Text to Speech! vs Narrator's Voice
Choose Text to Speech! for a more reliable free option with fewer bugs.
Text to Speech! has a higher lifetime rating and a larger user base, indicating better overall satisfaction. While both apps face issues with ads and bugs, Text to Speech! users report more positive experiences with its functionality and ease of use.
Head to head
you want a straightforward, reliable text-to-speech app with a solid free version.
you are looking for varied voice options and are willing to deal with some bugs.
Evidence note: Text to Speech! has a larger user base and a higher rating, suggesting more consistent satisfaction despite some recent negative reviews.
Frequently asked
Which app is better for text-to-speech functionality?
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.
- [R2] Text to Speech! Best free text to speech app: Love how this app is free! I also like how simple it is. Definitely worth having.
- [R8] Text to Speech! Text to speech: I recently had a double jaw surgery and this app helped me communicate to everyone including plenty of my nurses and my family members.
- [R63] Narrator's Voice Repeats: this is a good app, especially voices but some bugs have got to be ironed out out with some of my Bible verses it keeps repeating several times that takes away the flow of the scriptures
- [R75] Narrator's Voice Used to be excellent: There was a big update a while ago and now the image to text doesn't work. That was the main feature I used and paid for on my other platform. I was going to buy it here but it's not useful to me anymore
- [R23] Text to Speech! Powerful because it’s simple: I titled my review powerful because it’s simple as an absolute compliment. By simple I mean it’s easy to use. The interface is clean and clear and I can listen to the very long emails and newsletters that I received from my students and my professional organizations… Things that normally take me forever to get through there’s so many coming at me all the time, but wit
- [R17] Text to Speech! I love this app but there are a few things I don’t like: So for one this is an awesome app but even if you pick out a good voice out of the few choices for some words it can sound very demonic, for another thing is yes there are adds but of course there are, also it can take a while to type out what you need to say. So if you need a temporary way to communicate it is a great app. I also love how
- [R69] Narrator's Voice Glitchy: The voice in this app is glitching like stuttering, and some phrases are being repeated without commanding to do so
- [R66] Narrator's Voice Good! But has too many ads: I like the app. It has a lot of good TTS voices. But the ads are popping up like every 5 swipes i do on the app.
- [R11] Text to Speech! Problems recently though: Love the app had it for a few years works perfectly up until last month. When it started freezing. Had to delete app and reload now it seems like it’s happening every couple days. If not sooner is the latest update the problem? Is there a resolution for this? Please fix the app Thank you.
- [R12] Text to Speech! Amazing app but freezes a lot: The app freezes a lot but other than that it’s amazing please fix it asap
- [R73] Narrator's Voice The dang app wouldn’t load for no reason.: Everytime i try to open it, nothing happens, instead the screen is just loading forever. Please fix this now.
- [R76] Narrator's Voice Can’t work: Won’t load :(
- [R4] Text to Speech! Ads: Annoying ads not good quality software but doesn’t say yeah very well
- [R9] Text to Speech! Bugs: This app is so buggy but it’s the only fully free one out there so i don’t really care. It won’t let me put any of files in for it to read and it also crashes if I add too much text when typing or copy and pasting
- [R64] Narrator's Voice LO PEOR NO LO DESCARGUEN ES UN FRAUDE: Descargue esta aplicación pero me robó más de 60 dólares disque subcripcion para un año y ni un libro puedo leer. Esto es una estafa por favor no lo descarguen tiene buenas voces pero quiere que compres puntos por qué se terminan prácticamente en nada. Me robó más de 60 dólares y de verdad espero que me reembolsen mi dinero. Que asco de aplicación
- [R88] Narrator's Voice Too many errors: I like this app and the premium voices are good. But it constantly gives me errors and stops playback. I wish they would fix that. Specially, since I’m using the paid version. Can’t say I would buy it again next time I will try something else.
- [R14] Text to Speech! Perfect!: I lost my voice temporarily a while ago due to sickness. This was key to communicating with family and doctors. Absolutely genius, and ads are not as intrusive as other apps. Thank you, it’s perfect.
- [R82] Narrator's Voice Buggy: Got premium and everytime I set it up with text to audio it tells me I don’t have enough credits but I have over 10k credits. I have to close the app and reopen it to make it work every single time. It’s broken. I want a refund or I’m disputing the charge
- [R97] Narrator's Voice Lied: It said I would not be charged but soon as I put my card into the app while signing up it charged me.
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store