Speak4Me Text to Speech 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. [R4] 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
2. [R6] 4/5 · US The voices in the app sound congested: I really like the app because I hate reading and it’s relatively cheap compared to other apps. I only have the pro version of the app, but the voices all sound congested when reading 😭 I was using ChatGPT to read stuff to me at first, but it stopped working and would cut out in the middle of reading so I switched to this. It isn’t bad, I just can’t pick a voi
3. [R62] 5/5 · US One of my Favorites: I use this wonderful app to listen to content I would others have to sit and read. I can listen while engaged in other tasks or even while driving. With my ADD, this app is a gem!
4. [R102] 5/5 · US What I time saver!: As a college student I really appreciate being able to list to journal article and assigned reading on the go or follow along when I’m experiencing burnout
5. [R29] 5/5 · US Amazing: I used this when I had a sore throat, amazing app
6. [R64] 4/5 · US Fantastic program!: I really appreciate this program! It offers so much to individuals with speaking difficulties! This program is very intuitive and not difficult to use at all! Much better than others out there costing much, much more! Glad I found this!
7. [R72] 5/5 · US Newly mute….: I owe so much to you guys for making this, seriously impressive… it is going to be an extension of me, honestly, and you’ve made my life a lot easier… thank you so much.
8. [R123] 3/5 · US Improving my speech: I had throat cancer and I no longer speak or eat food. (Non smoker) This app is clear and easy to adjust the speed so others can clearly hear my voice. Thank you😊👍
9. [R30] 4/5 · US Interesting App, Interesting Utility: After landing the app on AppAdvice, I was pleasantly surprised at the smooth and capable voices that proved capable and some even relaxing. The utility here is evident. I had an issue sharing my account access with my iPad from my phone and I contacted the developer. He was a gentleman and acted quickly with attentive resolve- that’s always a good sign. Admitt
10. [R53] 5/5 · US Best value text to speech app!: Great voices, super easy to use, highly recommended!
11. [R75] 5/5 · US Perfect! But.. only 2 ai voices: Please add more ai voices that more stable and engaging, active, and fun!
12. [R92] 5/5 · US Simone: I love this straightforward and userfriendly app a lot anc enjoyed it from the beginning. I recommend it to everyone.
13. [R2] 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
14. [R5] 2/5 · US Ehh: App does what it needs to do, but for the price It did not perform to the standard I had hoped. App would continuously crash while I was using it and it struggled greatly to read certain words and numbers.
15. [R13] 1/5 · US Not happy with this app: It has a lot of glitch, keep kicking me out and also does not read appropriately
16. [R14] 1/5 · US App keeps crashing: This app never works for more than a few minutes of reading back the file you want it to before crashing.
17. [R210] 3/5 · US Commercials that play: I have a 20 year student who had a tracheotomy as a youth so he now has very little use of his vocal cords and therefore speaks only a harsh whisper. He loves using his phone so we wanted to try this app out. Overall it’s great, but then while him trying to communicate, a commercial starts to play!!! That is totally wrong….it is interfering with his ability to communicate. I
18. [R231] 3/5 · US Ads?: Okay, but seriously. Ads are literally every 5 seconds. We all know it’s for business, but seriously if you think putting ads every 5 seconds is going to keep us hooked youre mildly wrong. It’s just annoying and makes people want to stop using after a while.
19. [R233] 3/5 · US Ok but..: I lost my voice to severe laryngitis. So, I got this app to speak for me. It works fine, but the ads are every time you talk and it starts when you are trying to speak! I tried to limit or remove the ads, but it tells me it’s not compatible with my phone. 🤷🏼‍♀️
20. [R238] 3/5 · US It’s ok: I just got this and it’s honestly pretty good, just to many adds. The second I tap on a voice, an add, the second I tap on the “listen” button, you guessed it, an add.
21. [R7] 1/5 · US I just got scammed: Free trial button didn’t give me a free trial but made it look like it would. Super sketchy. Want my money back. It had been a few days, my refund was denied and I have had to SPEAK (further damaging my vocal cords) to customer service reps who won’t help me with a refund. Legit evil company, don’t use these guys.
22. [R8] 1/5 · US This app has been just charging me: I have no subscription with this app, yet they keep charging my app account. I am just finding out and look in my subscription because I know I hadn’t subscribe ( sure didn’t subscribe). Service I didn’t get, refund me.
23. [R17] 1/5 · US Said free trial but charged me anyways: It said that I had a free trial so I got it for three days free the same day I got the free trial. It charged me 40 bucks.
24. [R25] 1/5 · US Don’t trust the free trial: Tried the free trial but was instantly charged. Cancelled immediately but refund request says ineligible for refund. The app has a 5-10+ second “spinning wheel” for sentences to read out your text.
25. [R9] 1/5 · US terrible: terrible pronunciation
26. [R15] 3/5 · US Good. Not great.: Voices are good. Quality of the read leaves more to be desired. It skips words or jumbles them up. It can’t read documents offline. It pauses frequently when screen is turned off.
27. [R3] 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
28. [R22] 1/5 · US Don’t work properly: I scanned a document and it gives me totally different context.
29. [R37] 1/5 · US It doesn’t scan the document correctly and it reads nonsense: I tried to scan a doc multiple times but no matter how I did it it did not read the content correctly Very disappointing
30. [R63] 2/5 · US Made reading harder: When I scanned my textbook, it didn't scan the words correctly and was a huge jumbled mess. If it weren't for this problem, the app probably would’ve been a very helpful tool.
31. [R12] 3/5 · US It’s okay: In hind site this is a great app but the glitches drive me up a wall if I didn’t need it and or had the energy to find another app I’d request a refund. It’s always “server issues” it constantly buffers between sentences and or paragraphs. It’s okay but aggravating.
32. [R260] 3/5 · GB very slow: some times with imported texts it will take like 5 minutes to load and be very stop start
33. [R98] 4/5 · US High battery usage: This app works fairly well with options to select. Various voice readers. I do like the option to be able to copy and paste to long text. It has been helpful but with app apps This app does not work with the Home Screen locked. It requires the Home Screen to remain unlocked using unnecessary battery life. My phone gets very hot while using it long term. I find it inconvenient t
34. [R57] 1/5 · US Lacking essential features.: Unclear has navigate to PDFs access, specific pages bookmarks, and table of contents, etc.
35. [R68] 3/5 · US Why?: I was so ready to keep this app. Unfortunately I’m unable to get to chapters easily…
36. [R143] 3/5 · US Like the app: Would be better if it would work when there is no internet needed to open the app
37. [R1] 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.
38. [R27] 2/5 · US No Siri voice.: $5 a week? Yeah, no. Someone is a little too proud of their AI button. Like how once you pick a voice it locks you to that voice till you pay up. The app was super cool when it started. Then got worse and worse. Lack of Siri voice made it worthless to me. I wanted something for PAs that was Clearly not human. These voices are super boring.
39. [R66] 3/5 · US No Personal Voice: I downloaded this app and started a free trial because I was looking for an app that would support the Apple Personal Voice feature to record an audiobook in my voice. This app doesn’t do that, so you are limited to the synthetic voices of others. L
40. [R226] 3/5 · US There's no button I see that can change voices.: Yeah so uhh I don't see any button or setting that can change the voice I wanted to set it to, and I can't really do anything with one voice, but you know, other then that good app, just think it would be better if I can change the voice.
41. [R10] 1/5 · US App: The app doesn't even let you in without a subscription. · translated
42. [R55] 1/5 · US Doesn’t start in the right place in the text: I just want it to read a long email. So I copied and pasted. Even as I keep the cursor to the beginning of the email it keeps jumping and reading from the middle. I’m going to cancel my subscription very fast.
43. [R39] 1/5 · US Was Charged when it was supposed to be Free: Do Not Fall for this Being Free- It is NOT Free! Now I have to go through a dispute with apple.com to have the charge removed from my account. So this was fraudulent advertising!
44. [R33] 1/5 · US Has a pay wall: I had been paying for the plus, but then stopped only to realize you have to either pay $4.99 per week or $39:yearly or else you can't use this app at all.
45. [R60] 1/5 · US lame that you have to pay to communicate: why does the free speech in this app only give a certain amount of time to use when you are literally trying to communicate?! like $40! really?! it only give you 5 minutes to use it!!
46. [R245] 3/5 · US Lots of Ads: Every time you click on something an ad pops up. While there are a lot of voices to chose from and it is helpful after a tonsillectomy, it is annoying due to the fact you have to wait for the 10 secs for the abs to go away.