 languages Speakify Premium unlocks unlimited serial chapters and removes ads. You can also unlock single chapters with coins. Terms of Use: https://wgbk.github.io/speakify/terms-of-use.html Privacy Policy: https://wgbk.github.io/speakify/privacy-policy.html
Yomiage
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Listen to PDFs, EPUB books, Word files and web articles with every core reading tool included at no cost: no account, no ads, no tracking. Follow along as each sentence is highlighted, search and bookmark passages, and keep listening through long documents. Core reading runs on your device and works offline. A note on voices: Yomiage reads with the voices built into your iPhone. For the most natural sound, download an Enhanced or Premium voice in Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content > Voices. (Siri voices can't be used by third-party apps.) ■ READ YOUR DOCUMENTS ALOUD • PDFs with selectable text, EPUB, DOCX and TXT. Scanned or photographed pages aren't supported (no OCR) • Web articles: paste a URL, or share from Safari and other apps • Sentence-by-sentence highlighting that follows the voice • Speed, pitch and pauses between paragraphs • Sleep timer (5–60 minutes) for commutes, chores and bedtime • Multi-part documents play continuously • Full-text search and bookmarks • English and Japanese voices are chosen automatically from the document's language • Drama Mode reads dialogue and narration in different voices • Touch and hold a word to set how it should be pronounced ■ LISTEN & PRACTICE: AUDIO AND VIDEO PLAYER Import mp3 / wav / m4a / mp4 / mov for listening practice: • A-B repeat for any passage you choose • Waveform scrubbing to jump back instantly • Speed presets • A mini player that keeps playing while you move around the app • Lock screen and headphone controls, background playback ■ LEARNING JAPANESE? 17,000+ CLASSICS BUILT IN Browse and download public-domain Japanese literature from the built-in Aozora Bunko catalog (Natsume Sōseki, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Kenji Miyazawa and more). The texts are in Japanese; their furigana is used to choose readings. ■ HANDS-FREE AND ACCESSIBLE • Siri and Shortcuts to play and continue • Spotlight search for your documents (you can turn it off) • VoiceOver and Dynamic Type support • An alternative for people who prefer listening because of dyslexia, eye strain or low vision • Split view and keyboard shortcuts on iPad ■ PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account or sign-in, no ads, no behavioral data collection, no tracking • No third-party SDKs • Imported documents are read with on-device iOS voices Importing a web article needs an internet connection. Optional AI features send the text you choose to the provider whose API key you set up, only after you agree, and you can withdraw consent at any time. ■ YOMIAGE PREMIUM (OPTIONAL, AUTO-RENEWING SUBSCRIPTION) Everything above works without Premium. Premium unlocks integrations for people who already have OpenAI or Speechify API access: • Text cleanup, chapter insights and summaries, using your own OpenAI API key • Cloud voices, emotion styles and MP3 export, using your own Speechify API key Important: Premium includes no AI credits, API access or cloud voice time. Those providers bill you separately, and without your own API key the Premium features won't work. Premium is offered monthly or yearly. The price for your region is shown in the app before you buy. ■ SUBSCRIPTION TERMS • Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews at the same price unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Manage or cancel any time in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. • Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ • Privacy Policy: https://legal-pages-hiros-projects-fdd12c60.vercel.app/privacy#tts-reader-en
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Yomiage at none against Speakify Reader's 7. Yomiage also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 weeks). Speakify Reader's advantage is iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.0). On price 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. Speakify Reader sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Yomiage asks for nothing beyond the download.
Speakify Reader ships an update every 6 weeks, Yomiage every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Speakify Reader | Yomiage |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 150 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Doan Quoc Khanh | hiroyuki matsuzaki |
In-app purchases
Speakify Reader
- Premium Weekly$4.997 Days
- Premium Monthly$12.991 Month
- Premium Yearly7 Days trial$79.991 Year
- 550 Coins (500 + 50 bonus)$4.99
- 1,200 Coins (+200 bonus)$9.99
- 2,600 Coins (+600 bonus)$19.99
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- 7,000 Coins (+2,000 bonus)$49.99
Yomiage
No in-app purchases









