- PriceFree
- CategoryEducation
- First releasedFebruary 9, 2012
- Versions1 archived
- Installable1 of 1
- AvailabilityStill on the App Store
- SellerVoice Dream LLC
- Bundle IDcom.voicedream.Voice-Dream-Reader
RequirementsCompatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
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Report an issueApple Design Award Winner! Voice Dream - Read Aloud lets you listen to PDFs, textbooks, Web pages, emails, and books using advanced AI Text To Speech!
Featured by Apple as Best New App and App of the Day in 81 countries. Voice Dream - Read Aloud is also part of App Store Permanent Collections in Education.
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“Both experts recommend Voice Dream Reader as the best app in the text-to-speech space.” - Wired
“This app is one of the best educational finds of my entire career.” - Forbes
“As a user myself and as a mother of a child with dyslexia, I am blown away by the features of Voice Dream.” - Quartz
“Voice Dream Reader is hailed by many as the best mobile text-to-speech (TTS) app.” - Examiner
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Text-to-Speech - 36 built-in iOS voices in 27 languages are also available for free. - 200+ additional premium voices in 30 languages from Acapela, NeoSpeech and Ivona available. - Correct pronunciation with your own pronunciation dictionary. - All voices work offline and play in the background even with the screen locked.
Supported Document Formats - PDF, Plain text, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, RTF, and Google Docs. - Textbooks - Web articles. - Bookshare Books. - EPUB eBooks. (DRM-free books only. Kindle, iBooks and most commercial eBook platforms are not supported.) - DAISY text-based books and audiobook. - Audiobooks in MP3, MP4 or zipped MP3 format. - Rich text and image support for all documents.
Built-in Scanner - Scan paper documents with the camera for text-to-speech. - State-of-the-art A.I. is fast and accurate, even in poor lighting conditions. - Works entirely on device: No need for internet and your data stays private. - Only languages using Latin alphabets are currently supported.
Reading Styles - Tee-up a list of articles and play while you drive, walk or run. - Spoken word is highlighted to improve comprehension and retention. - Auto-scrolling and full screen, distraction-free mode to help reader focus. - Finger reading. For beginners to read by at running a finger under each word. - Pac-Man. Harvard and MIT developed speed-reading method for everyone to read at 2x speed with no loss of comprehension. - High contrast and large font size for low vision readers. - Optimized for VoiceOver, Braille and switch control.
Tools - Recognize text for scanned PDF documents. - Bookmarking, text highlighting and annotation. Highlights and notes can be exported. - Full-text search. - Built-in dictionary. - Automatically skip text in PDF header and footer.
Content Sources - Native support for Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud Drive, Pocket, Instapaper and Evernote. - Native access to Bookshare. - Safari extension to save Web pages and Web addresses. - Support for Box and OneDrive via iOS Document Picker.
Library Synchronization - Your entire library, including folders, reading locations, bookmarks and annotations are synchronized across all your devices using iCloud Drive
A subscription is required to access the app. A free trial is offered to new users.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula
Chart History
Ratings Over Time
| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 28, 2015 | 3.7.0 | ★ 4.2 | 84 | $9.99 |
| December 11, 2017 | 4.4.8 | ★ 4.6 | 136 | $14.99 |
| December 17, 2017 | 4.4.8 | ★ 4.6 | 138 | $14.99 |
| December 11, 2018 | — | ★ 4.4 | 468 | $14.99 |
| December 12, 2018 | — | ★ 4.4 | 475 | $14.99 |
| December 13, 2018 | — | ★ 4.4 | 476 | $14.99 |
| December 10, 2019 | — | ★ 4.6 | 1,303 | $14.99 |
| December 9, 2022 | 4.15.2 | ★ 4.6 | 3,158 | $24.99 |
| November 30, 2023 | 4.24.0 | ★ 4.6 | 4,928 | Free |
| December 9, 2023 | 4.24.1 | ★ 4.6 | 4,990 | Free |
| December 11, 2023 | 4.24.1 | ★ 4.6 | 4,999 | Free |
| December 3, 2024 | 4.38.9 | ★ 4.5 | 10,717 | Free |
| December 5, 2024 | 4.38.9 | ★ 4.5 | 10,737 | Free |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 15I paid for lifetime access prior to the integration of AI and now the voice I paid for does not work anymore. Waste of money
I’ve struggled with reading my entire life — in school, trying to keep up with classmates, and later at work, trying not to fall behind my colleagues. I tried so many reading apps over the years. Most were expensive, and even then, they still couldn’t do what I needed. Voice Dream changed everything for me. The first time I used it, it felt like a locked door finally opened. Suddenly, I had access to a world that had always felt out of reach. This app has become part of my daily life, and I genuinely love it. If you have a learning disability related to reading or writing, I highly recommend giving Voice Dream a try. It made a real difference for me, and it might do the same for you.
why do I need a subscription to unpause it?? I can’t even read with this app.
I would use any bottom of the barrel voice to read my PDFs, but this app doesn’t even offer a free version. I am not going to pay for something that should be free and can be gotten elsewhere. I am deleting the app and won’t come back if a free option isn’t available.
I can usually learn new apps and software easily, but I found this app extremely difficult to use. Also, I had hoped to use the app to listen to books when my eyes are tired or not functioning well, but could never find a way to set the app to read a book for thirty minutes or more without frequent prompting and page-turning swipes. I give up. (I'll note that the voice-reader on archive dot org will read a book to me for hours without any swipe to turn the pages.)
First of all, I would like to thank you for develope this app. At the beginning, the voice selection is very good: a clear button for playing sample and downloading. It vividly divides into category like American English, British English. But now, the voice selection is mixed up. I have to scroll a long list to find the voice I want.
Got this to read my research material for my PhD. Was working full time and taking care of my family. Voice dream’s bookmark and highlight feature allows you to tab sentences while on a run or a drive and lets you export only your tabbed text into a single txt file with the push of a button! Saves me weeks of time writing notes, trying to find them for papers/dissertation, etc. Phenomenal app!
This is one of them. This program on my phone got me through a very rigorous graduate level program with honors. I was able to listen to all textbooks and articles with ease. I could adapt the speed the color. The print.
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.