# Voice Dream - Natural Reader

> Text to Speech - Read Aloud

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id496177674](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id496177674)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id496177674`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Voice Dream LLC
- **Category:** Education
- **Rating:** 4.50 / 5 (14,323 ratings)
- **Version:** 5.5.8
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-18
- **First published:** 2012-02-09
- **Size:** 267 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-24
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voice-dream-natural-reader/id496177674)
- **Website:** [http://www.voicedream.com](http://www.voicedream.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.voicedream.com/privacy-policy](http://www.voicedream.com/privacy-policy)

## Description

Voice Dream - Read Aloud is an Apple Design Award-winning text-to-speech app that lets you listen to PDFs, textbooks, web pages, emails, and eBooks. It supports 36 built-in voices across 27 languages and over 200 premium voices, all usable offline, in the background, and without an internet connection. The app handles a wide range of formats (PDF, Word, PowerPoint, EPUB, DAISY, HTML, and more) and includes a built-in scanner to convert printed text to speech. You can customize pronunciation with a personal dictionary, and your data remains private on-device.

Features include multiple reading styles (auto-scroll, distraction-free mode, finger reading, and speed-reading), highlighted text to improve comprehension, and accessibility options like high contrast, large font, VoiceOver, Braille, and switch control. Practical tools include bookmarks, highlights, annotations with export, full-text search, a built-in dictionary, and automatic skipping of PDF headers/footers. Library synchronization via iCloud across devices, native integration with cloud services, and a subscription model with a free trial round out this comprehensive education and accessibility solution.

## Rankings

- #14,763 — Overall
- #29 — Essential Education Apps
- #8 — text to speech
- #9 — reader
- #20 — nature
- #21 — text expander

## Review summary

Overall sentiment combines strong appreciation for accessibility and utility with significant frustrations over pricing, voice quality, and support. Reviewers praise Voice Dream as a life-changing tool for the blind and a reliable way to read diverse content, including books, articles, and emails, at work or in daily life. Yet many complain about auto-renewed subscriptions, short trial periods, and refund hassles; voices changing or sounding robotic; and a frustrating login/support experience.

### Pros

- Significant accessibility benefits for visually impaired users, enabling reading text aloud.
- Ability to read a wide range of content (books, articles, web pages, emails) via text-to-speech.
- Useful as a daily/work tool and favored by long-time users who rely on it for reading content.

### Cons

- Subscription and billing model issues: short trial periods, automatic annual charges, and confusing cancellation and refund processes.
- Voice quality concerns: voices can sound robotic or less natural, and certain paid voices have been removed or replaced.
- Account access and customer support friction: convoluted login flow and reliance on bot support, making help slow or unhelpful.

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