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For Mental-Visual LearnersThis is probably the only app that is critical in my life. It might sound counterintuitive for me to say that the app that lets you listen to text is for visual learners but hear (lol) me out. Research (google it) has shown that whether we are looking at images through our eyes or seeing/conjuring images in our mind's "eyes", the visual cortex becomes active. Let me rephrase, regardless of whether you're seeing things in reality, say pictures or text on a book or visualizing what you did yesterday, the same part of the gain is being used to process those "images." The way I comprehend and learn from information is by constantly forming mental images of the concepts and linking and rearranging them into a graph model in my head--this becomes slow/more difficult when I have to (using the same visual cortex) basically multi-task/process text I'm reading on a page and synthesize corresponding mental images; the same part of my brain is doing the processing for two different tasks, so my reading speed and the quality and speed of the synthesized information in my head suffer. This is where speechify comes in. Speechify lets me engage my auditory cortex, which is otherwise unused in learning (from reading), for consuming and processing the information (text) and allows me to fully engage my visual cortex for comprehension and learning. I hope this makes sense, and I'd love if people could share any supporting or conflicting research..MootabVersion: 2.19.3

Grateful, grateful, grateful! Thank you!I am SO grateful there is FINALLY a app that is capable of reading out loud for me! With ADHD, Anxiety, and learning disabilities I struggle with just getting though a page, and I love to collect books and as much information as possible with ALL the good intentions possible to read and grow! I beat myself up for buy all the things I do (reading wise) bc I struggle with getting that time and focus long enough to read. Being a single momma of three kids ages 12,6,&5 and a fur mama of a cat and dog, I am very busy. Being able to hear the information of topics I am super interested in is LIFE CHANGING! I love my audiobooks! But when wanting to read websites (just finally was able to listen/read about CBT for ADHD on a website by copy and pasting the url! Life changing!), college text books (haven’t tried this feature just yet but I plan to soon) and I am looking forward to being able to have my email read about my kids endless school stuff! I have been searching for YEARS now for something that could help me and hands down this is what I have needed! Thank you for creating this app. Also keeping this app’s add on features at a reasonable price! I will be doing the add on for the speed preference and I want to support someone who created something so user friendly and for those like me who want to grow and yet are stuck and struggle with all the personal stuff that keeps us from growing! Thank you!.NjnununVersion: 2.8.0

Audible or Speechify?I spent hours comparing text to speech apps, and by far, Speechify has some of the best premium HD voices. I even considered dropping Audible, so that I could pay for an unlimited amount of HD voice listening time; however, while the HD voices are great, they’re not reliable enough for me to consider them as a replacement for Audible just yet. At times, they’re slow to load or glitchy. I wasted a good 200 or so words listening to Gwyneth lisp her way through sentences as if she was lapsing into a different language. I fiddled with her speech rate trying to remedy the problem, but it was to no avail. I had to switch to Michael. Michael read through everything perfectly, but he too had trouble staying on task. Even though I had plenty of of HD listening words left, he would intermittently cut out and be replaced by the British Male speaking voice. With all things considered, this is an app worthy of downloading. It does a respectable job transferring words from pictures—better than most. Sometimes, to my astonishment, it can read my handwriting. It hasn’t crashed, and apart from the HD voices, the standard voices seem quite reliable. I like that I can earn HD words the more I listen, and that there’s enough to stay entertained with in the free version. With a bit more perfecting, Audible might find itself facing the boot in favor of this nifty little app. For now, Audible is safe from the chopping block..ManxiepooVersion: 2.18.5

WOW!So helpful with ADHD. It tells you how many minutes it’ll take to read, taking away SO much of the intimidation I get from having to read anything. Pause at any time. It highlights the full sentence it’s on and follows along word-by-word “double highlighted.” It allows for dark mode. Love that for my light sensitivity! Tap the word you want it to start reading at if you’re skipping around. It’ll do exactly what you ask it to do. I wasn’t expecting it to be so good. I scanned two pages of my textbook. It even got the fine print and didn’t skip around to different paragraphs in a dumb way—even though the margins and pictures are designed in an awful way even for a human to read (thanks, dear engineers too cheap or stupid to hire real graphic designers with typography skills). It even read “g/mm^3” as “grams per cubic millimeter,” not “g slash m m carrot 3.” To top it off, the voice isn’t entirely annoying. The best automated voice imo, and believe me I’ve tried a ton. Maybe you can change the voice, but idk bc I just started playing with the app. Now I’m writing this review when I should be reading my textbook. Anyway, go ahead and download this app if you’re even on this page considering it—which ofc you are if you’re reading this rn. Good day. Edit—a few minutes later 🙃: Yes, you can change the voice. There are MANY to choose from! Excited to try them..SleekbeansVersion: 2.18.5

AwesomeI too have dyslexia. And I hated school for this reason. I couldn’t read stuff like my friends. I was always behind. I took so long to do homework because of it I couldn’t go out and play with my friends. I hated it. I cried and fought with my mom a lot. They put me in a special reading class to try to teach me how to turn the letters and words around. I even reverse numbers sometimes. When I was in first grade I had a teacher who would yell at me for not being able to read instead of trying to help me. So my parents held me back and put me in a different school. Where the teacher had seen it before and knew the signs for dyslexia. And I was tested and found out that’s what it was. I appreciate so much you creating this app. I do wish it didn’t cost so much. I understand you have to pay for the development and to keep it up to date. But that is a lot. I did teach myself to read and I do read books. But it does take me a lot longer than everyone else because of the dyslexia. But I do it anyway and even enjoy reading now. When I was a kid you would never see me read. But again thanks for creating an app that helps with that. I just wish the cost was lower I can’t afford that much a year at one time. Or if you had smaller monthly costs too that would be better for someone like me. Thanks again. I will use the free version for now. 👍🏻.B clark IPhone 6Version: 2.10.0

Worlds greatest AppI just wish I had Speechify when I was a young girl I found out I was dyslexic when I was taking eighth grade over for the second time. They knew I couldn’t comprehend they knew I could read but the problem was I wasn’t retaining it and it was extremely difficult but their practice and wanted to show that I’m not stupid even though I was in special ed classes as well I started reading more and more and more two books at the same time then I got up to three books at the same time finishing them and just expanding my mind today because I was not in school and work you’re on a computer I’ve kind of gone backwards but I’m trying again I’m back in college and 53 years of age to get a bachelors degree not in my first choice and love but it nonetheless it is still business and I look forward to this the only problem I have is the price that needs to come down so that more people can use it because I’m doing the three day trial but I will not be able to afford the price of the whole program if I can get it together I will but anyone that reads this it’s a great app and it does work and for those children that need the help it’s worth of money and it’s worth the money for me I just cannot afford it on a fixed income thank you and God bless..KKC ILVersion: 2.19.6

Beware Monthly Word LimitWhile this a good service and app, things could definitely be improved. My biggest qualm so far is that there is a monthly word limit at which point you are unable to use most of the voice options and are stuck with a robotic sounding woman’s name. I listen to a lot of audiobooks and podcasts while I work or multitask and so I was excited to use Speechify to listen to books that do not have Audiobook companions, pdfs, and online content. Within about two weeks I hit the monthly word limit and am now unable to really use the service because the non-enhanced/premium voice option is not very good. Secondly, while this service does have a broad range of voices in English some are better than others in terms of sounding less robotic or monotone when reading aloud and so there are really only four or five that I found myself using regularly. Some of the voices sound more natural and are good with pacing and understanding how to read a document and others not so much. For example, occasionally a word or two will be skipped by the voice or a part of a document will be read more literally than it is meant to. For example, when “….” is used to imply a pause the voices are likely to pronounce “dot dot dot” at the same speed and pacing as the rest of a document or e-book. I will wait and see what if any improvements are made to the service to determine if I will keep paying for it once the renewal date comes up..InwashVersion: 2.29.2

Never Reading An Article On My Own Again....This was my first time using the app, it can be hard for me to read because of my neuro-divergence and this app worked wonderfully for me. I tried to read an article that I was really interested in by myself three times and could not get through it. So I search text to speech apps, found this and I just finished the article. I am so thrilled to have read it and I retained the information. Now I am formulating my thoughts on the article and I figured I would come over and rate the app because it was really wonderful for me!! The narration (or text to speech) was very realistic, it was not super choppy or very “AI- ish”. It pronounced everything very well even things I thought it would mess up ... this article I just read would be a doozy for most text to speech apps and this one BREEZED right through. I LOVE the MULTIPLE playback speeds, as I could change it for an article that I want to pay closer attention too, I can slow it down even more. I also really appreciated the sentence being highlighted and the current word being double highlighted, it really helped me focus!! Cliff really put tremendous thought into this app and it shows. I think I might even pay for the premium sub to get the narrators voice ...I really liked him LOL..AsdfkcsyilvdtiveyjsVersion: 2.4.6

Awesome Creation!This is most definitely one of the most effective and productive process assisting programs ever created! It’s absolutely incredible! You can increase your ability and triple or quadruple your productivity in a matter of hours and get leaps and bounds ahead of your goals, expectations and colleagues with amazing results and accomplish your tasks in fractions of the time! It’s creators like this that make programs like this out of shear desperation and necessity that are absolutely required by so many that just need that one tiny bit of encouragement that really just doesn’t exist until it’s created like this so that they/we can become successful and surpass even our own wishes, ambitions and dreams which we thought impossible! Thank you for all your pain and suffering! All your hard work and misery! All your ambition and frustration! All your aggravation and accomplishments! All of your failures and triumphs! All your pain and dedication! You are: “ONE IN A MILLION”! This will help so many that have hidden in the dark on the sidelines for so long for fear of discovery! They will now come running out of the shadows to enlighten the world with their light and knowledge to show everyone their strength, ability and capabilities because of you and because of this! Thank you!.Mile HughesVersion: 2.18.4

Studying Efficiency DoubledFor a long time I’ve been actively looking for a better way to study. Among my strategies is a time consuming, “actually reading aloud” important notes and sometimes whole passages into a handheld voice recorder. Many times, I have to review and replay small sections. I either have to record in small bits to select small sections or rewind and scan through large whole passages guess-timating more or less what I want to review. It can become a tedious process and makes for inefficient study but with this app I simply select the section I want to replay by touching the screen, along with the playback speed and tone and accent of voice choice. At $12 a month and as an active duty military member, a part time student, and a law abiding citizen trying to keep up with world news the premium for the app was contemplated for all of 20 seconds. I didn’t want to do it but I’ve made way worst financial decisions in the past. WHY NOT! If you don’t get the app you will be making a tiny mistake in your life. Also I must mention that there are free aloud readers out there but everything needs an active internet connection. Having the freedom to carry my smartphone and headphones around without being attached to a laptop is worth its weight in gold..GmanGeniusVersion: 2.18.1

This has helped me SO much!As a dyslexic college student, drowning in the required readings and endless emails thrust upon pupils I have found myself trying anything and everything to increase my comprehension and reading speed. I simply don’t have time to reread a medical review 500 times as my brain unyieldingly demands! This app has been a savior to my grades, comprehension, confidence, and has boosted my craving for reading and knowledge! I would recommend this to anyone and everyone! Also, you can put books, yes real actual books you read for entertainment, into the app and create your own audiobooks! This app hasn’t only helped me in my college life, it has gotten me back to reading again! Love it!! The only negative thing I would say about this app is the premium version is EXPENSIVE. I tried it out to get a voice more personable and engaging but I found the cost more than I could justify. I love the premium voices (especially Harry!!) but as a broke college kid I just can’t afford it. Would you maybe consider making a free voice that is a little less monotonous? Maybe y’all could make Harry free? Yes, the latter request is a bit far reaching but it was worth a shot😅. Anyway - love the app and would recommend time and time again!!.P.GracieVersion: 2.18.4

So helpful, but also disappointingI use this app all the time and have for the past year or so. It used to be so great, but it just keeps getting worse and worse. They removed the search feature so I can't look for a word in a document. They removed the editing button so I can't edit a document once I've created it. And this is extra annoying because when I paste my textbook lessons into it, it'll paste around 3/4 of the lesson and then paste the entire thing. If that doesn't make sense, basically I'll be listening to a lesson and it'll suddenly start over so I have to fast forward and find the spot I was in. And I can't edit the document to remove the 3/4 of the lesson at the beginning. So annoying. It also messes up words all the time now. I don't know how it's possible that the AI got worse, but it did. One time there was a formula and instead of reading the formula it just said, "Eeeee" in what sounded like a slowed down E.T. voice. That kind of thing happens all the time. It doesn't say something wrong, it says something incoherent. Customer support was good when I contacted them a few months back about still wanting to use the search button; they quickly changed my app to the older version. But it updated again and it's so much worse now. I miss the old Speechify..Sofie HelenVersion: 2.29.4

Great app.The whole Speechify suite has really matured in the last 1-2 years. I feel like it does a lot better with academic textbooks and journal articles where it previously had struggled. The fact that highlighting as it reads is also available across multiple platforms is fantastic. There’s really only one thing that impedes the overall workflow when using it for academic reading… no highlighting (or note taking) capabilities. While this may slow down the overall process, being able to highlight a sentence to go back to (even if it isn’t a full PDF editor experience) would be awesome. Right now I often have PDF Expert or Zotero open on my iPad for highlighting while the same document is on my laptop for actually reading to me. This takes away the very, very, very user friendly aspect of highlighting the sentence being read (and slightly darker highlight for individual word), which I think is where the app really shines in making speed reading more attainable for a broader audience. I hope they continue to improve and innovate (and maybe give us some highlighting function :). My only other gripe is lack of feature parity across web, iOS and desktop apps… It’s been getting better, but I wonder why “auto increase speed” isn’t available on iOS or desktop..Tripp88Version: 2.27.7

I’m loving it!I always read really slow compared to others and I always tend to read better with someone/something reading it out loud. On this app though I can just easily take a picture of my book pages and it loads within a minute which is really fast and amazing and I just listen to it. It does mess up on some of the words which is understandable that’s why I’m glad I can just edit the text from what ever it messes up. I love how you can just add folders because I’m separating my book by chapters because that’s easier and to make it a whole lot easier I just add it in a folder with the book title as the folder name. It’s easy to add series also because I can add folders within a folder and I find that absolutely amazing. I’m glad I found this app so I can actually read better and read more of what I love! I already been suggesting this app to a lot of people and I only got it yesterday. I love this app already! I’ve been listening to my book all day while doing some work without buying things like some ebook apps even though they're some things you can buy like translation and voices which I might actually buy soon! ❤️❤️❤️Thank you so much! You’re such a life saver! I’m glad this app exists!❤️❤️❤️.Mika MaiyazuVersion: 2.3.3

Works, but needs editing to work well!I often listen along while reading to provide multi sensory input to improve my reading comprehension and memory, but the long time while editing can be counterproductive at times. Most of the documents I need to read, such as academic papers and textbooks, have multiple columns, text boxes, charts, etc. per page. For this to work correctly on Speechify, I find I must go through each page to edit the columns and mark each text area. This isn’t too bad, but the editing feature can be finicky and hard to line up if you don’t have neat columns for the entire page. There is only one “template” for up to 4 columns, but this doesn’t always align well with whats on the page. Columns and text boxes are doable, but charts not so much yet (but those are usually for visual studying, anyway). Additionally, it will miss spaces frequently and so bunches several words together, causing speechify to spell out the block of text letter by letter instead of interpreting the words. For this reason I often have to edit the text while reading/listening, too, to add the spaces or correct the punctuation. I find this app helpful for my needs (I have ADHD and autism and am in grad school with tons of heavy duty reading), but it requires a bit too much extra work for the high cost of the app!.MadelinehaffVersion: 2.16.1

Helps simulate a classroomI recently got back into school and I quickly found out how much I miss normal in-class sessions. All my classes are online and while I thought all classes were zoom-calls or at least video lectures, I was wrong. Most of my lectures are typed out and between that and a book I find myself really struggling to understand it without hearing it. Now once I found Speechify and saw how many voice options there is I knew it would be perfect! As soon as I got my documents downloaded I was able to take notes while listening like a normal class lecture. It’s even better in some ways because I can actually go back and repeat parts I missed or didn’t understand quite yet. I think the only thing that would make this app even better is the ability to view Speechify in split-screen. I’m not sure how it works for different platforms but I have an I-Pad Pro. So far I have just been viewing the lecture on the Files app in split screen while I type notes in the other. I’d like to be able to interact with Speechify in split-screen instead. Thank you for making this app though! It helped me get back on track for college!.AprettyrockVersion: 2.19.9

I love it but there are issues!It pains me to give this app only 3 stars, because I love it so much. I’ve listened to 9.3 millions words (that is 698 listening hours) using speechify over the last 8 months. However, I’ve had significant issues with my premium subscription that can’t be overlooked. I got the year-long premium subscription about 8 months ago. With that subscription, I’m supposed to get 150k words of the premium HD voices every month. I love the HD voices, they sound amazing. So what’s my issue? My HD words don’t automatically renew every month. The first time I noticed it, I was able to contact customer service and they were able to manually renew my HD words. But that really shouldn’t be necessary! I shouldn’t have to contact customer service every month just to get what I paid for! I have found a non-HD voice that I like pretty well and sounds reasonably natural (I use British Female). So ultimately I’m not so bothered by this issue to stop using the app. But there’s clearly a major issue with their subscription system. Update: newest update is terrible! Now there are audio ads. I’ve gotten 4 ads in the last 10 minutes! That’s about every 2.5 minutes which is pretty much an unbearably annoying frequency of ads! Going to go listen to an audiobook instead..Huda'Version: 2.23.0

Minor DyslexicI love this! I have always thought I have been a bit dyslexic... I can read but I read slower and mess up some words sometimes. I told my parents that I think I have a small case of dyslexia but they always said no. They always said you just need to practice reading more. They were right. Kind of! If I work really hard at it and am in a quiet place with no distractions, I can read a book. I’m not fast. I’m not sure I comprehend everything I should but I can read. I never liked reading until I got into high school. That is when I finished my first chapter book with out anyone reading to me. My dad would always read to me for my “lit circles” or text book assignments. I love him for that! He is one of the reasons I graduated at the top 10 of my class in high school and first two years of college! He never gave up on me and he was always there to help me no matter what I needed help with! He is my hero! Mom too! She was not very good at reading either but she did better at math. I am now attending my 3rd year of college online to become a teacher and I love to read. Speechify will just speed things up for me a bit is all! Thank you! ❤️.Joosty16Version: 2.1.8

Trying to time itAll through elementary school junior high and high school when we would take turns reading I would skip ahead and figure out which chapter I was going to have to read. I will go over it and over and over in my head of course by doing this I had no idea what everybody else had read because I was so focused on trying to be able to read and not in barest myself and burst out crying. When somebody got skipped for the teacher changed the order I would go into a complete panic and then I would’ve fake illness or the bathroom break. When teachers would just call upon students to read the whole time I would be looking down trying to be as small as I possibly could and saying over and over in my head please don’t call on me please don’t call on me I have always felt dumb I have yelled at myself why are you so stupid and then I found out I too have dyslexia and ADHD I love audiobooks I want to learn and know about everything but there’s so many books out there that are not audio thank you so much for making simplify you have changed my unknown dark reading world into a magical fantasy sincerely Melissa.ThegirlranVersion: 2.19.5

The Logic is SolidThe Logic is solid. Media is easier to digest when experiencing it through different mediums and senses that double down or reinforce the content being conveyed. In other words, listening is beneficial to understanding word. I don’t mean just hearing it ether. A word can be heard and not properly listened too, just a word can be read and not listened too, because listening is about actually retaining and being able to utilize the information conveyed. Think back to the last time you were asked to do something by a family member or loved one and ended up completely missing the mark. This is one example of hearing without listening. Interacting with that same information through both mediums enhances the average persons ability to listen. That being said I give the review four stars because I don’t exactly know what you pay for with premium. It’s not made clear until fiddling with the software some, and guessing at which features are and are not available to you. The UI could use improvement for intuitive use, but the logic is solid. Can’t wait to see how this app and idea improves..B-cubed for benjaminVersion: 2.16.3

A must have for book loversThis year I listened to my first audio book and I loved it. There are so many times during the day when I would listen to my book; while doing the ton of dishes in the sink, cleaning, cooking, etc. After I finished my book and continued my daily chores without having it, I realized how much I missed it and how much of my brain function wasn’t being used anymore like it was. All this extra time during my day could be spent enriching my mind instead of just staring at the wall in front of me while doing my dishes for an hour lol I have a few books I keep putting off because of the time it takes to sit down and read them. I still take my time to sit and read which is very therapeutic, but having it in my ear whenever I wanted was something I wanted back. I saw an add on instagram about this app and I clicked so quick! It took just a couple minutes to take pictures of my book pages and it’s like magic! It’s easy to do, you can customize the voices, reading speed, etc. Usually when I download a new app I’m skeptical but I’m blown away by this. My wish has come true lol.Pemdas114Version: 2.19.0

NO FREE TRIAL THEY CHARGE REGARDLESSI did love the “trial” I. Thought I would love the app. However $140 with only an option for a year was a little steep. So I canceled the plan before my trial was up.. or so I thought. It tells you to go into your Apple subscriptions to cancel.. the only option there was to cancel the “free trial”. So I did. So, imagine my surprise when I was charge the full amount and after the trial time my account had me listed as a yearly subscriber. So I kindly wrote the company to let them know and to request a refund. Well, they try blaming everything on apple. They wash their hands of it. Gave me a copy and past answer that I should have canceled prior to the trial ending. I said, I did. Then they went on to say that the trial is part of the yearly subscription. Well, then that’s not a free trial…. I did give them a chance to make it right.. the did not. So, now I am warning others so that they can avoid the same issue. I had even recommended the app to friends and family. I will be warning them as well. I have requested a refund through apple and hoping that they are able to help. BEWARE BEWARE BEWARE!!!! Do not download! Do not sign up for the Fake-Free trial. There is NO TRIAL!!!!!!!!.Pholder11Version: 2.25.5

100% BrilliantI’m very glad that this program is invented and out my whole life I’ve been waiting for this program to be created and developed thank you very much for creating this app and program I to suffer with reading disabilities since elementary school till the day I graduated high school and even into college I ended up dropping out of college due to all the many chapters of reading from all the many classes that I needed to read every night it got harder and harder and more and more that at a point I wasn’t capable of keeping up with my assignments because just to read one chapter would take me an hour or longer and I had many chapters from multiple classes each night working full time and gng to school at night full time. I just couldn’t get all the reading done that I fell behind started failing a lot of my core classes I hope that this app will allow me to go back to college again and finally graduate and get a degree after dropping out 11 years ago. Thank you for sharing such a great product with the world this app has blessed me very much thank you with all of my heart. God Bless you..Kamea07Version: 2.1.9

I love it!You should definitely download this app! I’ve “read” so many books after using this app; more than I have in my entire life. I love the feature to listen as fast as you want. It’s fairly easy to use and figure out. I like the fun incentives to read more and the stats that show your reading progress. It’s an amazing app with plenty of great free features. The app is annoying sometimes. For instance, many times, some text will be run together with no space in-between words. So the voice will read it all out letter by letter. Sometimesitsentirescentenceslikethisanditseemslikeitshouldbeaneasyfix. I also wish that when a book needs to be split up into parts (i.e. part 1/2, part 2/2) the app would begin reading the next part immediately after the last part ends. Finally, I really wish something could be done about citations. I was reading a book recently that for some reason insisted on listing the source info at the end of practically every other page. It would be great if there was an algorithm that could weed that sort of stuff out. The benefits of this app far outweigh the minor issues. I’m looking forward to continuing my book binge!.XenopherusVersion: 2.5.0

An app that teams up with voice inside your head!I dare you to download this app and use it only once. Should be easy enough to dismiss. I mean as apps go its kind of extra, right? My iPhone and Siri can read perfectly fine, cant they? My google home is a device, it reads me the news in the morning in the background while the showers on sometimes....The hard truth is that if you even once for a moment have suspected that the reason you are not comprehending what is being read to is because the voice is bothersome or off or vaguely vacant, robot or not, you’ll seamlessly stop tuning into that feature just as effortlessly as Schools Out For Summer! I think deep down we all know reading for knowledge and true betterment doesn't come cheap and that its beyond human capacity to fake comprehension to oneself, inside ones own head where understanding is reality and not understanding is impossible to even discern. Where is it anyway? 2/3rds of the internet of ideas is out there in print. The voice that reads to you reads inside your head without frills or effect but steadily and with integrity..RedSymbol/Version: 2.3.5

Great improvementThis has made me work faster get more done.Buffalo professionalVersion: 2.29.4

Not good not badThis app is on such a roll with where it’s going, but it needs a lot of work. I thought I was all set with my chrome extension but the app just seems to really lag and struggle too many times. One thing that is a major issue is that with online school there are a lot of powerpoints with information. If you open the PowerPoint online, it will not read it. Highlighting the text also does not work. This will likely be the reason I do not stick with this application as it can’t truly read everything on a web page. I have put way too much effort into trying to get it to work when it’s supposed to help save time and be efficient. I look forward to where this technology goes but for now it’s just not really that helpful..ScottieJ17Version: 2.16.3

This Is A Total Game Changer!!!🙏🙏🙏This is really good, like really really good. I’ll be able to get through a text book a week if not a day! With this app. It’s just so breath taking. When I watched the creators YouTube videos about the app it seemed too good to be true and I thought it was a scam, but low and behold it’s a freaking gold mine! A major arbitrage opportunity! This has just become my new secret weapon, straight A’s here I come..Mord107Version: 1.9.30

SpeechifyI’m dyslexic and this is help me very much throughout school and just in general it is not only help me and improved my reading but I also recommended it to my family members and that is very well speak if I had also taught me words I didn’t know that honestly existed so thank you speechify for helping me😊.QzptmVersion: 2.4.8

Unreal, best experience so farThis Text-to-Speech software is worth your time. Try it free, on different platforms. I am currently using the "Narrator" (beta) voice and starting at 160 WPM speed for better retention. My school notes now have the same vibe as a BBC documentary and it's a vibe. The price for premium is steep for one year but honestly time is money and the amount of time you'll save once you train yourself to use this program efficiently outways the price. I am currently restructuring my school notes formatting so that it can be read smoothly with this app. I think that I have it figured out and the time learning to work with this program already seems worth it. Check it out..Brayden ChuraVersion: 2.16.0

My world changed todayI cannot begin to write the depth that Cliff’s story and mission reverberates with my notion of what a meaningful piece of software both in intent and execution can do. I will edit this further with specifics. Pankaj Chand, MD.ER PhysicianVersion: 1.9.31

Just got it and love it already!!I don't know why this app isn't first in the search results.. It does exactly what I was hoping for! I rarely leave reviews, let alone leave one within minutes of getting an app, but this is a special case. Thank you so much Cliff, you the real MVP!!.Iona81Version: 1.9.28

This app is basically (indirectly) giving me a job.I’m a college student and I need to read a lot of things for research and other assignments. Without this app I wouldn’t be able to finish any of my assignments, there are other apps similar to this one but this one is DEFINITELY the best one! I would not be passing school if it weren’t for this app. It’s also a handy tool for getting through long boring emails or readings. If anyone is wondering if they should get this app the answer is yes!.ShnangVersion: 1.9.26

Omg thank you Cliff this awesomeOmg thank you Cliff this is awesome. Make reading easy and fun . Really appreciate this app, and it free too. I use it to read my text book. Thank you.ZnsunmertVersion: 1.9.22

Best App I have downloadedThis app has been so useful to me. I use it to read books to me for school that I can't keep up with or the ones that just put me to sleep! This is literally life changing for me! Thank you and I would recommend downloading..BindeesVersion: 1.9.6

So happy with itIt could convert from pictures . I am so satisfied with it. Thank you sooooooo much.Parisa RafiVersion: 1.8.14

👍🏼Excellent app.Xx yy. zzVersion: 2.29.4

La revanche des dyslexiques!!!! MerciJe suis un entrepreneur depuis 20 ans, je suis dyslexique et TDA depuis toujours mais je ne le savais pas😅 je m’ai toujours senti moins bon et différents des autres ,alors seul… depuis que j’utilise cette outil je suis devenu beaucoup plus productif et efficace. Merci beaucoup aux concepteurs, 🫶.OrthosioVersion: 2.29.3

Great ToolGreat tool, and the only one native for iOS at this moment. Works well overall. When it come to scanned texts it struggles recognizing some words and some letters, and with distinguishing between letter spacing and word spacing. The letter ‘t’ can be it’s biggest downfall in this case. Not sure if it’s worth the paid service, yet, on my case with scanned texts and books.DutchSyrupWaffleVersion: 2.29.3

Can’t wait to try it outI’m very thrilled and excited because I have ADHD and it is very hard for me to read and obtain all the information I read for some reason it goes in one year out the other or I guess read it and it goes out the other.Jordan tower craneVersion: 2.29.3

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Speechify Text to Speech Audio Negative Reviews

Audio Book ListeningI want to start off saying I’ve only used this app to listen to two audio books, I have not used the other features and from what I hear it sounds like the other features work fine. But, I don’t think I can muscle through using this app for another audio book ever again, and to be fair I’m probably not the target audience of the app in the first place. -Frequent app crashes. Frequent. -When pausing an audio book and opening the app later, the app regularly jumps to another paragraph in the chapter or ahead a couple of chapters. Sometimes I’d pause it for fun and hit play right after to see how many words or sentences it decided to skip. -I found that if my iphone is in low power mode, the audio will completely stop playing after a couple minutes and I have go back into the app to hit the play button, which then almost always jumps the audio reading to another section (see issue before). -Tapping the forward or reverse buttons, in other audio book apps (I know this isn’t an “audio book app”) this allows the listener to jump ahead or behind a few seconds, not this app. Sometimes it feels like jumping to a paragraph behind or ahead. Maybe it takes you to the beginning of the sentence. Sometimes it will just jump an entire chapter of the book. Once it restarted the book entirely; that filled me with an emotion I thought I had experienced before but after this experience I realized I had never truly tapped into the full potential of this emotion..ElkeivoVersion: 2.26.3

Promising app but disastrous updates hinder performanceThis is a really promising application but unfortunately the last several updates have damaged the functionality. Early versions of the app stored files on your phone and downloading them was lighting fast and when you opened your app later to finish reading your downloaded files they were instantly there for you to read. A few updates ago the application was changed so that files you download now sync with servers in an attempt to allow you to view your files across the Chrome app (this is what the devs explained to me when I pointed out the new updates’ problem), however this syncing requirement means when you open the app it takes absolutely ages for your files to load, sometimes over an hour. I have not cancelled my premium subscription yet because I know this app can function better, because it used to prior to the damaging updates. I communicated these concerns to the developers and I’m patiently awaiting the next update to see if this issue is addressed. But since these new updates I’ve had a really hard time using the app and I’ve been searching for a replacement that doesn’t have these issues. UPDATE: I have cancelled my subscription as the app experience continues to get worse. My saved files now mostly won’t sync and are thus not accessible usually for about 15 minutes after the app loads. This server sync delay is unacceptable in a subscription product.FoolishkdjdjdjVersion: 2.17.3

Go back to when you cared about your customers more than money:New review: I CANNOT BELIEVE HOW EXPENSIVE IT IS for a yearly plan. If it was for life, maybe it would be worth it. To not even change the rate to be faster than 1.1 without paying over a hundred bucks annually hurts my soul. I’m a student and it’s a travesty that they don’t have some type of educational discount or understanding. Rude and avaricious. Old review: I absolutely love this app. I’m very slow and ADD when I read, but reading along with the app’s voice helps so much. I feel like I can actually read long articles and understand them in a normal amount of time. It’s also great when I’m getting ready and unable to read traditionally, as it helps to give a refresher from whatever text to comprehend it better. For school, it has been great to submit my papers and find inconsistencies bc of how it sounds here compared with my own voice. I love the functionality, too. It’s so handy how you can submit text or pull straight from the internet, and the fact that it’s on the “share” menu on my phone is incredibly convenient. I accidentally purchased the free trial and then was charged the full year amount for the premium version of the app, and when I reached out to their customer service they were so understanding and gave me a refund right away. I do wish the premium wasn’t so expensive for the extra voices, but literally everything else about speechify has been more than useful thus far. Highly recommend!!.TopangaTangoVersion: 2.20.8

I used to love this app!! Then was charged $160I was Speechify’s #1 fan!! But lately, the app has been glitching, and when I deleted & redownloaded it, I was charged $160 without warning. When I reached out to Speechify via email, they said I had to reach out to Apple. When I reached out to Apple, they said I was ineligible for a refund, potentially because Speechify had already received the funds. It looks like this has happened to other people too, and it’s a huge bummer because this app has so much potential & has been really helpful for me in the past. See below for my old ~glowing review~. *** Old Review: I’m in grad school & this app has made working through readings not just easier & faster, but has also allowed me to retain more information & understand my readings better. I usually play the readings on my phone using Speechify & then read along, which makes me feel like I have someone sitting there, reading my homework to me (which I guess, in a way, I do). As a Black person, I appreciate that Speechify has begun to include a diversity of voices to choose from (currently listening to Mr. President but fingers crossed for more) and as someone who has to read a lot of longer texts, I’m psyched about the new option to upload Kindle books. Thank you, Speechify! This app has been a game changer for me. *** Hopefully they get back on track! That was a whopper on my bank account though, so they might have me as a fan again, but maybe they’ll have you?.AytharpeVersion: 2.27.8

Speechify customer rep may need his own product more than me!Tried to access a 3 day trial, instead they pulled $175 from my account on a Thursday evening, told me they couldn’t initiate a refund and I had to go through Apple. Left me with $18 (still haven’t gotten a refund), my bank deactivated my card because I filed the claim as fraud. Missed several monthly payments and so now my credit will be impacted, and “Ricky” decides after 3 days to tell me that I somehow had a trial over 2 years ago and that’s why I got charged….??? The offer even has a slider button that says NOTIFY me before I am charged. That was selected and it still didn’t happen. What I remember is that 2 years ago they were using G. Paltrow’s voice and that it sounded choppy and uncomfortable. I don’t remember any free trial, just listening to a sample. I could be wrong and would have declined a subscription at the above price and looked at other options. The point is that there were no options offered. There still aren’t and they are still contacting me after I requested that they NOT. To make it worse, they aren’t contacting me to make amends for what happened, they are continuing to tell me why this is somehow my fault…..Potentially amazing product with absolutely no concept of customer relations much less customer service. Someone should tell Snoop as that is their new hook. Major disconnect, really negative experience and no feeling of concern from them. Thanks “Ricky”……🤦🏻‍♀️.Frogee1Version: 2.27.2

Not worth 1 star to meI canceled my free 3 day trial and the 2nd day. I went in the app to do so and it directed me to the website to proceed to cancel my subscription and because this happened to me 4 days ago with a different app and they refunded me because they did unrightfully charged me the year subscription. Unfortunately speechify did the same to me today and withdrew $160 as form of subscription yearly payment even after I honored the terms and conditions agreement that they would not charge me if I cancelled within the 3 days of the free trial. Witch I did and yet they couldn’t follow there own terms and conditions verification. Unprofessional and not even doing what they can to correct the problem other then saying sorry but apple support will need to assist me and sends me a link that’s I had completed before I reached out to them to inform them of what they wrongly did to me. I even did a survey following me canceling and confirming my cancellation of the free three day trial before trial is up answering the question they asked about why I was canceling and didn’t want to pay for the subscription charge after my free trial was up and I said it’s not reasonable or worth $160 for a year because the AI’s wouldn’t say the right words that where in the literature and books i chose them to read for me as well as couldn’t pernounce 40% of the words it was reading to even slurring words together. Poor quality performance in so many ways!.NessaM333Version: 2.27.2

It’s not worth this kind of moneyI truly wonder if they are charging this much for this app strictly because they think students will spend their loan money on something like this, only to have it be crappy and not be able to get their money back. I’m on day 2 of the free trial and I found that I need to sit in front of my computer and follow along with the reading because if I get up and move away from the screen whatever the app is supposed to be reading will continue on another page and the speech doesn’t continue, it goes to whatever pictures or boxes are on my textbook page that it was reading and starts reading those in basically gibberish because it tries reading the actual pictures: maps and what not. I was sitting here, waiting for the desktop app to open my history book and I got up and went to the door to look outside and the narration started. But when I got closer to the sound, I heard that it was literally just gibberish so I took a video to send to the developers. I couldn’t see where the narrator was supposedly narrating from and couldn’t find it but I heard it saying letters over and over and over again and like erroring out. This is probably happening 50% of the time I try using this program. Considering they want $140 for this, I’m canceling my free trial early in case it charges me before I expect to be charged. Good luck..Firecat72Version: 2.18.5

Flashy ads, crappy product. Pretty big rip off.UPDATE: March 2022– I can’t emphasize enough — don’t waste your money on this app. They still haven’t figured out basic things like “Mr.” or “Dr.” is not the end of a sentence. They need to spend less money on ads and actually bring their product up to speed with basic technology. It’s better than nothing— but not by much! ORIGINAL REVIEW This app seems like it was rushed to launch with the technology and features not ready for prime time. I want to like this so much. And if you’re driving and need to hear an article, it’s better than nothing. But the best voices sound extremely computer generated. And the better sounding voices (there’s one that sounds a lot like David Attenborough) just don’t work well. Pauses where there shouldn’t be pauses. Mispronunciation of extremely common words. (It calls Fauci “fau-sy…like how do you not update your software to recognize insanely common proper names?) And again, I cannot overstate how impossible it is to comprehend an article when the AI reader puts random pauses in places where there are no grammatical pauses. If you need something to read you an article in a punchcard fine. But it’s not worth the money just yet. They need to work out the technology before justifying this kind of price. Maybe use some of the money you’re paying for slick advertisements and use it to develop this product more. Because right now, you’re overselling it..DanGalloVersion: 2.19.3

Seriously?I am a student in high school trying to cram study the night before my unit exam for my medical class. I downloaded this app to help me because I have a hard time reading documents on my phone, so I needed it to be read to me. I gave this app two stars because during my “seven day free trial” the readers voice I selected and the speed at which it read was all very nice, until it told me the voice I had selected (after two minutes of reading) is now a premium voice and I have to switch to a more AI sounding voice. Which then I thought okay, kind of annoying since I did think I would have this available for seven days but whatever. So, I again go back to listening and then the highlighted words that was supposed to tell me where the reader was at kept bugging out and wasn’t correctly following the words. After all of this I was six minutes into my nine minute long document and it then told me that my words had maxed out, and I will have to buy the premium version in order to keep reading. At this point now, I’m very frustrated since I was just looking for an app to read to me and help with my assignments (like it said it was going to at the start of my “seven day free trial”). I will definitely be going back to coping and pasting my texts into google translate and listening that way. No hate, just really disappointed. :(.-adriannAVersion: 2.23.0

Taking advantage of people with disabilitiesThe idea is great and could really help someone like me with dyslexia. However, the lack of open dyslexic font, the app crashing, and the highlighted words not at all staying with the voice, it’s just sort of a unhelpful app based in a great idea. I’m a good reader for the most part and I read offer, I just wanted something that could help me work on my speed or at least decrease my fatigue. Unfortunately this app is just not there. The price is another thing which feels like it’s trying to take advantage of those with a reading disability. Like I get they need to make money, but I feel that the price is insulting. The founder apparently has dyslexia and instead of helping us he is trying to profit from us. As a teacher, I really wanted a great way to help my students with improving their reading, but I could not with good conscious suggest an app that will charge them $140 every year! There are far too many people who price gouge people with disabilities and it’s the same for people with learning disabilities. It’s awful and it makes me sad that this is considered acceptable. The makers of this app should be ashamed for taking advantage of people who are just trying to find a way to make life easier for themselves and others. Subscriptions are not a ethical way to charge customers, and they know it. It’s just about money to them and people with a disability are easy targets..JillyT13Version: 2.20.1

From excellent to non-functionalFor graduate school reading for the past 2 years, I’ve used this app intermittently while also using Apple’s native reader for reading textbook and journal articles. I was originally satisfied with the app but noticed that this app has progressively gotten worse with its new changes, not better. You would hope for improvement not regression. First they added too many voices and half the time it wouldn’t load the voice I selected and would switch to different voice mid-read. That was at least functional. After returning from summer break, I discovered that Speechify has become non-functional for academic work. It will automatically import the PDF but it can’t handle the reading. It jumps all over the place. I tried with 2 different documents. Although their prior system was time consuming, I did not mind completely processing the documents or complex textbooks myself if it ensured the reading order was correct and unnecessary text was removed from being read. It’s clear that they did not do appropriate level of user testing before releasing a system to “automatically” read that cannot handle all types of text. Minimally, they should have a kept a a manual import option to override these problems. If you are a college student, do not get Speechify look into other applications or Apple’s text to speech works relatively well for many things..Jane PlainerVersion: 2.27.0

A Solid Text-to-Speech App But Terrible PricingI appreciate the functionality of the app; however, I find the pricing structure insane given the imperfections in some voices (they’re not terrible just not perfect and pronounces some words wrong). While I value the quality of two particular voices, the overall variety doesn’t align with the cost. I’m not paying crazy amounts for a text to speech app where I’ll only use two or three out of all the voices they have. Me saying two is me trying to be nice and not be negative. But honestly I could use only one voice and be satisfied. Paying that much for this app is counterintuitive. A more reasonable pricing model would encourage me to commit to the app. I recommend incorporating a feature that allows users to individually purchase the voices they prefer. Subscribing to the entire app, especially when one’s usage is confined to only a couple of voices, appears less logical. Introducing a selective payment option for specific voices would offer users a more flexible and cost-effective choice. Currently, I literally keep finessing the app and repeatedly using the free trial. I’ve been doing this for a long time now. It’s wrong. I don’t want to do that, that’s why I’m writing this. I think you guys do donations for dyslexia so I would much rather pay but until a reasonable pricing model I’ll have to continue that..KIDSHREDVersion: 2.28.1

No hate for the creator but...The text recognition needs a lot of work, I imported a book of which all of the pages are formatted into 2 columns, the app registers each new line as a new sentence, and for words that continue on the following line, the app registers those as two separate words. When there's actually a new sentence the app would often fail to register that a new sentence has started, but instead continues to read the passage at a constant pace from before the new sentence has started, making comprehension difficult. If you plan on listening to this app while you're doing other activities, you can forget about that, you'll have to be reading your text while you're listening to understand. This isn't an issue with me not paying for the premium service, this is an error at the very fundamental level of the software. The app provides voice options such as Arnold Schwarzenegger & Gwyneth Paltrow, which are some fun features, but they're offset by the subpar text recognition. The app also mispronounces simples words like "creativity" as creativi-tie. The skip forward/backwards button doesn't work properly. The app does not provide the option to import book from the files app, instead the document must be uploaded into a cloud storage platform to be accessed from the app. This app needs a lot of work, do not pay for this unless you don't mind being ripped off..RsnblVersion: 2.11.1

Working worse & worse since purchasingI purchased this the first week of January 2023 to support my graduate school reading. The learn best with a combination of listening and following along in the book and am also a slow, easily distracted reader. I utilised the 3 day free trial (short) to assure that the app worked effectively with journal articles and textbook photo uploads. It worked well! Not perfect but it really was saving me a lot of time and i was learning to count on Speechify each week. About twi weeks ago the app stopped reading my articles and allowing me to batch upload pages (this was a trouble shooting solution a tech gave me), the app became slow and had to buffer after just a sentence or two, frustrating and irritating, it stopped properly reading sentences from uploaded text reading simple words like “the” as “T” and making listening impossible. I have reached out to the techs with out response or response with blanket responses like “please re download the app” I am frustrated because i got to enjoy the app and experience it working well. I have used it on the computer, iphone and ipad and all versions now are inferior to my experience prior to two weeks ago. I paid for a year membership and now am strongly considering disputing this because the app is proving to be useless and an actual waste of my time now..Hazel rainVersion: 2.24.2

I used to love speechify..I’ve had this app in the past, I loved how I could just scan pages, as someone with ADHD I find it miserable to read long chapters and liked I could listen to my textbooks as I did other things. However it’s changed since I re-downloaded it. If you’re using the free version it interrupts SO many times to advertise the paid version, I understand the need to advertise but it’s so pervasive that I can hardly justify the time it saves me because it is so distracting. It made me want to find a new app more than pay for the Speechify subscription. Now however the app won’t download files I add, it won’t process them, I thought it was because I had about 50 pictures worth of files, however I deleted that version after 3 days of seeing if it was uploading (meanwhile having a good WiFi connection over multiple networks) and it was still at 0%. I retried and did half as many files and it did the same thing, then I tried just one and it still isn’t working. Despite maybe some technical difficulties on the app’s end, after all of that I really lost a lot of time and faith in this app, it’s just not reliable and the “mission statement” of the developer wanting to help others save time and help those with issues reading long passages just doesn’t ring true to my recent experience using it..A happy Co-WriterVersion: 2.19.0

Buggy, distracting, waste of timeI am a nurse practitioner student and I downloaded the app and paid for a subscription to help me be more efficient with my multiple reading assignments each week. I saw that this app was supposed to help with such a thing so I tried it. Unfortunately, in order to help with etextbook readings you have to scan the individual pages into the app, which is incredibly time consuming especially if you are studying medicine or nursing. The time it takes to scan multiple pages of a etextbook (or a regular textbook) I could have just sat down and read it like I normally do. I wanted to give the app a try anyway, so I scanned/took screenshots of three pages of my etextbook. When the program started to read it to me it switched voices AND languages (from English to Spanish) FIVE times on ONE page. How incredibly distracting! Not to mention that the website is buggy as well. I couldn’t get the payment dashboard to load to cancel my subscription. Thankfully, I used PayPal to subscribe and was able to cancel through them. I didn’t need the free trial to decide if the app was right for me. I downloaded the app, signed up for the trial, gave it a try, then quickly canceled my subscription and deleted the app, all within one hour. That’s an hour I could have spent actually reading the material or helping a patient. Save yourself the time and frustration. Skip this app..NickyAnaisRossoSVersion: 2.18.3

Shoves “try premium for free” down your throatI’m trying to use this app to help my reading speed and be able to multi task but every few minutes I listen to the audio it suddenly stops and puts up an ad advertising “try premium for free” speechify premium subscription plan. This happens consistently as I’m trying to listen to the audio and I have to manually close the ad in order to resume the reading. I should not have to deal with my audio CONSTANTLY STOPPING just to have this app slap me in the face with “TRY PREMIUM FOR FREE, TRY PREMIUM FOR FREE, TRY PREMIUM FOR FREE, TRY PREMIUM FOR FREE!!!!!” Over and over and over and over again. It severely increases the time it takes me to get through a reading because I have to keep resuming the audio every time. For an app that preaches to help “save time reading” it does a horrible job when it constantly stops you. Having that “free premium subscription” trial shoved down my throat does not come off as a well meaning app. It feels more like someone stopping you on the street and yelling at you to give them your money. It makes using this app more of a hassle than a time saver. If any of my friends asked me about speechify and if they should try the app for free I would tell them they should look for something else as this app will constantly badger them for paying for a subscription. Horrible app. STOP HAVING THE PREMIUM TRIAL AD STOP THE AUDIO. It’s beyond annoying.Didix 101Version: 2.19.0

Very awesome, but unreliable.The good: The idea of this app is genius, and it has taken me from barely being able to read a page every 5 minutes to reading a page in less than a minute. As a student in biblical theology, with sometimes 15 books to read at one time, it has been a really cool and useful tool. The bad: although this seems to be a fairly well know app by now, it has an extravagant amount of glitches. No it’s not my internet or my phone. I’m a 20 y/o who knows how to use technology. The amount of glitching and uploading problems that this app has often time makes it more work than worth. By the time I have the pages scanned and I figure out all of the glitches, I could have been done reading it by myself. The costumer service has been nothing but nice… they just take days to respond. When you have a reading report due in 5 hours, and your reading app that makes it possible is pooping out, you don’t have days to wait for a response. If you are planning on using this to train yourself how to read better on casual for-fun reading, then it’s cool. But don’t expect it to be reliable enough for school grades that can determine the whole path of your life. At the pretty pricey premium, I don’t know how long I’ll be able to afford it if it’s not going to be something I can rely on..JdjsikahjkeodidVersion: 2.27.5

Over pricedI give this app a try to read me Microsoft word documents and possibly to replace my web page reader. First I tried using connect to desktop method to transfer docx files to app. Every time I tried to open one the app crashed. Then I transferred using the OneDrive method. The file opens put possibly 1 word in 10 was missing a letter that was present in original doc changing how word was read. Needless to say I didn’t listen to the gibberish for long. Then I tried it for a fan fiction book on a web site. This was complicated because app does not have any web browsing ability. 1st I had to bring it up in Safari then share it with app. The app actually did a better job reading it then my current were page reader app. But then I reached the end of the short chapter and could not just click on the button for the next page. To read next page requires you to go back to Safari go to next page then share again go to app find new shared doc and open. I mainly use my web page reader while driving for my truck driving job. The complexity involved in just getting to the next page. Would prove to be an unsafe distraction if I was driving while trying to use this app to read web pages. So with the trouble I had trying to get this app to properly load Word docs and the complexity involved in reading web pages I can not recommend this app especially with its high subscription price..HuntjdVersion: 2.1.9

Fraudulent. Don’t let this company have your dataWill attempt to recharge your card (with zero communication) despite your subscription being set to “do not renew” after the year is up. Shady company that is committing fraud, on an already extreme expensive product. Support is very bad, and contacting them makes clear their backend systems & operations are a mess. Your data and financial info is not safe in their databases Definitely do not let a company like this have data on every single thing you read and access to your browser history. EDIT: interesting Speechify’s “leadership” response seems to be blaming Apple and washing its hands of re-charging people’s credit cards without authorization despite documentation of do-not-renew. To be more explicit—Speechify has been sending me emails about re-charging my card hundreds of dollars without authorization after the conclusion of a 1-year subscription, and complaining the charges are declined. When I reached out to customer support saying renewal is turned-off, and to please delete my data/info, they responded with *five* emails, including asking me for my credit card info/trying to pitch me Speechify. They ignored my request to delete my account and data (violating state law) and then blamed me for a 3-day trial? Do they think I re-signed up for 3day trial following a 1year subscription? That’s not even a possible flow..Rome4112Version: 2.24.3

Could be great, but wasn’t able to fulfill its purpose for meIt sounds like a really great idea. I went through the trouble of getting a textbook through the kindle app so I could listen to it on my commutes to work and school. If you didn’t know, textbooks are pricey, even e-books, so that was already a commitment. Unfortunately, when I tried to listen to it, it told me that the licensure limit had been exceeded and that I needed to buy another copy or delete it from a device. The problem is I had deleted it from every device and it still wasn’t able to download it in the speechify app. This app does claim to connect to the kindle app, so there shouldn’t be this issue. I actually tried to download and undownload on different devices and it let me immediately download on those devices through the kindle app. However, when I tried to download on the same device through speechify it wasn’t having it. I did test novels on on speechify through kindle and it worked, but that’s not what I got this app for. If I wanted to listen to a novel, I would have used audible. I wanted to listen to a textbook with no other audio version. That was the entire reason I got this app and subscribed to the premium version. I can see how it could be useful, but they should fix these problems. I wasn’t able to use it for the purpose that I got it..MEGANBABY<3Version: 2.27.7

I really wanted to like itThis is about the app for Mac but I’m sure these issues are the same on the phone app too. It’s a good concept and it would be really helpful if it actually knew how to read like an English-speaking person. It doesn’t know how to pronounce pretty basic words like “scientific” and other stuff as well as bigger words like “fundamentalism”. And it’s not just the specific voice, I used two very different voices (Snoop Dogg and Barak Obama) and it pronounced them the same. It’s just annoying because I constantly have to be watching along with it to understand some words. And sometimes it skips over part of a sentence all together and there’s no way to get it to read that part so I have to just read it in my head which would be fine except I have to be paying close attention to realize that that’s happened so I can go back and read it in my head. You can’t really listen without also following along so it’s just not great for multitasking. It also insists on reading the little copyright claim going up the side of the page between each new page and none of the “skip content” buttons account for this. It’s a good concept, just poorly executed and glitchy. If it was free I’d say it’s worth a chance but for the price it’s a ridiculous waste of money..•ES•Version: 2.27.0

Intrusive tutorial feels like an advertisement for a misguided business modelThe fact that you have to sit through a minute and a half of advertisement, (where in the speaker, in a deep male voice grumbles “my name is Gweneth Paltrow” due to what must be a software mistake) before you get to use the service is ridiculous. The developers of this app need to understand that the amount of people who will be motivated to pay money for a service like this is near to none. The ability to have speech read to you digitally is so close to mandatory with the purchase of a modern device, that the thought of subscribing and paying a monthly fee for something that my phone can do for me if I’m just a little less lazy is absolutely ludicrous. I have to sit through a minute of your service incorrectly reading an advertisement for me to subscribe to the premium offering of the service, when this should never be something anyone ever has to pay money for. If you must be money grubbing and you can’t fight the urge to monetize even the most simple and complimentary of electronic functions, i.e. text to speech, then at the very least just throw trashy and unneeded advertising breaks in at random intervals, like all of your soulless compatriots. After you peel all the fake price tags off, it works okay though..Thaddius WinslowVersion: 2.21.3

Mixed feelingsBe aware of the free trial!!!!!!! The day I authorized a free trial, it asked if I wanted to receive a reminder close to when my free trial was ending. I really appreciated this option, since it is typically easy to forget to cancel one before you are charged. I now realize this was their clever way of tricking me into enabling notifications. I woke up a few days later to an over-drafted bank account!! I was not once reminded that my free trial was ending soon and was then charged about $150 total for a year’s subscription. It felt like a total scam. As a suggestion, the default should be a monthly subscription instead of a year, which is COMPLETELY ridiculous. It shows that you like to take advantage of people since you do actually have a monthly subscription option. This app does what it says - reads to you whatever text you would like. It helped me make it through 100+ pages in my textbook in only a couple of hours. However, sometimes the speech would be mumbo jumbo, causing me to stop what I was doing, pause, and then try my best to locate that paragraph in the physical textbook to see what it actually said, while other parts were flawless. I wasn’t able to figure out the reason for this since all the pictures I had taken were very clear..Mack BryantVersion: 2.20.1

It’s a great app but not for the priceYearly it’s $139, monthly it’s $11 something, which really isn’t so bad for someone who has the extra money to spend on things, but for someone who is a college student on a tight budget, this app is a bit difficult to pay for. I think the app has good potential for the people such as myself who do have learning disabilities. It’s a lot easier to be able to hear the text other than having to read it and then also remember it after that. I have ADD and Dyslexia and it’s extremely difficult for me to read and process things on my own. It takes me ages to fully read and understand a full chapter of a book, but I feel like this app has a lot of potential. I think the price should be set lower so that more people would be more interested in it. The reason why I found this app was because I saw an ad over it, when I saw it, I instantly wanted to try it. But as I found out the pricing on it, I was a little bit bummed out because they don’t even have a version of it for free. I’d enjoy if there was a free version where you couldn’t do as much like change the voice and whatnot. Honestly, it’s so difficult to find apps or programs to use for text reading. Maybe someday there will be an app that won’t be crazy expensive but works just as well..372736272839Version: 2.4.4

I prefer CaptiIf you found this too expensive consider Capti..800lzVersion: 2.2.7

3 day trial then - boomYou get a 3 day trial then, it’s $184.99/year. Who is going to pay that?.Ch@rl¥Version: 2.2.2

Money grapTrial period is a joke! Reads 200 words and stopped. For the money they asked, need to see more of the software..WwwentVersion: 2.2.2

15 something a monthNot worth downloading. Monthly subscription or almost 200$ a year or 15$ a month instead of purchasing the app. Ridiculous! I do not purchase subscriptions I buy apps I like. I could buy a program for the computer that would be a lot cheaper & upload it to my google drive & use it on my phone. Rip off!.Just my opionVersion: 2.1.2

Well..So I get that things cost money to develop. It takes more time and effort than many people understand. But charging 189$ for a app a year is ridiculous. Not having a option for Month to month is just as silly. I feel if this app charges less people would be more inclined to purchase this app and just by mass this app would generate more money. I would have purchased it if it was 50$ a year and I bet many other people would do the same. But I won’t pay near 200 for this. So sale lost and I bet many other people would be in the same boat..Coolish11101Version: 2.1.2

DisappointingI tried the free version of this app based on all the positive reviews, but was incredibly underwhelmed. I tried to import from the "Books" app by sharing the file as instructions suggest to no avail, and eventually resorted to copy/pasting individual pages until suddenly it told me I'd reached my 200wd limit for the day??? They definitely just want you to buy the full version and it's not intended as a truly accessible resource. I'll keep searching..BrydhsonVersion: 2.1.5

Awful AppI tried using this app, I was so excited about it, but it came out as gobble gook, couldn’t understand anything it was reading to me 🤬.TracieileenVersion: 2.1.9

Not worth the priceThe concept of this application is great if only it worked properly. So many bugs. Commonly the screen going white and all the words disappearing while it continues to read or goes blank while editing and all your edits get lost. The phone app and destop app dont seem to crossover unless you delete your app from your phone and re-download it. It is a process though since they make you go through the entire welcome tutorial before giving you a chance to sign in. I think this app might work better for pleasure use or soley reading directly from the internet (however finding online university sites with modules are not compatible). Customer service has been fine, not much for the servicers can do with a buggy app! I would not reccomend this app if you are planning on scanning textbooks in and using for school as more frustration than its worth. Continuing to use only because I already paid the $200. *working on 2021 macbook air and iphone11, all software up to date..Rlgr12Version: 2.20.6

Clickbait freemium garbageThe app would be great and encouraging for struggling readers if Speechify was transparent about their freemium model from the beginning of the app’s experience. I scanned an entire book and a few paragraphs into reading it at 1.6x speed, it slowed to a snails pace and went to some robotic voice. What a crock. Really takes the wind out of your sails to find that it’s 180$ a year when this is supposed to be a tool to help struggling readers. What a shame. This app has the potential to change lives through the way you read but has essentially made itself inaccessible, or at least completely useless, to a large portion of the population who might use it. Shameful..TcaspersenVersion: 2.17.1

Not greatI got this app from positive reviews on social media. Looked great it’s free but the voice is hard to understand and gets all the words wrong it’s so much faster to read without the app in my head. Don’t recommend..Nicky89$7Version: 2.5.0

You are too greedy.You are too greedy for an app that is way overpriced and by the way your customer service is pretty bad..Invisible WatersVersion: 1.9.36

Didn't translate words properly from pics and is basically uselessDidn't translate words properly from pics and is basically useless.HughjacokVersion: 2.11.1

Unbelievably overpriced$40/month, $180/year..MatthxVersion: 2.1.5

Too buggy to be usable. DO NOT BUY! SCAM!!!The first epub I imported was a complete fail. For some reason the app left out the first letter in every paragraph. Useless. 

It’s super scummy to claim there is a free tier to the app then try to sell users on an over a thousand dollar lifetime licence, before the user has ever tried the software, by a startup that may not exist in another year. If it was worth the price the developers would not need to manipulate users into such purchase before trying the software. I suspect the positive reviews for tis app are fake. Apple should investigate..Matt from TorontoVersion: 2.22.3

Actually wastes timeThis app is SO GLITCHY that it actally wastes more time than reading. COMPLETE WASTE of $200!!!!.AReynoldsonVersion: 2.19.9

Lagging none stop, word limitEven after buying the highest paid account there is still a word limit, not worth a penny, none lagging and vioce glitches, worst reading app to date.Dustinlee1997Version: 2.18.6

AddsTo many premium adds if I want to stick to the free version stop interrupting my reading a or I’m gonna find another app..NoName27474Version: 2.17.1

140$? Like really??😂💸💸140$? Like really??😂💸💸 140$ for a computer voice and a glitchy app. It keeps cutting off on me. Not sure who you paid for those 5 star reviews.. maybe if you gave me 140$ a year I’d consider increasing the star rating, and since we’re talkin big numbers how about 1400$ a year? Or 14,000$?.Top 5OOVersion: 2.16.3

The worst!It’s the worst if you are taking pictures of the text!!!! It copies it out of order!!! So annoying when your trying to study..SusieqmmVersion: 2.11.1

Charged the Highest SubscriptionI wanted to try the 3 day free trial. I forgot to cancel - and right away got charged over 200 dollars. That’s insane. For a monthly or yearly subscription. And instead of having the lowest option linked - they charged me over 200 dollars. Haven’t used it since. I couldn’t even submit review before finding an unused nickname..MarsyK1224Version: 2.16.0

SpeechifyBull”tweet” I’m trying to use this app but I am getting a run around and too many prices with different free&expensive option I couldn’t try it out..Santa-CalgaryVersion: 2.1.3

Worst ai app everFalse advertisement and god awful ai.YggygvgyvytvytvVersion: 2.29.4

Awful long to setup and use!!Need to listen for minutes to get to use it.Anonymous7777777777777777Version: 2.29.4

Not worth $200 a year.I would consider this app it you could renew monthly for $10 or under but laughed at the yearly price. Most of the voices still sound digital but I did find a couple enhance AI voices that I enjoyed. Didn’t get a chance to experience the app with kindle but I tried to use my city library app that it was completely incompatible with. Struggled with getting the text copied from screenshots, which did work, but not well enough. It definitely would not be possible if I wanted to listen to a longer book. Guess I’ll be sticking with my Audible account. 🤣.Cubb204Version: 2.29.4

Paid forNot interested in anything I have to pay for. Subscriptions are a blight on society..WebvictimVersion: 2.29.4

Awful money grabCan’t even really try it, word limit for the three day trial. Way too expensive..SMPfamilyVersion: 2.29.4

*PAID APPLICATION*Wow. So they make you go through the entire personalization process before telling you it’s ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY NINE DOLLARS PER YEAR ($199.99). JUST TO TURN TEXT TO SPEECH. I’m sure all the info I provided the app in the setup process is stored in a databank now, and for what? To sell later for some extra clams probably….JndkshjsfytdxutvihgvyrxVersion: 2.29.4

Wasted my time by not being upfront about the costNot supporting this.HkdpjenVersion: 2.29.3

Be carefulThis app is free to download and use for 3 days only. to continue using you’ll be charged a substantial fee automatically, unless you cancel the subscription..Lynda JCVersion: 2.29.3

2 stars only because I need itI cannot tell you how inconsistent and frustrating my experience has been with Speechify. The only thing consistent with Speechify is how consistently words are mis-pronounced, read out of order, and that any form of document input besides the literal copy and paste function will have something wrong with it. From billing, to random, un-delete-able files that just “process” for weeks on end… the only reason I leave this review at two-stars is that in my attempt to complete school without resorting to my ADHD medication, I need something to keep me reading what is required of me. At LEAST my frustration gives me something to think about as I go along..Montywright9Version: 2.29.3

Cancel the subscriptionI canceled the subscription and they are still trying to steal from me, they are still trying to apply charges to my card for the cancellation but I already canceled, they are scammers.YoanBeltranVersion: 2.29.3

3 day trail then $200 plsDon’t be fooled into thinking this app is free. Is $200 for a year! It tells you the monthly rate but it won’t give you the option to only pay for 1 month or try it for a while. They’re product is wildly over priced and they clearly think way to highly of it! If they gave 1 week or month free for the years subscription at that price I might consider it but there’s no way in hell anyone should have to attach their credit card to a product for that much for so little..StellaDaLuna9541Version: 2.29.3

Crazy experienceApp is well built and deserves 5 stars but $200 a year is outrageous. Also, app failed to notify before the 3 days trial is over..Jd8526Version: 2.29.3

Forces upgradeNot acceptable. Charged me for a full year subscription without my verification. Refused to refund me..JjdjsjnsjnVersion: 2.29.3

Overpriced and underdevelopedConsider downloading NaturalReader or alternatives to this app that provide with higher uncapped reading speeds, this app specifically targets people who are desperate to study for school with their 189$/year subscription rates..OwenDonnyVersion: 2.29.2

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