Voice Dream alternatives

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 106 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. [R4] 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
2. [R10] Voice Dream 1/5 · US Shadow Charging: I was charged even though when I did free trial; I did not have a charge card attached to the account. After I added the card, the subscription section had no Voice Dream app listed as being due for Annual Subscription. So if person does a free trial, and there is no credit card attached; it will go into hiding and drag along for who knows how long. The fact that there is no card
3. [R12] Voice Dream 3/5 · GB Fuming: Over the years I spent a small fortune on alternative voices for this app. I always buy the full version of apps I use to support developers. Now I find my all purchases are wasted and I'm expected to pay an annual subscription. No customer support link easily available.
4. [R13] Voice Dream 1/5 · US no.: why do I need a subscription to unpause it?? I can’t even read with this app.
5. [R6] Voice Dream 3/5 · US Much room for improvement: (1) I suggest adding a button so that when you listen, you can tap it to highlight; (2) I suggest making the voice more natural, as it all sounds like a machine. Natural Reader does both of these better. · translated
6. [R7] Voice Dream 1/5 · US Sounds terrible: This sounds awful. DON’T BUY! I purchased it for a month and even the paid versions are terrible. NaturalReader was much better and I’ll still with that. If I could , I’d give it a zero.
7. [R16] Voice Dream 1/5 · US Quality: Very poor quality vocal and annunciation. Nickname not chosen by me???
8. [R18] Voice Dream 3/5 · GB Very poor quality: A very poor reader. Difficult to get good voice. Always sounds like robots with lots of background noise. Poor for the amount paid for it A lot of free readers are of higher quality than this.
9. [R1] 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!
10. [R21] Voice Dream 3/5 · GB Watch App never works: I’m yet to see the dream reader watch app to work.I’m forced to disable it on every watch I get.
11. [R38] Voice Dream 1/5 · US Was reliable for years but no longer: This app was a great essential reading app for years but has now deteriorated and lost my entire library and the voices I purchased in the past. It has broken and tech support doesn’t know how to fix it now. Sad.
12. [R40] Voice Dream 1/5 · US Stop removing the text settings and bookmark: Every time I go to use this app it’s a setting that’s inaccessible or not working correctly. You all changed the Bionic text settings with no announcement. I go to change it back, and now text settings are no longer showing as accessible. You charge people for a glitchy app and make changes without saying anything. It’s frustrating, especially since I
13. [R3] 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
14. [R22] Voice Dream 1/5 · US Can't recommend: I can usually learn new apps and software easily, but I found this app extremely difficult to use. Also, I had hoped to use the app to listen to books when my eyes are tired or not functioning well, but could never find a way to set the app to read a book for thirty minutes or more without frequent prompting and page-turning swipes. I give up. (I'll note that the voice-reader o
15. [R34] Voice Dream 1/5 · US Horrible Interface: Apple should be embarrassed for endorsing this app. The interface is clunky and requires a ton of tapping around to do even basic functions. Managing voices is a complete pain, often times the previews don’t load and finding them amongst a giant list without tags or filters is like finding a needle in a haystack. I finally found one I liked, used it on a document, and the voice
16. [R9] Voice Dream 3/5 · US Outrageous privacy policy: It sickens me that the owners can’t simply state and comply with an absolute policy of no sales or sharing of personal info, including no dumping tracking cookies! Make your money from the app purchase, not whoring customers personal details. It’s offensive. Second issue, the pronunciation is sloppy and isn’t working for me. Too bloody distracting. It’s better fo
17. [R52] 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.
18. [R54] Text to Speech! 1/5 · US Ads: Annoying ads not good quality software but doesn’t say yeah very well
19. [R56] Text to Speech! 3/5 · US To many adds: So every time I click a the words I saved like if I click 3 or 5 and add always pops up so if you could pls put less adds
20. [R58] Text to Speech! 5/5 · US Text to speech: I recently had a double jaw surgery and this app helped me communicate to everyone including plenty of my nurses and my family members.
21. [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.
22. [R66] Voice Aloud Reader 5/5 · US As advertised: For a free app, it does the job. Looked at other reader apps, you can pay far more than this app for premium features. I’ve had this app for years. Highlight what you want to read off the Internet, and click copy, open the voice reader app, as long as you have it turned on in settings, your text will appear, click the arrow at the bottom of the page and start listening. You might
23. [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?
24. [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!
25. [R79] ElevenLabs 1/5 · US DOES NOT WORK: Developers, I wish that in all your life's endeavors, loading would be like this, and every attempt would result in an error) I wish you to burn in hell, faggots, you will all end up in hell for all the suffering your app has caused. Bastards · translated
26. [R80] ElevenLabs 5/5 · US AMAZING: This is a amazing app it's so useful
27. [R81] ElevenLabs 3/5 · US I love it but a big bug!: So I want to rant about something stupid and I used hope or birtney and it sound like a robot not the girly voice and I was so confused? So I did an other account and it did the same thing maybe it my iPad but if you know how to fix this then tell me thanks!
28. [R82] ElevenLabs 1/5 · US Dùng thì kêu lỗi: Lỗi
29. [R93] ElevenReader 1/5 · US Stupid violation: I pay for this app just to get violations on Books that have nothing to do with the violations I’m getting (child safety) I even made another account to get rid of the violations, but it says on a completely different fiction book. I don’t recommend this if you read fiction romance books it just makes you feel icky when you get a violation like that!
30. [R94] ElevenReader 4/5 · US Accessible and Free: okay, when I first downloaded this app, I was honestly irritated. Because of my reading disability, I had already gone through 4, 5 different read-aloud apps just trying to find one that actually worked. every single time, the natural sounding AI voices were locked behind an expensive paywall, making it even harder for people with disabilities to access something as basic as re
31. [R95] ElevenReader 3/5 · US Love it, but don’t: Love the scan to read option, but all the books are expensive just to buy for one lesson so if you have a book and you don’t feel like reading it scan it and listen to it
32. [R96] ElevenReader 1/5 · US I can’t sign in!: Why I can’t sign in? Email or Apple ID neither.
33. [R25] Voice Dream 1/5 · US No Free Option: I would use any bottom of the barrel voice to read my PDFs, but this app doesn’t even offer a free version. I am not going to pay for something that should be free and can be gotten elsewhere. I am deleting the app and won’t come back if a free option isn’t available.
34. [R37] Voice Dream 5/5 · US Amazing Support Team!!!: I reached out yesterday evening about an issue I was having. They responded back to me this morning and by 12:48 pm, my issue was resolved. I will continue to use this app because of how great it is. I am so happy to know that their support team will work quickly on any issue that I may encounter!
35. [R64] Text to Speech! 5/5 · US Perfect!: I lost my voice temporarily a while ago due to sickness. This was key to communicating with family and doctors. Absolutely genius, and ads are not as intrusive as other apps. Thank you, it’s perfect.