Comparison
Junco Reader vs Quick TTS
Both run text-to-speech entirely in your browser with no account and no upload. Here's where they actually differ, as of this writing.
| Junco Reader | quick-tts.com | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Free, no ads | Free, ad-supported (Google AdSense) |
| Instant voice | Yes -- your browser's built-in voice, no download | Yes -- Web Speech API by default |
| Neural voice engines | Kokoro-82M (on-device) | Kokoro-82M, Piper, and Supertonic (three engines) |
| File formats | PDF, TXT, Markdown, pasted text | PDF, DOCX, EPUB, ODT, RTF, HTML, TXT, Markdown, plus OCR for scanned PDFs |
| Documents leave your device | Never | Never |
| Installable (PWA) | Yes | Not offered as far as we can tell |
| Companion app | Junco for iPhone -- newsletters as a daily podcast | None |
Where quick-tts.com is ahead
It reads more file formats -- DOCX, EPUB, ODT, RTF, and HTML on top of PDF -- and it can OCR a scanned (image-only) PDF, which Junco Reader can't do yet. If you need one of those formats today, quick-tts.com is the better fit. It also offers two extra neural engines (Piper and Supertonic) alongside Kokoro, for more voice variety.
Where Junco Reader is ahead
No ads. Junco Reader is built by the team behind Junco, an iPhone app that turns your email newsletters into a short daily podcast -- if you like the on-device Kokoro voice here, it's the same voice family reading your inbox out loud every morning. Junco Reader is also installable as an app (Add to Home Screen), and reads PDFs and Markdown files directly without needing an account.
Try it yourself -- drop in a PDF or paste an article, and switch to the Instant tier if you don't want to wait on a download.
Open Junco Reader