Ready vs Bamboo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ready
Save articles and web content to read later in a distraction-free environment. Organize your saved reading material with tags and categories, and sync across devices. Enjoy a comfortable reading experience anywhere, anytime.
- Save articles via link, pasteboard, or share extension
- Offline reading with cached content
- Customizable display styles for comfortable reading
- Tagging and archiving for organization
- iCloud backup and synchronization
- Elegant sharing templates
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App Store "New Apps We Love" recommendation. Read the article later, Ready is always with you. Ready, your friend for later reading. Add the article link you want to read to Ready and enjoy a pure and comfortable reading experience. You're chatting with friends, getting push notifications, or browsing social networks, and you find an article that appeals to you, but you can't find the time to read it? Add it to Ready. With just one link, Ready can quickly load the full content and cache it locally, so you can get back to reading pleasure anytime, anywhere. In the age of fragmented information and emotions, prepare yourself some spiritual food, maybe novels, news, or miscellaneous articles, or comics. Take a break from the clamoring short videos and chattering social networks, and feel the observations and comments on the world made by some authors who are fighting with the text, piling up words and sentences. Feel the thoughts that spread out because of such reading. These small thoughts that float in our minds while reading fill our whole life. # Application Highlights - Convenient and quick way to add articles, with Pasteboard Quick Add, Share Extension sharing and many other ways to quickly add articles. - Carefully polished and continuously iteratively updated page parsing capabilities to intelligently load the most core article content. - Rich configuration of display styles, presenting you with the most comfortable reading interface. - Powerful classification and tagging system, supporting archived articles, favorite articles, adding custom tags to a range of related articles. - Support for iCloud backup and synchronization, with no data loss. - Elegant and refreshing sharing templates, share wonderful content with friends. # Ready Pro Unlock Ready Pro to unlock all of Ready's features, including: - Unlimited number of articles to add. - Unlimited number of article tags to add. - iCloud data synchronization. - Exclusive access to sharing card styles. - Exclusive access to app icons. We will continue to update the features of Ready Pro, and some of the new features may be restricted to Ready Pro users. # About monthly/annual subscriptions Ready Pro is enabled through an auto-renewing subscription service. - Pricing and Payment: The latest subscription prices are displayed in real-time on the purchase screen. An App Store account will be charged once the purchase is confirmed and paid for. - Renewal: Subscriptions are billed on an annual or monthly basis, and your App Store account will be charged 24 hours before expiration for the same amount as the previous subscription. Subscriptions renew for one cycle after a successful chargeback. - Managing Subscriptions and Canceling Renewals: You can view and manage your subscription service in the system settings yourself. To cancel a subscription, manually turn off auto-renewal in App Store settings at least 24 hours before the current subscription cycle expires. - Refunds: Please note that the app development team is unable to provide refunds once you have completed your purchase and you will need to use the relevant services provided by Apple yourself. Your purchases and refunds are subject to Apple's applicable payment policies. # You can find us at these locations WeChat Official Account: @zzz_studio_official Weibo: @zzz_studio Email: contactzzz@yeah.net User Agreement: https://docs.qq.com/doc/DYnlEaG9Ka3hRQlFG Privacy Policy: https://docs.qq.com/doc/DYkJ3anh2UmVEUVBF
Bamboo
This app is a Markdown note-taking tool for organizing knowledge and utilizing AI features. It allows users to capture ideas, write long-form content, and connect notes with wiki links. AI assistance is available for drafting, summarizing, and brainstorming, with users controlling their AI provider.
- Markdown editor with syntax highlighting
- Wiki link creation for connecting notes
- AI assistance for drafting and summarizing
- Organize notes into collections
- Cross-device synchronization
- Import and export content
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Bamboo is a Markdown notes app for writing, organizing knowledge, and using AI on your own terms. Available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with Web Clipper support, Bamboo helps you capture ideas anywhere and continue working across devices. Capture quick notes, long-form documents, tasks, reminders, research, meeting notes, reading highlights, and personal knowledge. Bamboo keeps your notes in Markdown so they stay portable, readable, and easy to manage. WRITE AND CAPTURE Use a focused Markdown editor with syntax highlighting, task lists, tables, wiki links, footnotes, highlights, math, images, and attachments. Keep ideas, notes, reminders, and tasks together so writing, thinking, and planning stay in one place. ORGANIZE AND CONNECT Organize notes into collections for projects, areas, archives, or research spaces. Connect ideas with wiki links, pin important notes, star favorites, and build a knowledge base that stays easy to navigate as it grows. AI ASSISTANCE, UNDER YOUR CONTROL Bamboo Pro lets you connect supported AI providers and use assistant features directly in your notes. Draft, rewrite, summarize, brainstorm ideas, and work with selected content without leaving your workspace. You stay in control of the provider and model you use. KEEP YOUR NOTES YOURS Your notes stay in Markdown, making them easy to move, back up, and keep for the long term. Search across notes, revisit recent work, import and export your content, create backups, and keep your work available across devices with optional Bamboo Pro features such as iCloud Sync, HTML export, and PDF export. Bamboo includes optional auto-renewable monthly and yearly Pro subscriptions. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. You can manage subscriptions in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://zhigui.github.io/app-docs/bamboo/privacy_policy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bamboo at 5.0 against Ready's 3.7. Ready's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Ready sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Bamboo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Bamboo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Ready ships an update monthly, Bamboo every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Ready | Bamboo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 132 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 健 金 | 志贵 陈 |
Customer experience
Ready
Bamboo
In-app purchases
Ready
- 读否 Pro(月度)$0.991 Month
- 读否 Pro(年度)$7.991 Year
- 读否会员$4.99
Bamboo
- Monthly Pro7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Annual Pro7 Days trial$29.991 Year









