Aloud vs ReplyLingo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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 or an EPUB 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 • Books — open an EPUB without copy protection and start from any chapter • Any text you paste, from notes to your own drafts • Your reading list — import your saves from Pocket or Instapaper TWO LANGUAGES, AND IPHONE DUO • Translate a piece on your iPhone and read the original and the translation together • On iPhone Duo, the cover screen is a large player and the open display shows the page 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.
ReplyLingo
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Understand any voice message, then reply in your own voice without switching between translation apps. ReplyLingo is a voice message translator built for real conversations, not just single phrases. When someone sends you a voice message in a language you don't speak, share it with ReplyLingo to hear what they said, then record a reply in your own language and send back a natural spoken translation. No manual typing, no copying text between separate apps. WHAT REPLYLINGO DOES Voice messages are how many people actually talk to each other with friends abroad, family who speak a different language, partners, clients, and teammates. ReplyLingo handles the speech translation and audio translation work in between, turning voice notes you couldn't understand into conversations you can actually follow and join. VOICE MESSAGE TRANSLATION Share any voice message with ReplyLingo and it transcribes the speech, translates it into your language, and lets you listen to the translated audio. You get the meaning and the tone of what was said, not just a block of translated text on a screen. HOW IT WORKS Receive a voice message in another language Share it with ReplyLingo The app transcribes and translates the speech Listen to the translated message Record your reply naturally, in your own language ReplyLingo translates your reply and generates a spoken version Share the translated voice reply back to your conversation TRANSLATE AND REPLY This is where ReplyLingo goes beyond a typical audio translator. Instead of translating one message and stopping there, it helps you keep the conversation going — translating your spoken replies into natural speech in the other person's language, so things keep moving in both directions instead of stalling after one message. CONTEXT-AWARE AI TRANSLATION ReplyLingo's AI translation takes the context of the conversation into account, aiming for translations that sound like something a person would actually say rather than a stiff, word-for-word rendering. That matters more in voice messages, where tone and phrasing carry meaning that plain text can miss. KEY BENEFITS Understand voice messages in languages you don't speak Reply in your own language and have it translated to natural speech Skip copying and pasting between separate translation and messaging apps Keep conversations personal by hearing tone and intent, not just text Stay in the flow of a real conversation instead of a translation task Communicate across languages without learning a new tool for every message WHO IT'S FOR ReplyLingo supports multilingual communication for anyone who exchanges voice messages across languages: international friendships, multilingual families and couples, travelers staying in touch with locals, international students, and remote teams or freelancers working with clients abroad. CONVERSATION HISTORY Your translated messages and replies are kept in conversation history, so you can revisit past exchanges without re-translating them. WHY REPLYLINGO Most translation apps are built for typing sentences or scanning menus. ReplyLingo is built specifically around voice messages the format people already use to talk to each other so you can understand what's said and respond in kind, without breaking the conversation to manage a separate translation tool. Download ReplyLingo and start replying to voice messages in any language, in your own voice. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ReplyLingo at every 5 days against Aloud's every 2 weeks. ReplyLingo also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Aloud sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and ReplyLingo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Aloud ships an update every 2 weeks, ReplyLingo every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Aloud | ReplyLingo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fotios Avgidis | John (.) |
In-app purchases
Aloud
- Lifetime Unlock$9.99
ReplyLingo
- ReplyLingo Pro3 Days trial$4.991 Month
- ReplyLingo Pro3 Days trial$34.991 Year









