RedShelf vs Simple Practice
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RedShelf
Access and read your digital textbooks on any device. Highlight text, take notes, create flashcards, and have content read aloud. Your notes and highlights sync across all your devices.
- Access textbooks on any device
- Highlight text and take notes
- Create flashcards from content
- Define unfamiliar words
- Text-to-speech functionality
- Sync notes and highlights across devices
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The RedShelf eReader companion app provides access to read and engage with your textbooks located in your RedShelf account on the My Shelf page. Access your textbooks no matter where you go with a unified experience across mobile, tablet, and desktop devices. eReader Features: - Access textbooks on your device for seamless reading - Easily highlight text, take notes, and share with classmates - Create flashcards while reading to test your understanding of the content - Define unfamiliar words quickly and easily - Have text read aloud and select the voice and pace - Sync all of your notes and highlights to your account and across devices App Requirements: - Active RedShelf account - One or more books available in your RedShelf account
Simple Practice
Sharpen your SSAT verbal skills with a comprehensive collection of practice questions. Developed with English professors and tutors, this app provides targeted exercises to boost vocabulary and test readiness for SSAT success.
- Extensive practice questions
- SSAT verbal section focus
- Vocabulary building
- Analogy and synonym tests
- Expert-developed content
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Our app is a dedicated tool designed to help you excel in the SSAT verbal section. Developed in collaboration with certified English professors and expert tutors, our app offers an extensive collection of practice questions to sharpen your vocabulary skills. Each question is carefully crafted to mirror the SSAT verbal section, ensuring you get the most targeted and effective practice possible. Enhance your test-readiness and confidence with our app, and set yourself on the path to SSAT success. You can take the quick test for free and for the tests like Analogy and Synonyms the paid subscription will be required.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Simple Practice at 100% against RedShelf's 3%. Simple Practice also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 16.0). RedShelf's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (7.1K vs 2). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Simple Practice holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RedShelf has 7.1K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 3% of RedShelf's written reviews are positive against 100% of Simple Practice's.
RedShelf ships an update every 5 weeks, Simple Practice every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RedShelf | Simple Practice |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (7.1K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 3.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7.1K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RedShelf | Simple Practice LLC (RI) |
Customer experience
RedShelf
Simple Practice
Bugs and requests
RedShelf
Reported bugs
3 issues- Books not loading or showing blank screens
- Highlighting issues (selecting wrong text, unable to edit)
- Sync issues between devices and web version
Requested features
4 requests- Improve highlighting and annotation tools
- Add support for split-screen mode
- Enhance text-to-speech capabilities
- Allow offline access to downloaded books
Simple Practice
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
RedShelf
No in-app purchases
Simple Practice
No in-app purchases
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