Voicepaper Text to Speech TTS

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! The app is thus completely broken and useless.

Voicepaper 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. Voicepaper 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 use this app every single day. I had to create a pocket app account and link it to that which took about 3 minutes, and then I was able to start sharing news articles or websites to pocket directly from my phone, or from the pocket google chrome extension on my computer. Then I open this app, and all those saved articles are available to listen to at whatever speed I want. Great app.

Lo he the app, 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 Voicepaper for a long time now... since before the logo color change. It is the app 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

The document I had from Evernote is mainly Chinese, but starts out with English. So the app 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 this app 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 Voicepaper app, so it isn’t my internet. Secondly, if I am skipping sections inside a document, the app 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 this app. I previously used Voicepaper 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 Voicepaper 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. This app 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 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 the app 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.

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 the App Store to make sure we have an updated functioning version of the app. Thanks!

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. 😀

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.