Let's Read vs ReadFlow
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
ReadFlow
Easily track your reading progress across print, e-books, and audiobooks. Log sessions, save favorite quotes with your camera, and visualize your reading habits with insightful statistics. Organize your library with custom shelves and set personal reading goals.
- Track print, e-books, and audiobooks
- Log reading sessions with notes
- Save quotes using camera text recognition
- Organize books into custom shelves
- Set yearly or daily reading goals
- Import from Goodreads/StoryGraph
- View reading statistics
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ReadFlow is a simple way to track your reading. Add your books, log your progress and see how much you read, whether you read print books, e-books or audiobooks. QUICK TO SET UP Scanning the ISBN barcode or searching by title adds a book with its cover, author and page count already filled in. If you have used Goodreads or StoryGraph before, your existing library can be imported from their export file in one step. TRACKING THAT FITS EACH FORMAT • Pages or percent for print books and e-books • Listening time for audiobooks • A reading timer for every session • A short note after each session • Half-star ratings for finished books YOUR LIBRARY AT A GLANCE Books can be viewed as spines, as covers or as a list, and organized into shelves you create yourself. Every book has a status, so it is always clear what you are reading now, what comes next and what you have already finished. QUOTES WITHOUT TYPING The camera recognizes text on a printed page, so a favorite passage can be saved in a few seconds. You can fix any word before saving, and every quote is kept in your journal, linked to the book it came from. YOUR READING IN NUMBERS • A yearly book goal or a daily page goal • Books finished each month • A calendar of the days you read • Your longest, shortest and fastest reads • Your highest-rated books of the year Download ReadFlow and start tracking your next book today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Let's Read at 485 against ReadFlow's 1. Let's Read also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). ReadFlow's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
ReadFlow holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Let's Read has 485 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Let's Read | ReadFlow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (485 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 485 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | The Asia Foundation | Alona Nesterenko |
Customer experience
Let's Read
ReadFlow
In-app purchases
Let's Read
No in-app purchases
ReadFlow
No in-app purchases









