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Renarrator

Replaces video audio with your chosen voice

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Renarrator replaces a video's original audio with a clear voice you choose. It's built for videos where the speaker's accent, poor recording, or pace makes them hard to follow. Pick a video, choose a voice, and watch it with new narration in place of the original. A free trial lets you try it before you subscribe.

What to test

Open a video in Renarrator, pick a voice, and play it through. Check that the new narration stays in sync and the original audio is fully replaced. Then try switching voices and tell us about anything t

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Right off the bat I can tell you have a very pragmatic approach, and I like that. It's a clear product that gets straight to the point and doesn't go all over the place. Renarrator is a great name too. It explains itself.

App Store listing
You're iOS only right now, so to get some traction I'd look into ASO (App Store Optimization). It's basically SEO for the App Store. For example, the title now just says "Renarrator". It could be something like "Renarrator: Text to Voice". Do some research and see what works best. I can't tell you exactly just from looking at it.

The screenshots make sense, but right now they're plain screenshots from the app. Make them a bit more engaging and beautiful: add text, show off the features, and above all show a before and after. That's the clearest way to explain what your app does. Look at how similar apps do it, and I'm happy to send you some examples. Your listing matters more than you think.

Also tell people why they would use it. I understand what it does, but give real examples. Maybe you're in Ireland and can't follow the accent, or a lesson video was badly recorded. This is a pretty specific concept, so you made it for a reason. Share that reason.

It's really nice that you already have a couple of good reviews.

Onboarding
The logo is clear, recognizable and very good. The first screen, "Hear lessons clearly", looks native, like something Apple made. That's good.

Next comes the voices screen: Apple voices, free AI voices, Renarrator lifetime. It makes sense, but this is too early to ask for payment. Having to tap "Download" also adds friction, because people don't like downloading stuff. I'd just download the voices automatically.

First use
After onboarding there's one clear button, "Narrate", so that's what I clicked, and that's what everyone will do. I got "The video player could not complete that action." I think the sample lesson is missing. Later, when I replayed the introduction from Settings > Help, it did work. So either fix the first run, or skip the sample lesson and just tell people: paste a link to any video, hit Narrate, and see what happens.

What you asked me to test

Open a video, pick a voice and play it through

  • An Old English conversation, to push it to the limit: it muted the original, but the narration didn't really work. That's fair, since it's an edge case.
  • A Scottish YouTube Short: worked. But the video starts playing as soon as I paste the link. That might be a YouTube thing, but make sure every video stays paused until I hit Narrate. Otherwise I can't narrate it from the start.
  • A Spanish video: didn't work, which is fine. Focus on one language.

Overall it worked on all kinds of English videos, which is cool. It would be amazing if it could run system-wide on your phone someday.

Original audio fully replaced
Yes. It correctly cut the original sound.

Switching voices
This is the biggest problem. I claimed the free 30 minutes (the sign-up is a bit hidden, but I found it easily, so not a big deal) and picked the AI voice "Hard". It did nothing except make a weird, very loud beep. All the AI voices I downloaded from you did the same. I'm not sure how it works on your side, but that needs fixing.

On the plus side, I love that you can paste your own OpenAI or ElevenLabs API key. That's great.

Controls
It's still a bit hard to use. "Narrate" starts the video, but "Stop Narrating" doesn't pause it. On top of that, the video has its own play/pause, and there's also a control bar at the bottom. That's confusing. I'd keep just a Play and a Stop button and always narrate. If someone wants to turn narration off, put that in a separate setting.

Voices and pricing
The standard voice isn't very nice. My first narration used the Apple standard voice, and it didn't sound good. I get that it's the free option, but you're already giving away 30 minutes of AI voice. So make the AI voice the default. After the 30 minutes, people can pay or switch to the Apple voice. Why show me the weaker voice first when your best option is free to try?

Summary
I like the concept a lot. My priorities would be:

  1. Fix the AI voices (the beep) and make them the default.
  2. Simplify the controls to Play/Stop and keep videos paused until Narrate.
  3. Fix or drop the sample lesson.
  4. Work on the App Store listing with ASO and before/after screenshots.

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