PDF Voice Reader Aloud Reviews

by TonyFromLakeMary

All but one written review has given PDFVoiceReaderAloud one star... The only one higher? Two stars. Must be bots that are voting five star for PDFVoiceReaderAloud, because exactly zero customers have written anything good about this one.

Mostly useless app since it skips pages and doesn’t let you pause or pick where you want it to read.

PDFVoiceReaderAloud is a terrible waste of money. Apple, please kill this one off.

by Ahbarsy

I can't see where this is stated in the description, but please note this is VERY brief trial reading followed by a prompt to buy the full app for $6. Frustrating not it due to the lack of transparency regarding this, but also because PDFVoiceReaderAloud still has ads and the trial isn't very impressive: it's a bare minimum text-to-voice reader that barrels through punctuation and requires focus to understand. Cannot recommend.

by Sj-pr

In the beginning was extraordinary... y pay for PDFVoiceReaderAloud ... because finally find a app that read to me and my students books and document in PDF. Super easy to up books and documents.

but recently PDFVoiceReaderAloud stop functioning. appear in my phone but do not function. I feel a freaks to delete it bacause Need to pay again to download. I went to the web site for find “support services” but I never find it.. isn’t in a visible place.

PDFVoiceReaderAloud have potential, especially for student with reading disabilities; but I feel little disappointed with PDFVoiceReaderAloud ...😢

by Qwertylover86

I bought PDFVoiceReaderAloud to read PDF’s for school. It could only read less than 25% of the files I tried, and most of them the audio was unintelligible. That is one of multiple problems. Customer service only emailed to tell me that my PDF was not the correct file format (?) and never did anything to resolve the issues.

by JayeDeeDee

I bought this after the VERY brief trial reading, only to learn that it loses my place in my reading if it is paused for more than five minutes. Then, even though it had been able to read several pages of a PDF, it suddenly started giving me “no text detected” errors. I’ve spent more time navigating the glitches than actually listening to the text.
Plus there is no way to mark or save a spot or take notes. Waste of money if you’re trying to use it for academic things like me.

by Scott EC

There are a lot of issues with PDFVoiceReaderAloud.

First issue is that it inconsistently works, meaning PDFVoiceReaderAloud simply will not function often. It doesn’t allow you to hold your place and provide different widows/tabs for download. I feel like I should get a refund for how poorly PDFVoiceReaderAloud has worked. It often doesn’t start at the top of a page when you skip to a new page.

by Mmitch1992

Tried to use this to listen to my college text while multitasking thinking I had found a gem. PDFVoiceReaderAloud read four sentences then asked me to watch an ad. Fine. But then it tried to force me to watch ad after ad after ad. Even after I watched the ads and tried to go back to reading it wouldn’t work. Just asked me to watch yet another ad. Never got to use it to read more than half a paragraph. Supes disappointed.

by Former Brewer

Very useful for listening to articles for grad school. Wanted to buy pro version to avoid long video adds. Pro version link brought me to a voice upgrade page which looked like a pro language preference. So, bought another voice but still dealing with adds. Now can’t contact support to correct. Moving on to alternate option, I guess.

by Norenopoman

I tried using but it had me watch ads rvery step while it loaded pdf i guess. All i saw was the read line loading something but i watched 8 ads before it got to the end of loading. After it loaded, it started over at beginning of red line! Didnt even read anything outloud yet! I removed it

by Letgo App Blows

There’s still some “kinks” that need to be worked out. For the price I think it’s reasonable and get the job done. Overall I couldn’t say I’m impressed. If anything it’s basically “settling” since there aren’t many options out there and the ones that do exist charge a larger price (and don’t really do an equally or better job than this).

by FORCE ONE THC

This product is ok but falls flat in some key areas. It would be much easier to use if the user could highlight the word that PDFVoiceReaderAloud should begin reading. Also, PDFVoiceReaderAloud needs to be adjusted to finish reading the text on a page before reading the boxes, figures, graphs, etc. this would allow much easier understanding of the material being read.

by Aschantz

Please add ability to select on the page exactly where to start reading. Currently, I have to listen to a whole page from the beginning of that page. And I’m not able to simply skip to the paragraph or section of interest.

by Audible Users

I loved the basic version until recently. It now won’t let me use it unless I pay for other languages. $8.99. I close the ad and it won’t let me continue not hear any of my own pdf files.

by Reloew

A few points that I don’t like in it:
- Doesn’t allow to use waze at the same time, even with waze’s voice command turned off.
- you can’t point in the page where to read. It also doesn’t show in which part of the page it is.
- It has a few mistakes. For exemple, it reads “we’re” like “W E re”.

by Adamoxv5

I use this program so I can listen to pdf versions of my school books. It saves so much time I wouldn’t be able to do as well without it. It’s handy being able to wash dishes out mow the lawn while basically going thorough college. However it reads tables down which makes the information nearly indecipherable and it mispronounces many simple words so I have to use context a little more to understand what the program is speaking. I’ll keep using it because I need it but it could definitely use an upgrade.
Thanks for a great product!

by Blah Blah Student

I have bought several apps that were riddled with issues and poor CS. This one works and does a great job

by LuciSkii

I appreciate the cost, and it’s usable even without purchase. I just needed to listen to textbooks on a plane. Don’t waste your money on expensive read aloud apps, this guy is great.

by GM-2010

After I pay to unlock PDFVoiceReaderAloud I was not able to continue reading more than 5 pages.

This guys are burglars. Don’t buy this product.

by @bruce-binger

So much time saved by listening to required books, articles, etc. for courses during drive and workout times.

by Mc2501

PDFVoiceReaderAloud provides tactical TTS with many voices and languages to choose from. It seems valuable for translation (does it?). I say this because the foreign voices seem to translate from English to other languages (like to Spanish). I do use PDFVoiceReaderAloud and enjoy the increased reading speeds for reading books and general amusement.

PDFVoiceReaderAloud starts at the point that reading stopped or selected location/page. Most all of the voices read very naturally and with good pronunciation. Thanks so much.

by ActorFL

Downloaded PDFVoiceReaderAloud because it’s free and was able to hear a few pages before it stopped working and a screen came up requiring a purchase to continue.

by Matt Durant

Not everyone wants to pay money for an app and this one you can pay to have. Except the adds are still there and the trial is very short. Would not recommend

by Thought It Was Cool But It's Really Not

I used the free trial and it worked well for a while. I needed to listen to a large document so I decided to buy the full version so I wasn’t limited in document size. Now every time I try to use PDFVoiceReaderAloud it just crashes. Waste of money.

by Evry1has1

I have a college book in pdf format and unfortunately didn’t find out PDFVoiceReaderAloud would not read it until I paid the $4.99 for it. The trial was not a trial. It downloaded my PDF but would not attempt to read it until I paid.

by GrandpaDaddyG

Had already paid fir PDFVoiceReaderAloud and every time I open it they want me to buy it again! Only user on PDFVoiceReaderAloud and cannot use it as I had already paid for it! Shame on your software collection system! Shane on Apple on putting it in their store!

by Dissatisfied Customer ~

You download the free app, then it makes you pay for each language you want to use just for it to sound like a robot. I’d give it no stars if I could. Ridiculous.

by Caroltan

It is an OK app — I paid for the full app but it still has annoying ad/commercials and also the reading speed cannot be adjusted.

by PiPi19872018

I think this is a great free option! However, it would be nice if I could pick the place for it to start. Also, the highlighting doesn’t always work on the PDF.

by Danielled2591

Was great until about 15-20 pages in it makes you pay 5$ to continue.