# Voice Aloud Reader

> Text to speech Read PDF book

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1446876360](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1446876360)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1446876360`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Marcin Olawski
- **Category:** Productivity
- **Rating:** 4.60 / 5 (18,823 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.0.4
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-28
- **First published:** 2019-02-10
- **Size:** 74 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-19
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voice-aloud-reader/id1446876360)
- **Website:** [https://www.codeesteem.com/](https://www.codeesteem.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://marcinolawski.pl/tts/PrivacyPolicy.pdf](https://marcinolawski.pl/tts/PrivacyPolicy.pdf)

## Description

**Voice Aloud Reader** converts written content into spoken audio, making it easy to listen to PDFs, e-books, websites, text documents, and printed books. Use it while commuting, multitasking, relaxing, or improving content accessibility.

Choose from voices in 40 languages and customize the reading experience with adjustable font, reading mode, pitch, volume, and speech speed. The app supports accessibility features including VoiceOver, Larger Text, high contrast, and Reduced Motion. Share files between your computer and the app using iCloud or iTunes.

## Rankings

- #12,271 — Overall
- #4 — reader
- #12 — text to speech
- #40 — start page
- #44 — speech to text
- #53 — speech

## Review summary

Users praise Voice Aloud Reader for reading text aloud and helping study, with free basic voices and a time-saving workflow. However, repeated complaints target a problematic pricing model (premium voices, microtransactions) and subscription/purchase glitches, unreliable access to features, and poor voice quality. Scanning/OCR often fails or is limited, and usability/design issues (confusing UI and persistent widgets) further irritate users. Overall, the concept is strong, but reliability, pricing clarity, and performance need work to satisfy most users.

### Pros

- Reads text aloud (text-to-speech) for books/articles
- Helps with studying and is time-saving
- Free basic voices and no strict reading limits

### Cons

- Premium voices paywalls and upsell
- Subscription/purchase issues and restore problems
- Voice quality often robotic or jumbled
- OCR/Scanning limitations and pay-per-scan model
- Usability issues and confusing UI (including persistent widgets)

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1446876360)