Voicepaper Reviews

I used to have the Lisgo text to voice app and I loved it. It was easy to use after I contacted the developer to find out the mysterious secret about how to get items from Pocket to Lisgo.

The Lisgo app recommended this app because of a needed upgrade.

I think the Lisgo developer might be the this app developer? this app is completely non-intuitive for me. It splits one article into many sections so that your list of articles becomes huge. But there is no search feature that I could find to help me wade through the articles I have collected over the years from Pocket.

It appears they want me to create my own playlists. That’s okay if you start from nothing. But I had a huge collection of articles already from Lisgo/Pocket and Pocket was organized through the MyList/Archive feature to allow easier control over what showed up in Lisgo.

In my opinion, the video instructions for this app do not take you step by step in a clear manner.

Everything in my this app is now a mess. Pulling articles from Pocket is not clear. I am very discouraged and sad. I used to put on Lisgo and listen for hours while I worked or rested.

My response to this mess was to sign up for Audible Books. I LOVE Audible and they offer a free newspaper with the subscription. But I still miss Lisgo.

It's one thing to have a fee. Quite another to ask for a monthly fee or even an annual fee. Also, the free version only let's you use it for 15 minutes, which makes it pretty useless and just a tease. I'll be deleting this one.

The every-5-minutes popup (aggressive and annoying) to either pay or continue with ads is followed by another popup that says it can’t connect to the network to play the ad. My internet is fine! Voicepaper is thus completely broken and useless.

I was disappointed to find out that it now costs $34.99 a year to renew, which is not worthy considering the simple, limited function it provides. The previous price was $12.99 a year which I was okay with, as Voicepaper gets the basics done - reading articles to me, but I won’t pay 34.99 a year for this simple feature. I have switched to another app that charges way less and has many more helpful features.

Quite a challenge for me so I cannot honestly give a rating yet but I did want to give you a big thanks for developing this. 😀

The document I had from Evernote is mainly Chinese, but starts out with English. So Voicepaper automatically choose English and never changes to Chinese, thus skipping over the content.

Edit:
So as the developer mentioned, the problem I previously talked about no longer exist.

My problem now is that Voicepaper is so slow. I don’t know what happened, but when I first used it, the speed was the same as the first version. Now the time it takes to download a document from Evernote can take more than 4 mins. These are the same documents I downloaded onto the first this app app, so it isn’t my internet. Secondly, if I am skipping sections inside a document, Voicepaper takes about a min to process my command and play the section I want. Why is this “improved” version less functional then the old one?!

The thing is, I feel pretty much forced to use Voicepaper. I previously used this app 1, which was great even if it didn’t have the organization features of this version. I paid to use Chinese on it — a one time fee. Okay, so I understand why this app 2 costs more. But that cost....to avoid it, I even stopped updating my iOS so I can continue using the first one. Unfortunately, I must have accidentally gave permission to update.

Voicepaper is the only one out there that does exactly what I need, which is why I am now going to pay to use it. However, if I had another option that was cheaper, even if it had less features (as long as there is Chinese), I would probably switch in a heartbeat.

I’ve used it for a decade at this point and it’s a fantastic app well worth the subscription. My only advice is that you do not update your phone for a bit after each update because apple seems to break Voicepaper every time they do. Dev always fixes that pretty fast, like 2-5 days fix. Love this thing. Get it. I find that Eva [advanced] works best for me.

this app is a critical part of my daily workflow. I try to keep up on all the news and blogs I can so that I can share what’s most valuable with my community, but I don’t want to spend my time reading a screen. this app reads to me while I’m driving or showering. The integration with Pocket is smooth, the interface is decent, and the text-to-speech is highly accurate.

I purchase and use a lot of apps attempting to find different short cuts to halo my company save time.
This is one of those apps I chose a while back. This is a really good application and the developer works as hard as any in Voicepaper Store to make sure we have an updated functioning version of Voicepaper . Thanks!

Lo he Voicepaper , however 25 bucks a year is a bit too high for me being a student and whatnot. Overall recommend this to everyone!

I’ve been using this app for a long time now... since before the logo color change. It is Voicepaper I use the most on my phone. Yes, more than YouTube or any other social-media. Thank you for this awesome up.

BUT...
The one feature i do miss. That vanished when I did my very first update, is the old “search” option.

..bring back the search
..bring back the search
..bring back the search

Thanks