Comparison

Scholaread vs DoBuff

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

Head to head
About

Scholaread

This app is an integrated tool for reading and translating academic papers. It offers features like PDF layout rearrangement, AI-assisted summarization, side-by-side translation, and Zotero synchronization. It aims to make reading and understanding foreign literature more efficient.

Highlights
  • PDF layout rearrangement
  • AI-assisted article summarization
  • Side-by-side translation
  • Screenshot translation
  • Chart and formula translation
  • Zotero synchronization
  • Table of contents generation
Features
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Scholaread is an integrated translator tool for reading PDFs, translating papers, and managing literature. It features the world's leading translation engine, aiming to solve problems with full-text translation, side-by-side translation, and specialized terminology translation in foreign literature reading. It includes a self-developed PDF layout algorithm that allows for paper layout rearrangement and paragraph-by-paragraph translation. It supports synchronized reading across computers, smartphones, and tablets, making reading academic papers as simple as reading public account posts. Literature Reading ・Rearrangement Mode: One click transforms complex dual-column paper layouts into waterfall layouts suitable for mobile reading. ・AI-Assisted Reading: Big data AI models summarize articles accurately, making it easy to skim through papers. ・Instant Viewing: Directly open and read graphs and citations without the need to flip through pages. Paper Translation ・Big Data Translation: Professional academic translation engine + AI term explanations, supporting multiple languages including English, French, German, Korean, and Japanese. ・Side-by-Side Translation: Synchronized translation displays text and translations together, allowing for fluent reading of SCI in your native language. ・Screenshot Translation: Supports translating snippets captured from papers. ・Chart and Formula Translation: Includes a specialized engine for translating formulas, images, and code. Literature Management ・Zotero Synchronization: One-click import into the Zotero library, providing extensive cloud reading space and encompassing global academia. ・Data Interconnection: Synchronized data across mobile, tablet, and computer, ensuring consistent reading progress and creating a cloud-based literature translation reader. Other Highlights ・Table of Contents Generation: Automatically generates mini-titles for papers, making it easier to navigate research paths. ・Highlighting and Notes: Freely highlight and annotate, making key information clear at a glance. In the boundless sea of learning, reach the shore sooner! Scholarread hopes to help you reduce late nights and increase inspiration, ensuring every minute spent on studying and writing papers is effective.

About

DoBuff

Enhance your Reminders and Calendar with advanced time management, progress tracking, and goal setting. Visualize tasks on a timeline, utilize unique planning views, and gain insights with trend analytics. Integrates with Health data for comprehensive energy and focus management.

Highlights
  • Timeline task and event display
  • Weekly, monthly, yearly planning views
  • Dual tag systems
  • Focus timers and progress bars
  • Trend analytics and heatmaps
  • Calendar event integration
  • Health and sleep data integration
  • Widgets for various tracking needs
Features
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“DoBuff” is primarily built around Reminders and Calendar, providing core features such as time management, progress tracking, goal management, and more. “DoBuff” is designed to enhance Reminders and Calendar with a range of powerful additional features, helping you use them more effectively. “DoBuff” started as a collection of tools I built for my own use with Reminders and Calendar. It was developed around my personal needs and is now available for anyone with similar needs. If you are also a Reminders or Calendar user like me, “DoBuff” may be a great fit for you. Core features and goals (supported for both Reminders and Calendar events): 1. Display tasks and events on a timeline. 2. Unique weekly, monthly, and yearly planning views. 3. Two separate tag systems that can be used independently or synced with Reminders. 4. Focus timers based on Reminders for better time management. 5. Progress bars based on Reminders, with lists serving as progress trackers for goals. 6. Completion and time-spent statistics for Reminders lists. 7. Trend analytics, including tag-based focus time statistics, list tracking, yearly heatmaps, time paths, footprint maps, and more. 8. Countdown support for Reminders. 9. Mark Reminders as abandoned or postponed. 10. Calendar integration, including reading events and writing focus sessions to Calendar. 11. Counting and count tracking. 12. Enhancements available for Reminders are also supported for Calendar events. 13. Export and back up Reminders. 14. Reminder countdowns with support for system alarm countdowns. 15. Note templates for quickly adding notes. 16. Add notes to lists. 17. A range of widgets, including Focus widgets, Calendar widgets, Goal Tracking widgets, Today widgets, and more. 18. Automatic focus timing. 19. Favorites for Reminders and Calendar events. 20. Enhanced global search. 21. Apple Watch version. 22. Turn Reminders into anniversary reminders. 23. Pomodoro focus timer support. 24. Health and sleep data integration, including automatic sleep focus tracking. 25. Energy and focus management. 26. Energy level management. 27. Daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly records and summaries. 28. Daily mood tracking. 29. List migration. And several other feature enhancements. For Calendar events, DoBuff also provides workflow-based event management, such as marking events as completed or abandoned. These are only some of the features currently available in “DoBuff”. More features are being organized and will be released gradually. *Membership Subscription: Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period, and the renewal price will be confirmed at that time. Subscriptions can be managed by the user. Auto-renewal can be turned off after purchase by going to the user’s App Store account settings. 【Feedback & Support】 If you have any questions or issues while using the app, please contact us at: liyubelief@iCloud.com Terms of Use: https://docs.qq.com/doc/DSFZOeURmQk1McGVu Privacy Policy: https://docs.qq.com/doc/DSFBQSWJwcERmRUhB

Screenshots

Scholaread4 screens
DoBuff4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: DoBuff at 100% against Scholaread's 43%. DoBuff also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5). Scholaread's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Scholaread sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $22.90 per 3 months and DoBuff sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

DoBuff holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 33 and 39 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Scholaread's written reviews are positive against 100% of DoBuff's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scholaread ships an update every 3 weeks, DoBuff every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Scholaread versus DoBuff: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScholareadDoBuff
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (33 ratings)4.8 (39 ratings) — better
Positive reviews42.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3339 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size96 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAstronet Technology PTE LTD宇 李

Customer experience

Scholaread

All ratings33 ratings
Positive87.9%
Neutral3.0%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive42.9%
Neutral14.3%
Negative42.9%

DoBuff

All ratings39 ratings
Positive94.9%
Neutral2.6%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Scholaread

Subscriptions6
  • Quarterly Pro2 variants$22.903 Months
  • Quarterly Pro Max$49.903 Months
  • Annual Pro$58.901 Year
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  • Quarterly Max$59.003 Months
  • Annual Pro Max$129.991 Year
  • Annual Max$179.001 Year
3 purchases

DoBuff

Subscriptions2
  • 月会员$0.991 Month
  • 年会员$2.991 Year
One-time1
  • 永久会员$9.99

Questions

Is Scholaread free?
Scholaread is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DoBuff free?
DoBuff is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Scholaread or DoBuff?
DoBuff is rated higher. Scholaread averages 4.5 out of 5 from 33 ratings, while DoBuff averages 4.8 from 39 ratings.
Do Scholaread or DoBuff have ads?
Neither Scholaread nor DoBuff shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Scholaread or DoBuff?
Scholaread ships an update every 3 weeks, and DoBuff every 2 weeks. Most recently, Scholaread was updated on November 3, 2026 and DoBuff on November 4, 2026.

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