Have your books, PDFs and more read aloud to you by 140+ AI-powered voices in over 25 different languages/dialects!
NaturalReader is a mobile app that can read aloud a variety of texts like PDFs, online articles, cloud documents, even images taken by your camera and so many more.
With over 1 million monthly users and over 15 years of experience dedicated to AI technology that improves the user’s experience, we are one of the most trusted text-to-speech brands today.
Our app has innovative features like the ability to convert and download text into MP3 files, OCR text recognition for PDFs and our camera scanner.
NaturalReader is also an essential reading tool for those with dyslexia and other reading difficulties. By presenting the text both audibly and visually, readers can focus less on the act of reading, and more on the content they are reading. We also offer a dyslexia-friendly font for closed captions and within our text box.
HOW IT WORKS:
Just like a podcast or audiobook, our app lets you be productive anywhere with your mobile device. Complete readings laying in bed, during your daily commute, or walking around campus. By listening on the go, you create more time to do what you love.
Listening to our app couldn’t be easier! Simply choose the document type you wish to upload, select your desired file, and you are ready to start listening. For the best experience, remember to choose your favourite speaker’s voice and optimal listening speed.
Here are just a few of the reasons why our 1,000,000 monthly users love using NaturalReader
-- Camera Scanner: Listen to physical books and notes by using your mobile camera. Convert any piece of physical text into audio, which reads aloud to you. Just take a picture of the pages you wish to upload and you’re ready to start listening.
-- Natural Voices: Enjoy over 130+ AI-powered Voices across 20+ Languages/Dialects to choose from, including our plus voices, the newest and highest technology of AI voices.
Plus voices enable fluid, natural-sounding text to speech that matches the patterns and intonation of human voices. Plus voices are available through our Plus Subscription plan.
-- AI Text Filtering: Choose to filter out distracting and unwanted text such as URLs and text within brackets. Our advanced AI technology will detect these types of text and ignore them, limiting any distractions.
-- Customizable Experience: We have loaded our app with features built to create the most natural listening experience for our users. Choose your preferred speaker voice and optimal reading speed for the best experience.
Other features ways to customize include a dark mode, word highlight, closed captions and an advanced pronunciation editor for new or unusual words, or to improve the readability of acronyms.
-- Cross-Device Compatibility: A free NaturalReader account gives you access to our Mobile App, Online Reader and Chrome Extension. Run out of time? Seamlessly continue listening from your desktop computer to your mobile device.
Supported Formats:
PDF, MS Word (.doc & .docx), MS Powerpoint, Mac documents, RTF, TXT, DRM-free EPUB eBooks, image files (png, jpg…)
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In-Apps
Plus Plan - Yearly
$179.99
Plus Plan - Monthly
$34.99
Premium Plan - Yearly
$98.99
Premium Plan - Monthly
$18.49
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User Rating
4.21 out of 5
33 ratings
in New Zealand
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Mostly good
Pretty good app, I’m using a paid option which is the only way the voices are tolerable (free ones are horrible to understand)
My main problems are
1. It’s not made available offline, I use on my iPad which doesn’t have a sim and if I’m in the car or on the go anywhere I can’t use it all which is 8/10 frustrating. Like I’ve already downloaded the file to give the app access so please explain to me again why I can’t access it with out internet?
2. Sometimes I get lost when reading (I read along) and it’s not always easy to find my place again. I wish I could click on the text down the bottom and it would automatically take me to that part of the readings. 3-4/10 frustrating depending on the day.
It’s not working ☹️
After making the payment one month ago, I am still waiting for the error regarding the invalid license to be resolved 🧐
Great quality fir free
Great free app
Expensive and frustrating
When the app works well it’s great and easy to use. All the voices available are good. BUT it does not work consistently and stops constantly. At the start for the trial it was great then I spent a large sum to buy this to help with my study and it just stops reading all the time. Sometimes it will start again but the majority of the time I get two mins reading and then it won’t work again for ages. I am really sad and frustrated.
It's very useful 😊
.. no more robot🤖voices
It’s a good reader
This has helped reduce my reading time requirement immensely. I’m finally ahead of my study demands.
Memorable. Yet I Find Myself Wanting More
Reads books and pdfs out loud for free
Filters out text in graphs and tables
The voice I heard in particular, seems to enunciate clearly at first. But I soon found it flattens the natural intonation of words. This made the punctuation seem overly robotic and not human. I found my mind switching off.
Useful but hate the subscription system
I find the app useful but I hate the subscription system, and would rather use a system that uses just a standalone premium app with no time gate, even if it costs $100 to buy. And by the way, I also remembered an older app that is a standalone premium app, but that got removed off the App Store. Please add it back.
DONT GET THIS APP
IT TAKES MORE THAN 20 MINUTES TO SAY “A” TIS IS IN 2021 FIX PLEASE!
Frustrating (but getting better!)
Update for truth April 2021: While my below review was accurate at the time, I am pleased with the recent updates (dark mode is great) and the platform overall seems more stable. I’ve contacted the help team a couple of times and they have been quick to reply and professional. Credit to the team for improving the product.
Original Review:
I paid for the previous version of this app, which worked great but sadly was removed from the store without the company telling anyone. This ‘upgrade’ is a poor replacement and a clear grab for subscription based $$$.
Doesn’t have the same functionality (won’t even upload and read a simple google docs word file - something the old app did flawlessly), and can’t decide which type of documents it will or won’t work on, and takes 10+ seconds to upload a literal two page TEXT document when it does.
This app was a god send to me when studying for tough exams, and got me through. I showed it to many people when they asked how I could study while at the gym. Now I’m just frustrated and looking for simpler and more reliable alternatives.