# WebOutLoud: Web Text to Speech

> Listen to Websites, PDFs, EPUB

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id917672170](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id917672170)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id917672170`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Bret Lester
- **Category:** Education
- **Rating:** 4.60 / 5 (767 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.30.17
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-15
- **First published:** 2014-11-05
- **Size:** 46 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-25
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/weboutloud-web-text-to-speech/id917672170)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://wol.bretlester.com/privacy\_policy.html](http://wol.bretlester.com/privacy_policy.html)

## Description

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.

## Rankings

- #61,644 — Overall
- #40 — web
- #63 — speech
- #70 — text to speech

## Review summary

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).

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id917672170)