Reading Trainer vs Speed Reading with Exercises
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Reading Trainer
Enhance your reading speed, comprehension, and memory with engaging exercises. This app offers a structured approach to improve your ability to process and retain information from texts, making reading more efficient and enjoyable.
- Increase reading speed
- Improve reading comprehension
- Enhance memory retention
- Eye exercises
- Track progress with statistics
- Reading speed tests
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Reading Trainer improves your reading speed and reading comprehension with many challenging and fun exercises. App Store Rewind Award Winner – App of the Year DE, CH, AT - Significant increases in your reading speed - Eye-exercises and improvements in your mental capacity - Improves reading comprehension and memory This app provides everything you need to read texts of all types faster, more effectively and most of all, with better retention. The PowerReader allows you to get your daily work done while practicing important reading skills. Learning reading techniques has never been this much fun! Double your reading speed in just a few days. Trial users have used this software to increase their reading speed by an average of 143% in 10 days. Do you currently need 30 minutes to read the daily paper? Soon you will read two papers and, in addition, another chapter in an interesting non-fiction book – within the same time period. Combining the iPhone with this entirely new app provides the ideal platform to achieve measurable results with a minimum of effort. But that’s not all: You will have fun mastering the skills you need to attain effective reading techniques and significantly increase your reading speed; this means: - Rapid recognition of numbers, letters and words - Flexible eye movements - Improved ability to concentrate - Increased vision span The app guides you through the individual training steps. The software immediately recognizes your strengths and weaknesses. The statistics function lets you see and track your progress. The results of each training exercise are charted for your review. More stars mean that you are getting closer to your objective: more effective reading skills and with it extremely high reading speeds. You can check your reading speed at any time using different reading tests from a variety of topics. Questions about the text are used as a secondary test to assess your retention ability. This is the ideal combination for mastering effective reading skills and high retention rates. But beware: you might get hooked since early progress will motivate you to work on your skills regularly. It is fun and you are doing something to stay mentally fit at the same time. We recommend that you train regularly but not excessively to ensure best results. Who needs this app? - Anyone reading more than half an hour a day - Executives - Secretaries - High-School and College students - Purchasing and Sales Professionals Who can benefit from this app? - Do you often feel that you take too long to read something? - Do you return to previous passages because something was not clear? - Are you easily distracted while reading? - Do you have difficulty recalling what you read? If you answered ‘Yes’ to any of these questions, then this app is what you need. Apple Terms of Use (EULA) – https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula Terms of Service – https://readingtrainer.com/terms-of-service Privacy Policy – https://readingtrainer.com/privacy-policy
Speed Reading with Exercises
Enhance your reading comprehension and speed with a comprehensive program of 22 distinct exercises, each offering 100 levels for all skill ranges. Consistent practice for 21 days can significantly boost your reading pace. This course incorporates proven techniques from established speed reading programs.
- 22 unique speed reading exercises
- 100 levels per exercise
- Suitable for beginners to advanced users
- 21-day improvement program
- Based on studied speed course methods
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There are 22 different speed reading exercises in the application and each of them has 100 different levels so that any user from beginner to advanced can use large scale of exercises. After you make exercises regularly for 21 day, you will see the improvement in your reading speed. This course is consisted of exercises that are studied in speed courses. Fast Rapid Speed Read Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Speed Reading with Exercises at 5.0 against Reading Trainer's 4.5. Speed Reading with Exercises also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 5 weeks) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). Reading Trainer's advantage is ratings volume (219 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Reading Trainer sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Speed Reading with Exercises sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Speed Reading with Exercises holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Reading Trainer has 219 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Reading Trainer ships an update every 5 weeks, Speed Reading with Exercises every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Reading Trainer | Speed Reading with Exercises |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (219 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 219 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 156 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HeKu IT GmbH | Ilyas Dirin |
Customer experience
Reading Trainer
Speed Reading with Exercises
Bugs and requests
Reading Trainer
Reported bugs
2 issues- Inability to answer comprehension questions
- Exercises getting stuck on loading screens
Requested features
4 requests- Allow custom text uploads for practice
- Provide more personalized recommendations
- Add British English spelling option
- Offer lifetime subscription option
Speed Reading with Exercises
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Reading Trainer
- Synchronisation$6.991 Month
- Premium Access$13.991 Month
- Synchronisation$17.993 Months
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- Synchronisation$23.496 Months
- Synchronisation$32.991 Year
- Premium Access$35.993 Months
- Premium Access$45.996 Months
- Premium Access$66.991 Year
- 15th Anniversary Offer1 Year trial$66.991 Year
- Premium Access1 Year trial$66.991 Year
- Premium Access1 Year trial$69.991 Year
Speed Reading with Exercises
- Subscription Monthly$3.491 Month
- Quarterly Package$6.993 Months
- Half Yearly Package$11.496 Months
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- Yearly Package$17.491 Year
Questions
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