Web page text only reader vs ReadApp
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Web page text only reader
Extracts and displays the text content of web pages in a book-like format. Customize your reading experience with adjustable fonts, backgrounds, and page-turning effects. Save and share your notes and highlights.
- Extracts text-only from web pages
- Book-style reading with page curl
- Customizable fonts, sizes, and background colors
- Long tap for notes, highlights, and comments
- Offline reading of downloaded content
- Share highlighted text as PDF
- Reading history and favorites
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Read a web site page from browser in the classic book style, remember where you read? Select background, font for reading, curl the pages page by page? Just open "Action/Share" dialog in Safari, select ReaderView App and read the very text of the selected page! IMPORTANT: To read a website page content in the Reader just click "share by" on the the web browser and select "Reader app". Make sure the Reader is on the list of apps that you permit share content with. Read "text-only" version of any website page, works for majority sites, including flibusta: - Text extracted by "readability" like Safari Reader Mode - Support a Few different methods of extracting text from web site - Use long tap to make notes, highlight text, add comments - You can lock downloaded content for offline read - Read website page text in "book style" with curl flip pagination - You can change fonts, sizes, background color on the flight - Keep history of your readings, save favourites - Share the texts with your highlights as PDF - Share your notes/comments with friends The application is free; however, in-app purchases are available for unlocking the some limits and locked functionality. Please leave a feedback trough the feedback button in "more" tab. We are working on improving the ReaderView to get the correct textual data from majority of the important sites. Feel free to point us to the web sites you need us to deal with first! Note, that some sites are designed the way that prevents text extraction. Feel free to send us the URL over feedback email and we will think how to parse this specific site for you.
ReadApp
This app converts webpage text into spoken audio, supporting over 20 languages. It allows for adjustable voice speed and Airplay compatibility, making web content accessible on various sites.
- Webpage text to audio conversion
- Supports 20+ languages
- Works on various websites
- Adjustable voice speed
- Airplay support
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Read aloud webpage article with ReadApp. - Converts webpage text to audio with one click - Supports 20+ languages - Works on a variety of websites - Supports voice speed change & Airplay ----- ReadApp Pro is available with a monthly or annual subscription. You can subscribe and pay through your Apple account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Auto-renew may be turned off after purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.zhihuke.com/readapp/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://www.zhihuke.com/readapp/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ReadApp at 2.3 against Web page text only reader's 2.0. Web page text only reader's advantage is update cadence (every 8 months vs every 35 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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. Web page text only reader sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and ReadApp sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ReadApp holds the better App Store score, 2.3 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 0% and 0% positive.
Web page text only reader ships an update every 8 months, ReadApp every 35 months. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and June 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Web page text only reader | ReadApp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (3 ratings) | 2.3 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months — better | Every 35 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vasilisa Akselevich | 杏娣 吴 |
Customer experience
Web page text only reader
ReadApp
In-app purchases
Web page text only reader
- Remove Limits$2.99
ReadApp
- ReadApp Pro$1.491 Month
- ReadApp Pro3 Days trial$9.991 Year
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