WebOutLoud - Text to Speech 17+
Best TTS Web, PDF, Text Reader
Bret Lester
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
New in 2024. Now celebrating 10 years on the App Store!
Don't forget to check out our browser extension for Safari.
Listen to websites, PDFs, any text using text to speech.
Now with a powerful new Safari extension where you can listen to websites without leaving the browser.
Other features include premium voices from Amazon Polly, Microsoft Azure and more, custom pronunciations, AI summaries, PDF text-to-speech, offline capabilities, desktop integration, iCloud sync and Dark Mode.*
You can save articles, e-novels and PDFs to read later, or listen to them one after another in a playlist.
No Longer Limited to Websites!
- Use WebOutLoud to listen to PDFs*--it highlights words as it reads.
- Use WebOutLoud to read aloud any text on your iPhone or iPad.
- Organize your saved content into collections.
- Custom substitutions including regular expression support
- AI content summaries. Instantly summarize documents and websites up to 300 pages in length.*
About WebOutLoud's Leading Website Reader:
It's simple! Just navigate to any web page using the in-app web browser and touch play. Web Out Loud will read web pages using a wide selection of voices, from those freely available on your iOS device to the high quality premium voices from Amazon Polly and Google Cloud.
Reading requires way too much of your attention. Multitask like a champ! Listen to articles in your car or while you work.
- Reads any web page, PDF or text document
- Highlights words as it reads
- Scrolls the page automatically as you follow along
- Tell the app where to begin reading using Touch Assist, or enable the powerful Reader View to eliminate ads and isolate readable content automatically.
- Dozens of supported languages, each with their own unique voice
- Chrome and mobile Safari browser integration
- Custom pronunciations and word substitution
- AMP link blocking
- Custom pronunciations and substitutions
But how does it know what to read!?!? WebOutLoud uses hand-crafted AI to read web pages to you Out Loud.
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* PLEASE NOTE:
PDF Text to Speech requires, and custom substitutions require a Basic subscription.
A Premium subscription is required for AI content summaries and premium voices (i.e. voices by Amazon Polly, Microsoft Azure and others).
Listening to web pages and text using the voices that are built-in to MacOS is free with an occasional ad.
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WebOutLoud Full Version is a 1-year auto-renewable subscription
Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase.
Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period.
Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period.
You can turn off auto-renew up to 24 hours before your next subscription payment is due via your App Store settings page.
Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase.
Terms of Service
http://wol.bretlester.com/terms_of_service.html
Privacy Policy
http://wol.bretlester.com/privacy_policy.html
What’s New
Version 3.24.23
Fixed issue where Reader Mode shows up as blank. Fixed issue where pdf documents uploaded on new version of the app would show blank on older versions of the app.
Ratings and Reviews
Love reading books during work great features other apps don’t have!
This is my second app I tried for out loud reading because I love reading novels but I’m at work and need to use my hands to work and so far this app is fast easy to use and you can turn pages when you copy the website and past from the web because some out loud reading apps don’t have that feature with is a must because you don’t want to keep copying and pasting from the website because you can’t turn to the next page.
(Fixed!!) Getting Ads Despite Subscription and Other Issues
Update:
The issues with the ads and login have been resolved, no more problems there. Just the random lagging or stopping still occurs fairly often.
Thank u for all your hard work!
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I’m paying for the annual basic subscription for no ads, however it has suddenly started giving me ads even though I have 2 months left. Don’t like that there is no place within the app itself to review my subscription status/features, except for when an ad appears, there should be a dedicated option in the main menu where I can do this. Also reporting a problem through the app requires logging in, but trying to log in causes an error. Also frequently having issues where the reader will just randomly stop reading.
Developer Response ,
Hello. Please email contact@weboutloud.io. Please send a screenshot of the error you received after attempting to log in. I will help you resolve the issues
Love it for what it is but still problems
Love this and it does a great job I use it to read books online that aren’t lucky enough to have an audio version.
The problems I have is that if it reads Tim’s it reads it as tim(aphas)(afes) and drops the plural and pronounces that weird aphes word it also reads “ as and(not end reads it as and) quote. So there are punctuation things that drive me crazy. And honesty it was doing this before but it always has issues with punctuation maybe this story has a lot of punctuation and plurals tbh at others haven’t had.
I use it I like it it gets 4 stars cause of adds and punctuation issues. The adds are infuriating to me but it is what it is.
Developer Response ,
Thanks for your feedback. The punctuation issue should be fixed. Please give it another look
Subscriptions
App Privacy
The developer, Bret Lester, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Bret Lester
- Size
- 20.1 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 17+ Unrestricted Web Access
- Copyright
- © 2014 Bret Lester
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- WebOutLoud Basic Annual $12.99
- WebOutLoud Premium $9.99
- WebOutLoud Premium $29.99
- WebOutLoud Premium $9.99
- WebOutLoud Premium Yearly $119.99
- WebOutLoud Basic Monthly $2.99
- WebOutLoud Premium $29.99
- 1 Million Premium Characters $39.99
- WebOutLoud Premium Yearly $119.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.