Narraloud vs Aloud
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Narraloud
Listen to any text content, including articles, documents, and books, with natural-sounding voices that run offline and ensure your privacy. Enjoy features like word-by-word highlighting, adjustable playback speed, and a sleep timer for a seamless listening experience.
- On-device natural voice narration
- Offline listening
- Privacy-focused, no data upload
- Supports articles, PDFs, EPUBs, Word docs
- Word-by-word highlighting
- Adjustable playback speed
- Sleep timer
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Listen to anything you read. The article you saved for later, the contract from work, the book you’re halfway through. Narraloud reads them to you in natural voices that live right on your device. Natural voices run on your device, so narration works offline, nothing meters your listening, and your reading stays private. Books. PDFs. Links. Even the page sitting in front of you. Import what you want to read, press play, and listen while you walk, commute, cook, work, or simply give your eyes a break. NATURAL VOICES. RIGHT ON YOUR DEVICE. Narraloud uses neural speech models that run directly on your phone. Narration works offline, on a plane, in a tunnel, anywhere, and there is no account required just to start listening. Dozens of voices across seven languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese, each reading its own language natively. Just open something and listen. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your reading is personal. Narraloud’s narration runs on your device, so your documents are never uploaded to a server just to be spoken aloud. What you read is your business. NO CREDITS. JUST LISTEN. No minute packs, no word limits, and no meter running while you listen. Press play on a twenty-hour book and hear all of it. EVERYTHING YOU READ, READY TO LISTEN Bring almost anything into Narraloud: • Send articles directly from other apps • Import PDFs, EPUBs, and Word documents • Open documents from the Files app, including your cloud drives • Paste text from anywhere • Scan printed pages with your camera Narraloud turns them into clear, natural narration. FOLLOW ALONG AS YOU LISTEN Narraloud is designed for reading with your ears without losing your place on the page. • Word-by-word highlighting follows the narration • Change playback speed anytime • Continue listening from the Lock Screen with full playback controls • Bookmark passages to come back to • Choose a voice that fits what you’re reading • Jump forward or backward • Set a sleep timer and drift off to a chapter MADE FOR MORE WAYS OF READING For some people, listening is convenient. For others, it’s how reading becomes possible. Narraloud is built with accessibility as a core part of the product: full VoiceOver support, Dynamic Type throughout the app, dyslexia-friendly and hyperlegible reading fonts, and synchronized highlighting that lets you see each word as you hear it. It’s especially useful for readers with dyslexia or low vision, people who process information better when they hear it, and anyone who’d simply rather listen. NARRALOUD PLUS Narraloud reads aloud for free, forever. Plus adds the power tools: export any document as an audiobook, get imports cleaned and structured automatically, use the full voice catalog in VoiceOver and every other app, and teach the pronunciation dictionary your names and jargon. Subscription plans include a 7-day free trial. You can also buy the Lifetime plan, own it for good, and get every feature we ship next at no extra cost. Narraloud - text to narration. Press play on your reading list. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://narraloud.com/privacy
Aloud
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Natural voices that run on your iPhone or iPad. One download, then no internet needed, no hour caps, nothing expires. Aloud Pro is $49.99 a year after a 7-day free trial, or $9.99 a month, and it reads anything: add a PDF, a Word document, an EPUB, a web page, or plain text and Aloud reads the whole thing back in a voice that sounds like a person. Share a note from the Notes app, a page from Safari, or a file from Mail and it lands in your library, ready to play. SPEED THAT IS ACTUALLY YOURS Listen from 0.5x to 5.0x in 0.1x steps. Change speed while it is playing. No chipmunk pitch, no waiting for the sentence to end. READS ALMOST ANY FILE PDF (including scanned pages), Word, PowerPoint, EPUB, OpenDocument, RTF, HTML, Markdown, plain text, and photos of text. Wrong file extension? Aloud looks at the bytes, not the name. NATURAL VOICES, NO INTERNET Pick a natural voice the first time you open Aloud: Heart, Bella, Michael, Emma, George, and more. They download once (about 120 MB) and then run right on your iPhone or iPad, on a plane, underground, anywhere. Listen as many hours as you like; nothing is metered and nothing expires. Apple's built-in voices are there too. MADE FOR iOS Share sheet, Open in Aloud, Siri and Shortcuts actions (Read Text Aloud, Read Clipboard), background playback, lock screen and AirPods controls. Tap any sentence to jump there. Aloud remembers where you stopped in every document. YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR CHOICE Without an account, nothing you read leaves your device. Sign in with Apple or Google to keep your library and the place you stopped in sync across your devices, and delete the account any time in Settings. Anonymous usage statistics and crash reports can be turned off in Settings. ALOUD PRO Aloud requires an Aloud Pro subscription: $49.99 per year (7-day free trial for new subscribers) or $9.99 per month, billed through your Apple Account and renewing automatically until cancelled. Cancel anytime in Settings, Apple Account, Subscriptions. Prices may vary by region. Privacy Policy: https://flowtechnicalsolutions.com/aloud/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Narraloud at weekly against Aloud's every 3 weeks. 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. Narraloud sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Aloud sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Narraloud ships an update weekly, Aloud every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Narraloud | Aloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (11 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 138 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Argmax | Flow Technical Solutions LLC. |
In-app purchases
Narraloud
- Weekly Plus$2.997 Days
- Monthly Plus7 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Yearly Plus7 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Lifetime Plus$79.99
Aloud
- Aloud Pro (Offer)$4.991 Month
- Aloud Pro$9.991 Month
- Aloud Pro Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year









