Voice Aloud Reader

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. [R12] 5/5 · US Book Reader: I’m so happy I finally found this app. I had brain surgery and normal bothers me know. This app is going to come in handy. Easy to follow after going to the Q&A.
2. [R17] 5/5 · US Does What Needs to be Done: I have had this program for sometime. I does what needs to be done; it reads clearly what needs to be read. I have a lot of technical reading and I usually use this program to get through whatever I can before I read it myself. What I like the most about this is that I have the option of paying for this one time and done, or monthly for more bells and whistles. Some
3. [R26] 5/5 · US Aplicación excelente para el autodesarrollo: Estudio mucho con esta aplicación ,es muy fácil de usar y lo que más me gusta es que me permite escuchar mis libros con la pantalla apagada como si fuera un podcast ,es muy estable no presenta errores por eso le doy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
4. [R33] 5/5 · US Best app out there: I want to make one thing clear. I NEVER leave reviews. This app made it so easy for me to proofread my new novel. I’m 100% giving you guys a shoutout when it gains the popularity it deserves. Thank you so much. I will continue to leave reviews until my life is over with you guys ! ❤️‍🔥
5. [R1] 4/5 · US Good overall.: I like that this is a one-time purchase and it does a fairly nice job of reading, although there’s no option to turn off reading captions and a lot of other unnecessary stuff and the voices are stiff and lack nuance.
6. [R32] 5/5 · US Love this app: I’ve tried several reader apps but this one was the best. With several voices to choose from (I like the British ones) and it being a good price (instead of a subscription, it’s a single payment!!), it’s hard not to love it.
7. [R19] 2/5 · US What is this 😭: I have undiagnosed ADHD and I have to read like 8 pages of a history textbook well enough for a quiz, but i always forget what I read unless it sticks out or I LISTEN to it. I open this app and i’m like ok, great it seems ok and it’s free!!!! But then I scan my page and the voice is so bad it sounds like a homemade robot that an 8 year old made. I couldn’t even tell what it was say
8. [R49] 4/5 · US Pretty helpful: If you're stuck looking for a good app that'll just read stuff to you, this is probably it. As someone with ADHD I tend to lose focus easily, so reading a lot of text always takes me a while. This app is pretty helpful, after using it for a bit I got unlimited free access to the standard voices which is pretty cool. The free voices don't sound the best but it's free so I'm not comp
9. [R54] 5/5 · GB Thank you for making this😭✌️: This is an amazing app for pretty much anything, it helps with homework, articles, blogs and so much more, especially when your busy or too tired to read. I only wish I downloaded this sooner🥹✌️
10. [R7] 5/5 · US Easy to use: Easy and free to use! Love it
11. [R43] 5/5 · US Easy to use: The best pdf reader I have ever use.
12. [R2] 1/5 · US Love it: Got rid of good voices Stupid creator has no brain cells
13. [R3] 1/5 · US Sucks after update: After the latest update around 1/8/26, the voice choice for pro has become very limited.
14. [R11] 1/5 · US Used to be great: I used this app on my iPhone without problem for the past several years. I paid the upgrade fee and was using the “Nicky” voice which was tolerable. Then after the IOS 26.1 update…Nicky was gone! Upgraded one again to the monthly subscription service for the Robert voice without problem. Then today, I lose the Robert voice and it defaults to the god awful Samantha voice. Though
15. [R15] 2/5 · US New update is terrible: The new update is terrible! My favorite voice is no longer available. Previously, Nicky was a voice that was available as standard with the onetime pro purchase. But now Nicky is gone, even with the upgraded subscription! Because I don’t really care for the standard Samantha voice, I splurged and got a month of pro so that I could at least have the Patricia voice. However,
16. [R8] 1/5 · US Don’t use: I could not even sit to listen to this for one page. The voices sound grainy not well put together and can be hard to make out. Not even to mention, it’s skips lines unless you take a PERFECT photo. Overall, I would not recommend.
17. [R9] 1/5 · US Free voices are horrible: I understand that everyone needs to make a living, but the free voices sound incredibly robotic and I could not listen to them for more than 30 seconds before I had to stop. I use this type of app so infrequently that paying for a subscription doesn't make sense. I found another app called Natural Reader that has much better voice options for free.
18. [R14] 1/5 · US The free voices are weird: They just sound weird
19. [R13] 2/5 · US Works sometimes: I’ve paid for this subscription for the last 3 years and I can’t access only access the voices that I pay for half the time. If and when thay fix this issue, it may be worth the money.
20. [R66] 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
21. [R4] 3/5 · US Wrong order: The words came out in a different order
22. [R5] 2/5 · US Not the best reader using punctuation.: Using this audio reader it’s like listening to your book a run-on sentences
23. [R6] 1/5 · US Terrible: Have to pay to scan more pages and pay to read more and it sucks at reading, skips words, repeats words, doesn’t finish the words just skips to the next
24. [R35] 5/5 · US One TEENIE problem: is there any way i can delete the files i upload to the app? i finish books SUPER fast with this app and i dont want the files taking up space on my phone. probably the most useful app on my phone with that Small problem :( is there any way to fix it?
25. [R61] 1/5 · GB Buggy mess, avoid!: Did you ever wanted a book reading application that will constantly forget your book position, randomly jump back in chapters loosing your progress and often needs to be restarted? I didn't, but this is what I paid for. AVOID!
26. [R110] 3/5 · CA I wanted to love this app: I’ve been using this app for about 2 months now and it has a lot going for it, the voice I use is nice and I appreciate that I can control how fast things a read. What stops me from rating this higher is that the app regularly loses where I’m listening if I pause it and will start back at the beginning of the file. I’m almost always listening to books with hundreds or p
27. [R111] 3/5 · CA No option to delete documents: This is a great app. The only thing I don’t like which I believe is not ethical, is that you can’t delete any documents that you add to the app. I have documents that I finished listening to and would love to delete, but I can’t. And I’m using the paid version. Can you fix this problem?
28. [R21] 2/5 · US Don't get it if you want to use it for more than five minutes: Was good at first then you run out of your free reading and your daily scans and have to buy something
29. [R46] 1/5 · US Really just trialware/sneakware: This app works reasonably well, but the read-aloud voice is fairly mechanical and reads dates as though they are large numbers. I wanted to hear my EPUB book but it quit after about an hour, saying my free period had ended. The software description doesn’t mention this, so that was disappointing. Deleted.
30. [R67] 1/5 · GB Not good: You have to pay for premium which could help me a lot because it’s easier to listen to!
31. [R68] 1/5 · GB You have to Pay for it all day long: Give me your money 💴
32. [R34] 2/5 · US New update: Ever since the new update I been unable to read webpages that have a shorten link. Also this is a old issue but I thought it would be resolve with the new update but the voices still get stuck whenever they say the word “wow” there are other words however that wow always slows the voices down.
33. [R90] 2/5 · GB Website reader doesn’t work, JavaScript error: Website reader gives JavaScript exception error. Other imported pdf docs work fine. But need to fix website reader. Then this app will get 10/10
34. [R93] 1/5 · GB Doesn’t work: It just wont work it keeps saying a javascript error occured
35. [R109] 5/5 · CA Awesome for reading Wikipedia: Works great for reading Wikipedia pages about places nearby as I am on a road trip. (Search for “special:nearby” from Wikipedia website, or use Hamburg; Local. One ENHANCEMENT REQUEST would be to have an option or button to automatically expand the sub-sections of a website like Wikipedia, since it doesn’t read those sections unless they are expanded.
36. [R16] 1/5 · US Voices: It says 100 realistic voices but that’s not true if you want the realistic voices you have to get premium and the only free voices they have are the robot sounding ones that everyone hates listening to
37. [R25] 2/5 · US Potentially a scam: I was using this app for school and got tired of only being able to scan a few items a day. I decided to buy the pro version. I waited six hours for it to load and it never did. It just went back to showing that I could buy it and didn’t give me the benefits. I generally don’t like writing bad reviews, but this was very disappointing. And this app can get the job done for small
38. [R24] 2/5 · US Boo: I liked this until recently. I updated my iPhone and it updated the app. Since then, all of the voices have been super robotic and distracting. The enunciation has even shifted. If I could revert back to the version I had before updating, this would easily be a four or five star rating.
39. [R74] 1/5 · GB Not happy: This app is totally mercenary in its execution. It states that it has ‘free’ voices which turns out are limited in their actual servicability. Then it limits the amount of time that you can listen to to about five minutes (unless you watch constant adverts, and who can do that when you are listening when you are engaged in something else!). Then you have two tiers of paid. One that does
40. [R72] 1/5 · GB Subscription is limited to characters: I have paid for premium voices. A few days in it has stopped working and says I’ve reached the character limit. Nowhere said there was a character limit. Nowhere. It’s now useless.