Comparison

Passages for Readers vs Sutra

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Passages for Readers

This app helps you retain information from books by surfacing your saved highlights daily. It integrates with various apps and devices, offering widgets, notifications, and text-to-speech for easy review. Organize and search your quotes, and even discover curated recommendations.

Highlights
  • Daily passage surfacing
  • Capture from any app
  • Home and lock screen widgets
  • Apple Watch app and complications
  • CarPlay dashboard widget
  • Text-to-speech for quotes
  • iCloud sync across devices
Features
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Remember what you read. Apply what you learn. You invest hours in every book. But how much do you actually remember a month later? Passages is a quote journal that turns your best highlights into a daily practice — surfacing one passage per day across your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. No effort required. Just live with your best ideas. THE PROBLEM Most readers forget what they read within weeks. Notes collect dust. Highlights go unreviewed. When the moment comes to apply hard-won knowledge, the information isn't top of mind. THE SOLUTION Passages closes the gap between reading and doing. Save your most important quotes and Passages keeps them in front of you — on your home screen, lock screen, wrist, keyboard, and even your car dashboard. CAPTURE FROM ANYWHERE - Save quotes from Safari, Kindle, Apple Books, or any app using the Share Extension - Paste from clipboard with one tap - Attach source URLs, publication names, and personal notes to every passage YOUR QUOTES, EVERYWHERE - Home screen widgets (small, medium, and large) - Lock screen widgets for a glance without unlocking - Apple Watch app and complications - CarPlay dashboard widget - Custom keyboard — insert today's quote into any conversation - Daily push notification with your Passage of the Day DAILY REINFORCEMENT A new Passage of the Day is chosen each morning and appears across every surface. It's the easiest way to revisit what you've read and keep your most important ideas top of mind. SYNCED ACROSS ALL YOUR DEVICES iCloud keeps your entire library in sync across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. Add a quote on your phone and it appears on your Mac instantly. No account to create — just your Apple ID. POWERFUL ORGANIZATION - Full-text search across your entire library - Six sort options: by date added, last viewed, or author - Rich metadata: author, publication, personal notes, source URL - Export and import your full database as JSON CURATED RECOMMENDATIONS Discover hand-picked passages from great books. Save them to your personal library with one tap. PRIVACY FIRST Your quotes live in your private iCloud database. No third-party servers. No analytics. No account required beyond your Apple ID. Your reading life stays yours. You become the average of the people you spend the most time with. Passages lets you spend more time with the people you most admire. Download now and get the most from your books.

About

Sutra

Organize and read all your eBooks and comics in one beautiful, calm reader. Connect to self-hosted libraries, explore online catalogs, and customize your reading experience with various display options. Enjoy seamless progress syncing across devices.

Highlights
  • Unified reader for EPUB, PDF, CBZ, MOBI, comics, and manga
  • Connect to Kavita, Komga, Calibre, and OPDS servers
  • Customizable reading experience (fonts, themes, layout)
  • Organized library with Series and Collection views
  • Progress and finished-book sync across devices
  • Offline reading support for comics
Features
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Sutra is a warm, thoughtful home for every book and comic you love. Bring together your self-hosted library, your manga, your classic EPUBs, and those “just one more chapter” reads in one beautifully calm reader. Connect Kavita, Komga, or Calibre; explore any OPDS catalogue; or discover a new favourite from Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks. READ YOUR WAY • Enjoy EPUB, PDF, CBZ, MOBI, fixed-layout comics, and manga in one place • Move through comics panel by panel, or take in the whole page • Read right-to-left manga and beautiful iPad two-page spreads • Make the page yours with fonts, text size, spacing, themes, auto-scroll, page turns, and Sutra-only brightness control A LIBRARY THAT FEELS LIKE HOME • Browse dedicated Series and Collection views, with Favorites always close by • Sort by Recently Read, Title, Author, or Date Added while staying in a familiar cover grid • Let Sutra recover missing Calibre series details and keep your library beautifully organised • Pick up where you left off with dependable progress and finished-book sync for Kavita and Komga BUILT FOR SELF-HOSTERS • Connect Kavita, Komga, Calibre, Grimmory, or another OPDS server • Stream comic pages from Kavita and Komga when available, or download for offline reading • Keep your highlights and reading progress with you across your Apple devices Sutra is free to enjoy for EPUB and PDF reading, with no ads and no subscription. Unlock unlimited CBZ, MOBI, and Komga reading once, and keep it forever.

Screenshots

Passages for Readers3 screens
Sutra4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Passages for Readers at none against Sutra's 4. Sutra's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 5 months) and rating (4.3 vs 4.0). On price, ads and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sutra sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Passages for Readers asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sutra holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sutra has 18 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Passages for Readers ships an update every 5 months, Sutra every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Passages for Readers versus Sutra: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPassages for ReadersSutra
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)4.3 (18 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—73.3% of reviews
Number of ratings118 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMoving Average Inc.Koustav Dasgupta

Customer experience

Passages for Readers

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Sutra

All ratings18 ratings
Positive77.8%
Neutral16.7%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive73.3%
Neutral13.3%
Negative13.3%

In-app purchases

None

Passages for Readers

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Sutra

One-time4
  • Small Tip$1.99
  • Medium Tip$2.99
  • Large Tip$4.99
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  • Sutra Pro$6.99

Questions

Is Passages for Readers free?
Passages for Readers is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sutra free?
Sutra is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Passages for Readers or Sutra?
Sutra is rated higher. Passages for Readers averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Sutra averages 4.3 from 18 ratings.
Do Passages for Readers or Sutra have ads?
Neither Passages for Readers nor Sutra shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Passages for Readers or Sutra?
Passages for Readers ships an update every 5 months, and Sutra every 8 days. Most recently, Passages for Readers was updated on November 2, 2026 and Sutra on November 7, 2026.

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