Readrrr User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience29.0% of reviews
Neutral10.1% of reviews
Negative experience60.9% of reviews

~ Based on 69 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Readrrr Safe?

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Is Readrrr Legit?

Readrrr - Focus Reader appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Readrrr is 70/100.

Based on 70 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

There is potential here

I see real potential in this app and see where it could get a lot of people reading again… But… Why is there no free trial option? The app immediately pushes you to give a minimum of $10 a month just to see if you truly appreciate how it works. What would be the harm in a 7-day trial if it’s a product that the developer can stand behind?
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No free trial

You should at least give people a week or two to try it out mate. Why would I pay for an app with one review without even testing it.

Ps: I found another app now but thanks for your ads targeting over me. Didn’t know such apps existed

Unusable unless you pay

I’ve had it installed for a while now but only recently remembered it exists. Opened to try and was met with a cool demo showcasing what it is and how it works. Then you’re hit with the app locking mechanism that prevents you from continuing further unless you sign up for a subscription. Every piece of marketing or showcase you see on the App Store images is locked behind a paywall. You only get access to a demo you have no control over the text.

Really wish there was a free tier with reduced limits and capabilities so users can at least try with their own content
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Too expensive

I can use ChatGPT to extract format Any text I need in any format. This app would be good if it was cheaper and only focused on being able to read text I paste into it.

Impossible to Test

No free trial. No “your first chapter free”. I’m not paying for a full month to find out whether this works for me.

Excellent app

I didn’t expect this app to be so great! Speeding through books with comprehension, feels a bit super human! Love it :)

OCR non-functional

I tested Readrrr using a photograph of a textbook page containing conventional printed English text in a standard two-column layout. The page is clearly legible to a human reader, with high-contrast type and distinct headings. Readrrr’s resulting text was sufficiently corrupted that I could not reliably determine where in the textbook the generated text originated. This is a fundamental failure for an app marketed for reading/importing books and scanned material.

This wasn’t an edge case involving handwriting, poor-quality historical material, unusual fonts, or a damaged document. It was a modern, professionally printed textbook page. If Readrrr cannot reliably process this type of page, your marketing should make the limitations of its scan/OCR functionality much clearer.
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Not worth it

You can’t import books unless you screenshot every page. Also it doesn’t load my favorite new website into the reader. I fail to see the upside for everyday use.

Hard pay wall

Should have a freemium or trial at least. We can’t even see what books are available inside before subscribing. The feature is cool tho, I’ll find a better offer elsewhere

No free version

They should really change the business model and allow a free version and take commission selling the books - hate that I am forced to pay a subscription

DO NOT BUY

The app crashes if you attempt to scan anything more than 10 pages to input into the reader making it extremely difficult to scan in even a chapter at a time much less multiple chapters.

Helps me focus

I love it. Not enough books yet but PDF’s are easy to find. They gave me a personalized free gift to classics and two new authors all of the were great! Including Meditations by Marcus Aurelius that I failed reading twice before this app

Wish there was a free version

Wasn’t willing to pay to subscribe. If there was a free version I would definitely use it, even if you had to watch a couple ads to unlock it daily. Or even if they ran ads on the header/footers they could prob make more money by having more users instead of requiring subscriptions.

I won’t pay just to test!

As soon as I open the app, there is short induction then immediately hit with payment.
How can I test this app if I have to pay? Not even like a day trial…..
it just gives me the impresssion that this app is just about taking money from customers.

Cool ideas , subscribtion just to use is BS

Really liked the idea but the fact I can’t just buy books but instead need to use a subscription just to access the app, Kills it

best speed reading for my brain

i've been looking for a speed reading app to train with for a while. i've tried plenty, and none of vibed with me. this approach (Rapid Serial Visual Presentation, RSVP) works for my brain-- focusing so intently on a single spot helps me drown out distractions-- plus the safari extension seems to work well. i just downloaded the app and will update if it scorns me. i was not happy to pay the price, but if this ~25 bucks ACTUALLY helps me over the course of the year it will be incredibly worth it.
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Do not get this!!

Absolutely nothing like the advert.

Response from developer

This claim is simply incorrect. We are recording every ad using the app. The app works exactly as shown in the ads, and every feature demonstrated is part of the actual product, nothing is simulated or misrepresented. Please reach out to contact@ocule.dev so we can help figure out what went wrong!

Love it!

Love this app, the ability to import book and text is amazing! And the fact i can use the app on 2 different devices and have access to the same documents is amazing and super useful

Pure overpriced garbage

As long as I was reading their preloaded texts, everything was working fine, so I was impressed and decided to buy the app. As soon as I did and uploaded my own books in the .pdf format, the app stopped working. It doesn’t even adjust the font size to my liking. The only thing that really works is the interface color adjustment. That’s it. Waste of money. I hope this app gets banned from the Apple App Store sooner rather than later. I wish I could get my money back from this company.
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Response from developer

This is not normal app behavior, and this is the first report we’ve received of this specific issue. PDF imports are a core part of Readrrr and normally work with the same reader controls and customization options as the preloaded texts. Please reach out to us at contact@ocule.dev with your device model, iOS version, and, if possible, the PDF that caused the issue. We’d like to reproduce what happened and fix any device-, OS-, or file-specific problem. If you’re unhappy with your purchase, you can also request a refund through Apple. We completely understand being frustrated when something doesn’t work as expected. However, calling for an app to be banned from the App Store over what appears to be an isolated technical issue, without giving us an opportunity to investigate it, is unnecessarily extreme. If something is broken, we want to know about it and fix it.

Disappointing

The app claims to sync with icloud although that does not work. I have made multiple attempts to contact support and have heard nothing back. If I'm paying for a subscription it feels like you could dignify me with a response.

Response from developer

We’re sorry for the delay in responding to your support request. We understand how frustrating it is to wait for help, especially when a paid feature isn’t working as expected. Readrrr uses Apple’s iCloud infrastructure for syncing, and unfortunately, iCloud sync can occasionally be unreliable or get stuck for reasons outside the app itself. When that happens, we need to determine whether the issue is coming from the app, the device’s iCloud configuration, or Apple’s sync service. We sent you a guide that walks through the steps needed to identify where the sync is failing so we can help resolve it. If you didn’t receive our response, please check your spam/junk folder or reach out to us again at contact@ocule.dev. We sincerely apologize for the delay and appreciate your patience.