Voice Aloud Reader alternatives

What reviewers actually said

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] 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.
2. [R7] Voice Aloud Reader 1/5 · US Bad purchase: I wish I could have tried out the voices before purchasing, they’re terrible… completely unlistenable. I just threw away money on a terrible product I will never use.
3. [R19] Voice Aloud Reader 1/5 · US Ridiculous: Rope you in - and then as soon as you choose a voice - you hear the same robotic voice from Microsoft. And have to pay for a premium voice. WHY would I use your app if I could do the same thing on Microsoft word.
4. [R40] Voice Aloud Reader 1/5 · US READ ME: So this company makes you pay like a roughly $10 one time payment for unlimited TTS. I paid, just weeks later it started telling me “you have reached your free reading limit”. One time payment? Yeah right. Thieves!
5. [R3] 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?
6. [R4] 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!
7. [R6] Voice Aloud Reader 3/5 · US Money waist: Paid for pro because of the listening limit and it gave me additional voices. A few months later it took them away. Also changed the listed features to say they aren’t included when it was before. I feel like my money was waisted.
8. [R9] Voice Aloud Reader 3/5 · US Upgrade is a money grab: In the latest upgrade they took away one-time- payment voice options and made the ones that are available worse. I used the ‘Adam’ voice for years and I used this app all the time for ebooks and for text books. Opening to find my voice of choice gone and a monthly subscription paywall for any voice that is actually understandable was disappointing. I would have given it
9. [R10] Voice Aloud Reader 1/5 · US terrible: it’s a good app for a day until they restrict you to 10 minutes of listening and then make you wait 30 minutes to listen again or pay for no ads
10. [R30] Voice Aloud Reader 3/5 · GB Why a limit on premium voices!?: This is a great app. But there’s a limit on the words the premium version says each month. So cancelled and am on the search for another app. Such a shame
11. [R34] Voice Aloud Reader 1/5 · US Money Grab App Limited on Reads: I paid for $9.99 pro and then $9.99 premium+pro month subscription for the premium voices offered. Then the app stopped working, why? Because what they don’t tell you is they limit the amount of “Scans” or reading aloud their app will do. Want more “scans?” Sure but you have to buy them separately $1.99 for 800 scans. This app is a money grabbing app and not wort
12. [R12] Voice Aloud Reader 3/5 · US Good w/ Issues: Worked for how I used it biggest issue nowadays is that mobile doesn’t show cover images in library and can’t read docs
13. [R18] Voice Aloud Reader 3/5 · US Wrong order: The words came out in a different order
14. [R21] Voice Aloud Reader 3/5 · US It’s ok: It’s not all that easy to understand a lot of what they’re saying
15. [R31] Voice Aloud Reader 1/5 · US Really bad audio: The audio is all jumbled and not understandable
16. [R51] Speechify 2/5 · US Bait and Switch: The ad I saw for this app said “listen for free” but once I clicked it, I was taken to the pay monthly screen. I can’t believe I actually thought I could listen for free. They should at a minimum let you listen to 1 book free if they are going to say that.
17. [R52] Speechify 5/5 · US Speechify: I am looking so forward to having books read to me.
18. [R54] Speechify 2/5 · US Extremely deceptive ads: The ads show someone taking a picture of the outside cover of a book, and implies this is all you have to do in order for the app to read it to you. Of course this is ridiculous... you have to photograph/scan every page. The app then works very well. But in order to continue using the app, you have to pay a subscription.
19. [R55] Speechify 5/5 · US Reading: It is always difficult to me . Thx you for your app
20. [R65] 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
21. [R66] Text to Speech! 5/5 · US Best free text to speech app: Love how this app is free! I also like how simple it is. Definitely worth having.
22. [R67] 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
23. [R68] Text to Speech! 1/5 · US Ads: Annoying ads not good quality software but doesn’t say yeah very well
24. [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!
25. [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
26. [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
27. [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
28. [R93] Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader 1/5 · US I can’t even make my own voice without paying: I don’t really like this game. I never used it anyways.
29. [R94] Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader 4/5 · US Pretty good overall, needs support for apostrophes: I am using this app for reading textbooks to me. I like it a lot, the cheaper tier works just fine for me. The voice is obviously synthetic, but listenable. Right now I’m having real issues with the fact that the app can’t read apostrophes correctly. It’s distracting to hear about “Occam ess razor” instead of Occam’s razor. I hope that’s somethin
30. [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
31. [R96] Speak4Me Text to Speech Reader 1/5 · US Very disappointed: Im very disappointed with this app. I tried several that had the same pdf upload and read out function and this one was by far the best (at the time) this was November of 2025. I used the app through January without issue. I hadnt used it in some time and when i went back and uploaded a PDF for some reason In June of 2026 the app reads out and highlights two different parts of t
32. [R107] Narrator's Voice 1/5 · US MUCHOS ANUNCIOS: Mas anuncios que voces
33. [R108] Narrator's Voice 5/5 · US Great app!: This app really made my life better and it made turning text to speech way easier, faster, an mor efficient,.
34. [R109] Narrator's Voice 3/5 · US Repeats: this is a good app, especially voices but some bugs have got to be ironed out out with some of my Bible verses it keeps repeating several times that takes away the flow of the scriptures
35. [R110] Narrator's Voice 1/5 · US LO PEOR NO LO DESCARGUEN ES UN FRAUDE: Descargue esta aplicación pero me robó más de 60 dólares disque subcripcion para un año y ni un libro puedo leer. Esto es una estafa por favor no lo descarguen tiene buenas voces pero quiere que compres puntos por qué se terminan prácticamente en nada. Me robó más de 60 dólares y de verdad espero que me reembolsen mi dinero. Que asco de aplicación