SpeedyRead vs wBlock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SpeedyRead
Enhance your reading speed with a unique methodology designed to help you process text faster. Save valuable time for work, study, or leisure by improving your comprehension and efficiency. Simply input your text and let the app transform it into a format optimized for rapid reading.
- Increase reading speed
- Proven methodology
- Text formatting for faster reading
- Save time
- Suitable for all readers
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The average human reads at 300 words per minute. SpeedyRead can change that. By utilizing a special methodology, you can read faster than you think. SpeedyRead works by using a methodology that is proven to increase your reading speed. By using this method, you'll learn how to read faster than you ever thought possible. In today's world, time is money and everyone is looking for something that will help them save more time. Knowing how to read faster can give you an edge in your career and help you get to where you want to go. SpeedyRead isn't just for business people. It can help anyone become a faster reader. Whether you want to read for leisure or for college. Our app is a simple two step process. Simply type or paste your text in and click the select button. Then our SpeedyRead - Bio Reading app will convert your inputted text into a specially formatted paragraph that is easier and faster to read. The prefix "Bio" means life. This is what our app is about. The average human life is bound by time, but our app can help you save as much time as possible. Therefore, bio is paramount to our mission. We are constantly working on making SpeedyRead better. By listening to the feedback of our users, we are able to make the app more helpful than ever. If you have any questions for us, contact us at: contact@alpenglow.studio
wBlock
Enhance Safari browsing with an ad blocker that supports userscripts for custom features, offers lightning-fast performance with low RAM usage, and provides complete control over blocking. It ensures privacy with a design that runs within Safari's API and is completely free and open-source.
- Userscript support for custom features
- Lightning-fast performance with low RAM usage
- Complete control over blocking
- Privacy-first design
- Comprehensive ad and tracker blocking
- Free and open-source
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wBlock is a free, open-source ad blocker for Safari. It blocks ads and trackers all over the web with more than 750,000 filter rules, and it never asks you to subscribe. Blocks ads in Safari wBlock leans on Safari's own content blocking, so pages come up clean and fast. Lists like AdGuard Base and EasyList refresh in the background, and you pick which ones run. Handles the sites filters can't Built-in userscripts get past anti-adblock walls and pop-ups. You can drop in your own userscripts and userstyles as well, and Return YouTube Dislike is one tap away. Zap anything you don't want to see The element zapper lets you tap a cookie banner or overlay and hide it, and wBlock remembers it next time you visit. Light on memory wBlock sits at about 40 MB of RAM when idle, so Safari stays quick. Your call on every site Turn blocking off for a site with one tap, or pause wBlock for a while when you need to. Settings sync over iCloud and can be saved to a file. Private by design wBlock collects no data and needs no account. The code lives on GitHub, so anyone can look at what it does. Free for good No subscriptions and no in-app purchases.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: wBlock at 4.8 against SpeedyRead's 4.5. wBlock also leads on ratings volume (175 vs 33). SpeedyRead's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
wBlock holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: wBlock has 175 ratings behind it against 33, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of SpeedyRead's written reviews are positive against 85% of wBlock's.
SpeedyRead ships an update every 6 days, wBlock every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SpeedyRead | wBlock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (33 ratings) | 4.8 (175 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 84.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 33 | 175 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.2 — better | 15.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alpenglow Studio LLC | Alexander Skula |
Customer experience
SpeedyRead
wBlock
Bugs and requests
SpeedyRead
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
wBlock
Reported bugs
1 issue- Sluggish Safari performance after installation on macOS
Requested features
1 request- Support for Chinese language interface
In-app purchases
SpeedyRead
No in-app purchases
wBlock
No in-app purchases
Questions
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