Pinbox vs Readonly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pinbox
A cross-platform content collection tool to centralize scattered information. It helps users record ideas, save articles, and manage web content for personal learning and reading. It also supports sharing and viewing public content.
- Content collection and management
- Bookmark organization
- Idea and inspiration capture
- Private, encrypted collections
- Link, image, and text saving
- Automated management workflows
- User-shared content community
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深受用户喜爱的跨平台收藏工具，受到极客公园、扩展迷、IT 之家、科研利器、锋潮测评室推荐。 将散落各地的内容集中在一处，您可以用它来记录灵感，稍后阅读，保存资料甚至网络上的任何内容。 Pinbox 是帮助您个人学习和阅读的效率工具，同时也支持分享和查看公开的优质内容。 Pinbox 适合用来做什么？ - 稍后阅读 - 碎片信息的收藏和管理，海量信息筛选的第一道关口，收藏消化后转移到笔记工具 - 书签管理 - 通过收藏集和标签对常用链接进行管理 - 创意灵感收集 - 随时以文本的形式记录一些创意和灵感，并且支持 Markdown - 记录秘密 - 通过加密收藏集设置只有自己能访问的私密空间 Pinbox 特色功能 - 简洁、快速、保护隐私，界面干净清爽，没有花里胡哨的功能 - 支持链接、图片、文本收藏 - 通过流程实现自动化管理 - 用户主动分享维护的优质内容社区，聚集各行各业优质资源 - 个性化的 UI 主题、显示模式、布局等 - 加密收藏集，打造私密空间 - 保护隐私，不追踪，不打扰 - 赋能教育，服务社会，免费提供教育版套餐 联系邮箱：service@withpinbox.com
Readonly
Save articles from other apps to read later in a comfortable, distraction-free environment. Organize your saved content with tags, highlight key passages, and add notes for deeper comprehension. Customize the reading experience with various themes and layout adjustments.
- Quickly save articles from other apps
- Highlight text and add notes
- Organize articles with tags
- Customize reading themes and layout
- Synchronize data via iCloud
- Export articles in Markdown format
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"Readonly" is a simple and easy to use read later app. There are not too many complicated features, just to give you a comfortable place to read your saved articles. Featured Functions - Highlight & Notes While reading, use different colors to highlight text, mark key points for easy review later. You can also add notes to the highlights, recording your thoughts and insights, making each reading session more rewarding. - Theme Switching We have carefully prepared some themes suitable for reading, choose your favorite from it, relax your eyes and focus on reading. - iCloud Synchronization Data synchronization to the cloud, no longer worry about data loss. - Tag Management Tag articles, categorize and manage them, keep everything in order. - Layout Adjustment Select fonts, adjust spacing, you can finely control the layout of the article to make reading more comfortable. - Quick Save Quickly save articles in other apps through sharing operations. - Export Articles Export your saved articles in Markdown format. —————————— Contact Us: brkchen@icloud.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Pinbox at free against Readonly's free with in-app purchases. Pinbox also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). Readonly's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (16 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Pinbox sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Readonly sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Pinbox against 4.4 for Readonly. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Readonly has 16 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Pinbox ships an update every 3 months, Readonly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pinbox | Readonly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better | 4.4 (16 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 16 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pinco Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. | 龙 陈 |
Customer experience
Pinbox
Readonly
In-app purchases
Pinbox
- 一个月订阅$1.99
- 半年订阅$7.99
- 一年订阅$10.99
Readonly
- Permanent Purchase(iOS)$2.99
- 永久购买（macOS）$2.99
