Kortext vs ReadAnywhere
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kortext
Access and read eBooks from various publishers with enhanced multimedia. Tools are included to help learners and academics engage with their content, offering features like note-taking, referencing, and text-to-speech.
- Read PDF and EPUB files
- Access 13,000+ free eTextbooks
- Highlight text and create notes
- Add Harvard/APA references
- Read Aloud functionality
- Adjust text size and background
- Search within books
- 500MB free cloud storage
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Kortext provides access to online eBooks from multiple publishers, with enhanced in-built audio and video content, combined with tools to assist learners and academics to make the most of their content. Features include: - Add and read PDF/EPUB files from your iPhone and iPad - Enjoy free access to a collection of over 13,000 eTextbooks - Easy navigation to content, providing quick access to pages - Highlight text in a range of colours and create notes, enabling quick reference of key sections - Add a reference (Harvard or APA), making creation of bibliographies much easier - Read Aloud sections, providing help with accessing content - Increase text size, change font and background of pages making it easier to view content - Search for keywords and phrases within the books directly from your bookshelf, allowing quicker access to relevant content - 500MB of free cloud file storage. Simply upload your study materials and harness the full potential within
ReadAnywhere
Access McGraw Hill eBooks and adaptive assignments for convenient offline reading and studying. Sync notes, highlights, and completed assignments automatically when back online. Log in with your existing McGraw Hill credentials to begin.
- Offline eBook access
- Adaptive assignments
- Note-taking
- Highlighting
- Automatic syncing
- Connect integration
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Read or study when it's convenient for you with the McGraw Hill ReadAnywhere app. ReadAnywhere gives users access to McGraw Hill tools including the eBook and adaptive assignments in Connect and the McGraw Hill eBook. Take notes, highlight and complete assignments offline - all of your work will sync next time you open ReadAnywhere when online. Log in with your McGraw Hill Connect or McGraw Hill eBook username & password to start learning – anytime, anywhere!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ReadAnywhere at 4.6 against Kortext's 3.9. ReadAnywhere also leads on ratings volume (10K vs 1.3K) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ReadAnywhere holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ReadAnywhere has 10K ratings behind it against 1.3K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 17% of Kortext's written reviews are positive against 16% of ReadAnywhere's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Kortext ships an update every 2 months, ReadAnywhere every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on September 25, 2026.
| Parameter | Kortext | ReadAnywhere |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (1.3K ratings) | 4.6 (10K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 17.4% of reviews — better | 16.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.3K | 10K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #61 | #31 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 130 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kortext | McGraw-Hill |
Customer experience
Kortext
ReadAnywhere
User reviews
Kortext
From 1.3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to use
- 💡 Helpful features like highlighting and note-taking
- 👍 Convenient to access textbooks on the go
- 🚀 Efficient for studying
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
- 🐛 Unreliable performance
- 🐛 Overlapping text and pages
- 🐛 Inconsistent navigation and page turning
- 🐛 Laggy and slow
ReadAnywhere
From 10K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Convenient for on-the-go reading
- 🔒 Offline access to textbooks
- 👍 Functional reading experience
- 🚀 Fast downloads of textbook chapters
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and glitches
- 🔋 High battery drain
- 👎 Lack of user-friendly features
- 🚫 Incompatibility issues with devices
- 🚫 Unreliable offline access
Bugs and requests
Kortext
Reported bugs
4 issues- Frequent crashes and freezes
- Pages not loading properly
- Highlighting and annotations not saving
- Login issues and inability to access content
Requested features
5 requests- Improved text-to-speech functionality
- Better organization and navigation of content
- Ability to customize text size and layout
- Syncing across multiple devices
- Offline reading mode
ReadAnywhere
Reported bugs
5 issues- Login issues
- Disappearing textbook content while offline
- Blurry/low-quality images
- Math processing errors
- Broken image icons
Requested features
6 requests- Dark mode option
- Handwriting/drawing support
- Ability to reorder highlights
- Customizable text-to-speech voice
- Continuous scrolling option
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- Improved navigation and bookmarking
In-app purchases
Kortext
No in-app purchases
ReadAnywhere
No in-app purchases
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