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Narrator's Voice vs Voice Memos

Narrator's Voice 4.5★ · Free + IAP 40
Winner Voice Memos
Voice Memos 4.8★ · Free to download 75

For basic voice recording, Voice Memos is the more reliable and widely used option, while Narrator's Voice offers text-to-speech functionality but is plagued by ads and paywalls.

Full reviews: Narrator's Voice · Voice Memos

Narrator's Voice focuses on text-to-speech with various voices, but users frequently complain about excessive ads, high subscription costs, and feature limitations in the free tier. Voice Memos, a standard voice recording app, is praised for its simplicity and utility, though some users report occasional bugs with recording and syncing.

Head to head

Features tieR11R12R13R15
Narrator's Voice Narrator's Voice provides text-to-speech functionality with various voices and effects, which some users find useful for videos and other creative projects R11R15. However, many desirable voices and features are locked behind a premium subscription or in-app currency R12R13R19. Users also mention issues with voice quality, like distortion or robotic sounds .
Voice Memos Voice Memos is primarily for recording spoken audio, which users find helpful for personal notes, language practice, and songwriting . Some users desire additional features like a voice changer or transcription for older files , and some note the lack of advanced editing or sharing options .
Ease of Use edge: Voice MemosR3R4R9R19
Narrator's Voice While some users find Narrator's Voice easy to use for its core function , many are frustrated by constant interruptions from ads and limitations on free usage R3R4R19. The app also has word limits for text-to-speech in the free version R9R25.
Voice Memos Voice Memos is generally considered easy to use for recording . However, some users report issues with recordings stopping unexpectedly, the app freezing, or difficulty saving and managing files R63.
Reliability tieR16R31R40R46
Narrator's Voice Narrator's Voice has significant reliability issues, with users reporting frequent crashes, voices not loading, audio repeating, and premium features not working after payment R16R31R40R46.
Voice Memos Voice Memos users experience various reliability problems, including recordings cutting off or not saving, audio quality issues, and syncing problems, especially with older memos or Apple Watch R64R70R73.
Price/Value edge: Voice MemosR1R3R4R9
Narrator's Voice Narrator's Voice is free to download but relies heavily on in-app purchases and subscriptions, with users complaining about high prices ($4/month, $10/month, or $60/year) for premium features and ad removal R1R15. Many feel the free version is severely limited by ads, word counts, and restricted voice access R3R4R9R11.
Voice Memos Voice Memos is free to download and use, with no mentioned in-app purchases or subscriptions. Users appreciate its free nature .
Support tieR16R31R40R46
Narrator's Voice Reviews for Narrator's Voice do not explicitly mention user support, but the numerous complaints about bugs, non-working premium features, and unaddressed issues suggest a lack of effective support R16R31R40R46.
Voice Memos Some Voice Memos users report contacting Apple support regarding lost recordings but were told the cause was unknown and recovery was not possible R70. This indicates that direct support for specific app issues might be limited.
Pick Narrator's Voice if

Pick Narrator's Voice if you specifically need a text-to-speech app with various voice options for creative projects like videos, and are willing to pay for a subscription to avoid ads and unlock features R11R15.

Pick Voice Memos if

Pick Voice Memos if you need a straightforward, free app for recording your own voice for personal notes, language practice, or songwriting .

Evidence note: Narrator's Voice reviews are heavily skewed by complaints about ads and paywalls in its free tier, which is common for freemium apps. Voice Memos, being a free, built-in utility for many devices, has a much larger review base, and its issues tend to be about core functionality bugs rather than monetization.

Frequently asked

Is Narrator's Voice truly free?
Narrator's Voice is free to download, but its free tier is severely limited by frequent, interruptive ads, word count restrictions, and most desirable voices being locked behind a premium subscription or in-app currency R3R4R9R11.
What are the main problems with Voice Memos?
The main problems with Voice Memos include recordings stopping unexpectedly, audio quality issues, difficulty syncing memos (especially from Apple Watch), and older recordings failing to download or losing detailed timestamps R63R64R70R73.
Can Narrator's Voice convert long texts to speech?
In the free version of Narrator's Voice, users report a limit of 500 words or short paragraphs per submission, making it inconvenient for converting whole scripts or longer texts R9R25.

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. [R11] Narrator's Voice 5/5 · US TOO MANY ADS!: Well, the app is very good, but when you put the voice you want to hear, they put an ad and that's very upset. I'll be honest, it's not a bad application and it's useful, but obviously you have to pay for some things, but it's not too much but what they offer you for free personally is what you need (that's up to you) I give it 3 stars for the large number of ads it has
  2. [R12] Narrator's Voice 3/5 · US Gratis?: No me gusta que para escribir halla q usar monedas, si no me equivoco y no estoy mal antes cuando usaba mucho esta app creo que no era necesario usar monedas. No me recuerdo bien, pero me gustaría q fuera gratis :(. Además no todos tenemos dinero para invertir.
  3. [R13] Narrator's Voice 1/5 · US Son unos hambreados: TODAS las voces son premium, las únicas que no lo son, suenan horribles. Sería justo que al menos dejaran 2-3 voces de BUENA calidad que sean gratuitas, pero no, dejan las que suenan asqueroso y las buenas las ponen en premium todas. A parte quise poner una voz con acento nicaragüense, pero las ÚNICAS 2 que habían, eran premium ambas. Aplicación horrible, y desde la nueva act
  4. [R15] Narrator's Voice 3/5 · US Better than before, at least…: Yeah, so I’ve been using this app since it came out and it just keeps on getting a little bit better and better each year but not enough to justify the price at $60 a year or $10 a month… Unfortunately, this is the only really good honest text to voice app that’s out there that you can actually use without having to have a headache, so at least we can get a quality
  5. [R3] Narrator's Voice 3/5 · US Go ahead and take my money: Why are the ads so interruptive?
  6. [R4] Narrator's Voice 1/5 · US How bad it is.: I KEEP GETTING ADS
  7. [R9] Narrator's Voice 3/5 · US Need more limit word: I need to change the limit of 500 word to infinite please now they change the course of it. So now this new versions have 500 word limit now
  8. [R19] Narrator's Voice 1/5 · US To far: Ok, I get this is a free app so there are in store purchases but this is to much, first, I got this app mainly for the text to speech function, after one use I was hit with an add, I look at the voices most of them are subscription only and after my fourth use of the text to speech function, the apps main function? I get “locked out” it tells me I can only use the feature 4 times every 90
  9. [R16] Narrator's Voice 2/5 · US New update: Voice problems voices repeating paragraphs that are not meant to repeat suddenly limits on how many letters can be in a submission new update is terrible it doesn’t understand punction in certain places it will say a sentence then dot even though there is just a period at the end of the sentence vert frustrating
  10. [R31] Narrator's Voice 1/5 · US Garbage: Paid for premium subscription only for it to not work at all. None of my files have been converted. The only thing that works on this app is their ads. Stay away!!
  11. [R40] Narrator's Voice 2/5 · US so slow: it so slow i can’t even use it. i sat there for 5 minutes waiting for a voice to saying something so i could use it in an edit and it never loaded. in fact the play button disappeared sometimes. and i’m only writing this because the app has a little text saying “be nice rate us 😍😍😍” so here you go. don’t download this app unless you sit on you butt all day and are fine for waiting forever
  12. [R46] Narrator's Voice 1/5 · US It just kicks me out: It only kicks me out THE MOMENT I open it. I would appreciate it if you guys would fix it. :/
  13. [R1] Narrator's Voice 2/5 · US Nice but “”: This is a great app. The problem is the price if you pay for Lightroom 4$ per month and you know there are a lot of application really good and the price is under nine dollar. I think it’s too much for this app four dollars per month is OK.
  14. [R63] Voice Memos 3/5 · US Recording turns off for dumb reasons: I started recording 40 minutes ago and see that only 13 seconds were recorded. It's like, twice, you turn on the camera and it turns off, you turn on video and it turns off. You lock the phone and it turns off! Fix it. · translated
  15. [R64] Voice Memos 1/5 · US Horrible quality: The new update they made makes the audio not work at all
  16. [R70] Voice Memos 1/5 · US Deleted voice memo: I had recorded the last conversation I had with my dad before he passed on here. I bought iCloud storage a few months after thinking the voice memo would sync and I wouldn’t ever lose it. During syncing, the voice memo was deleted and after contacting Apple was told they don’t know what happened and I haven’t been able to recover it since.
  17. [R73] Voice Memos 1/5 · US Distortion / erasure / instantaneous changes: Ongoing for 2.5 years.
  18. [R25] Narrator's Voice 2/5 · US Not What I Expected: This app will only make the text to sound to short paragraphs at a time. The app would be a lot better if we were able to TTS a whole script for a video. Having to record only a few sentences at a time to be able to insert into a video is very inconvenient.

Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store