Comparison

OpenVox Reader vs Stash

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

Head to head
About

OpenVox Reader

Transform any text into natural-sounding audio for offline listening. Import books, PDFs, documents, and web links. Choose from hundreds of voices, adjust playback speed, and save important sentences. Keep your documents private with local processing.

Highlights
  • Text to audio conversion
  • Offline listening
  • Import ebooks, PDFs, documents, web links
  • Hundreds of natural voices
  • Custom voice creation
  • Adjustable playback speed
  • Save important sentences
  • In-document search
Features
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Turn Reading Time into Listening Time OpenVox Reader transforms books, PDFs, documents, web links and text into natural-sounding audio, so you can keep reading while commuting, walking, exercising, resting or working. Import your content, choose from hundreds of voices, create your own custom voice, and listen at your preferred speed without sending your private documents to an online speech service. Listen to Almost Anything Bring all your reading into one simple library: • Import ebooks and PDFs • Add documents and text files • Save web links for listening • Scan printed pages • Paste or type text directly • Organize everything in one place OpenVox Reader can generate and play speech locally on your device, so once the required voices are downloaded, you can listen without an internet connection. Natural Voices You’ll Enjoy Choose from more than 200 voices across 30+ languages and find the voice that best suits your book, article or document. You can also create custom voices for English, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish from a short voice sample using Pocket TTS and listen to your content in a voice you choose. Listen at Your Own Pace Adjust playback from 0.5x all the way to 2.5x with smooth, pitch-preserving audio. Choose convenient presets including: • 0.5x • 1.0x • 1.5x • 2.0x • 2.5x Faster playback is supported with optimized buffering and accurate elapsed and remaining-time calculations. Save Important Sentences Found something worth coming back to? Bookmark the sentence you are currently reading and access it anytime from Saved Sentences. You can: • Save or remove sentences instantly • Browse all saved passages • Filter your saved sentences • Jump directly back to the original location • Delete bookmarks you no longer need Search Inside Your Documents Quickly find words, phrases or sections without scrolling through an entire book or document. Search in Document provides result previews and lets you jump directly to each matching location. EPUB search is optimized chapter by chapter to keep memory usage efficient even with larger books. Listen Without an Internet Connection Keep listening on flights, trains, commutes or anywhere without reliable internet access. Speech generation happens locally, allowing downloaded voices and imported content to remain available when you need them. Private by Design Your documents are processed locally for speech generation rather than being uploaded to a cloud TTS service. OpenVox Reader is built for people who want convenient AI-powered reading while keeping control of their content. Track Your Reading Journey See how much you have actually listened and keep your reading momentum going with: • Listening time • Daily and weekly progress • Reading streaks • Recently opened content • Personal listening statistics Reading time is calculated from audio that was actually spoken, giving you a accurate picture of your listening activity. Made for iPhone and iPad Use OpenVox Reader across iPhone and iPad with iCloud sync for your library. Your content stays organized across your Apple devices, and one purchase unlocks the app on both iPhone and iPad. Read More, Even When You’re Offline Whether you’re travelling, exercising, relaxing, commuting or getting work done, OpenVox Reader helps turn spare moments into meaningful reading time. Download OpenVox Reader and start listening to your reading today.

About

Stash

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You saved it because it mattered. Then it sat there. Stash gets you through it. Save an article, and Stash reads it aloud on your iPhone while you cook, commute, or walk the dog. The pile gets smaller in the hours you already have. NO METER Other readers sell you minutes. Stash has no server, so there is nothing to meter. Save two articles or two hundred. Listen to all of them. No word counts, no monthly minutes, no upgrade wall. READY BEFORE YOU ARE Audio is generated in the background the moment you save. Put in your earbuds and it is already waiting. No buffering, no spinner. WORKS WHERE PODCASTS DO NOT The reader, the voice, and the queue all live on your phone. Airplane mode, the subway, a dead zone in the hills. Nothing changes. THE QUEUE EMPTIES ITSELF Finish an article and it moves to the archive on its own. Favorite the ones you want to keep. No tidying, no ritual. NO NONSENSE No account. No onboarding. No ads. No tracking. No subscription. No limits. Download it, share an article from Safari, press play. That is the whole setup. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Stash from the share sheet, a pasted link, or plain text - Listen to a natural on-device voice, or read along with the text - Drag to reorder the queue, or send something to the top - Speed and a sleep timer. Nothing else to configure. - Export any article. It is your data. - Sync across your devices with iCloud. No iCloud? Stash still works. BUILT TO LAST We build every version as if it is the last one we will ever ship. There is no server, so nothing leaves your phone, and the Stash on your phone keeps working without us. One purchase. Every update included, including better voices when better open models land. Made by two people who wanted a read-later app that respects them. SUPPORT / FEEDBACK / CONTACT Questions or feedback? Email xoxo@lucas.love. A human reads every message. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

OpenVox Reader4 screens
Stash4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: OpenVox Reader at Free against Stash's $19.99. OpenVox Reader also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.1). Stash's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

OpenVox Reader is free to download; Stash costs $19.99 up front. OpenVox Reader sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Stash asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

OpenVox Reader ships an update every 6 days, Stash daily. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
OpenVox Reader versus Stash: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOpenVox ReaderStash
PriceFree — better$19.99
Rating4.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.1
Further details — not scored
Size200 MB155 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNitesh Kumar SharmaLucas Fischer

In-app purchases

1 purchases

OpenVox Reader

One-time1
  • OpenVox Reader Pro Lifetime$14.99
None

Stash

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is OpenVox Reader free?
OpenVox Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Stash free?
Stash costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do OpenVox Reader or Stash have ads?
Neither OpenVox Reader nor Stash shows ads.
Which is updated more often, OpenVox Reader or Stash?
OpenVox Reader ships an update every 6 days, and Stash daily. Most recently, OpenVox Reader was updated on October 6, 2026 and Stash on October 2, 2026.

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