Comparison

Grimms Märchen vs Analects Reader

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

Head to head
About

Grimms Märchen

Explore classic fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm in multiple languages. Customize your reading experience with adjustable fonts and save your favorite stories for easy access. Enjoy a vast collection of timeless tales.

Highlights
  • 15+ supported languages
  • Reading automation
  • Customizable font size and type
  • Save favorite stories
  • Searchable story collection
  • Language switching
Features
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Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales, is a collection of fairy tales by the Grimm brothers or "Brothers Grimm", Jacob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812. The first edition contained 86 stories, and by the seventh edition in 1857, had 210 unique fairy tales. Our app supports 15 LANGUAGES: 1 - Denmark 2 - Portugal 3 - Poland 4 - Italy 5 - France 6 - Spain 7 - English 8 - Germany 9 - Japan 10 - Netherlands 11 - Romania 12 - Russia 13 - Turkey 14 - Vietnam 15 - China and a lot of exciting features such as reading automation, custom font size, font type... Moreover, you can save your favorite story, search story, and change stories language anytime.

About

Analects Reader

Explore Confucius's Analects with interactive features. Read in original Chinese and English, with tappable characters for detailed meanings, readings, and usage. Offers multiple reading modes and integrated podcast commentary.

Highlights
  • Original Chinese and English text
  • Tappable characters with detailed meanings
  • Multiple reading modes (Study, Translation, Chinese, Classical)
  • Integrated podcast commentary with episode guides
  • Notes saved as Markdown in iCloud Drive
  • Offline access to Chinese text
Features
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The complete Analects of Confucius: all twenty books and 512 passages, in the original Chinese and in English, built for actually reading it. Every character is tappable. The card that opens shows what the character means here, in this passage — not a dictionary's one-size answer — along with its reading, the terms it belongs to, and how it is used across the whole book. Pinyin sits over the characters when you want it and disappears when you don't. READ IT YOUR WAY • Study — the full apparatus: text, translation, pinyin, tappable words, per-passage tone coloring. • Translation — the English as a book. The original waits one tap away under each passage. • Chinese — the received text alone, unglossed, with the English one tap away. • Classical — the text as old editions set it, in columns right to left. Four pages to choose from: one typeset, and three photographed from real copies held in Tokyo, Taipei, and Kyoto — a Qing manuscript, a Ming block print, and a 1550 scholar's copy — with every character mapped, so the glosses work even on a photograph. Scroll the book as one column, or turn it one passage per page, like a printed book. THE COMMENTARY GROWS WITH THE PODCAST The app carries the episode guides from the Exploring the Analects podcast — passage by passage: the philosophical discussion, the historical context, the language notes, with the audio a tap away. New episodes arrive as they are published. YOURS, IN THE FULLEST SENSE Notes you take live in your own iCloud Drive as Markdown — readable anywhere, and they outlive the app. The Chinese text is built in and always works offline. There are no accounts, no ads, no analytics, and no tracking: nothing about your reading is collected. Everything is free — the text, both translations, the glosses, the classical pages, the commentary. A tip jar exists for those who want to keep the project going; nothing is unlocked, because nothing is locked.

Screenshots

Grimms Märchen4 screens
Analects Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Grimms Märchen at none against Analects Reader's 3. Grimms Märchen also leads on iOS requirement (12.4 vs 16.4). Analects Reader's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 10 days). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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

Both are free to download. Analects Reader sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Grimms Märchen asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Grimms Märchen against 5.0 for Analects Reader. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Grimms Märchen ships an update every 10 days, Analects Reader every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Grimms Märchen versus Analects Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrimms MärchenAnalects Reader
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.4 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB280 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNguyen Ngan Hanh TranElliott Bernstein

Customer experience

Grimms Märchen

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Analects Reader

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Grimms Märchen

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Analects Reader

One-time3
  • Through the Gate$3.00
  • Up to the Hall$10.00
  • Into the Chamber$30.00

Questions

Is Grimms Märchen free?
Grimms Märchen is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Analects Reader free?
Analects Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Grimms Märchen or Analects Reader?
Grimms Märchen and Analects Reader are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Grimms Märchen or Analects Reader have ads?
Neither Grimms Märchen nor Analects Reader shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Grimms Märchen or Analects Reader?
Grimms Märchen ships an update every 10 days, and Analects Reader every 5 days. Most recently, Grimms Märchen was updated on October 2, 2026 and Analects Reader on September 30, 2026.

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