Speak vs Easy Text to Speech Reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Speak
Transform typed text into spoken words with customizable voice settings. This app offers a modern interface, adjustable pitch and rate, and the ability to save favorite phrases. It's designed to be accessible and can even help users who have lost their ability to speak.
- Adjustable volume, pitch, and rate
- Change accent/language
- Save favorite phrases
- Specify phrase repetition count
- Share audio recordings
- Background audio playback
- Offline functionality
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Speak turns your words into clear, natural speech. Many of Speak's users have lost their ability to speak, often after surgery, and Speak helps give them a voice again. It's also great for practising pronunciation, or just having fun with voices. Features • Lots of voices: Choose from every voice installed on your device, including Enhanced, Premium and Personal Voice. Search by language, name or region, and preview any voice with one tap. • Fine-tune the sound: Adjust volume, pitch and rate, and repeat a phrase as many times as you need. • Favourites: Save the phrases you use most and reorder them however you like. • History: Every phrase you speak is saved, so you can speak it again or share it. You can also export your history as a CSV file. • Share audio recordings: Turn any phrase into an audio file and share it anywhere. • Make it yours: Light or Dark appearance, a high-contrast text field, and options for how Speak behaves when you type, speak and clear. • Picks up where you left off: Optionally restore your text, voice, pitch, rate and repeat count when you open the app. • Keeps talking in the background: Speech keeps playing while your device is locked or you're using another app. • Louder with Bluetooth: Connect a Bluetooth speaker or headphones to make your voice heard even further. • Works everywhere: No internet connection needed. Supports VoiceOver and iPad multitasking. Quick Tip: If a word doesn't sound quite right, try spelling it phonetically. Speak is free with ads. You can remove them with a single in-app purchase in Settings to support development. Have fun! Feel free to email me with any suggestions or comments at loic@loic.tech. If you find Speak useful, please take a moment to leave a quick review!
Easy Text to Speech Reader
This app reads text aloud from typed input, imported files, or web links. Customize voice, speed, and pitch for a personalized listening experience. It remembers your progress and allows listening while using other apps or with a locked screen.
- Reads text from typing, files, or web links
- Supports 19 file types
- 152 voices in 50+ languages
- Customizable playback speed and pitch
- Highlights current word
- Background playback and screen lock support
- Saves reading progress
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Easy Text to Speech Reader lets you type, paste, or import text and instantly hear it read aloud. Choose from 152 voices in 50+ languages, or create your own custom voices from a short audio clip. INSTANT VOICE CLONING Instantly clone a voice using just 5 seconds of audio 100% locally / completely on your device. Unlimited amount of cloned voices can be saved (in the "My Voices" section). 152 VOICES IN 50+ LANGUAGES Choose from a huge selection of voices across more than 50 languages, including premium, standard, and fun voices. READ TEXT & DOCUMENTS Type or paste text directly into the app, or import 19 different file types: .pdf / .txt / .doc / .docx / .pages / .rtf / .md / .epub / .mobi / .azw / .azw3 / .fb2 / .lit / .pdb / .prc / .djvu / .cbr / .cbz / .csv READ WEBPAGES Paste in a webpage link and Easy Text to Speech Reader will read the webpage for you. CUSTOMIZE YOUR LISTENING EXPERIENCE • Adjust playback speed and pitch • Automatically center and highlight the word currently being read • Listen while using other apps • Continue listening with your screen locked • Your text and reading position are saved when you close and reopen the app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Easy Text to Speech Reader at none against Speak's 1. Easy Text to Speech Reader also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Speak's advantage is ratings volume (3.4K vs 3) and review sentiment (76% vs 61%). 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. Speak sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Easy Text to Speech Reader asks for nothing beyond the download.
Easy Text to Speech Reader holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Speak has 3.4K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 76% of Speak's written reviews are positive against 61% of Easy Text to Speech Reader's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Speak ships an update every 4 months, Easy Text to Speech Reader weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Speak | Easy Text to Speech Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (3.4K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.3% of reviews — better | 61.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3.4K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 231 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Loic Verrall | Jerome Pullen |
Customer experience
Speak
Easy Text to Speech Reader
Bugs and requests
Speak
Reported bugs
3 issues- Recording feature not working
- Crashes or stops working after updates
- Inconsistent behavior across devices
Requested features
6 requests- Ability to save and export recordings
- Pause and resume speech functionality
- More voice options, including Siri-like voices
- Highlight or follow along with text during playback
- Ability to copy text from app to other apps
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- Sync text and history across devices
Easy Text to Speech Reader
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Speak
- Remove Ads$1.99
Easy Text to Speech Reader
No in-app purchases
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