Comparison

Text To Speech vs Simple Voice Reader

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

Head to head
About

Text To Speech

Features
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Turn anything you need to read into something you can listen to. Text to Speech AI Reader helps you convert text, PDFs, scans, photos, links, clipboard text, notes, and audio into a clean listening library. Use natural narration, word highlighting, speed controls, and background playback to finish long content while you walk, commute, study, or focus. WHY YOU’LL LIKE IT • Listen to articles, notes, documents, and saved text • Import from PDFs, photos, scans, links, clipboard, and audio • Use OCR to turn images and scanned pages into readable text • Follow along with word highlighting while audio plays • Choose system voices or premium natural voices • Control playback speed for studying, focus, or quick review • Keep a personal library of everything you want to hear • Resume where you left off with playback progress • Use background listening controls while doing other things BUILT FOR REAL READING Text to Speech AI Reader is useful when your reading list gets too long, when a PDF feels heavy, when you want to review notes before an exam, or when you simply prefer listening instead of staring at a screen. Paste text, scan a page, import a PDF, add a link, or transcribe audio. The app turns it into a listenable item you can replay anytime. PREMIUM VOICES Upgrade to unlock premium narration for a smoother, more natural listening experience across long articles, notes, and documents. Perfect for: • Students • Readers • Busy professionals • Language learners • People who prefer audio • Anyone with too much to read Make your reading list feel lighter. Listen instead.

About

Simple Voice Reader

Features
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Simple Voice Reader is a free text-to-speech app for iPhone and iPad that reads pasted or typed text, TXT files, RTF files, and PDFs aloud. Open supported documents from Files, use the import button, or drag text and files directly into the reader on iPad. American English Apple system voices work immediately. For the best Apple voice quality, download Apple's free Enhanced and Premium voices in Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content > Voices > English. On compatible iOS 26 devices, you can also download an optional American English Kokoro voice pack with Heart and 19 other natural voices. The pack is about 170 MB, downloads once from Apple, and can be removed at any time. Use Simple Voice Reader when you want to listen instead of read: long articles, notes, drafts, manuals, study material, book chapters, accessibility material, or anything else you can paste or import. Choose a voice, adjust speed, change the reading font and size, start from the cursor, pause and resume, and follow the highlighted words as the reader moves through the text. Apple speech continues when the app moves to the background or the screen locks, with pause, resume, and stop controls on the Lock Screen and in Control Center. If Kokoro cannot continue because the device needs more memory or the app moves to the background, reading continues with the selected Apple voice. Privacy: text-to-speech conversion with Apple and Kokoro voices is performed on the user's device. Simple Voice Reader does not send text, documents, or spoken audio to Walter Claw Software or to a cloud text-to-speech service. iOS may contact Apple only to download system voice assets and the optional Apple-hosted Kokoro voice pack selected by the user. Simple Voice Reader is free. No account, purchase, or subscription is required.

Screenshots

Text To Speech4 screens
Simple Voice Reader2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Simple Voice Reader at 3 against Text To Speech's 1. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Text To Speech ships an update weekly, Simple Voice Reader every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Text To Speech versus Simple Voice Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText To SpeechSimple Voice Reader
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPavel HedzkoWalter Claw Software LLC

In-app purchases

None

Text To Speech

No in-app purchases

None

Simple Voice Reader

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Text To Speech free?
Text To Speech is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Simple Voice Reader free?
Simple Voice Reader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Text To Speech or Simple Voice Reader have ads?
Neither Text To Speech nor Simple Voice Reader shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Text To Speech or Simple Voice Reader?
Text To Speech ships an update weekly, and Simple Voice Reader every 9 days. Most recently, Text To Speech was updated on September 25, 2026 and Simple Voice Reader on October 9, 2026.

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