Let's Read vs merean
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Let's Read
Access a vast collection of free, colorful storybooks for children, featuring thousands of titles from local authors and illustrators. Support language learning with multilingual options and offline reading capabilities. Discover culturally relevant stories in underrepresented languages and English.
- Thousands of free storybooks
- Books from local authors and illustrators
- Multilingual reading support
- Offline reading capability
- New books added regularly
- Culturally relevant stories
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Enjoy reading fun and colorful storybooks with the children in your life for free with the Let’s Read app. With thousands of books from local authors and illustrators in a wide variety of underrepresented languages and English, help your children fall in love with reading and learning! All books on the Let’s Read app are 100% free to read. Your favorite books are also free to download and save for reading anytime, online or offline. Multilingual readers can switch between languages within the storybooks with a quick tap, accessing the many languages available on the Let’s Read app, including English. New books are being added to the Let’s Read library all the time through our wide network of local authors, illustrators, and translators. Let’s Read is an initiative of The Asia Foundation’s Books for Asia program that fosters young readers in Asia. We focus on underserved languages and original content developed through community-based workshops that produce culturally relevant stories. Learn more about the Let’s Read initiative: www.letsreadasia.org/about
merean
This learning app offers a vast collection of Cambodian textbooks and general books. It provides auto-renewing subscriptions for access to its content, with various durations available. Future updates will include answer books for grades 3-12.
- 177 Khmer textbooks
- 86 general books
- Answer books for grades 3-12 coming soon
- Auto-renewing subscriptions
- Multiple subscription durations
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merean is one of the best learning apps for Cambodia student cuz it has 177 textbook and 86 general book, and will be add answer book grade3 until grade12 soon.. You may purchase an auto-renewing subscription through an In-App Purchase. • Auto-renewable subscription • 1 month ($1.99), 6 month ($9.99) and 12 month ($13.99) durations • Your subscription will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and will automatically renew (at the duration selected) unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Current subscription may not be cancelled during the active subscription period; however, you can manage your subscription and/or turn off auto-renewal by visiting your iTunes Account Settings after purchase • Terms of Use (EULA) : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ • Privacy Policy : https://book99cent.blogspot.com/2023/05/privacy-policy.html
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Verdict
Let's Read and merean both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Let's Read's written reviews are positive against 0% of merean's. Let's Read also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). merean's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, update cadence and device support 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. merean sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Let's Read asks for nothing beyond the download.
Let's Read holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Let's Read has 486 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Let's Read's written reviews are positive against 0% of merean's.
Let's Read ships an update every 2 weeks, merean every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Let's Read | merean |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (486 ratings) — better | 4.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 486 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | The Asia Foundation | Khoeurn ChanOun |
Customer experience
Let's Read
merean
In-app purchases
Let's Read
No in-app purchases
merean
- 1 Month$1.991 Month
- 6 Months$9.996 Months
- 12 Months$12.991 Year









