Comparison

Aloud vs Osame

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Osame

Consolidate all your loyalty and gift cards into a digital wallet. Easily add cards by scanning or typing, track balances, and access barcodes at checkout. Securely store PINs and expiry dates, with optional expiry alerts.

Highlights
  • Add gift and loyalty cards
  • Track card balances
  • Access barcodes at checkout
  • Store PINs and expiry dates
  • Set expiry alerts
  • Organize cards into collections
  • App lock with Face ID/Touch ID
Features
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Add any gift card or loyalty card to Apple Wallet in a few taps. Osame keeps all your cards, balances and documents in one place, so you never dig through a drawer for a gift card again. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Add gift cards, loyalty cards, vouchers and memberships by scanning or typing - Add any card to Apple Wallet and design the pass with your own type, colors and fields - Show the barcode or QR code at checkout with one tap - Track balances with Update Balance and Quick Update - Keep PINs and expiry dates with each card, with the PIN hidden until you tap Reveal - Get alerts before cards expire - Store documents and travel items, and organize everything into collections - Lock the app with Face ID or Touch ID FREE AND PREMIUM Free: up to 10 cards, 5 Apple Wallet passes and 3 collections. Osame Premium unlocks unlimited cards, passes and collections. - Osame Premium Monthly: $2.99 per month - Osame Premium Annual: $19.99 per year Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple ID account settings. Terms of Use: https://cardwallet-cd6df.web.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://cardwallet-cd6df.web.app/privacy Support: support@osameapp.com

Screenshots

Aloud4 screens
Osame4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Aloud at free against Osame's freemium. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Aloud sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Osame sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Aloud against 5.0 for Osame. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Aloud ships an update every 2 weeks, Osame fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Aloud versus Osame: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAloudOsame
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFotios AvgidisBen Yeger

Customer experience

Aloud

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Osame

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Aloud

One-time1
  • Lifetime Unlock$9.99
2 purchases

Osame

Subscriptions2
  • Osame Premium$2.991 Month
  • Osame Premium$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Aloud free?
Aloud is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Osame free?
Osame is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Aloud or Osame?
Aloud and Osame are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Aloud or Osame have ads?
Neither Aloud nor Osame shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Aloud or Osame?
Aloud ships an update every 2 weeks, and Osame fortnightly. Most recently, Aloud was updated on October 29, 2026 and Osame on October 31, 2026.

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