ElevenReader

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 50 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] 5/5 · CA Loving it: I love how natural this is, I don’t enjoy reading my Christian books bc they’re a lot and I don’t have that time, for a while I’ve had to purchase them on audible most of which are books I already own and many others are not available there. I’m glad I have this now, at the cost of a book I can listen to many books in a month. I’m really loving this.
2. [R8] 5/5 · CA Great read and AI Voice!: The one, the professional or another. I have to say the one I hearing the reading of my fanfiction book. I would say higher recommend of this app. Five out of five. I had two words for haters, SUCK IT!
3. [R15] 5/5 · CA New way to consume text: Love it for epubs - no other audiobook app can show you your spot in the text easily so you can quickly resume with the text elsewhere and vice versa. This also makes it really easy to listen to articles on the road. 10 free hours per month is awesome.
4. [R25] 5/5 · CA My Favourite App: This is the app I think of when I think “actually productive use of AI.” ElevenLabs/Reader has made TTS that sounds absolutely natural (especially with certain voices) and miles ahead of other consumer apps for that purpose. The app was free for a long time but I was always happy to pay for it: I use it all the time. (Just want to mention to people complaining about the paid tier
5. [R26] 5/5 · CA Excellent app: I use this to listen to Deep Research reports I run on ChatGPT because it’s more stable than the platform’s own options. Plus you can choose various voices. I really like it. I just wish there was more options in terms of the voices.
6. [R29] 5/5 · CA Great app: I have been reading bible with this. It’s so amazing to hear the bible with background music and amazing speech to text.
7. [R31] 5/5 · CA Gorgeous voices of all kinds.: The on-text navigation of this app and easy-to-use quality are bar none. The rendition is crisp, expressive and natural. I personally love vibrant youthful and teen sounding voices. This app offers a vast selection of those. I tried every last text-to-speech’s: this one is my favorite. Also: it doesn’t skip parts here and there like some others do.
8. [R19] 5/5 · CA Simple but Effective: I enjoy this app because it doesn’t constantly hit you with unnecessary payment offers. It has a solid selection of voices to choose from and a decent audiobook library. The app itself is simple but still offers some variety. The only real drawback is that if you’re reading a physical book, you have to take photos of each individual page for the app to read it out loud, wh
9. [R6] 1/5 · CA “10 In app purchases options: Really! Confusing & testifies to greed. Make it easier as in Pay once & done.
10. [R38] 1/5 · CA updated - Amazing……. When it works: 2025 Update: So this app improved massively over time and started working reasonably well. Some feature bloat, but was a lot more stable. Was recommending it to everyone I knew who loved books Unfortunately they have now paywalled the app. Myself and the dozen or so people I got using it have all stopped. Many suspected this would get paywalled, but this pricin
11. [R39] 1/5 · CA Expensive and limited: For the price, you get very little.
12. [R41] 1/5 · CA Paywall ruined the app: Paywall ruined the app
13. [R1] 1/5 · CA Can’t make font bigger: Preferences button doesn’t work, it freezes the whole app
14. [R17] 4/5 · CA Good until it’s not: The app worked great and I used it all the time for my audio books, but it had a lot of issues loading the text when I would put down my phone and reopen it. It would show a white screen and not the text. That wasn’t a big deal cause I could reload it without having to pause the player but now there’s a new issue. My audio book keeps pausing. Every 10-60 seconds is pauses to l
15. [R20] 4/5 · CA Not working: I love the web version but the app has a bug. The voices don’t work on the audio books.
16. [R21] 1/5 · CA Download does not work: The reader is great, unfortunately the download feature does not work at all on my device. After downloading a book, if im offline the book stops playing after a few mins. This is the primary reason why i paid $200 for premium, so im very disappointed. I reached out to support a few months ago and did not get a response.
17. [R2] 3/5 · CA Using ElevenReader for technical documents: This app struggles with technical documentation, especially with engineering formulas are included in the documentation.
18. [R11] 3/5 · CA Limited editing and correcting: Works great, except when it doesn’t ? We need a way to edit and correct errors created by the app in uploaded files. Happens too often , with no way to quickly fix ourselves. Support also seems unable to fix them. Seemingly no way to make prononciation suggestions in languages other than English. And the ones suggested in English do not work either, the pronon
19. [R40] 1/5 · CA Extremely Buggy, Terrible Support: This app randomly deletes your files, corrupts epubs/PDFs so the imported text is missing entire chunks or sometimes completely rearranged, and support is no help at all. They’re either very slow or simply unresponsive. For an app that’s $30 a month, I personally find that unacceptable. It feels like they weren’t prepared to properly to launch a priced model an
20. [R14] 4/5 · CA Excellent voices: The voices are excellent. My only complaint is the interface is a little clunky.
21. [R18] 1/5 · CA Useful but not user friendly: I used this app back in 2024 before the update. I took a long hiatus from the app and now it’s so difficult to navigate. The software of the application is not beginner friendly some buttons arent even there or are in very obscure places
22. [R5] 1/5 · CA "Free trial" did not work: I opened an account using Apple, tapped the $0.00 button for a three-days' free trial, and found myself back at the beginning.
23. [R9] 1/5 · CA Scammed me into membership: I downloaded this to try it. It told me that it would give me a three day trial and would notify me before charges. I went to cancel it today within three days and it will not allow me to cancel the membership and it charged me over $100 and I’m stuck with this thing until 2027. I’m going to reach out to Apple not happy. They never notified me like they mentioned it’s f
24. [R24] 3/5 · CA Unable to Play Longer Books: All epubs or Pdfs that are longer (20hrs+) reads have trouble loading for me & they don’t play at all unfortunately.
25. [R10] 4/5 · CA Thankful for the new pricing structure: I’ll be honest that it’s been a rough ride with this company. The pricing was so absurd, going from free to very expensive. The cheapest plan had very low limitations and the next level up plan was unbelievably expensive. Plus in order to use a custom voice in the reader app you needed another subscription to the regular voice app (which is still true). I’m
26. [R30] 4/5 · CA Love it: It’s is a great app and I love it the only complaint I have is that it’s 15 dollars for unlimited listening unless you’re fine with 10 hours a month. If you change it to like 10 hours a week or even 5 hours it would be amazing
27. [R7] 4/5 · CA It’s great I love it: It was very good as voices
28. [R12] 3/5 · CA Book reading: I like the app I just find it annoying that you can’t get the book itself for free and you need to take a picture of each individual page
29. [R37] 5/5 · CA A pittance of free use: Only 10h barely enough to do one ebook. Instapaper reads unlimited articles & webpages for free, save this apps minimal free use for short ebooks only. Combined with Instapapers actually good free model, this app can be sorta useful
30. [R45] 2/5 · CA Disappointed: I’ve been using this app for quite a while now to listen to light novels and books. It used to be an amazing experience, the voices were expressive, engaging, and really brought the stories to life. However, when I logged in today, I was surprised to see a paywall introduced. I understand the need to monetize certain features, like offline listening, which makes sense. But what really
31. [R50] 1/5 · CA you had to go and ruin it.: this app was free for a long time and it was an extremely valuable accessibility tool. now it’s paid, extremely expensive, and the plans are all garbage. I really thought I could rely on this. I’m so disappointed.
32. [R43] 1/5 · CA Terrible pay: Terrible pay wall not worth its price
33. [R46] 1/5 · CA Was great: This was a great app until they started charging. $129 for 30 hrs a month… that’s sometimes less Than 2 audio books a month. Such a d$ck move
34. [R23] 1/5 · CA Terrible on iPad: I really hate that every time i try to change something in the settings, the app freezes and crashes. (im on my iPad)