Comparison

Local TTS vs Orbital Focus

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

Head to head
About

Local TTS

This app converts text into lifelike speech using on-device processing. It supports various file formats, including PDFs and Word documents, and allows scanning printed pages. Enjoy offline playback with customizable voices and background audio controls.

Highlights
  • 100% offline text-to-speech
  • Import PDF, EPUB, Word, TXT, Markdown
  • Scan printed pages with camera (OCR)
  • Background playback with lock screen controls
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Adjustable playback speed
  • Word-by-word highlighting
Features
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Local TTS turns any text into natural speech with 38 neural voices, powered by the open-source Kokoro-82M and Supertonic 3 engines — 100% offline, right on your iPhone or iPad. Listen to PDFs, e-books, articles, scans, and notes with no internet, no account, and no tracking. Nothing ever leaves your device. TWO OPEN-SOURCE NEURAL ENGINES • Kokoro-82M: 28 natural American and British English voices • Supertonic 3: multilingual voices that read 31 languages, with automatic language detection • Every voice runs entirely on your device — it even works in airplane mode ALL 31 LANGUAGES English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Hungarian, Greek, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Turkish, Arabic, Hindi, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Korean. READ FROM ALMOST ANYTHING • Files: import PDF, EPUB, Word (DOCX), TXT, and Markdown • Paper: scan a printed page with the camera, or read text from a photo — on-device OCR • Everything else: paste text or type your own notes A READING VIEW THAT FOLLOWS ALONG • Word-by-word highlighting synced to the audio • Immersive mode: the toolbar and player tuck away while you listen — or pin the player • Make it yours: choose the reading font and text size • Search inside a document, jump from the PDF table of contents, and pick up right where you left off • Natural delivery: dates, units, and Roman numerals are read the way people actually say them MADE FOR LISTENING • Background playback with lock screen and Control Center controls • Adjustable playback speed • A different voice for each note, plus tags to keep things organized • Private iCloud sync across iPhone and iPad FREE PLAN • One Supertonic 3 multilingual voice that reads all 31 languages • Three premium Kokoro-82M English voices • Read up to 500 characters per note • No account required — and no ads, ever GO PRO — UNLOCK EVERYTHING • Unlimited text: paste or import with no 500-character cap • The full catalog of all 38 neural voices • Export speech as M4A audio files to play anywhere, on any device • Full multi-page PDF import • Still 100% offline and private, even with Pro SUPPORTED DEVICES On-device neural speech needs a recent chip, so Local TTS requires: • iPhone 12 or later • iPad (10th generation) or later • iPad Air (4th generation) or later • iPad mini (6th generation) or later • iPad Pro (M1, 2021) or later • iOS / iPadOS 18.6 or later Download Local TTS and turn every screen into your personal narrator. • Contact: support@richsoft.app • Privacy Policy: https://richsoft.app/tts/privacy • Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Orbital Focus

This app transforms focus sessions into space missions, with longer focus times leading to higher orbits. It features customizable missions, a living 3D Earth visualization, and gamified progress tracking. Optional app blocking and ambient soundscapes enhance concentration.

Highlights
  • Themed focus sessions with space mission progression
  • Living 3D Earth visualization with real-time data
  • Gamified progress tracking with ranks and rewards
  • Optional app blocking for distraction-free work
  • Ambient focus music and soundscapes
  • Live Activities and Apple Watch companion app
Features
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Your attention is the most powerful engine you own. Orbital Focus turns every focus session into a rocket launch — pick a destination, strap in, and the only way to arrive is to stay on task. The longer you focus, the higher you fly. A 15-minute warm-up is a suborbital hop. 25 minutes is one clean orbit of Earth. A focused hour parks you in geostationary orbit, 35,786 km up. Push past 90 minutes and you leave Earth orbit entirely. Every minute is real thrust. HOW A MISSION WORKS • Pick a destination — a 15-minute Suborbital Hop, 25-minute Low Earth Orbit, a 45-minute rendezvous with Station Aurora, a full hour in High Earth Orbit, or a 90-minute Deep Space run to lunar distance. Each is a fixed block of focus. • Name your payload (the thing you're actually doing) and choose a crew role — Work, Study, Read, Create, Code, Write, Train, Plan, Chores, or Relax. • Feel the countdown. A cinematic haptic launch ritual — ignition rumble, Max-Q, stage separation — marks the real milestones of your session. • Fly a living 3D Earth. Watch your spacecraft climb its true trajectory over a hand-rendered planet with daylight, city lights, and every flight you've ever flown. • Coast phases = built-in breaks. Long missions split into burn segments with short coasts between them — pomodoro, in orbital mechanics. Fully configurable, or fly one unbroken burn. THE HANGAR Every focused minute earns Δv. Spend it across a fleet of real rockets — from the workhorse Falcon 9 to the mighty Falcon Heavy — and upgrade engines, tanks, and avionics. Launch from seven real-world pads: Cape Canaveral, Vandenberg, Baikonur, Kourou, Tanegashima, Wenchang, and Starbase. Premium also unlocks an exotic collection of legendary sci-fi capital ships, for pilots who want to fly something out of a movie. A LOYALTY PROGRAM FOR YOUR ATTENTION Climb six ranks, Cadet to Mission Commander, by logging real focus time. Ranks unlock new destinations and craft. Your lifetime distance is measured in light-seconds — and it only ever goes up. LAUNCH LOCKDOWN Optional app blocking powered by Apple's Screen Time. While a mission is in flight, your chosen distracting apps are shielded. Leave early and you don't crash — re-entries and pad scrubs still bank partial credit. Orbital Focus never punishes you for being human. THE CUPOLA Look out the window. Stream real satellite imagery of the world passing beneath your spacecraft — a live view from orbit, in flight. FOCUS MUSIC Download ambient flight-deck soundscapes on demand and cache them for offline sessions. Deep Space pilots can also pick a station skin — five orbital outposts to fly past. MISSION REPLAYS Scrub through recreated historic launches — Sputnik 1, Vostok 1, Crew Dragon Demo-2, the Space Shuttle and more — and watch them fly out on the same living globe. EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK Live Activities on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. An Apple Watch companion that flies on your wrist. Home Screen and Control Center widgets. Share your mission to a TV or the big screen. STREAKS, ACHIEVEMENTS, LOGBOOK Daily launch streaks, 16 achievements, and a full flight logbook with charts of where your hours actually go. ORBITAL FOCUS PREMIUM (optional) The core app is free, forever. Premium adds the live Cupola view, Advanced Insights and your full Flight Log, exclusive craft and destinations, and alternate app icons. Subscribe monthly or yearly, or unlock it once for life. Your focus minutes always bank — free or Premium. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads in the app. We never sell your data. Every mission record lives on your device, and Screen Time data never leaves your phone. Built for students, makers, writers, engineers, and anyone with ADHD-adjacent attention who needs the session to feel like it matters. Wheels stop. Mission complete. Fly again tomorrow. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Local TTS4 screens
Orbital Focus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Orbital Focus at 5.0 against Local TTS's 4.6. Orbital Focus also leads on review sentiment (89% vs 80%) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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

Both are free to download. Local TTS sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Orbital Focus sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Orbital Focus holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 14 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Local TTS's written reviews are positive against 89% of Orbital Focus's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Local TTS ships an update weekly, Orbital Focus every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Local TTS versus Orbital Focus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLocal TTSOrbital Focus
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (10 ratings)5.0 (14 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews88.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1014 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.618.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size529 MB301 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRich Soft Co., LtdRed Honey LLC

Customer experience

Local TTS

All ratings9 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

Orbital Focus

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Local TTS

Subscriptions1
  • Local TTS Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
One-time1
  • Local TTS Pro Lifetime$19.99
3 purchases

Orbital Focus

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Yearly$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • LifetimeFree

Questions

Is Local TTS free?
Local TTS is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Orbital Focus free?
Orbital Focus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Local TTS or Orbital Focus?
Orbital Focus is rated higher. Local TTS averages 4.6 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Orbital Focus averages 5.0 from 14 ratings.
Do Local TTS or Orbital Focus have ads?
Neither Local TTS nor Orbital Focus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Local TTS or Orbital Focus?
Local TTS ships an update weekly, and Orbital Focus every 2 weeks. Most recently, Local TTS was updated on October 24, 2026 and Orbital Focus on October 24, 2026.

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