Top ADHD Reviews for Speechify

I have no idea how I went through past school years without this. This has been a life saver in college. I have ADHD so I like to doodle or color while listening or reading things to help me focus so this is amazing. I don’t have to worry about mentally checking out of what I am reading or taking two hours to finish a chapter in my textbook! LOVE! LOVE! LOVE!

This is going to help me with my ADD

I have ADHD so when reading books (mostly about crystals and Witch craft) that are lengthy or just don’t have many photos, it’s hard for me to read without getting distracted. But that’s where this app comes in! The amount of times I have used this is un-countable. Thank you for the app.

Helps a ton when reading with ADD/attention issues.

This is fantastic. I’ve been searching for a text-to-speech app for mass consumption of scholarly articles for grad school prep while I go about the monotonous tasks of life. I am so amazed by the technology of speechify and how it is perfectly tailoring my ADHD brain, providing a non-medicated way for me to focus and digest various writings. Thank you for making this!!

So helpful with ADHD. It tells you how many minutes it’ll take to read, taking away SO much of the intimidation I get from having to read anything. Pause at any time. It highlights the full sentence it’s on and follows along word-by-word “double highlighted.” It allows for dark mode. Love that for my light sensitivity! Tap the word you want it to start reading at if you’re skipping around. It’ll do exactly what you ask it to do. I wasn’t expecting it to be so good. I scanned two pages of my textbook. It even got the fine print and didn’t skip around to different paragraphs in a dumb way—even though the margins and pictures are designed in an awful way even for a human to read (thanks, dear engineers too cheap or stupid to hire real graphic designers with typography skills). It even read “g/mm^3” as “grams per cubic millimeter,” not “g slash m m carrot 3.” To top it off, the voice isn’t entirely annoying. The best automated voice imo, and believe me I’ve tried a ton. Maybe you can change the voice, but idk bc I just started playing with the app. Now I’m writing this review when I should be reading my textbook. Anyway, go ahead and download this app if you’re even on this page considering it—which ofc you are if you’re reading this rn. Good day. Edit—a few minutes later : Yes, you can change the voice. There are MANY to choose from! Excited to try them.

I can multitask so much better now. As an ADHDer, this is a seriously good app!

I am SO grateful there is FINALLY a app that is capable of reading out loud for me! With ADHD, Anxiety, and learning disabilities I struggle with just getting though a page, and I love to collect books and as much information as possible with ALL the good intentions possible to read and grow! I beat myself up for buy all the things I do (reading wise) bc I struggle with getting that time and focus long enough to read. Being a single momma of three kids ages 12,6,&5 and a fur mama of a cat and dog, I am very busy. Being able to hear the information of topics I am super interested in is LIFE CHANGING! I love my audiobooks! But when wanting to read websites (just finally was able to listen/read about CBT for ADHD on a website by copy and pasting the url! Life changing!), college text books (haven’t tried this feature just yet but I plan to soon) and I am looking forward to being able to have my email read about my kids endless school stuff! I have been searching for YEARS now for something that could help me and hands down this is what I have needed! Thank you for creating this app. Also keeping this app’s add on features at a reasonable price! I will be doing the add on for the speed preference and I want to support someone who created something so user friendly and for those like me who want to grow and yet are stuck and struggle with all the personal stuff that keeps us from growing! Thank you!

I have been able to do other tasks while listening to textbooks and novels for school. Speechify allows me to pick up the pace of the words and get through more material. This keeps me focused and motivated! Thank you!!!

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I have always loved reading fiction novels, as my mind could float away into the descriptions. I’ve had a vivid imagination and fiction gave me permission to use it. As I grew older went through school, careers etc. the content I was suppose to absorb became, dry. I would drift off into my to-do lists, or conversations I was reflecting upon, anything and everything that was not the content in front of me. I would read over and over and retain nothing. This was frustrating because I excel in reading comprehension, always have. I’ve pretty much either avoided reading dry information and leaned in YouTube or podcasts to provide what I need to learn, or spend 10x the amount of time trying to read through the boring. This app is a game changer. The fact that it has higher speeds is SUPER helpful as I forget to listen when people talk slow. I cannot wait to explore more! Cliff, your story was so moving. I’m grateful for people like you who pushed through and innovated to make a difference for so many others struggling! Gosh and your parents in the trenches with you, incredible humans. Thank you.