WebOutLoud: Web Text to Speech

Name: WebOutLoud: Web Text to Speech
Rating: 4.6 (750 reviews)
Author: Bret Lester

By: Bret Lester

Listen to Websites, PDFs, EPUB

Features & Capabilities

WebOutLoud lets you listen to websites, PDFs, EPUBs, and any text using high-quality text-to-speech. It supports premium voices from Amazon Polly, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and others, with word highlighting, auto-scroll, and in-app reading across Chrome and Safari. Save articles, e-novels, PDFs and EPUBs to read later, create playlists, and sync with iCloud or read offline. It also includes a Safari extension for listening without leaving the browser and supports dozens of languages with custom pronunciations and substitutions (regex supported). AI features let you generate content summaries and chat about documents up to 300 pages, and you can organize your saved content into collections. Note: PDF TTS and custom substitutions require Basic; AI summaries and premium voices require Premium; built-in voices are free with occasional ads.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App Accessibility AI Content Education News & Magazines Writing

By:

Bret Lester

Rating:

4.60

(750)

Version:

3.30.14 Last updated: 2026-06-09

Version code:

886697240

Creation date:

2014-11-05

Compatible devices:

Works as Safari extension:

Size:

45.06MB

URLs:

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-12

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 66,401 ▼ 52

Other rankings

#31 in speech keyword 60 ▼ 1#36 in text to speech keyword 69 ▼ 6

For Developers

Monetize with App Pass Boost with Extension Booster

Contact the developer

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Developed by:

Bret Lester

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/weboutloud-web-text-to-speech/id917672170

User Reviews

Users praise WebOutLoud for saving time, ease of use, and versatility across content, with responsive support and good value relative to rivals. Recurrent complaints focus on pricing/word limits, voice quality, reading accuracy gaps, interface usability, and intermittent reliability bugs.

Pros

Saves time and reduces eye strain by reading web content aloud.
Easy to use with a copy/paste-free workflow by sharing a page to WebOutLoud.
Reliable and offers good value compared with competitors; generally stable.
Responsive customer support and developer engagement.
Versatile across content types like articles, web novels, and fanfiction.

Cons

Premium pricing and word-count limits are seen as overpriced or misleading.
Voices are often robotic or unnatural; users want more natural-sounding options.
Reading accuracy can be inconsistent, with common words skipped or sentences misordered.
Clunky macOS UI/UX and navigation issues, plus limited PDF handling.
Occasional reliability bugs (lag, stops, ads on some plans, login/download problems).

Recent reviews

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by lo*****, 2026-05-19

Loving this app, my go to app for downloading/reading web novels currently but I am curious if there’s any way to reset save data on pages I’ve already read. For example, I’m currently re-reading a novel I’ve previously read on this app and whenever I go to a chapter I’ve already read, it loads at the bottom so I have to scroll all the way back to the top which get’s rather annoying considering this novel has hundreds of chapters/pages to read. I’ve already tried clearing cache & history but that didn’t seem to do the trick. Any help would be much appreciated!!

by bo*****, 2026-03-25

I paid for a year long premium subscription. With that I am supposed to get 1 million spoken words of premium voices a month. Well, I just did a little test and it said my usage was at 279 words I had to read one sentence to me that was seven words long and it jumped up 240 words for the month. Out of my 1 million this is false advertisement that is once spoken words in the account for every one word spoken Either this needs to be fixed or I need a refund