Clear Read vs Avoid Social Media Distraction
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Clear Read
Enhance your web reading experience by customizing website appearance. Choose from various fonts and styling options to create a comfortable and personalized view for any site.
- Customizable website styling
- Multiple font choices
- Adjustable font size and weight
- Text and background color options
- Line and paragraph spacing control
- Link color customization
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Clear Read is a Safari extension that helps you make the web a more comfortable reading experience with your styling preferences. Set your preferences for all websites or just those that need your own touch. Included fonts: - OpenDyslexic - Atkinson Hyperlegible - Bionic Reading® - Shantell Sans - Inter - Georgia - Helvetica - Source Code Pro - San Francisco - San Francisco Mono - New York Included styling options: - Font - Font Size - Font Weight - Italics - Text Alignment - Text Case - Line Height Paragraph Sp - Letter Spacing - Word Spacing - Text Colour - Background Colour - Link Colour - Link Highlight - Link Outline Clear Read is only intended for the main Safari app and will not work in In-App Browsers or browser apps that are not Safari.
Avoid Social Media Distraction
Temporarily block distracting elements on popular websites like YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. Enhance focus, boost productivity, and improve self-control by hiding videos, stories, shorts, and ads.
- Block website interference
- Hide feeds, stories, shorts, and ads
- Selective element hiding
- Improve work efficiency
- Enhance self-control
- Safari extension
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Using the Avoid Social Media Distraction app feature to temporarily block website interference, you can hide interference on websites such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, Gmail, LinkedIn, etc., so that you can concentrate, improve work efficiency, and enhance self-control. This Safari extension allows you to selectively hide attention grabbing components on each website, such as videos, shorts, comments, and more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Clear Read at 100% against Avoid Social Media Distraction's 60%. Clear Read also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Avoid Social Media Distraction's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (71 vs 2). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Clear Read costs $4.99 and Avoid Social Media Distraction $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Clear Read holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Avoid Social Media Distraction has 71 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Clear Read's written reviews are positive against 60% of Avoid Social Media Distraction's.
Clear Read ships an update every 5 months, Avoid Social Media Distraction every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Clear Read | Avoid Social Media Distraction |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $2.99 — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.7 (71 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 71 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Toast Studio Australia | 泳诗 陈 |
Customer experience
Clear Read
Avoid Social Media Distraction
In-app purchases
Clear Read
No in-app purchases
Avoid Social Media Distraction
No in-app purchases
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