Text Reader vs TxtBook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Text Reader
Convert text from documents and articles into speech to avoid eye strain. Supports 22 languages and allows you to save texts to a personal list for easy access.
- Text-to-speech conversion
- Supports 22 languages
- Save texts to a list
- Reduces eye strain
- Reads documents and articles
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When you have to read some important text, document or article but your eyes get tired, you can easily convert text to speech with this app. 22 languages including Korean and English are supported (Arabic, Chinese, Dannish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish). Save the text in your own list.
TxtBook
This app offers a streamlined experience for reading TXT files, focusing on essential customization options like font, spacing, and brightness. It supports basic navigation and specific Japanese text features, while being available on iOS devices.
- Font and font size adjustment
- Line and letter spacing control
- Adjustable margins and alignment
- Brightness and night mode
- Search functionality
- Continue reading from last file
- Vertical writing and Ruby characters
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A simpler and more intuitive, dieted TXT file reader app containing only essential features - Basic features: Font, Font size, Line spacing, Margins (left/right), Brightness, Night mode, Search, Continue from last file, Show previous page content, Alignment, Margins (top/bottom), Letter spacing - iPad only: Bluetooth keyboard, Left/Right/Up/Down arrow keys - iPhone/iPad support (Mac not supported), iOS/iPadOS 15+ - Supports only files with the .txt extension - Vertical writing (Japanese) - Ruby characters, Furigana (Japanese) - There may be typos or missing parts in the Furigana (Ruby characters) included in Japanese. - Includes advertisement
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Text Reader at 2.3 against TxtBook's 1.0. Text Reader also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). TxtBook's advantage is review sentiment (90% vs 50%). On price, ads, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. TxtBook sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Text Reader asks for nothing beyond the download.
Text Reader holds the better App Store score, 2.3 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Text Reader's written reviews are positive against 90% of TxtBook's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Text Reader ships an update fortnightly, TxtBook every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Reader | TxtBook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (3 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 90.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 251 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | won jun lee | kim juyoung |
Customer experience
Text Reader
TxtBook
In-app purchases
Text Reader
No in-app purchases
TxtBook
- Remove Ads$2.99
