Speed Reading UpRead vs ReadMaxx
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Speed Reading UpRead
Enhance your reading speed and comprehension with a science-backed approach. Effortlessly process web articles, PDFs, and documents at an accelerated pace. Customize your reading experience with adjustable speed, fonts, and colors for improved productivity and time savings.
- Read faster without special training
- Reduce reading effort
- Read web articles and documents
- Save content for offline reading
- Customize reading speed, font, and color
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Read faster. Without effort nor any special training. Sounds like a dream? It’s not, thanks to science: the approach we use has been tested by neuro-scientists and proved effective over a wide range of studies. We made it available on iOS and iPadOS with a sleek design and some nice advanced features that will make it a pleasure to use. With UpRead you will be able to: - Read faster, in a matter of minutes. No kidding - Reduce reading effort so that you can read longer - Read articles from the web, imported from Safari or other apps - Read PDF files and other text documents - Save your content and read it later, offline - Customise the reading experience by setting speed, font and color. You’ll be much more effective, process more information and save time. Your professional and personal life will both have a nice boost from using just one little app. There’s no price for this. Since we’re sure you’ll love the app, you can try UpRead for free for a limited time. If you’re still (slowly) reading this, it’s time to press that GET button and start the download. Try the app, it’s worth more than a thousand words. Here’s a few reviews about us: > Magnifique application qui accélère la lecture tout en améliorant l'attention. Indispensable. — Manitoo, Switzerland, Sep 2019 > This app is the one thing I never knew I needed so desperately. […] For my fellow columnist hounds, UpRead is absolutely essential. — dfe1998, USA, Sep 2019 > I have used every flash reader I could Get my hands on. […] The back end works somehow where the others fail. [… ] You will surprise yourself by how fast you can go over time. Now friends who see me reading something look at how fast the words go and tell me that they just see flashing gobbledygook. I thought the same thing but the learning curve is painless! […] Thank you to the UpRead team!!! Finally! An app worthy of my bottom bar! — eightyanthony, USA, Aug 2019 > It's not a free app but it's worth your money! Simple to use very intuitive, I am reading more than ever! Highly recommended. — dhernz1, Honduras, Jul 2019 We’re really happy to receive feedback from our users. We seriously try to make the app better and better based on what you tell us. Please, try the app and let us know your opinion too. Feel free to contact us by visiting https://crazyhorseapps.com/support. Terms of service: https://crazyhorseapps.com/apps/terms-of-service
ReadMaxx
This app helps you read faster and more effectively by displaying one word at a time at a controlled pace. It supports various input formats like PDFs, EPUBs, and web links, and includes optional haptic cues to improve focus and comprehension.
- Word-by-word reading display
- Adjustable reading speed
- Supports PDF, EPUB, web links, and pasted text
- Optional haptic cues for structure
- Reduces eye movement
- Maintains attention and comprehension
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ReadMaxx helps you get through more of what you want to read — whether you want to read it faster or understand the essentials in seconds. Import a PDF, EPUB, Web Link, or text you’ve pasted in. Then choose how you want to engage with it: read using ReadMaxx’s RSVP speed reader, or generate a concise summary and key points to quickly understand what matters. - Read faster - ReadMaxx’s RSVP reader presents one word at a time at a controlled pace, reducing eye movement and helping you maintain attention while reading. Optional haptic cues reinforce the structure of what you’re reading, from subtle taps at the start of each word to stronger signals at sentence boundaries — helping anchor attention without pulling focus away from the text. - Understand faster - When you don’t need to read every word, ReadMaxx can summarise your content for you. Generate a concise overview and key points from documents, books, articles, and other long-form text — giving you a faster way to understand what something is about and decide where to spend your attention. Read it. Summarise it. Get through more with ReadMaxx. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ReadMaxx at 4.8 against Speed Reading UpRead's 4.2. ReadMaxx also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (67% vs 54%). Speed Reading UpRead's advantage is ratings volume (116 vs 12) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.2). 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. Speed Reading UpRead sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and ReadMaxx sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ReadMaxx holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Speed Reading UpRead has 116 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of Speed Reading UpRead's written reviews are positive against 67% of ReadMaxx's.
Speed Reading UpRead ships an update every 2 months, ReadMaxx every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Speed Reading UpRead | ReadMaxx |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (116 ratings) | 4.8 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.7% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 116 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 289 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Alain caltieri | MAXX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED |
Customer experience
Speed Reading UpRead
ReadMaxx
Bugs and requests
Speed Reading UpRead
Reported bugs
10 issues- Froze on intro page
- Did not display text from imported PDF
- Asks for purchase on start screen
- Lifetime subscription not available in app
- Importing limited to documents without images or chapters
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- Document imports often fail
- Large documents (over 2MB) fail to import
- PDFs with non-parsable text are unreadable
- Reading rate appears inaccurate (e.g., 100 wpm is closer to 60)
- Articles take significantly longer to read than estimated time
Requested features
15 requests- Add ability to read more than one word at a time
- Option to include articles (a, an, the) and punctuation
- Ability to upload books
- Search feature within text
- Pause reading stream by pressing and holding
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- Display pictures and diagrams
- Voice feature for accessibility
- Option for red focus character and frame
- Word grouping feature
- Faster maximum WPM (e.g., 10,000)
- File compatibility for PDF, EPUB, and HTML
- Automatically strip citations or edit imported text
- Landscape mode
- Cloud sync across devices
- Integrate with Kindle and other reading apps
ReadMaxx
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Speed Reading UpRead
- Speed reading, weekly7 Days trial$0.997 Days
- Speed reading, monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- UpRead Speed Reading Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
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- Speed reading, yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Speed reading, lifetime$54.99
ReadMaxx
- Unlimited Weekly$2.997 Days
- Unlimited Monthly$7.991 Month
- Unlimited Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month







