Listening: read on the go 4+

I am a PhD student who just tried multiple similar apps for the first time and I feel like “Listening” is the best for my purpose and would significantly improve my workflow. Unlike Speechify, Listening allows me to bookmark sentences with one click for future references while listening. This is essential cause I listen to articles while working out and cooking to save time — It is inconvenient if I have to pause audio and take highlights/notes using separate apps, or if I have to sit down later and go back through the article to re-find what sounded useful for me. Also, Listening takes time to render pdfs in the beginning, which actually leads to cleaner audio outputs that don’t include random marginal watermarks from journals that repeat after every page with Speechify. For the Listening team tho: I wanted to compare reddit reviews of various apps that do similar things and it was hard to locate posts about “Listening” because your name is really generic. I ended up just trying multiple apps and I do like this one. Hope you stay in business cause the subscription is yearly lol

I’ve only had it for a couple of weeks and I’m already sold. I’m in grad school at the moment and almost all of our reading are academic articles. It takes me ages to get through them every week and by the end it feels like my eyes are going to fall out of my head.

This solves all of that. The UI is simple and easy to use, and the voice is great. My apartment is actually clean for the first time in ages cause I can tidy up while working. I can also play games while listening, or commute while listening.

If you’re a student and you feel overwhelmed like you don’t have enough time for everything in your life PLEASE at least try the free trial. This thing is a real game changer

I am a grad student and really, really wanted this to work. I held on to the subscription for a few months longer than I should have because I hoped for some serious improvements, but those never came. I cannot recommend this app and have instead taken to telling fellow academics to avoid it.
Text readers and academic articles never mix well and unfortunately this app is no different. It is nice in concept - a reader app specifically oriented around academic articles that organizes by header sections and does not read the citations or header/footer information. I loved the idea of the text being available in the app to follow along with. However, in practice this app is a mess. The headers often do not correspond to the headers in the article (often many extra headers with no information below them, or headers that are just parts of a sentence). The text does not match the articles chronologically- often accidentally creating new and weird sentences or rearranging the text by reading across two columns or skipping sections. This is a huge issue because at times the authors’ intentions would be contradicted or made confusing by the app’s improper reading of the material. If the listener is not aware of this issue, they may end up mistaking the article entirely.