Comparison

Tips & Tricks Pro vs Bera Reader

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

Head to head
About

Tips & Tricks Pro

Unlock the full potential of your iPad with comprehensive guides, daily updates, and expert advice. Discover hidden features, get the latest tech news, and receive price drop alerts for your favorite apps. This ad-free edition offers unbiased reviews and privacy tips.

Highlights
  • Hundreds of iPad guides
  • Daily tech news updates
  • App and game reviews
  • Price drop alerts
  • Privacy advice and scam warnings
  • Customizable notifications
Features
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Whether you’ve just upgraded or you’ve been using iPad for years, we help you get more from iPadOS with clear tutorials, breaking Apple news, and practical tips you’ll actually use. From mastering iPadOS’s latest features to discovering time-saving shortcuts, privacy settings, and clever tricks built into your device, Tips & Tricks makes sure you never miss a thing. INCLUDED WITH PRO – NO ADS, EVER • Step-by-step guides to iPadOS 27’s biggest new features • A built-in guidebook with 200+ essential iPad tips • Tip of the Day to sharpen your iPad skills • Breaking Apple news and analysis, with the full archive • App and game reviews you can trust • Privacy guidance and scam warnings to keep you safe • Buyer’s guides, app roundups, toolkits, and more • AI-powered upgrade assistant to help choose between Apple devices • Home Screen widgets, saved articles, and notifications for the topics you choose • Powerful search across thousands of expert articles Tips & Tricks has been helping iPad users since the iPad first launched. With over 10 million downloads and multiple appearances in Apple’s “Best of the Year,” we’re a trusted source for clear advice, expert analysis, and easy-to-follow iPadOS tutorials. WHAT OUR READERS SAY 5/5 “Simple, logical, and beautifully designed. Very well done.” 5/5 “I used every tip! Very useful!” 5/5 “A real eye-opener! I thought I knew a lot, but I didn’t!” 5/5 “I absolutely love this app. It shows me things I never knew I could do with my iPhone and iPad.” 5/5 “This app is extremely useful, even for those who think they know it all.” TIPS PREMIUM (OPTIONAL) Everything above is yours with Tips & Tricks Pro. Tips Premium is an optional subscription that adds: • Early iPadOS update alerts: we monitor Apple’s servers and tell you when an update is available, often days before your iPad does • Tomorrow’s Tip of the Day, today • Exclusive Premium long reads and deep dives • Unlimited saved articles • Family Sharing for up to five family members Tips Premium is available as monthly and annual auto-renewing subscriptions. A free trial is available for new subscribers. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel subscriptions in your Apple Account settings. LEGAL Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.tapsmart.com/tapsmart-apps/tips-tricks-privacy-policy/

About

Bera Reader

Save articles, books, and more for offline reading and annotation. Transform long content into magazine-style layouts with adaptive notes and bento notebooks. Export content as PDFs for sharing or AI summarization.

Highlights
  • Offline article and book saving
  • Magazine-style content reflow
  • Adaptive notes with emojis
  • Bento notebook creation
  • PDF export for sharing and AI
  • Spaced repetition
  • On-device web clipper
Features
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## Deep reading space for millions of words Instantly clip and save beautiful articles, books, photos, and authors, or RSS feeds to your library for offline use. Put all your paid and free subscriptions in one place for multiple purposes: deep reading, annotation, spaced repetition, and content generation. ## A beautiful reader. Deeply read by scrolling less. A completely new feature that instantly transforms long form content like essays, articles and books into professionally laid out publications like magazines. Not only is it beautiful, but the Auto Grid Reflow Layout also adjusts the layout compatible with different screen sizes, optimizing font and display components for a better reading experience. ## Adaptive notes with emojis Enhanced annotation allows you to create notes injected right under the page, helping you retrieve information in context. You can also set emojis as icons for notes to help categorize and look them up more effectively. ## Instantly create bento notes Instantly generate your notes and marks to a bento grid notebook. You can add, reorder notes, marks, photos from multi documents into a collection and transform it into a bento grid notebook. ## Export as magazine-like pdf You can gather good documents into a collection and easily export them as professional PDF layouts for sharing. And of course, you can use this PDF to import into ChatGPT for tasks such as summarizing, extracting, creating new content… ## Private by design (*) This data is only stored locally on your device and synced with your iCloud account.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ When you install a new device and log in with your iCloud account, the app will restore all your data. All tasks, from extracting document content, searching, layout formatting, to exporting PDFs, are performed entirely on your device only, zero request to servers or APIs. *: The app has integrated Adapty.io for subscription management and Google Analytics with IDFA and IDFV collection disabled. ## Notable features - Auto grid layout (magazine-like) - Adaptive notes with emoji - Spaced repetition - Quick look - Replay - RSS feed - Nested collection with drag & drop - Mix content types in a collection - Read aloud - Enhanced language listening - Build vocabulary - On device web clipper - Weekly reading time recap - Create bento, outliner notebook - Export as beautiful PDF, Text Bundle, Markdown, Epub, HTML

Screenshots

Tips & Tricks Pro4 screens
Bera Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Bera Reader at Free against Tips & Tricks Pro's $2.99. Bera Reader also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 78%). Tips & Tricks Pro's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (1.8K vs 4). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

Bera Reader is free to download; Tips & Tricks Pro costs $2.99 up front. Tips & Tricks Pro sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Bera Reader sells 2 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

Tips & Tricks Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tips & Tricks Pro has 1.8K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 78% of Tips & Tricks Pro's written reviews are positive against 100% of Bera Reader's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tips & Tricks Pro ships an update every 2 months, Bera Reader every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Tips & Tricks Pro versus Bera Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTips & Tricks ProBera Reader
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (1.8K ratings) — better4.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews77.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.8K — better4
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB72 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperIntelligenti LtdTran Phuong

Customer experience

Tips & Tricks Pro

All ratings1,799 ratings
Positive95.9%
Neutral1.9%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews393 reviews
Positive77.9%
Neutral4.6%
Negative17.6%

Bera Reader

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Tips & Tricks Pro

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • App crashes on startup
  • Unable to open articles or tips
  • Incompatibility issues with newer iOS versions
  • Notifications not working as expected
  • Paid version not functioning properly

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add a search function
  • Improve app stability and reduce crashes
  • Provide more comprehensive and in-depth tips
  • Offer better value in the paid version
  • Allow users to easily manage/cancel subscriptions
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  • Improve relevance and usefulness of notifications

Bera Reader

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Tips & Tricks Pro

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Content Experience3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Premium Content Experience7 Days trial$99.991 Year
2 purchases

Bera Reader

Subscriptions2
  • Berä Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Berä Premium Yearly$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Tips & Tricks Pro free?
Tips & Tricks Pro costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Bera Reader free?
Bera Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tips & Tricks Pro or Bera Reader?
Tips & Tricks Pro is rated higher. Tips & Tricks Pro averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.8K ratings, while Bera Reader averages 4.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Tips & Tricks Pro or Bera Reader have ads?
Neither Tips & Tricks Pro nor Bera Reader shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tips & Tricks Pro or Bera Reader?
Tips & Tricks Pro ships an update every 2 months, and Bera Reader every 4 days. Most recently, Tips & Tricks Pro was updated on November 10, 2026 and Bera Reader on November 4, 2026.

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