Comparison

Log This vs SimplyRead

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

Head to head
About

Log This

Track expenses and maintenance for your household appliances, vehicles, and other items. Understand the total cost of ownership by logging costs, events, and notes over time. Optional features enhance tracking and sharing capabilities.

Highlights
  • Log expenses and maintenance events
  • Track costs for appliances, vehicles, and more
  • Add pictures, notes, and details
  • Calculate total cost of ownership
  • Optional: mileage/hours tracking
  • Optional: event scheduling
  • Optional: PDF/CSV sharing
Features
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Minimalistic Logbook for your house appliances, car, motorcycle, bicycle and anything you need to keep track of costs over time, tracking the maintenance events, with pictures, expenses, and notes. Ever had the need to recall how much that heating system has cost you in the last couple of years? Or how much you have spent on car repairs? Log This is the App that lets you keep tabs with your house or business budget! Sometimes, failures go by unnoticed over time and this app will let you have a better understanding of the total cost of ownership of each machine you own. Other features available through in-app purchase: * Hours or mileage tracking * Event scheduling with the Calendar app * PDF and CSV sharing. * Year totals, as a whole or individual items

About

SimplyRead

Transform any text file into an audiobook using natural-sounding voices. Organize your library with folders, import files, and edit text directly within the app. Securely back up your collection with iCloud.

Highlights
  • Text-to-audiobook conversion
  • Natural voice reading
  • Adjustable speech rate
  • Integrated book search and download
  • Smart library with folders
  • Built-in text editor
  • iCloud Drive backup
Features
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A book you can read — and listen to. SimplyRead opens your TXT, EPUB and Markdown files as real books, with covers, chapters and a page worth reading, then reads them aloud in natural iOS voices whenever you would rather listen. READ - A reading page set in a proper serif, with five paper themes that follow your phone's Light or Dark mode - Page by page, or one continuous scroll — whichever you prefer - Chapters found automatically, including Chinese numeral titles, with a panel to jump anywhere in the book - Bookmarks, find-in-book with highlighted matches, and a Continue Reading card that puts you back where you stopped - Every mark and label scales with your text size LISTEN - High-quality iOS system voices, at a speed you set - The sentence being spoken is highlighted, and the page follows along - Sleep timer, plus Lock Screen, Control Center and CarPlay controls — keep listening with the screen off BUILD YOUR LIBRARY - Import from the Files app, create a file straight from your clipboard, or download from a URL and watch it arrive - Built-in search to find and download books directly to your shelf - Folders to keep a long shelf tidy EDIT AND KEEP - A built-in editor with Find & Replace and a Fix New Lines tool for text files that arrived badly wrapped - iCloud Drive backup and restore for the whole library, reading positions included FREE AND PRO Your own files, the entire reader, themes, chapters, bookmarks and backup are unlimited and free. Pro lifts the daily listening allowance and the download limit.

Screenshots

Log This3 screens
SimplyRead4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: SimplyRead at 5.0 against Log This's 2.3. SimplyRead also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.6). Log This's advantage is monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs paid) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Log This sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and SimplyRead sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SimplyRead holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Log This ships an update monthly, SimplyRead weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Log This versus SimplyRead: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLog ThisSimplyRead
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.3 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB141 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEmidio Cunha阳 张

Customer experience

Log This

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

SimplyRead

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

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Log This

One-time1
  • Unlock$1.99
1 purchases

SimplyRead

One-time1
  • Pro User$0.99

Questions

Is Log This free?
Log This is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SimplyRead free?
SimplyRead is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Log This or SimplyRead?
SimplyRead is rated higher. Log This averages 2.3 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while SimplyRead averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Log This or SimplyRead have ads?
Neither Log This nor SimplyRead shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Log This or SimplyRead?
Log This ships an update monthly, and SimplyRead weekly. Most recently, Log This was updated on September 18, 2026 and SimplyRead on September 15, 2026.

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