ElevenReader vs Speechify

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. [R6] ElevenReader 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
2. [R8] ElevenReader 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.
3. [R41] ElevenReader 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
4. [R48] ElevenReader 3/5 · US If Only They Would Fix…: This is an app who’s AI voices are so magnificent I want them to be embodied people so I can actually pay them to read to me, buy them groceries, whatever. However, the more you attempt to speed up the reading on an iOS device, the worse they sound. It just doesn’t have to be that way. Other apps allow you to speed voices up to as high as 3X without any artifacts, echoes,
5. [R2] ElevenReader 5/5 · US Wow!: I just downloaded it and i already love it. Only got one request. I got a bunch of books in my apple books. Most of them are off free websites and most my pdfs are on there as well. Can you please make it where the book will upload to eleven reader? I have so many books id like to listen to while working!!! Please. Thanks.
6. [R3] 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
7. [R11] ElevenReader 5/5 · US Amazing app: I love this app & use it everyday. The only missing piece is carplay support.
8. [R14] ElevenReader 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
9. [R10] ElevenReader 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.
10. [R12] ElevenReader 3/5 · US New version is glitchy: The app worked great a few weeks ago, idk what happened. Maybe they started vibe coding. Pausing and unpausing fasts forward about 20 seconds.
11. [R1] ElevenReader 2/5 · US Not Free as Advertised: I didn’t think I had to pay for this product and yet there is a few days trial and then bam, $99 annual fee. You all need to be honest with your advertising!
12. [R5] 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
13. [R23] ElevenReader 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!!!
14. [R25] ElevenReader 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
15. [R16] ElevenReader 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.
16. [R31] ElevenReader 1/5 · US Bait and switch: I paid for a one year membership, and halfway in they changed the terms to say they can record everything I do here and if I don’t like it, my option is to stop using the app I’ve already paid to use. I’m a writer and use this to listen for editing. No, you can’t record me! So six months of paid use left that I can’t use.
17. [R58] ElevenReader 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
18. [R70] Speechify 1/5 · US This app makes u pay high prices: They offer a free trial of 3 days then demand ur card before hand
19. [R76] Speechify 2/5 · US Bait and Switch: The ad I saw for this app said “listen for free” but once I clicked it, I was taken to the pay monthly screen. I can’t believe I actually thought I could listen for free. They should at a minimum let you listen to 1 book free if they are going to say that.
20. [R79] Speechify 2/5 · US Extremely deceptive ads: The ads show someone taking a picture of the outside cover of a book, and implies this is all you have to do in order for the app to read it to you. Of course this is ridiculous... you have to photograph/scan every page. The app then works very well. But in order to continue using the app, you have to pay a subscription.
21. [R106] Speechify 1/5 · US Thought it was free: I installed it because it didn’t give a price on the screen, so I thought it was free. But it appears that it’s not it should’ve said that upfront before I installed it disappointing
22. [R50] ElevenReader 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
23. [R61] Speechify 1/5 · US not very useful: it keep on crashing, this time I upgraded my phone and gave it another chance, but scanning crashed in the middle if the book, than I tried PDF and it keep on stoping after few pages, completely waste of time trying to wait or restart. Nothing works.