English Reading + vs Comprehend
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
English Reading +
Enhance English reading skills with extensive lessons covering comprehension, vocabulary, and grammar. Prepare for standardized tests like TOEFL and TOEIC with focused practice modules. Improve critical thinking and reading abilities for academic and professional success.
- 320 English Reading Comprehension lessons
- 200 TOEFL Reading Comprehension lessons
- 60 TOEIC Reading Comprehension lessons
- Vocabulary and grammar improvement
- Critical thinking skill development
- Test preparation
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EnglishReading helps you practice English reading comprehension through structured lesson packages, reading passages, multiple-choice questions, progress tracking, and mistake review. Build your reading habit step by step. MAIN FEATURES Practice Reading by Lesson Choose a package, open a lesson, read the passage, and answer comprehension questions. Each lesson is designed to help you read carefully and understand the main idea, details, vocabulary, and context. Track Your Progress See your learning progress directly from the home screen. EnglishReading shows your completed lessons, current progress, mistakes to review, streaks, and weekly learning activity. Review Your Mistakes Mistake Bank helps you quickly find questions you answered incorrectly, review your previous answer, and compare it with the correct answer. This makes it easier to focus on the areas that need more practice. Instant Results After finishing a lesson, view your score, correct answers, incorrect answers, and total questions. You can review the lesson again to understand your mistakes and improve over time. Comfortable Reading Experience Choose from Light, Pastel, and Night themes to make reading more comfortable in different environments. Print and Review Export or print lesson content for offline study and quick review whenever you need. WHY USE ENGLISHREADING? • Simple and focused reading practice • Clear lesson packages • Multiple-choice comprehension questions • Mistake review for better learning • Progress and weekly study tracking • Clean UI for both iPhone and iPad • Light, Pastel, and Night themes • Useful for daily English reading practice EnglishReading is designed for learners who want a simple, organized, and comfortable way to improve reading comprehension skills.
Comprehend
This educational app helps students in grades 2-12 enhance their reading comprehension. It allows users to create custom reading passages and quizzes, utilize text-to-speech, and track progress. AI features can generate stories and assist in writing custom content for a more engaging learning experience.
- Custom quiz creation
- Text-to-speech functionality
- AI story generation
- Progress tracking
- AI-assisted story writing
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Comprehend-Reading is an educational app for students who want to improve reading comprehension. Create content for grades 2 – 12 by pasting text, photographing pages, or using AI to generate custom passages. Add text-to-speech and build quizzes to test understanding and memory. Key Features - Custom quiz creation with main-idea, detail, inference, vocabulary or 5 WH question quiz - Text-to-speech for accessible reading experiences - AI story generation for any reading level (grades 2–12) - Progress tracking with saved quiz results - Manual or AI-assisted story writing for teachers, parents, and learners Comprehend-Reading turns reading into an engaging learning journey—helping students focus on key ideas, improve recall, and grow confident in comprehension. Terms of service https://www.comprehend-reading.com/terms-of-service
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Comprehend at none against English Reading +'s shown. Comprehend also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). English Reading +'s advantage is ratings volume (116 vs 5) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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. English Reading + sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Comprehend sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Comprehend holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: English Reading + has 116 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 0% and 0% positive.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and July 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | English Reading + | Comprehend |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (116 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 116 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thanh Vu Truong | Victoria Park |
Customer experience
English Reading +
Comprehend
In-app purchases
English Reading +
- Remove Ads$2.99
Comprehend
- Monthly subscription3 Days trial$8.991 Month
- Annual Subscription3 Days trial$99.991 Year
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