Support for Read&Write Desktop™
Boost reading and writing confidence across all types of content and devices, in class, at work, and at home.
Total ratings
1.79
(Rating count:
42)Review summary
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Works well in conjunction with the desktop app
- Helpful for reading text online
- Some users find it invaluable after troubleshooting
Cons
- Numerous functionality issues, including not highlighting or saving text
- Buggy speech-to-text function
- Frustrating user experience with robotic voice for text-to-speech
- Incompatibility with certain types of documents like PDFs
- Extension often fails to activate or function at all
Most mentioned
- Does not work at all
- Frustrating user experience
- Issues with highlighting and saving text
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User reviews
Recent rating average:
2.30
All time rating average:
1.79
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| Date | Author | Rating | Lang | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-07-22 |  | | ||
| 2024-05-26 |  | | en | I only use this for the screen masking function for reading and writing things but the only settings which work are the tint whole screen and underline cursor, which is fine for reading but not great for typing. |
| 2024-04-11 |  | | en | The speech to text function is very buggy :( |
| 2024-03-30 |  | | en | Works very well for me. I like the desktop app for majority of my work and the chrome extension also works well but the desktop app is superior. |
| 2024-03-13 |  | | en | Works great, using the desktop software in combination with the extension allows me to work with everything. Including pdfs. |
| 2024-03-01 |  | | en | terrible not working!!!!! |
| 2024-01-31 |  | | en | I already wasted a whole day on this app and it doesn't work... |
| 2023-12-09 |  | | en | cant read or write, doesn't work on chrome. thanks this is so helpful! |
| 2023-10-13 |  | | en | Very frustrating. Highlighting specific text to convert to speech and it just chooses completely different chunks of text, or goes to a previous page of the document I'm using, rarely actually works. Seems to have a mind of its own. The speech is so jarring to listen to I can barely absorb what I'm supposedly hearing. Highlighting text often comes up with an error that it "couldn't save the note". Embarrassing that this is the main software given out by universities and disability student supports, yet it rarely works in the way you're told it will. I've had this software since 2020 as well, so the fact it's still this bad is unacceptable. |
| 2023-07-31 |  | | en | The worst thing about this software is the digital voice. all options are frankly teribble and make actively listening to large text almost unbearable. No matter the options and cadence or pitch. It all sounds so robotic. I wouldn't recomend this to anyone tbh. |
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