Reading Trainer vs Blantonia
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
Blantonia
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Blantonia helps you learn languages through real sentences, not isolated word lists. It includes a full built-in curriculum for Italian, with thematic lessons, audio playback, write-in quizzes, review queues, and progress tracking. You can also build your own custom lessons and study sets for supported languages, making Blantonia useful for personal tutoring notes, vocabulary lists, recorded lessons, and AI-generated practice outside the Italian curriculum. Features include: - Curriculum for learning Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Romanian, and Portuguese. - Custom lesson creation to study particular vocabulary - Sentence-based flashcards - Audio playback for cards with audio - Multiple choice and write-in quiz modes - Simple mneumonic learning for Chinese - Review queues based on card performance - Curriculum and custom lessons kept separate - Word and lesson study tools - Card flagging for content feedback Blantonia is built for learners who want practical fluency through real-life language practice.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Blantonia at none against Reading Trainer's 11. Blantonia also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Blantonia asks for nothing beyond the download.
Reading Trainer ships an update every 5 weeks, Blantonia fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Reading Trainer | Blantonia |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (219 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 84.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 219 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 156 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | HeKu IT GmbH | Nicholas Blanton |
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
Blantonia
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
Blantonia
No in-app purchases
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