Speechify alternatives

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Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R1] Speechify 1/5 · US Long Intro to Payment: It was annoying to waste 5 minutes and create an account before I could see the payment required.
2. [R7] Speechify 1/5 · US This is a JOKE: So you buy speechify then you have to buy each and every other thing or book you want it to read !! NOT WORTH IT! Way to MONEY Hungry! And good luck trying to cancel your membership! There’s NO PLACE TO CANCEl! And there is NOT 24/7 help! Nobody answers
3. [R11] Speechify 5/5 · US Reclamo: Me cobraron una multa de 148 premium que yo no autorice
4. [R12] Speechify 3/5 · US Poor service: I purchased this, app used it maybe 5 times to try it out. They bill me & I try to contact no # only email won’t give refunds they try to keep by give you a reduced rate. I don’t use your app at this point just stop charging me. UPDATE: I got a refund app is cool but they need to expand that library I wanted to use it for Mgmnt books very limited
5. [R10] Speechify 1/5 · US I want my money back!!: The ads you see on tv are so misleading. You cannot submit a book cover and have it read the book. You need to scan each page with your camera. You also need to buy the book on their website.
6. [R16] Speechify 1/5 · US Misleading: I'm getting a lot older than when I purchased many books. I believed that I could take a photo of a book I already owned and it would allow the app to read it. I was charged for buying the book. And it only gave me 2 chapters. I was already into chapter 7. APP advertises are extremely misleading. Cancelling immediately.
7. [R18] Speechify 3/5 · US This app wasn’t the greatest: First off the app recommend you open the app. It gives you multiple things to buy, which I obviously declined. I don’t have money😭 then after that while I tried to read my book, it makes me buy the book. Even though I had a physical copy right there. I was reading a wrinkle in time and it was a great book, I just used it to read for like 8 minutes then 8.99 dollar for
8. [R22] Speechify 1/5 · US Wasted money: I was disappointed to discover that this app doesn't read books just by scanning the cover. Instead, you have to purchase the book in the app. I already own the books and simply wanted to listen to them in the background while I worked. Unfortunately, that’s not how the app works. I wish I had not signed up for the annual subscription. This app is a joke and a waste of time and mon
9. [R4] Speechify 1/5 · US They’ve wrecked it: App always use to work fine I’ve been using for 2+ years but with the last update you they’ve made it impossible to delete files so i can’t add any new files UPDATE: THE PROBLEM IS THE AI, turn off ai enhancement for the auto skip option in the settings
10. [R14] Speechify 4/5 · US Issues: I’ve had this app for about a year. Today for the first time, I hear an audio distortion every couple of pages that goes on for several lines.
11. [R33] Speechify 2/5 · US The scan didn’t work: Every time I wanted to read my book it didn’t work with the scam I pressed to read the text and it didn’t work.
12. [R35] Speechify 1/5 · US Terrible product: Often glitches and pauses despite strong wifi connection. I signed up for a free trial and was automatically charged for a year subscription.
13. [R5] Speechify 4/5 · US Fabulous! except for one small thing: I do love this app. I second everything others rave about. However, there is a glitch that makes me crazy. The software reads the name “Al,” short for Albert, as two letters “A” and “I”, as in Artificial Intelligence. I wish there was an option to change the “pronunciation” of something that the program really messes up.
14. [R6] Speechify 3/5 · US Decent But Not Great: AI tools are nice but not precise. - Numerous pronunciation errors with common words. - Scan tool is cool but processing takes too much time. Basically, scan some pages, go to bed, wake up, eat breakfast, go to work, come home and listen to one of them. Go to bed, wake up, eat breakfast, go to work, listen to another page. - Free book collection is fair. Some dec
15. [R13] Speechify 1/5 · US Very disappointed: I’m sorry, but this app is not great. I have tried it twice now and I was disappointed both times. If the pages are thin, it picks up the pages from the opposite side and reads them backwards. The free voices are very flat and monotone and the paid version is very expensive.
16. [R15] Speechify 3/5 · US Small Selection: I was disappointed that the books I tried to use with the app weren’t available. Not worth the money if I can’t use it for all books.
17. [R3] Speechify 3/5 · US Sign in: i love how we can save our progress but im in Middle school and cant use an email or google account because its my schools and its restricted i wouldve loved to use this app
18. [R25] Speechify 2/5 · US Worst onboarding experience: 15 minute unskippable onboarding with invasive questions, like asking if I have learning disabilities or mental disorders. Required to make an account. Dark patterns designed to make you think you need to pay a subscription, and if that doesn’t work they include AGGRESSIVE REPETITIVE pop ups meant to wear you down and “oh wait here’s a gift for you, 95% off the first m
19. [R45] Speechify 2/5 · US Mandatory tutorial is tedious and annoying.: The absence of a skip button for annoying celebrity introductions and welcome speeches is a waste of time for people who just want to hear their own work in a different voice.
20. [R37] Speechify 1/5 · US AI read books: The only voice I seem to be able to get is Samantha. She sounds exactly like AI and speaks too fast even at the slowest speed having her read a book is useless with her fast, nasal toneless voice. It appears if you want a decent voice you have to pay a month monthly fee. Unless you want to do this, don’t bother to download books unless you intend to read them and not listen to them
21. [R51] Text to Speech! 2/5 · US Glitchy already: I just downloaded this app cause of surgery so I can “talk” still and it’s already glitching out and making my keys stick
22. [R52] Text to Speech! 4/5 · US Too simple: Its a great app but its much too simple
23. [R53] Text to Speech! 3/5 · US Inconvenient to use: The app needs refinement regarding its UI settings and core functionality. Currently, you cannot copy text from the 'Starred' section. This is a major inconvenience because it prevents me from backing up or transferring important data before the app's auto-delete function triggers. Having to manually transcribe text that should be copyable is frustrating
24. [R54] Text to Speech! 1/5 · US Ads: Annoying ads not good quality software but doesn’t say yeah very well
25. [R65] Voice Aloud Reader 1/5 · US Bait & Switch Scam: I THOUGHT I was buying a pay-once product. But the voice for that product is a sub-1980s robo voice. Unlistenable. To get a better quality voice, you have to make a SECOND purchase, and that is for a SUBSCRIPTION. The app should be banned from the App Store.
26. [R66] Voice Aloud Reader 5/5 · US Es lo máximo: La amo me solucionó la vida tengo un montón de libros en pdf y ahora los puedo escuchar mientras hago otros labores wow mil estrellas lastima q solo puedo darle 5 🫶🏻
27. [R67] Voice Aloud Reader 3/5 · US Amazing yet infuriating: There is a character limit for premium voices that makes this amazing app worthless. It harms my productivity when I have to wait a week just to get my voices back. Frankly, I feel cheated. Why an I paying for this if I keep getting cut off without options?
28. [R68] Voice Aloud Reader 1/5 · US Frustrated!: I purchased the ability to use premium voices for $9.99, and I’ve tried everything to change from the horrible robot voice and nothing works. I also can’t contact support for help! Cancelling this one!
29. [R79] Voice Dream 1/5 · US Freezes in MacOS-Cannot Install: The installation stops at the enhanced voices window. And then there is a menu box at the top that says “Type to Speak”. The only way that I could get rid of that is by installing a new MacOS version. I still have not been able to install this application on my Mac computer. I don’t know what’s gonna happen when I try to install Voice Nightmare! Help!
30. [R80] Voice Dream 4/5 · US I have loved this app for years but recently: Since they added AI voices and AI features into the app, even though I’m not using them, using Voice Dream makes my phone heat up intensely and eats through my battery very quickly (and sometimes it’s so hot that it won’t let me charge the battery until it cools down - and this is on a iphone that’s only about a year old! I can’t imagine how it would w
31. [R81] Voice Dream 3/5 · US Defining a word is one tap away too many: When reading books, it’s fairly common to learn about new words. Now you can get the definition by tap and holding on to the word, “tapping >”, the tapping define. The define shouldn’t be on the second set of commands. The quoted step should be eliminated to define a word which is a very common and important task when reading a book. Currently, the first
32. [R82] Voice Dream 1/5 · US Early adopter- punished: I paid for lifetime access prior to the integration of AI and now the voice I paid for does not work anymore. Waste of money
33. [R93] Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader 2/5 · US It’s ok: When I put my pictures in, it reads it for me like perfectly, but it like messes up the words so it would be like skipping over words and making up random words
34. [R94] Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader 5/5 · US Doesn’t work with assistive touch: Face ID haptic on successful purchase through Irene’s store (broken)
35. [R95] Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader 3/5 · US Great product, but has some glitches: Generally works really great, but once in a while, it glitches and gets stuck in a thinking mode. Or sometimes it does an indefinite pause between pasted paragraphs. These are frustrations, which makes the product less than ideal. I also wish that it was smart enough to recognize but notes and end note when they document pasted, it would not read those numbers
36. [R96] Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader 1/5 · US This should be simple: I dislike all the questions
37. [R107] ElevenReader 1/5 · US What is free?: Every time I try to open a book, it won’t play even the ones that say is 0.00. All I get is a Preview reminding me to download a PDF. And the screen that pops up it says I can try it Free but then it’s 99.99 Perhaps it’s operator error.
38. [R108] ElevenReader 5/5 · US Wow!: I just downloaded it and i already love it. Only got one request. I got a bunch of books in my apple books. Most of them are off free websites and most my pdfs are on there as well. Can you please make it where the book will upload to eleven reader? I have so many books id like to listen to while working!!! Please. Thanks.
39. [R109] ElevenReader 3/5 · US full of bugs: looks sleek on the surface but is actually quite buggy and somewhat difficult to navigate when scrolling thru blocks of text. it was worse prior to the update wherein a too-long slip of the finger would switch up which part of the text the audio reads. the narrators are obviously AI which has both its pros and cons; the pro being it sounds less robotic than the free text-to-speech ap
40. [R110] ElevenReader 2/5 · US Not Free as Advertised: I didn’t think I had to pay for this product and yet there is a few days trial and then bam, $99 annual fee. You all need to be honest with your advertising!
41. [R31] Speechify 1/5 · US LIES, LIES, LIES!: Contrary to their demonstrably FALSE ADVERTISING, you can't just snap a photo of a bookcover and instantly create an audio book. No. You have to SCAN EVERY PAGE. You can Google it yourself- *AI Overview- The assertion that Speechify creates an audiobook from a single photo of a book cover is false. The app's Optical Character Recognition (OCR) feature requires users to scan or