SuiRead vs Aloud
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SuiRead
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AI tools hand you HTML pages and Markdown notes. The web hands you articles you want to keep. SuiRead is the reader they deserve: open instantly, read comfortably, never lose your place. A REAL READER, NOT A BROWSER • First page in under a second, even for long documents • Your reading position is remembered precisely — leave anytime, resume exactly where you were • Text reflows to fit your screen; wide tables and diagrams scroll smoothly inside the page • Keep the screen awake while you read, adjust font size globally or per document COLLECT FROM ANYWHERE • Import HTML, Markdown, and TXT files from the Files app • Paste a link to read online, then save it for offline reading • Save as Reader View: extracts the article text into a clean, permanent copy • Share from Safari — pages are turned into reader views automatically READ ACTIVELY • Highlight in three colors; your notes survive app restarts and theme changes • Full-text search within any document • Table of contents sidebar for long reads • Tap images to view full screen, pinch to zoom, save to Photos MADE FOR COMFORT • Five themes: Light, Dark, Sepia, Green, and pure Black • Documents with their own design are rendered faithfully; plain pages get smart theming • Images are never inverted in dark mode • Full Dynamic Type support PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Everything stays on your device — no account, no server, no tracking • Scripts in saved web pages are sandboxed by default, with a per-document switch FREE & PRO Every reading feature is free. The free version stores up to 5 documents; a single one-time purchase unlocks unlimited documents — no subscription, ever.
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 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 • Any text you paste, from notes to your own drafts 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 in-app purchases: SuiRead at none against Aloud's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Aloud sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. SuiRead asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | SuiRead | Aloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 鸣宇 杨 | Fotios Avgidis |
In-app purchases
SuiRead
No in-app purchases
Aloud
- Lifetime Unlock$9.99









