Comparison

Athena Eye Control vs Harbor

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

Head to head
About

Athena Eye Control

This app uses eye tracking and AI to automatically scroll content as you read, adapting to your speed and focus. It offers eye gestures for navigation and reading aids like rulers to improve comprehension and accessibility.

Highlights
  • Eye-controlled smart scrolling
  • Simple eye gesture swiping
  • Cursor control via eye tracking
  • Multiple reading modes
  • Clutter-free reader view
  • Content sharing from other apps
Features
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Athena Reader is a smarter, easier, more accessible way to read. Using eye tracking and artificial intelligence, Athena’s patented technology detects when, where, and how fast you are reading and automatically scrolls the display accordingly. If you can’t touch your screen or you prefer not to, you can use simple eye gestures to swipe up and down. If you have trouble focusing or remembering what you read, Athena’s reading rulers paired with Eye Control, will help keep you on track. Key Features: -Reading Detection with Smart Scroll tracks when, where, and how fast you are reading and automatically scrolls the content for you. If you skip a few lines or read past a picture, Athena scrolls that much more. -Simple Eye Gestures allow you to swipe up and down with the blink of an eye. -Use eye tracking to move the cursor and test gaze estimation. -Choose from three different reading modes to accommodate your reading needs, Fullscreen, Focus, and Highlight. -Reader view automatically strips out the clutter, like ads, pop ups, and other distracting elements so you can focus on what’s important. -Share content from any web browser or iOS application directly to Athena. If you have questions, feedback, or requests, please email us at: contact@athenahci.com

About

Harbor

Features
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Harbor is a beautiful, local-first read-later app for people who are done losing their reading lists. When you save an article, Harbor keeps a full, clean copy on your device — not a bookmark, the whole thing. It works offline forever, syncs through your own iCloud, and has no account and no server. We can't read your library, can't delete it, and can't be acquired and shut it down. It's just files you own. SAVE FROM ANYWHERE • Share a link from Safari or any app, or paste a URL in the app. • Harbor downloads the page and turns it into a clean, readable article. • Everything you save is yours offline, instantly. A READER YOU'LL WANT TO LIVE IN • Distraction-free typography with light, sepia, and dark themes. • Adjustable font, size, and spacing; reading progress and highlights. PRIVATE, ON-DEVICE EXTRAS — FREE • One-tap summaries and auto-tags powered by on-device Apple Intelligence. • Read-aloud for any article with natural on-device voices. • Instant full-text search across everything you've saved. OWN YOUR DATA, LITERALLY • Export your entire library to HTML and Markdown anytime. • No account, no sign-up, no tracking, no analytics. Nothing collected. ONE-TIME UNLOCK, NEVER A SUBSCRIPTION Save up to 20 articles free. Unlock Harbor Unlimited once for unlimited saves, on-device summaries, read-aloud, and export — a single purchase, yours to keep. Harbor respects publishers: it saves what a normal reader sees, for your own offline reading, and is not for redistribution. Terms of Use (EULA): https://harbor.nyrai.ai/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://harbor.nyrai.ai/privacy.html

Screenshots

Athena Eye Control4 screens
Harbor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Athena Eye Control at none against Harbor's 1. Athena Eye Control also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). 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. Harbor sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Athena Eye Control asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Athena Eye Control versus Harbor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAthena Eye ControlHarbor
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (12 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size128 MB7 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperAthena Accessible Technology, Inc.NYRAI LLC

In-app purchases

None

Athena Eye Control

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Harbor

One-time1
  • Harbor Unlimited$12.99

Questions

Is Athena Eye Control free?
Athena Eye Control is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Harbor free?
Harbor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Athena Eye Control or Harbor have ads?
Neither Athena Eye Control nor Harbor shows ads.

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