Comparison

Readwise vs Mastering Gestalt

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Readwise

This app helps you retain more of what you read by centralizing and revisiting your highlights from various reading platforms. It uses spaced repetition and active recall techniques to improve memory and offers features like tagging, note-taking, and OCR for physical books.

Highlights
  • Synchronize highlights from multiple platforms
  • Daily review habit via app and email
  • Spaced repetition and active recall
  • Tag, note, and search highlights
  • OCR for paper book highlights
  • Convert highlights to flashcards
Features
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Readwise helps you get the most out of what you read by making it fun & easy to revisit your highlights from all your favorite reading platforms in one place. Quickly synchronize your highlights from Kindle, Apple Books, Instapaper, Pocket, Medium, Goodreads, and even paper books. Then start building a daily review habit using the app and daily email. By reviewing your highlights every day, you'll retain dramatically more and you'll finally stop forgetting all the details from books you just finished! --- “Readwise is my favorite new service this year. Save highlights from Kindle, Instapaper, and now tweets... one of the best long-term personal learning tools I’ve come across.” — Caleb Hicks “Besides my Kindle, Readwise has been the most influential tech for improving my reading process.” — Blake Reichmann “If you use Kindle or Instapaper or just enjoy keeping and reading highlights, please sign up to Readwise. It will become one of your cherished services.” — Christopher Galtenberg --- ACTUALLY USE YOUR HIGHLIGHTS Highlighting is great, but why bother if you're never going to see any of your highlights again? Readwise makes it easy to quickly liberate all your highlights into one place, ensuring that you'll actually see and use them, including highlights from: • Amazon Kindle • Apple iBooks • Instapaper • Pocket • Medium • Goodreads • Twitter • Physical Books (using OCR) • Manual Input • CSV Upload STOP FORGETTING WHAT YOU READ How often do you finish a book, only to forget the key ideas two weeks later? We don't remember things by just reading them once. Readwise solves this problem using scientifically proven learning techniques called Spaced Repetition and Active Recall. Readwise resurfaces the right highlights at the right times using a daily email and an app. Readwise even makes it possible to convert your best highlights into flashcards for added retention. TAG, NOTE, SEARCH, AND ORGANIZE With your highlights all in one place, Readwise enables you to organize and connect these ideas in new ways. Use search to find a highlight instantly; use tag to organize highlights within your library; use notes to add your own annotations. HIGHLIGHT PAPER BOOKS Readwise also makes it possible to take highlights from your physical books and papers using your phone’s camera. Just snap a pic, highlight with your finger, and have your favorite highlights saved forever. --- If you are not already a Readwise subscriber, you can get started immediately with a 30-day free trial with no credit card upfront. At the end of the trial, you will not be charged unless you choose to subscribe to Readwise Full or Readwise Lite. Price may vary by location. Manage your subscription from your dashboard. --- Support: Check out readwise.io/faq or email us at hello@readwise.io Privacy Policy: https://readwise.io/tos Terms of Service: https://readwise.io/privacy

About

Mastering Gestalt

Features
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Gestalt Mastery is an educational reference navigator for Gestalt therapy: concepts, practices and literature. A structured database for systemic understanding of the method. Does not replace full study, personal therapy or supervision. Not a medical service. Who it's for: students and Gestalt therapists in training and practice; supervisors - as a tool for students' independent work; anyone interested in psychology. What's inside: Concepts 22 cards: awareness (three zones), contact boundary, cycle of contact, confluence, introjection, projection, retroflection, deflection, egotism, figure/ground, unfinished business, paradoxical theory of change (Beisser), I-Thou dialogue (Buber), field theory, inclusion, creative adjustment, experiment, Self as process, shame and belonging (Lee, Wheeler), aggression as contact, support, phenomenological method. Definitions, historical context, clinical manifestations, misunderstandings, self-reflection questions, key authors, readings. Therapeutic scenarios 19 vignettes: client in confluence, sudden anger, chronic retroflector, silence, intellectualization, idealization, stuck client, shame work, rigid introject, edge of tears, sexualized field, narcissistic/borderline client, body work, termination, boundary testing, grief, dependent client, anxiety. Each includes: vignette, client process, therapist's awareness, Gestalt perspectives (classical, relational, field, dialogical, phenomenological), possible experiments, questions to stay with, traps, supervisor questions. Capabilities 10 areas with stage-based guides: contact awareness, phenomenological sensitivity, dialogic presence, creative experimentation, self-awareness as instrument, tolerance for emptiness (fertile void), contact interruption recognition, field sensitivity, paradoxical stance, embodied awareness. Books 26 titles with summaries: Perls/Hefferline/Goodman, Polster, Yontef, Zinker, Jacobs, Hycner, Spagnuolo Lobb, Wheeler, Kepner, Frank, Buber, Beisser, and more. Session pre-session presence preparation (focus areas, blind spots) and post-session reflection (contact boundary questions). Journal post-session notes: what happened, what I'm aware of, contact interruptions, field observations. Growth capability self-assessment, supervision prep. What the app does not do does not replace full training, personal therapy or supervision.

Screenshots

Readwise4 screens
Mastering Gestalt4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Readwise at Free against Mastering Gestalt's $29.99. Readwise also leads on iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.0). Mastering Gestalt's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8). On ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Readwise is free to download; Mastering Gestalt costs $29.99 up front. Readwise sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Mastering Gestalt asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Readwise versus Mastering Gestalt: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReadwiseMastering Gestalt
PriceFree — better$29.99
Rating4.8 (1.5K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews72.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.5K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.5 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size110 MB3 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperReadwise, IncVladimir Dyagay

Bugs and requests

Readwise

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Frequent app crashes
  • Sync failures with certain accounts
  • Unreliable highlight capture

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add support for more reading apps
  • Improve sync and import capabilities
  • Introduce more customization options
  • Enhance search and organization tools
  • Develop a more intuitive mobile interface

Mastering Gestalt

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Readwise

Subscriptions8
  • Readwise Lite Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Readwise Lite Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Readwise Full Monthly Plan$8.991 Month
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  • Readwise Full Monthly$12.991 Month
  • Readwise Lite Yearly$52.991 Year
  • Readwise Lite Yearly$66.991 Year
  • Readwise Full Yearly$94.991 Year
  • Readwise Full Yearly$119.991 Year
None

Mastering Gestalt

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Readwise free?
Readwise is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mastering Gestalt free?
Mastering Gestalt costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Readwise or Mastering Gestalt have ads?
Neither Readwise nor Mastering Gestalt shows ads.

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