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Voice Dream - Read Aloud App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ Really disappointedI really didn’t like the English voices, male or female, only one choice anyway. It was very much like a voice from 10 years ago. Very unrealistic to my ear. Also I can’t read a pages document, and I can’t read my kindle books, two things I wanted to be able to do. The voices in Alexa are much better in my view, more human realistic..Version: 4.13.7
✓ Good idea so far so good they took it worksAnd you’ll get more stars exclamation.Version: 4.19.3
✓ Needs updating and improvementThe reader is very robotic and it jumps all over the page. They need to update it so it reads smoother and sounds less robotic. They do that and I’ll change my rating to 5 stars..Version: 4.14.2
✓ Bad syncThe application is good as far as text to speech goes. The sync option is horrible however. I have lost all my books, saved in iCloud, by turning off sync on one of my devices. Who made such a disaster a possibility?.Version: 4.13.12
✓ Wasting of timeI uploaded many files and started to study but the files became unresponsive and not opening.Version: 4.14.8
✓ Still Great But There Are VoiceOver BugsI regret not reviewing this app sooner. This app has been clutch for many years for dynamic reading of text files. I have needed it even more lately. Because of this growing need, I have noticed some VoiceOver bugs that have cropped up. Although I have not been able to use this feature up until recently, the manual says you can swipe up or down with three fingers to highlight sentences in the text. This is not happening. Swiping with three fingers is the same as swiping with one finger; it highlights word by word. So the feature is not entirely broken, but I'd love to see it fixed again. Also, when I adjust the navigation control by swiping up or down, VoiceOver's focus immediately jumps back to the play/pause button without any prompting. If I want to make another adjustment to the navigation controls, I have to focus on the navigation slider again and swipe just to be placed on play/pause again. This only seems to happen when the app is playing—thankfully, it behaves properly when I have paused reading. Again, this can be worked around, but it is annoying and really throws off my flow. I know this app has come under new management recently, and I hope it can be maintained like it used to be. I have not seen an app with more creative features for reading and negotiating text files..Version: 4.20.9
✓ Terribly disappointingI downloaded this app on my iPhone and my MacBook Air and paid for a one-year subscription. Soon after, I was using it on the laptop and suddenly it started only showing one word at a time. I reached out to customer service over a month ago, even wrote to the founder (though I know he sold it), and no response. I reached out to the developer they sold it to. Nothing. Eventually I decided well at least it works on my phone, let me just do that until I can get some help. I paid for additional iCloud storage just so the articles on the laptop version would sync with the phone version and now when I open the phone app it tells me I do not have a subscription and it literally freezes. I have the latest iOS update. This is so incredibly frustrating and I have wasted so much time trying to troubleshoot. I need my money back because I did not spend $50 for an app to become unusable after a couple of days..Version: 4.24.0
✓ Pause after a title endCan you please get it to pause (like a comma) when the reading is at the end of a title? because there is no punctuation it moves reading to the next line immediately, which is annoying..Version: 4.10.2
✓ Very buggy on iPhone 14 Pro…On the iPhone, 14 pro, the voices sound richer, the text feels easier on the eye… But all this is undone by bugginess. For example, when voicing a PDF, the phone’s system often voice takes over. In other words, the voice that I might choose, for example, Moira, or Daniel, becomes inactive while the terrible “accessibility“ voice reads out the text. When I tried to fix this, voice dream simply refused to read the PDF. Nothing I could do, no button I could press. I dreaded the prospect of contacting tech support. (As we all know, tech support is often time-consuming with the support people speaking poor and heavily accented English. Businesses get away with it because most people do not want to be accused of “racism“.) _____ Whether the fault is with voice dream, or with Apple’s system, I don’t know. But yesterday I was in a situation in which I was totally locked out of my phone. It had something to do with the voice/accessibility feature. Trying to key in my passcode using the on screen keys just caused the phone to call out key numbers. I happened to be near my service provider’s store, so I rushed there in a panic, and my panic turned into even more panic, when even the staff were unable to fix the problem. Eventually they did, but told me not to go anywhere near “Accessibility“..Version: 4.16.1
✓ Great app; some irritation pointsSo I use voice dream reader nearly daily for reading associated with my PhD program, but there are at least two significant irritations. 1. The highlighting system is atrocious. Sometimes you have to attempt to highlight more than once because it will not select all the way to the end of a sentence. Surely it would not take much to add some intelligence to this so that it knows to look for periods and spaces when selecting as separators? Kindle and Logos do this so much better. 2. No automatic sync with Dropbox or Google drive. You can add files from these services, but they will not sync back unless you export them one by one back into the cloud with your highlights. These two items alone continually waste hours of my time given the volume of reading I do. If it were not offset by being able to read at 700wpm, I’d probably look elsewhere. Nevertheless, given how there is little else out there to solve this problem, I appreciate this app immensely. I’d just love to see a couple of the above improvements happen sooner than later. Update: a third problem is becoming prominent where it will not always read a page from top to bottom, but skips all over a page wherever fonts change, or even to a later page. Upon testing and inspection, it is not merely an ocr issue as other readers do not have this issue. In such cases, this app is becoming increasingly unusable..Version: 4.22.4
✓ Far from being naturalWish there was an option to test the app before paying too much for something that is not in line with your needs..Version: 4.11.4
✓ HmmmmI was interested till I saw the yearly price with just a 3-day trial no thank you I feel over $100 is a bit much for someone like me who is unsure how they will use it to begin with.Version: 4.21.5
✓ No free optionThey don’t even have a limited option for those who can’t afford $80 a year for a subscription. You either pay or don’t use the app which is ridiculous. Most apps can still be used for free if you can’t afford a subscription you are just limited to what you can do but this app doesn’t give you any options for free..Version: 4.19.3
✓ Down to 1 starWas a top five app for me but after some updates it has become unstable. Now when I import files the app freezes so bad I have to reinstall it - losing all docs, voices, pronunciation settings. It has now happened three times. I submitted a help ticket that never got a response..Version: 4.22.3
✓ Dreaming of better performanceConstantly replays the same section of a book. It jumps back several pages and gets stuck in a loop. I heard the same several pages 4 times yesterday. I was driving and couldn’t micromanage it. It looses track of your place in the book. The only way I can fin where the play head actually is is by locking my phone and from the lock screen I can see how far into the book the play head is or you can scroll through the entire book to find it. Then I have to go back into the app and scroll to there and find the playhead. There is no way that I know to find where the playhead is. So I have to do this weird workaround. I wish I could listen to a book from start to finish without it randomly skipping back several pages and replaying the same things over and over . I’m listening to a book while writing this review and it is skipping back several pages. When it works it’s a 5 star app for sure.Version: 4.10.2
✓ DisappointedAs someone with Dyslexia I have always found this app (which I paid for) helpful… until one day earlier this year I found all my files had gone!? Take care what you store in it!.Version: 4.14.7
✓ At first I thought this was great now it is no longer working for meI was using the app to help me learn Portuguese and at first it was wonderful wonderful but now the app has inexplicably stopped importing files from the iCloud so is no longer usable for me. I have tried everything I could think of with no result and now can only lament the time wasted..Version: 4.9.5
✓ Downloaded the app to try it outThere is no mention that it is a subscription app in the app description. You can’t do anything in the app without signing up for the subscription..Version: 4.17.1
✓ Wrong voiceI’ve just bought this and tried to download a specific acapela voice (Lisa). It didn’t give me any indication of which voice I was downloading, so I assumed it would download Lisa, which I’d just pressed. I ended up with Peter, which I can’t stand..Version: 4.9.5
✓ PDF Edit NEEDEDThere should be a PDF edit. Getting frustrated with always having to hand tap when it reads the footnotes. Or please make it so people can choice what sort of reading style they want. Eg advance (footnotes not read), general (all read) etc.Version: 4.4.9
✓ Doesn’t work well with scanned mediaTris to use this to read textbook material but the app didn’t read the material clearly. Even when the converted text was written clearly, the voice didn’t read the words correctly. Result: completely unintelligible, as in 2 mistakes per sentence such that you can’t understand the basic meaning. E.g. omits the first word of a sentence; reads the number 1 as “L”..Version: 4.20.9
✓ Doesn’t work well for complicated textsVoices are okay and the app is much simpler to use compared to similar apps, however unfortunately this text to voice app doesn’t work for my situation. I can image it works well for simple books and text but I wouldn’t recommend it for complicated texts. The app has difficulty following multi column text formatting on a page (the text you see in magazines and student textbooks). What ends up happening is it reads everything left to right and combines sentences from the two different columns making for a jumble of words. Using photo to text even when within a single column, it sometimes jumbles words from near areas on the page which interrupts the flow. Another area which needs improvement is the Cropping tool. Cropping is not intuitive as the tool can only handle a single column on each page and each corner angle has to be moved to move a square line. Would be nice to be able to move a straight line in one action. The addition of advanced cropping would be welcomed, so as cropping can isolate text within columns or around square or unique shapes and diagrams. Hope these issues get addressed in the future..Version: 4.12.0
✓ Overpriced$99 a year or $7 a month. No thanks..Version: 4.19.3
✓ IOS accessibility read is betterI’m so disappointed with this purchase. I have been using the iOS accessibility features to read text and thought that this would be an improvement in reading quality. Unfortunately the improvement is negligible, but with a major downside that there is a lot more messing about to get text into the app. Using the native reader, it is easy to read any text in the app, including the kindle app, reading DRM protected books, not so with this app..Version: 4.15.7
✓ To download the appI downloaded this app for my iPad for college but that app can download on my iPhone but won’t download on my iPad.Version: 4.20.5
✓ Terrible PruchasingWhen buying this app on the iPhone. The displayed cost on the apps opening screen says 79.99$ yearly! I then added my password thinking I'd be given the option to buy just a one month subscription. It never does. This app automatically charges you a 99.99$ subscription for a yearly basis for the premium account. Apple even seemed to think this is misleading, the price displayed and not even allowing the customer to choose the monthly basis purchase?.Version: 4.23.8
✓ Error Adding Files GlitchWould be nice if the developers can fix the error loading files glitch I’ve been experiencing for the past 2 weeks. I’ve reached out but so far no response. I’ve tried various files to test if it was only an epub issue but I keep getting the red exclamation symbol indicating the file can’t be added no matter which format it’s in. I’ve deleted the app and downloaded it again multiple times. Before turning the cloud sync back on after reinstalling, I’ve tried adding documents and it works up o into the dreaded error message appears again when trying to load a file. Other than this hiccup, I’d give the app a solid 4 stars. I’ll update my review if the issue is ever addressed. On a more positive note: I absolutely love being able to hear any and everything read aloud to me. People are complaining about the robotic voices but honestly out of all of them, I’d say the UK voice of Amy was worth all $5 I spent on her. She’s the best voice I’ve listened to so far and have clocked maybe thousands of hours hearing her read to me. I can’t complain there. The voices aren’t perfect in their reading of certain words and can be a bit annoying when reading certain words (especially ‘mmh or shhh’) but for the most part, the pronunciation dictionary has been a heaven sent tool and I utilize it often for my sanity..Version: 4.14.13
✓ PoorReally disappointed by the quality of the supplied voice packs. I feel the promo video is misleading..Version: 4.13.12
✓ Unable to import file on iPad ProConstantly crashing when trying to import from file pdf expert.Version: 4.8.3
✓ Reads letter by letterDownloaded this hoping to read my pdf but it reads it letter by letter. Not happy with it. May I get a refund?.Version: 4.15.7
✓ Voice sounds choppyVoices aren’t great..Version: 4.15.1
✓ Subscription was inevitableAll the apps we used for our students have gone subscription based. Special needs programs don’t have the ability to pay for a yearly fee per student vs onetime fee per student. Disappointing as this app is no longer accessible due to cost..Version: 4.17.8
✓ Read the full terms firstI have brought this app without fully reading the specs etc. Kindle and iBooks can not be read back to you due to copyright DMS or something like that. So my idea of falling to sleep listening to a book being read back to me have failed..Version: 4.2.2
✓ BrokenThe app in it’s current state will not allow you access the voice samples for the premium voices. And the email support function isn’t working either. You still have access to the default ios voices for what it’s worth.Version: 4.16.1
✓ Morning with this app !!?!!?!!I have installed this app after careful reading the tutorial and all the information before purchasing it earlier today. After a few minutes the app is on - great.?!? Only to find out to my surprise that the language that I need is not in the list to choose from! NOTE - it's listed as available on IOS APPStore. I tried ever since to try to contact the developer and to ask for refund . No luck so far ! So I would suggest to all you others to use something else ..! There are plenty out there I am sure you will find something better and with good customer service and after sale support!!.Version: 4.7.3
✓ Great ui needs workGreat can read lots of files. Does crash from time to time specially on the watch. Exporting to watch is confusing. Ui needs to be simplified for outcomes.Version: 4.11.4
✓ My ThoughtsAfter using it for a while I found the voices sounding very digital sounding. Along the line of Prof. Hawking sounding. That makes me wonder why they can’t have it flowing with correct pronunciation. I found 2 other apps that flow as if there sitting here reading to me. A huge difference. Another fact is it doesn’t do web pages!.Version: 4.16.1
✓ Can’t even use this without a subscriptionNo free version, can’t even access the app without subscribing.Version: 4.20.4
✓ The app is good but the iCloud update is not workingIt’s very obvious that a very well designed machine is reading something for you. That’s not a problem to me, though. The only frustration for me is the dysfunctional iCloud syncing system..Version: 4.6.4
✓ Unreasonable pricing just annoyingBought the app for 21 pounds, already very expensive then when opened the app, I realised that you had only 1 free voice And all of the other voices are 5 pounds, umm no one wants to by something that expensive, please just let us pay the 21 pounds and let us have the good voices we deserve. Giving this app 1 star and please look into this. I get it if you really need it for work or something like that, but I just need the app to listen to the books I write, so I'm really angry and annoyed that you totally scammed me, I am a blind 12 year old! Not happy, please give me a refund now!!! Thanks for taking my money bye, hope you get the message!.Version: 4.14.15
✓ Terrible & OverpricedThis app was impotent, it couldn’t read my pdf files and definitely did not live up to the expectations listed in the app details. Completely regret purchasing this, wish I could get a refund!.Version: 4.14.2
✓ “Free” voices aren’t freeI think it’s pretty disingenuous to say “36 built-in iOS voices in 27 languages are also available for free” when you can’t use them without paying $80/year. I’m also getting increasingly fed up with apps that do everything possible to hide their true cost. After creating an account, you are presented with a full-screen pop-up to start a subscription. There is no way to leave this screen unless you close the app. You can’t even look at the app unless you agree to the subscription. The trial is one of the shortest I’ve seen on the App Store at just 3 days. They also advertise the subscription as “$6.66/month” despite only billing annually, again trying to obfuscate the true cost of the app. So if you’re expecting to have a $6.66 charge each month, I hope you’re prepared to actually spend $80 all at once. And then even if you do pay for the subscription, they charge an additional $5 for some of the voices. I played the demo for a lot of the voices and was NOT impressed. That all sounded very robotic and unnatural. There are features that I think would be really cool, like queuing up a list of documents/pages/books so that it automatically moves to the next in the list as you finish each document, but nothing I saw justified the high cost of the app. Especially when the best voices I came across were the newer “Enhanced” Siri voices that come with iOS..Version: 4.24.3
✓ Don’t buyThis app is not compatible with most epub ebooks. And there is no way for you to contact them apart from writing a review here. A complete waste of money..Version: 4.14.7
✓ Always FreezesVoices are OK. Cursor freezes. Page Freezes. Takes a very long time to download books. Wouldn’t buy again. Thinking of paying a monthly subscription for another one. Would definitely not pay monthly for this one if that was the asking price..Version: 4.22.4
✓ Pricey App, but no additional valueI downloaded this app based on the Apple recommendation. It uses several Apple voices to read books and notes. I don’t find any benefit of using it instead of Apple’s built-in accessibility feature, the Spoken Content. I don’t understand why they charge about CAD100 towards annual subscription, when the similar functionality is available for free..Version: 4.24.1
✓ I don’t know what’s happenedI have been using this app for at least eight years. It is my go to reading app and I recommend it to everybody I know if they don’t already use it. Over the past six months, I’ve been having progressively more and more issues with it. it lags when I open books, random books in my collection will show as being unavailable until I restart the app, at which point they will be fine and others will show as unavailable. I just deleted it off my phone, because I am trying to read a book, and every time I select a chapter, the app crashes. I have a modern iPhone, an updated app, and updated operating system. I have no idea what changed or why this has been so bad, or if it’s a me issue rather than an app issue. Regardless, I no longer can use this without getting really frustrated, and I can’t comfortably recommend it to people anymore. I sincerely hope that the app returns to the high standard it used to have. for now, I will be switching away and hope to one day find something that compares to the voicedream reader that used to be excellent..Version: 4.20.8
✓ Choppy for the most partIt does its job, but the way it is advertised makes you think it should be much better than that. The voices are just too choppy, robotic and lifeless to listen to. Definitely not suitable for narrative text..Version: 4.24.1
✓ Unable, still, to extract newer BZip2 compression-method files from zip archivesUnfortunately, still, files compressed using the more efficient BZip2 compression method available in newer zip utilities such as InfoZip: e.g.: "zip -9Zb <ZipFile> <MemberFile …>" can't be extracted. No error is generated; one ends up simply with a zero-length book! I would have expected a fix should have been _very_ simple to implement. 😒😞☹️.Version: 4.9.2
✓ NoI don't have enough money to pay for subscription and it won't let me cancel. Anyone help?.Version: 4.24.3
✓ Very poor qualityA very poor reader. Difficult to get good voice. Always sounds like robots with lots of background noise. Poor for the amount paid for it A lot of free readers are of higher quality than this..Version: 4.15.1
✓ App changed from perpetual licensing to annual subscription. No thanks.I should have bought it a year back. My mistake..Version: 4.20.8
✓ It’s was fantastic - now I can’t send a PDF to it from iBooksThis is a great application however following the latest upgrade, I have been unable to send PDFs from iBooks to the app. VERY VERY FRUSTRATING.Version: 4.5.4
✓ Changed from five star to one starI do manual app updates, and was alarmed to see that apparently we now need to subscribe to use this app. I paid for his app several years ago, and purchased premium voices. Are you telling me that I now have to pay 100 dollars a year to use an app that I already bought? I was already alarmed when writer and scan split off, and I see that was not without reason. Sell out. At least do us the courtesy of something good like drafts, which left people with daft 4 (?) if they wanted to stay with that paid app, or get the separate new and updating subscription app if they preferred. I’m disgusted. If I’m wrong about this works, I’d be delighted to received a response to the contrary..Version: 4.21.7
✓ Bad outdated appCan’t upload my epubs from Books app that I already own so this app is useless to me . I demand a refund bought it today want money refunded today..Version: 4.14.13
✓ Nefarious , money hungry company, they’ll try to scam you.You purchase a previous verisimilitude of the app, and they don’t let you access it because they increased the price and they want you to pay that increase! Don’t do it the app is not worth it at all..Version: 4.16.0
✓ Voice overThe voice over is choppy, too fast and isnt easy to follow. It doesnt pick up certain text from taking a picture so the words are scrambled. Dont waste your money.Version: 4.14.6
✓ High hopesI had high hopes when making this purchase. The app allows for various voices; which is nice, and allows for word correction, however, I’ve corrected numerous words and they do not seem to take affect. Words like securities, singularities, anything that ends with “ities”, the voice reads it as “example” and no matter how many ways you add the pronunciation of it, it always reads securi-for-example. This is why my rating is 3/5. When this is fixed I’ll revisit this review..Version: 4.23.5
✓ Far from a natural voiceI’m sorry to say but this is nothing like a natural voice that this purports. It sounds very computerized and does not flow. I hope I just get used to it but the price tag does not justify what this app does. I feel like I wasted a lot of money based on untrue reviews. No wonder the app doesn’t even allow you to try it before you buy because we wouldn’t buy it after trying.Version: 4.4.1
✓ AvoidI was drawn to this app because of the good review. It’s not often I will pay for an app without trailing a free version but couldn’t see one,but due to the ratings and amount of reviews I decided it must be worth the money. Most of the voices are so digitised you can barely make out anything over a 3 syllable word (this should have been a red flag after downloading the app), it’s pauses at the end of a line rather than a sentence. Truly horrible app that sounds like it’s 20 years old..Version: 4.13.12
✓ VoiceDreamWhen it works, it is wonderful! However, I have begun experiencing problems that the developer apparently can’t solve. I am using an Apple iPhone 13 mini with iOS 17.2 installed. The first problem is that after I open the app and start to read a book, the reading is fine, but when I stop reading and switch to another app, then, back to Voice Dream, the place where I previously stopped reading has been lost, and the epub has popped back to the top of the document! I then have to try to find the place where I left off. This repeats every time I switch from VoiceDream to anything else. Even worse, when I’m finished reading for the day, and I turn off my iPhone, when I switch it on the next day, and go to VoiceDream Reader, the book I was reading has disappeared entirely, and there is no book selected at all, so I’m left without the ability to know the book or the place where I left off reading. This is a showstopper. so far, the developer has not been able to fix the problem..Version: 4.23.6
✓ Not suitable for iBooks.I bought this to read out my books purchased in iBooks and it cannot find them. Works with any other text I have on my phone but not iBooks. Anyone know how to rectify this?.Version: 4.4.9
✓ False AdvertisingApp promotes itself as free with in-app purchases to unlock bonus features. Instead, you are required to purchase a monthly/annual subscription to use the software. It also states in the app notes that you will receive one FREE high quality voice to use—it neglects to tell you must first purchase a subscription to obtain this free voice, meaning it’s not free at all. I would prefer the option to try the app for free, and then purchase it (as the notes indicate). I absolutely loathe subscription services. I prefer to pay a one-time fee, with additional purchases being for add-on content, such as additional voices, and for the occasional major overhaul..Version: 4.24.3
✓ Grr 😖Love this app but I just spent a fortune on a uni text book, then more to convert and unlock the thing to PDF and because there’s no contents when I import it, this app becomes useless because it will only read from the beginning of the book and not the page/chapter I need. Whhhyyyy 😫.Version: 4.11.0
✓ Not great. Needs work.Even after using the ‘pronounce’ feature it often ignores the corrected pronunciation and carries on as before, yet the test run in the feature uses the corrected version. During the ‘Read’ mode it often skips, backwards or forwards, sometimes missing entire paragraphs. Not great. Needs work..Version: 4.11.2
✓ Ongoing technical issuesApp just getting into a state where I can't select the word, phrase, highlight stuff, translate it etc. I am using a lot of this functionality so to “fix” it I need to restart an app. It is very distracting and it happen a lot... a lot. Reported this with support but they just blanked my emails. Voice function is very good and always works but if you plan use other functionality you may need to reconsider..Version: 4.13.3
✓ Let people try then subscribe!I recommend the app developer to allow people to try this app before subscribing. How do I know how well it works with books, journals, etc. I cannot rely on a bunch of comments. I have to see it hit myself. If you are sure about the quality of your app let people try it for as Ilya’s at least three days. I cannot purchase something and having difficulty to unsubscribe. Some apps are like that. Sorry but this is the reality..Version: 4.22.4
✓ DeceptiveThis formerly apparently nice app is now a “free” download that sets up an in-app-subscription that would deduct £60 from the users account a week after downloading (and then every year). Charging more than a Netflix subscription for what is an admittedly nice wrapper around Apple’s “spoken content” feature seems brazen..Version: 4.17.0
✓ Pay to use app 👎There’s not even an option to use without paying 80$! Ya I’ll just read myself thank you very much.Version: 4.20.3
✓ Not fit for purpose! It simply doesn't read naturallyI've spent a small fortune on this when actually I can hardly understand the pronunciation. The Natural Read app read the same PDF document immediately and with no problem whatsoever. Honestly a complete waste of my good money and I'm absolutely furious..Version: 4.5.4
✓ Great, but flawed, customer support doesn’t support those with disabilitiesThis would’ve been a 5 star review — I’ve poured over $100 dollars into this app and the voices, as well previously recommend it to others — but isn’t for the simple reason they don’t listen to users with disabilities and their needs. Before an iOS update, one could check their notes and bookmarks in a text, and still be in the same area of the bookmarks and notes you’re looking through. But after, you lose your place and have to start from the beginning. When you’re close reading a text that’s several hundred pages long, this can be very exhausting. I wrote customer service about this over 6 months ago, and followed up multiple times, each with a video demonstration of the problem and they never listened; Sandra merely said it was a design choice, and they’ll see what they could do about it. Shame on voice dream for not listening to those with actual disabilities, and instead making aesthetic decisions that make those with disabilities fall behind and struggle..Version: 4.10.2
✓ App does not like google documentsBe careful. It seems like an cheaper version but also does not want to download documents straight away. Takes over a day or two to download them. When you have downloaded them the voice reader does not actually read documents. The help window tells you to reinstall but the app still does not read..Version: 4.14.13
✓ Won’t let me do anything unless I purchase a subscriptionI can’t find a way out of the modal window that asks me to subscribe to keep using the app..Version: 4.19.1
✓ Expected so much more for the priceFor this amount of money, I just thought that the basics of this app would be well refined, unfortunately this is not the case. Navigating the text is extremely clunky... it takes an excessive amount of time to select text to either highlight or copy due to the clunkiness of the cursor. The cursor often won’t move at all no matter how much you attempt to move it and will almost always freeze before you’ve finished dragging it the the place you want. I’ve also already had to delete one of my books and reload it, find where I was up to from scratch due the app freezing every time I open it. PDF support is clearly not very well optimised. These are just the basics of how an app reading any sort of document should manage to function, this isn’t even touching on the text to speech aspect of the app. Extremely poor for this amount of money..Version: 4.10.1
✓ A long way to go.I was looking forward to using this app and I really wanted this to work. With one of the more expensive apps I’ve purchased, this only came with 1 premium voice that did not transfer across devices. The app read each letter rather than words. I ended up with with an app spelling words rather than reading words. I’ve tried but have since stopped using Dream Reader..Version: 4.10.2
✓ Doesn’t add much to system capabilitiesMy fault, I suppose, for not doing due diligence but I don’t really think this app’s features reflects its price. It is simply an interface for built-in text-to-speech system feature on iOS (with the option of purchasing additional voices which are better but, of course, never as good in practice as the promotional audio samples suggest). Without this app, you can already tell Siri to read you anything, and you can even change the frequency/pitch using free apps (like Apple’s own Workflow app), so this app doesn’t really add much. Voice Dream Reader doesn’t really do what I was hoping it would do, like be smart about not reading footers (which can be very long). If I can quickly delete footers with a simple regex workflow (I’m not a programmer) before it speaks text, then surely this app’s developers can, too? Their pdf margin editor is very difficult to work—surprising given that this app geared to improve digital accessibility. I like the tap gestures, but other than that, this I app doesn’t really add much value to system features, certainly not the kind of value suggested by the price..Version: 4.4.8
✓ Just ok - could be betterThis works ‘ok’ but the app developers have really put out something pretty rough and ready with some annoying quirks. They should be easy to fix these days but clearly the app developers can’t be bothered. Like: it recognises full stops but not line breaks so headlines or titles run into the opening line. Sometimes it recognises ‘&’ as ‘and’ and sometimes it says ‘ampersand’ which is really distracting. It also doesn’t recognise acronyms - even common ones - and attempts to pronounce them like words. Finally, common abbreviations are not recognised in context so ‘St.’ is always pronounced as ‘Saint’, never ‘Street’. These are little annoying things that really could be fixed easily if the app developers took pride in their product..Version: 4.10.2
✓ No better than the free appsVery disappointed given this is an expensive app. I got this to read my university texts while driving. It doesn’t pause between headings and the paragraph that follows. It doesn’t pause in the right places which makes it hard to comprehend. The built in IOS option works just as well. Would like a refund l..Version: 4.4.8
✓ Not worth the moneyI bought the app and paid almost $100 dollars for it. I did not like any of the voices in them and even bought a new voice for $8. Still not satisfied with the app and its interface, I mailed the customer service within 20 MINUTES! of purchase that I did not need this and would like at least a partial refund. It’s been 6 days now and no response. They should atleast provide a 1 day free trail or even a monthly subscription instead of just ripping us off. So disappointed with the experience..Version: 4.18.7
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