Aurora Reader vs Randomly Toolbox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Aurora Reader
Save, read, and organize articles from the web with a clutter-free reading experience. Look up word definitions, add notes, and listen to articles hands-free. Syncs across devices via iCloud.
- Save articles from web
- Clutter-free reading view
- Offline article access
- Word definition lookup
- Highlighting and note-taking
- Article-to-speech functionality
- iCloud sync across devices
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Save articles, read articles, learn new words, record new thoughts… Aurora Reader is a premium Read-It-Later app that builds with latest technologies and packs a ton of exciting features. SAVE ARTICLES • Find Aurora Reader’s extensions from Share sheet in Safari, Twitter, Medium and many other apps, and use them to view or save articles • On iPad, use Drag & Drop to import multiple articles from another app at once • With automatically iCloud Sync, you can save articles on your iPhone and read them later on your iPad, iPod touch or Mac* READ ARTICLES • Article view automatically removes clutter from webpage and shows only the main article content for you • Immersive reading experience let you keep focus • No network, no problem: saved articles can be read at anytime, even without network • Customize your reading experience with multiple fonts and themes • Reading progress is automatically sync with iCloud, so you can easily switch device and continue reading from where you left off LEARN NEW WORDS • On article view, you can check word definitions simply by one tap. To close definitions view, it’s also as simple as a tap or swipe • Check word definitions in multi-language dictionaries • Aurora Reader can get you a great amount of definitions in least amount of time, thanks to the customized search engine with special optimization • Words you look up can be automatically saved to Aurora Reader’s companion app: Aurora Dictionary • Install or delete dictionaries from Dictionary Manager view RECORD NEW THOUGHTS • Select, swipe, highlight, and add notes • Save unlimited highlights and notes • Choose the highlight color that match your style REWIND • Rewind your reading journey with Search • Search saved articles, notes, folders and more from iOS home screen or in-app search bar • Accurately locate sentences and paragraphs with Full-Text Search ORGANIZE • Organize your articles and notes with Folders • Enjoy the freedom to create unlimited folders and subfolders • Quickly find your folders with Search • Use Drag & Drop to move and reorder your folders, articles and notes RELAX • Listen to articles with high fidelity voice, hands-free and eyes-free • Check currently reading paragraph on in-app Now Playing view. Find some unfamiliar words? just tap to look up • Listen with just your Apple Watch (requires watchOS 6.0 or later, and a pair of Bluetooth headphones) • Switch between multiple speech languages and voices * Aurora Reader for Mac is available on Mac App Store
Randomly Toolbox
A free utility app offering a diverse range of tools for generating, picking, sorting, and simulating various data types. It includes features for numbers, text, dates, lists, dictionaries, security, charts, and developer utilities.
- Number generation and manipulation
- Text processing and formatting
- Date and time utilities
- List management and sorting
- Dictionary and security tools
- Chart creation and simulation features
- Developer-specific utilities
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Randomly is a free toolbox that lets you do many things. Categories of tools available: - Numbers - Text - Date/Time - Lists - Dictionaries - Security - Charts - Simulators - Counters - Developer - Others
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Randomly Toolbox at 5.0 against Aurora Reader's 4.3. Randomly Toolbox also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 62%). Aurora Reader's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (12 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Randomly Toolbox holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Aurora Reader has 12 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of Aurora Reader's written reviews are positive against 100% of Randomly Toolbox's.
Aurora Reader ships an update every 6 weeks, Randomly Toolbox every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Aurora Reader | Randomly Toolbox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Junyu Kuang | Justin Xin |
Customer experience
Aurora Reader
Randomly Toolbox
In-app purchases
Aurora Reader
No in-app purchases
Randomly Toolbox
No in-app purchases
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