# Simple Text Reader (TTSReader)

> Listen to text & web pages

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1493463248](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1493463248)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1493463248`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** WellSource Ltd.
- **Category:** Productivity
- **Rating:** 2.90 / 5 (51 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.1.3
- **Last updated:** 2020-01-14
- **First published:** 2020-01-10
- **Size:** 52 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-19
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/simple-text-reader-ttsreader/id1493463248)
- **Website:** [https://ttsreader.com](https://ttsreader.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://ttsreader.com/privacy/](https://ttsreader.com/privacy/)

## Description

Read aloud with Simple Text Reader (TTSReader). Reads written content, plain text, files, and web pages using natural-sounding voices across multiple languages. It provides a fast, hands-free listening experience with intuitive controls.

Key features include editable text, import web pages, image display, multiple voices and languages, adjustable reading speed, sentence highlighting, and bookmarks that remember the last reading position for up to five documents. It also supports sharing text and URLs and includes an internal browser for convenient listening anywhere.

## Rankings

- #206,894 — Overall
- #70 — text to speech

## Review summary

Users find the app intuitive and useful for studying, with no subscription requirement. However, reliability problems across devices and updates, voice/accent quality issues, iOS-specific failures, and difficulties importing text are the dominant drawbacks. Many users also want background playback or screen-off reading.

### Pros

- Intuitive and easy to use
- Functional when it works / straightforward interface for reading text aloud
- No subscription required
- Useful for studying/reading tasks (helps with homework)
- Copy-paste workflow is convenient in web/extension

### Cons

- Unreliable across devices and after updates; audio stops working in many cases
- Voice quality issues: heavy accents or unclear speech making it hard to understand
- iOS-specific issues; iOS version function does not work
- Importing text/files is confusing or not straightforward
- Missing background playback / screen-off support (feature request)

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1493463248)