Comparison

Scholaread vs PlanCoach

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

PlanCoach

This app helps overcome procrastination and ADHD-related task initiation difficulties by breaking down overwhelming tasks into manageable, specific steps. It offers various AI coaches and a unique focus mode to guide users towards completion and personal growth.

Highlights
  • Task breakdown into specific steps
  • Multiple AI coaches with unique personalities
  • Downloadable coach DLC
  • Growth system for visible progress
  • ADHD-friendly focus mode
  • Instant idea capture
  • Lorebook for custom instructions
Features
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Most of the time, procrastination is not caused by laziness, but by difficulty getting started. Once you do get started, momentum will often carry you through to the end. Procrastination is only the surface symptom. The deeper reason is that our brains are naturally wired to: * dislike vague tasks and not know where to begin * fall into perfectionism, worrying about not doing it well, so it feels easier not to start at all * prefer short-term pleasure, such as scrolling on the phone * lose self-worth even further when procrastinating. At that point, the subconscious may start attaching labels like “I’m someone who always procrastinates,” leading to self-denial, inner friction, and a vicious cycle (it is very important not to label yourself this way!) This little app can break down the tasks you do not want to face into extremely specific steps with one tap. Every step is easy to complete, and each one comes with guiding text to reduce your psychological resistance. Once the task is broken down, all you need to do is take the first step with its encouragement — after that, you may find it hard to stop. # Key Features 1. Multiple Coaches The app comes with 4 carefully selected built-in coaches (Coach W specialises in helping you start, the cool and blunt big-sister coach is direct and well-balanced, Miss S is great at arranging chained tasks, and the NPC Mage excels at turning boring tasks into role-playing adventures). 2. Coach DLC Download the coaches you like on demand! A minister, a butler, a professional communication coach, a sleep guidance coach, even a chef coach… one app, endless ways to play. 3. Growth System (Beta) Make your real-world effort visible inside the app, so you can fall in love with the version of yourself that keeps improving. 4. Personal Profile Every time a coach creates a plan, they will refer to your personal profile to design steps that best fit your situation and write encouragement that motivates you most effectively. It also supports per-coach rewrites, so different coaches can see different versions of your profile. (For example, the “Master Chef” sees your food preferences, while the “Minister” sees that you are a Spanish princess.) 5. Navigation Mode (Focus) An ADHD-friendly focus mode: large text always visible (based on the GTD approach), progressive step disclosure, and course correction to help you slip naturally into a focused state. 6. Idea Capture (Not a TODO List) "Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them." Shake firmly on any screen to capture an idea instantly. You do not need to come up with brilliant ideas every time. But as long as ideas keep appearing and keep getting captured, those low-probability good ideas will eventually connect, grow, and turn into real change. 7. Lorebook Define a dictionary for your own world — a lorebook that packages complex instructions, technical terms, and personal SOPs into reusable entries. 8. Apple Watch Support! This is especially useful in situations like cooking, exercising, or walking, when it is not convenient to keep looking at your phone. 9. Iterative Revision A good plan is shaped through revision. PlanCoach’s powerful editing features let you adjust and refine it endlessly with AI until it truly fits. ==== The app price is increasing month by month, and the lifetime purchase will gradually rise to ¥268 — the earlier you buy, the better the deal! Website: https://plancoach.freemindworkshop.com/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Scholaread4 screens
PlanCoach4 screens

Verdict

The call

Scholaread and PlanCoach both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 84% of PlanCoach's written reviews are positive against 43% of Scholaread's. PlanCoach also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). Scholaread's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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 4 in-app purchases, starting at $22.90 per 3 months and PlanCoach sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Scholaread against 4.5 for PlanCoach. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 32 and 20 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 43% of Scholaread's written reviews are positive against 84% of PlanCoach's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scholaread ships an update every 3 weeks, PlanCoach every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Scholaread versus PlanCoach: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScholareadPlanCoach
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (32 ratings)4.5 (20 ratings)
Positive reviews42.9% of reviews84.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings32 — better20
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 days — 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
Size98 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAstronet Technology PTE LTD晓江 苏

Customer experience

Scholaread

All ratings32 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral3.1%
Negative9.4%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive42.9%
Neutral14.3%
Negative42.9%

PlanCoach

All ratings20 ratings
Positive85.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews38 reviews
Positive84.2%
Neutral7.9%
Negative7.9%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Scholaread

Subscriptions4
  • Quarterly Pro$22.903 Months
  • Quarterly Pro Max$49.903 Months
  • Annual Pro$58.901 Year
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  • Annual Pro Max$129.991 Year
6 purchases

PlanCoach

Subscriptions3
  • Premium - Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Premium - Quarterly$2.993 Months
  • Premium - Yearly$29.991 Year
One-time3
  • Essentials - Lifetime$9.99
  • Upgrade to Premium$19.99
  • Premium-Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Scholaread free?
Scholaread is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PlanCoach free?
PlanCoach is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Scholaread or PlanCoach?
Scholaread and PlanCoach are both rated 4.5 out of 5 on the App Store, from 32 and 20 ratings respectively.
Do Scholaread or PlanCoach have ads?
Neither Scholaread nor PlanCoach shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Scholaread or PlanCoach?
Scholaread ships an update every 3 weeks, and PlanCoach every 2 days. Most recently, Scholaread was updated on October 16, 2026 and PlanCoach on October 18, 2026.

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