Comparison

KFUPM Student vs My Reading Stack

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

Head to head
About

KFUPM Student

Manage your academic life with this app. View your class schedule, academic profile, transcripts, and GPA. Stay updated on the academic calendar and connect with important university contacts and services.

Highlights
  • Class schedule management
  • Academic profile viewing
  • Transcript and GPA tracking
  • Academic calendar access
  • Contact important personnel
  • Access university services
Features
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KFUPM Student App is the all-in-one mobile companion for KFUPM students. Stay connected to your academic life, campus services, and daily updates in one fast, easy-to-use app. With the app, you can: Access your student profile and key academic information Track your GPA and transcript-related details View class schedules, calendar events, and to-do items Check attendance and QR-based attendance services Follow Blackboard announcements and assignments Submit and manage excuses View violations and important notices Get university news and notifications in real time Discover campus life and student services in one place Designed for convenience, the app helps you stay organized, informed, and productive throughout your semester.

About

My Reading Stack

Features
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A reader for the papers you actually have to read: for a class, a lab meeting, a review or your own research. More than a plain PDF viewer, less work than a reference manager. READ COMFORTABLY • Pages fill the screen. Trim Margins crops away blank borders so the text is bigger. • Double-tap a column to zoom into it; double-tap again to zoom back out. • Light, dark and sepia reading, and two pages side by side on a wide screen. • The title bar shows where you are: page, and the section you're in. • Jump to any section, page or note from Contents. • Find in Paper shows every match and steps through them. KEEP WHAT MATTERS • Highlight and add notes from the text selection menu. • Tag them: Key finding, Method concern, Cite this, Follow up, Disagree, Connects to. Filter your notes by tag. • Copy with citation: copied text comes with an in-text citation, like (Bartolucci et al., 2025, p. 4). • On iPad, highlight and write with Apple Pencil. • Export your notes as Markdown or text, grouped by tag, or as an annotated PDF. COMPARE PAPERS • The literature matrix puts a group of papers in one table: each paper's aim, material, approach, result and your own notes. • Fill it in with AI, then edit any cell. • Export it as CSV or copy it as a table into Numbers, Excel, Pages or Word. A LIBRARY THAT ORGANIZES ITSELF • Paper details (exact title, authors, journal, year) are looked up from the paper's DOI or arXiv ID. • On-device intelligence writes a one-line summary, finds the paper's sections and picks out its topics. • Group papers into Queue, Reading and Done, star favorites, and browse by topic. Reading progress is shown for every paper. • Search by title, author or topic, or describe what you're looking for and let on-device AI find it. ASK ABOUT A PAPER • Summarize a paper or ask questions about it with Apple Intelligence, on your device. • Or use your own AI service for deeper answers. EVERYWHERE YOU READ • Papers, highlights and notes sync through your iCloud across iPhone, iPad and Mac. • Add PDFs from Files, from the share sheet in any app, or with File ▸ Import on the Mac. • On a Mac, keep Contents open in an inspector and the literature matrix in its own window. • On iPhone Duo, an unfolded phone becomes an open book, with two pages on either side of the fold. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No accounts, no tracking, no analytics, no servers. • Summaries, sections and topics are made on your device. • To look up paper details, only the paper's public DOI or arXiv ID is sent (to Crossref, DataCite or arXiv). You can turn this off in Settings. • Paper text is sent to Anthropic only if you add a Claude API key and use Ask Claude. My Reading Stack is free, made by one developer. If it helps your reading, there's a tip jar in Settings.

Screenshots

KFUPM Student4 screens
My Reading Stack4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: KFUPM Student at none against My Reading Stack's 3. KFUPM Student also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). My Reading Stack's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 weeks). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. My Reading Stack sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. KFUPM Student asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

KFUPM Student ships an update every 4 weeks, My Reading Stack every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
KFUPM Student versus My Reading Stack: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKFUPM StudentMy Reading Stack
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.5 (11 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS13.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKing Fahd University of Petroleum & MineralsRichard Pak

In-app purchases

None

KFUPM Student

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

My Reading Stack

One-time3
  • Tip jar$0.99
  • Tip jar$2.99
  • Tip jar$4.99

Questions

Is KFUPM Student free?
KFUPM Student is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is My Reading Stack free?
My Reading Stack is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do KFUPM Student or My Reading Stack have ads?
Neither KFUPM Student nor My Reading Stack shows ads.
Which is updated more often, KFUPM Student or My Reading Stack?
KFUPM Student ships an update every 4 weeks, and My Reading Stack every 2 days. Most recently, KFUPM Student was updated on November 3, 2026 and My Reading Stack on November 9, 2026.

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