ElevenReader

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. [R10] 1/5 · US Beware Scam: Signed up for the free trial to see if it liked the app. It was ok, but didn’t like it enough to continue beyond the free trial. Guess what? There’s no way to cancel the subscription. Then bam, charged for a full year. After the charge hit, I can now cancel. Scammers. Guess I should have known.
2. [R21] 1/5 · US NOT FREE!: Has a horrible selection of books and cost money. It practically can’t function without payment.
3. [R75] 4/5 · US Way: Used to love this app it used to be 100/ free but new you have to pay to read way some of us don’t have a way to pay
4. [R91] 1/5 · US Still greedy: They supposedly changed their payment plans and all, but it’s still subscription based. So you’ll never own any portion. I’m not using this just to keep paying forever. Let us buy unlimited use of a voice, and unlimited listening of an item. The end.
5. [R51] 1/5 · US Needs babysitting - might as well read: It stops every two minutes or so. I have no idea why but it’s infuriating. Sometimes it starts up again on its own, sometimes you have to do it. It’s definitely not worth $12 a month, that’s insane. $3 would be more appropriate. They should refund you every time it stops playing for no reason while you’re sitting there on wifi with perfect signal.
6. [R53] 1/5 · US Stop trying to make me pay for more hours when I am on the ultra plan and have unlimited listening h: I love this app so much and I don’t know what you did, but your latest update has this thing where you keep trying to force me to buy more hours even though I am on the unlimited ultra plan and I am uploading my own content that gives me unlimited listening hours. Fix the issue immediately or I’m
7. [R57] 2/5 · US App keeps pausing for no reason.: This is literally why I paid for the app, so this wouldn’t happen. If it keeps up, I’m done with this app and eleven labs for good. It literally is a reader that just stops reading. I don’t understand, it was working great a few weeks ago before these most recent updates. How are you all making the app worse??
8. [R66] 2/5 · US Keeps getting worse!: This app worked so well when it was free. I’m paying $11 a month for an app that has become full of bugs. Random long pauses, sometimes stops altogether, volume raising and lowering, odd voices, odd sounds, speed up and slow down of speech. For $11 this should not be happening.
9. [R35] 3/5 · US Partially worked: I could not get this to work right with loading books no matter which method I choose except taking a photo. I was able to load two books using a workaround, but really they need to make it accessible through third-party or file or something else. I’m not gonna pay $11 a month with that amount of limited access.If I can load my own books, then it’s worth it. I tried loading from
10. [R74] 3/5 · US Great app, but lots of glitches: I really like this app the voices are very realistic and for the most part it reads through well. But for the price I pay monthly is a bit much for the amount of glitches I’ve been facing. Sometimes the voice will pause on a word and repeat it infinitely until I close out the app. And when importing documents it will sometimes not turn the actual page itself into w
11. [R28] 1/5 · US If you recommend this to others: Your free tier access might be banned. I made the great mistake of recommending this app within my household and now NONE of us have free tier access because it’s “suspicious.” Really? There are just three people here. It’s not like 30 people were using this app from the same IP address. EVEN AFTER CONTACTING SUPPORT (at which point presumably they could’ve checked
12. [R52] 2/5 · US Unusual activity: I don’t know if it’s because I’m using my VPN or what but the fact that you just canceled my account access to the free service and are saying I need to pay is rather screwed up. The fact that I don’t even know why and I just get some stupid ominous message about activity being suspicious is literally unhelpful. I didn’t think I was going to be accused of something when trying t
13. [R88] 1/5 · US my wifi cut out and now app allow me to use it: support says my IP address must have been flagged and I must pay for a subscription now
14. [R58] 1/5 · US They steal !!!: Make sure you guys read the terms and services. They can take your intellectual property and use it for their own gain. And plus the AI reading stops and always buffers. !!! READ THE TERMS
15. [R77] 1/5 · US They OWN YOUR WORK: Downloaded and then instantly deleted my account after reading they have the rights to any CONTENT YOU UPLOAD. DO NOT UPLOAD YOUR MANUSCRIPT IT CLEARLY STATES THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PUBLISH, ADJUST!!
16. [R1] 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
17. [R2] 5/5 · US Wonderfully realistic speech makes everything more enjoyable: I love the new features that are added, but it does seem like each update introduces weird new bugs that make using it hard at times. Latest issue is fast forwarding sometimes randomly jumps playback to some random point far earlier.
18. [R13] 3/5 · US Declining app quality for otherwise spectacular voice quality: This is a confusing review to leave. On the one hand, the voice quality and selection from ElevenLabs is spectacular, and it's something I use nearly daily. But on the other, the quality and experience of using the app seems to have degraded over time. Frequently with longer text, the app loses its spot, and the text highlighting gets
19. [R22] 5/5 · US Best TTS App: I’ve tried out at least a dozen different AI text to speech apps and websites. All of them either had character limits, voices that were too robotic, or everything was behind a paywall. This app has THE MOST expressive AI voices I’ve ever heard and the best part is they’re completely free! And I’m not aware of any character limit yet. This will be my go-to app to listen to fanficti
20. [R14] 5/5 · US This app is amazing: I love that you can use so many useful features and tools straight from the app and 100% free🎉 if you’re looking for something to read your books or your apps I recommend this as a MS2!! It has been so helpful to get my books read to me. Thank you and I will not stop bringing this app up to my friends and colleagues!!!
21. [R20] 5/5 · US Lightnovels, lightnovels: This is the single best app for audiobooks, and its free! I came across this from a tiktoker. Im using it to currently read Re:Zero and LOTM. Elevenreader=peak
22. [R27] 5/5 · US Revived my love for books!: I have ADHD and ever since I finished school I hadn't read a single book. I had lost all interest in stories and my own imagination for them. For the longest time I watched YouTube and movies but I always felt like I was out of things to watch despite barely scratching the surface. I always wanted an app that could read to me, so I could finally catch up on books that h
23. [R82] 5/5 · US Get it: This app is my favorite app ever. I use it every day. It helps me read faster and focus more when I read and fully get into it. It works great with any book or pdf. I find myself wanting it on my browser and everywhere. I recommend the app to everyone who wants to read more. I’ve been chugging a huge pipeline of books I’ve been building over the time.
24. [R12] 4/5 · US Pretty cool, but some extra controls would be helpful.. and em dashes: This is quite a surprising model and probably the best I’ve tried. I often use it to read back my own work while writing. It’s a fantastic way to hear pace, cadence, etc, while also a really great way to find typos that aren’t misspellings. I do wish it handled em, dashes, . As it stands, anything inside an em dash is all compre
25. [R34] 5/5 · US My Autobiography Books Come to Life: Thank you for bringing my autobiography series of books to life! I listen every night. I sincerely appreciate how easy it is to use your software.
26. [R40] 5/5 · US Years of waiting!: I travel a lot and listen to a lot of podcast and audiobooks on my travels. There’s always been some books I remember reading back in junior high or high school that I really liked, but there is no audiobook for it and I’ve always been patient and even requesting it even considered paying somebody to read the book and record themselves. But never got to it, but with this you can
27. [R62] 5/5 · US Love this incredible app: I’ve been using this app for six months almost 7 and at first I did the 10 hour per month but then I upgraded to the paid one where it’s unlimited and I am using it as a editing tool for my own book series which altogether is over 1500 pages. For those who are writing books or just listen to them I totally recommend if they had a choice of more stars I would.
28. [R4] 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
29. [R7] 5/5 · US It’s good but also not good: It gets annoying that I have to take a picture of each and every page and the AI still gets some words wrong but it’s still a good reading app
30. [R26] 5/5 · US it’s perfect for readers: there are many free facilities, like free voices, free books, and you can even scan a page and read that this app is perfect for me because I love to read, but I cannot buy so many books and it gives box of your recommendation you have to fill out fetch type of books you like, and after that it gives you recommendations of them and it can read it to you so good and even y
31. [R36] 5/5 · US I learn better audibly.: ElevenReads is perfect for my style of learning. Copy and paste a link and I can relax and listen.
32. [R63] 5/5 · US Jen FM: Hello, I really love this app. It is so cool and so free. There's so much that you can do in this app alone. Either creating your new narrator voice, select a whole library worth of voices, and etc. The only thing I have a question ever since the previous couple updates ago when ultra came around, where is JenFM? I can't seem to find it.
33. [R5] 1/5 · US I can’t sign in!: Why I can’t sign in? Email or Apple ID neither.
34. [R8] 2/5 · US Buggy AF: Nearly unusable due to bugs. The app delays 10+ seconds on buttons, sometimes just hangs indefinitely: Confusing UI, changes to voice do not take effect for several minutes, if ever. Imported content is just stuck on whatever first voice was used. Mispronounces obvious words like “the”. Pretty disappointing.
35. [R59] 1/5 · US Too Many Mistakes: I tried this app to read physical copies of books that I own. I took perfect, clear pictures of the pages in a brightly lit room. I was able to see and read the words on the page in the pictures I took without issue, but this app had a hard time transcribing the words from the photo to text in the app, so there were many mistakes in the text and audio. It kept making the same mi
36. [R71] 1/5 · US Great app that arbitrarily removes uploads to your library: Great service I used for years. Immediately cancelled on finding they removed uploads to my library for “violating their terms of service” without providing any explanation for why, what it was, and what was deleted. I don’t want a service that feels this entitled to look through my data and pick what it thinks I can/can’t read. Also,