Reader by ElevenLabs 4+

A gift to humanity…

Over the past few years I’ve tried app after app that would do something similar to this, they all fall short and each come with hefty subscription fees. Just last week, I decided to look up and see if anything new in the space has come out, to my surprise I found this magnificent app and have finished 3 books since. It’s been a lovely tool in order for me to get through my backlog of 150+ books from the PI authors like Mike Hockney, Adam Weishaupt, Michael Faust, Thomas Stark… etc. that don’t have audiobook companions. The voices are top notch and a pleasure to listen to. I love that the words are highlighted and you can follow along as it’s read to you. I hope this remains free for the foreseeable future, or at most a simple one time purchase. Subscription fatigue is becoming overwhelming nowadays. If there was one issue that I had to comment on it would be that the sync feature between devices could use a little work. I often switch from my iPad to my phone and noticed if I don’t shutdown the app on one device first that I won’t pickup from where I left off on the other device. Also, unless I missed it, a search feature in books would be a nice feature to have.

Developer Response ,

Hey there, thank you for sharing your experience, we really appreciate your kind words! We truly hope you continue to enjoy the app the way you have. Three books in one week is quite impressive! As for the issue you describe with syncing, please know that we will be looking into it soon. Keep your eyes peeled for any updates! Finally, a search feature in books is a great idea that we will be sure to take into consideration. Thank you again for rating us!

Best in its category

Looking for a free, full featured, document to voice reader? This is the one! The amount of different voices and the quality of them is simply staggering. I wanted to be able to turn my epub book files into audiobooks that I can listen to in bed, on the go, or whenever the mood hits me. This app. does that with ease! There are probably a hundred or so voices you can select from and you can change them on the fly. Listen to it reading your document in bed and set an easy timer that will stop reading in a few minutes to an hour, or even when it reaches the end of the current chapter. Found the voice that fits your document perfectly? Then you can output the reading as an audio file that you can share with anybody. I’ve been racking my brain trying to think of additional features that might be added to the app. and haven’t been able to come up with a thing, it is so full featured in its current form. This is a 5 star app., all the way!

An amazing app if issues get fixed

As others have said, the app is excellent when it works doing exactly what you want it to with a nice interface. You can have any article or file read to you at the speed of your choice in an AI generated voice of your choice. Eleven labs AI readers sounds completely natural and high quality. If you leave off midway through and article you can simply return later and pick up where you left off while reading along if you like.

The problem is, it simply fails too often at present. I’ve used the app 7 times and it has not worked 3 of them. The text loads and the AI reader loads for the first 1-2 minutes then halts. Probably the server can’t handle the request, sometimes you get an error message sometimes you don’t but you’ll just have to try again in a few hours because it will not proceed.

If this issue gets fixed I would absolutely love the app and use it all the time. As is, I can’t use it because the convenience of having the article read to me as opposed to reading it is outweighed by the inconvenience of the unreliability that it will work. I’ve stopped using for now but will try again in a few months to see if the issue is handled.

Developer Response ,

Hey - thank you for the feedback. The playback problem should be now resolved.