Comparison

Taio vs ReadFlow

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

Head to head
About

Taio

This app offers advanced text processing for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It features a robust markdown editor, clipboard management with iCloud sync, and a powerful actions system for custom workflows, including JavaScript support.

Highlights
  • Markdown editor with CommonMark and GitHub Flavored support
  • Clipboard management with iCloud sync and widgets
  • Customizable text actions and workflows
  • JavaScript scripting for advanced automation
  • Multi-tab editing and focus mode
  • Export to multiple formats
  • Full text and in-document search
Read full description

> Trusted by more than 200K users. > Featured as "Be the First to Try These Apps" and "Hot This Week" by Apple. > Featured by well-known media like iMore and MacStories. # Taio A modern app for text processing on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, provides seamless experience for clipboard, markdown editing and text workflows. Taio supports Universal Purchase, pay once to use on iPhone, iPad and Mac devices. ## Main Features ### Clipboard Taio takes clipboard data as one of the input sources, you can capture it quickly for *temporary* use. Saved records can be synchronized across your iOS devices using iCloud, we also provide beautiful home screen widgets for better experience. ### Editor Taio provides a full-fledged **Markdown** editor, it supports `CommonMark` and `GitHub Flavored` standards. Instead of telling you everything, we would like to highlight some great stuff here: - Full text search, in-document search - Built-in image uploading - Focus mode - Multi-Tab editing - Multiple color themes - Toolbar for beginners - Outline view - Math formulas and diagrams - Tags, wikilinks and backlinks - Export to multiple formats - Dynamic text in snippets - Open file system that can be accessed by other apps - Syntax highlighting for common programming languages There are more interesting features we cannot cover here, please try it out! ### Actions Text actions in Taio is a powerful mechanism to provide extensibility for both **clipboard** and **editor**, it works the same as the `Shortcuts` app. You can build your own workflows using several action blocks, with support for variables and control flows. Furthermore, if the built-in actions don't meet your needs, you can even write action blocks using **JavaScript**. The JavaScript engine in Taio is powered by JSBox, it provides tons of API bindings to interact with iOS. ## Customer Support Feel free to reach us out if you have any suggestions or ideas. - Website: https://taio.app - Email: hi@taio.app - Twitter: @TaioApp Privacy policy: https://docs.taio.app/#/privacy Terms of service: https://docs.taio.app/#/terms Thank you so much for reading this, we hope you enjoy using our app!

About

ReadFlow

This app transforms PDF documents into a comfortable reading experience on small screens. It offers text reflow, customization options for fonts and themes, and iCloud sync for seamless access across devices. Enjoy reading PDFs as easily as other ebook formats.

Highlights
  • PDF text reflow for mobile
  • Customizable fonts and themes
  • Import custom font files
  • iCloud sync
  • PDF file cropping
  • Metadata editing
  • Generate and share reflowed text
Features
Read full description

Designed for mobile reading! Readflow is a reading app specially designed for small screens. The text reflow feature is elaborately designed to solve the problem that PDF documents are difficult to read on mobile devices, such as text that is too small and the scan is not clear, and obtain a reading experience consistent with EPub, txt and other formats. Key features include: - PDF text reflow, supporting multiple languages¹ - Custom font family, font size, line height, etc - Importing font files² - Reading themes, switching automatically - iCloud sync, supporting on-demand download to save storage space and cellular data - PDF file cropping - PDF file metadata editing and saving - Reflow text generating and sharing for a whole PDF file³ - More detailed features: favorites, searching, etc. - Purchase once, use everywhere⁴ --- ¹ Currently supported: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian ² Supported file formats: otf, ttf ³ txt format ⁴ iOS / iPadOS universal app Term of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula Privacy policy: https://is.gd/TgnFzI

Screenshots

Taio4 screens
ReadFlow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Taio at 646 against ReadFlow's 5. Taio also leads on device support (4 vs 2). ReadFlow's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 78%) and rating (4.8 vs 4.6). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Taio sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month and ReadFlow sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ReadFlow holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Taio has 646 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Taio's written reviews are positive against 100% of ReadFlow's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Taio ships an update weekly, ReadFlow every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Taio versus ReadFlow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTaioReadFlow
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (646 ratings)4.8 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews77.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings646 — better5
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer颖 钟实 许

Customer experience

Taio

All ratings646 ratings
Positive89.0%
Neutral2.3%
Negative8.7%
Written reviews167 reviews
Positive77.8%
Neutral7.2%
Negative15.0%

ReadFlow

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Taio

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Auto-numbering issues
  • Export functionality not working
  • Slow performance on some devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Support for other cloud storage services
  • Live Markdown preview
  • Customizable themes and icons
  • Improved tab and list management
  • Spotlight search integration

ReadFlow

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Taio

Subscriptions4
  • Taio Pro Monthly3 Days trial3 variants$1.491 Month
  • Taio Pro Yearly14 Days trial$10.491 Year
  • Taio Pro Yearly14 Days trial$11.991 Year
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  • Taio Pro Yearly14 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time3
  • Taio Pro Lifetime$29.99
  • Taio Pro Lifetime$37.99
  • Taio Pro Lifetime$46.99
3 purchases

ReadFlow

Subscriptions2
  • ReadFlow Pro 1x$0.991 Month
  • ReadFlow Pro 12x$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • ReadFlow Pro ∞$19.99

Questions

Is Taio free?
Taio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ReadFlow free?
ReadFlow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Taio or ReadFlow?
ReadFlow is rated higher. Taio averages 4.6 out of 5 from 646 ratings, while ReadFlow averages 4.8 from 5 ratings.
Do Taio or ReadFlow have ads?
Neither Taio nor ReadFlow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Taio or ReadFlow?
Taio ships an update weekly, and ReadFlow every 4 days. Most recently, Taio was updated on September 22, 2026 and ReadFlow on September 19, 2026.

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