Listening: Text to Speech

Voices are definitely not smooth and sections detection (abstract, methods, results...) does not work well.

The interface is great and the app works well while reading more conversational content, but it is absolutely unusable on more formal content. In particular, it is unable to read even the simplest mathematical expressions with subscripts and superscripts. Further bugs (e.g. skipped letters, butchered non-English names, etc.) further aggravate the situation. For the exorbitant price of 15€/month, this feels more like a novelty app rather than an actual tool that people can use in their academic workflow.

The app still needs a lot of work. The voice is not as smooth as promised, and often it reads out loud random things. It doesn’t properly divide into sections and skips some parts. I deleted my account shortly after getting it. Not only is the app not working but they also charged me for a month subscription even if I deleted my account. Make sure you also cancel the subscription on the App Store, or they will take your money for nothing in exchange.

The voice is really smooth and pleasant. However, PDF update it’s a bit cranky, and the link does not always work well. Plus, depending on the article formatting, it does not separate well the different sections and it still reads out things like affiliation numbers, or even references. Overral it does its job, but I was expecting much more for 12$ a month.

I just got this and can’t upload anything. And the UE is not telling me anything. Just wait. 3 to 5 minutes. And nothing happens.

As a grad student I love this app. I’ve had it about 6 months now, but the most recent update fixed a lot of my issues with it. I do wish the mobile version allowed me to see the document’s cover bc there’s so many sometimes I get them mixed up. I also wish it allowed me to build a filing system for readings for certain things. Hopefully they work on that when they finish out the little bugs. I love it though! It is a serious time saver.

It’s too bad I really like the service, but the app gets in a state where it just shows a blank screen and it’s completely unresponsive. I’ve had to delete and reinstall in order to fix it. After the fifth time I gave up.

I canceled months ago and continue to be charged. Customer service told me my account would be canceled but that never happened. Now the customer service email is no longer in service. The product is fine but this is the only way I can think of to contact anyone at this company.

I made an account and bought 3 months for the price of one. Found out the app still needs a ton of work and deleted my account and unsubscribed in the app itself. Come to find out 7 months later it had been billing me the whole time. So now I am out ~$90. I am super sad that this app isn’t what it says it is. As a student with learning “disabilities” this could have the power to drastically change how I learn and my bandwidth. But in science(biochemistry and relevant) and philosophy(my major and minor) the app is useless for reading papers. I am very disappointed and hope someday an app will come along which can truly do what this claims to do. What was wrong with it: 1)more often then not the app would read the pdf out of order. 2)most of the jargon and a ton of the abbreviations it misread or mispronounced. (In chemistry Ca+ does not mean California) 3)the app would skip full pages/paragraphs/sentences. And sometimes it wouldn’t load or detect words on full pdfs. Possibly this could work for more cut and dry topics but I doubt it could work for anything above a 5 grade level.

The app has become increasingly buggy to the point of being unusable. Rarely can I get a full reading of an uploaded pdf, even a single article. Processing takes ridiculously long. I think maybe they just can't afford the compute anymore. I have placed multiple support requests over the past several months and have received no reply. This company seems to be dead in the water--do not purchase!