PDF Voice Reader - Docs Aloud Reviews

PDF Voice Reader Reviews

Published by on 2025-01-21

🏷️ About: PDF Voice Reader is an app designed to help people with dyslexia and those who have difficulty reading. It is also useful for students, book lovers, and anyone who wants to save time and listen to their documents while doing other activities. The app allows you to manage bookmarks, adjust playback speed, and choose a color palette for the text. It can play PDF files stored on your device, email attachments, and cloud storage services.


       


Overall Customer Experience 😎


😎 Positive experience
61.1%

🫥 Neutral
21.5%

🤬 Negative experience
17.4%

~ from Justuseapp.com NLP analysis of 858 combined software reviews.



Summary of Customer Reviews (Takeaways): 💎

- Provides tactical TTS with many voices and languages to choose from.

- Valuable for translation purposes.

- Increases reading speeds for reading books and general amusement.

- Starts at the point where reading stopped or selected location/page.

- Saves time by listening to required books, articles, etc. during drive and workout times.



Read 29 Customer Service Reviews 😠💢

4.0 out of 5
Notice a pattern?

All but one written review has given PDFVoiceReader one star... The only one higher? Two stars. Must be bots that are voting five star for PDFVoiceReader, 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.

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

Just a trial

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 PDFVoiceReader 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.

The app stop to function. Appear in my movil but do not open property the app.

In the beginning was extraordinary... y pay for PDFVoiceReader ... 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 PDFVoiceReader 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.

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

One star because I can’t give less

I bought PDFVoiceReader 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.

Ineffective and incomplete

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.

Waste of money

There are a lot of issues with PDFVoiceReader.

First issue is that it inconsistently works, meaning PDFVoiceReader 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 PDFVoiceReader has worked. It often doesn’t start at the top of a page when you skip to a new page.

It was trash. I hated it.

Tried to use this to listen to my college text while multitasking thinking I had found a gem. PDFVoiceReader 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.

App support link is dead

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.

Ads in free version not worth the download

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

It’s “Ok”

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).

Review

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 PDFVoiceReader should begin reading. Also, PDFVoiceReader 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.

Limited functionality

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.

Pop ups

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.

For a free version it’s great

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”.

Incredibly helpful, not very intuitive

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!

It actually works

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

Dope

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.

Really bad app

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

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

Save Time and Learn More

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

Very nice TTS

PDFVoiceReader 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 PDFVoiceReader and enjoy the increased reading speeds for reading books and general amusement.

PDFVoiceReader 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.

Deceptive Advertising

Downloaded PDFVoiceReader 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.

Just a trial

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

Constantly Crashes

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 PDFVoiceReader it just crashes. Waste of money.

Could not trial

I have a college book in pdf format and unfortunately didn’t find out PDFVoiceReader 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.

Already Paid and ?

Had already paid fir PDFVoiceReader and every time I open it they want me to buy it again! Only user on PDFVoiceReader 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!

It’s not actually free.

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.

Missing features and has annoying ads

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.

It’s a good free option, download it

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.

Misleading

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



Is PDF Voice Reader Safe? 🙏

Yes. PDF Voice Reader - Docs Aloud is very safe to use. This is based on our NLP (Natural language processing) analysis of over 858 User Reviews sourced from the Appstore and the appstore cumulative rating of 4.0/5 . Justuseapp Safety Score for PDF Voice Reader Is 77.8/100.

Safety Analysis

64.1% of users say app is Safe 👍
64.1%

19.9% of users say app is Risky 🚨
19.9%

16.1% of users have Some Concerns ⚠️
16.1%


Is PDF Voice Reader Legit? 💯

Yes. PDF Voice Reader - Docs Aloud is a totally legit app. This conclusion was arrived at by running over 858 PDF Voice Reader - Docs Aloud User Reviews through our NLP machine learning process to determine if users believe the app is legitimate or not. Based on this, Justuseapp Legitimacy Score for PDF Voice Reader Is 100/100..

🔏 Privacy & Data Safety

PDF Voice Reader collected the following data from you:

  • Data Used to Track You:
    • Location
    • Identifiers
    • Usage Data
    • Diagnostics
  • Data Linked to You:
    • Location
    • Identifiers
    • Usage Data
    • Diagnostics
  • Data Not Linked to You:
    • Diagnostics

Payments 💸

**Pricing data is based on average subscription prices reported by Justuseapp.com users..

Pricing Plans Amount (USD)
English US $4.99
PDF Voice Reader Pro $10.99
Spanish $4.99
English UK $4.99
Spanish Mex $4.99
English AU $4.99
Portuguese Br $4.99
English Irish $4.99
Russian $4.99
Portuguese $4.99


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Features

- Helps people with dyslexia and those who have difficulty reading

- Saves time and allows you to listen to your documents while doing other activities

- Convenient way to manage bookmarks for easy access

- Color palette for the text to effectively monitor the spoken text

- Adjustable playback speed for comfortable listening

- Built-in color illumination of spoken words with a color selection option

- Can play PDF files stored on your device, email attachments, and cloud storage services such as Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud, and iTunes File Sharing.

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