Comparison

Reading Trainer vs Study Time

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Increase reading speed
  • Improve reading comprehension
  • Enhance memory retention
  • Eye exercises
  • Track progress with statistics
  • Reading speed tests
Features
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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

About

Study Time

Features
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Turn a few free minutes into meaningful study time. Study Time helps college students keep classes organized, capture important ideas, and review what they learned before exam week becomes overwhelming. Instead of asking you to study for hours at once, Study Time helps you make progress in short, focused sessions throughout the semester. Add your classes, save notes in your own words, and return later for quick reviews, study cards, and quizzes. Study Time helps you: • Organize multiple college classes and semesters • Add class schedules, assignments, readings, exams, projects, and deadlines • Save important class notes and takeaways • Review notes one idea at a time with Quick Review • Create flashcards, definition cards, true-or-false cards, and multiple-choice study cards • Build quizzes and track your results • See how short study sessions add up over time • Organize papers, rough drafts, and citations • Export saved study notes as PDFs • Sync class schedules and coursework dates with Apple Calendar • Keep previous semesters available for future reference Your first semester and up to eight class creations are included. A one-time purchase unlocks unlimited future semesters and classes. No subscription. Study Time is designed for college students who want a simple study planner, class organizer, homework tracker, note-taking system, flashcard maker, quiz builder, and study timer in one place.

Screenshots

Reading Trainer4 screens
Study Time4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Study Time at none against Reading Trainer's 11. Reading Trainer's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). On price, ads 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

Both are free to download. Reading Trainer sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Study Time asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Reading Trainer versus Study Time: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReading TrainerStudy Time
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (220 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews84.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings220 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size156 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHeKu IT GmbHABLE TECH LLC

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

Study Time

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Reading Trainer

Subscriptions11
  • 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
None

Study Time

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Reading Trainer free?
Reading Trainer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Study Time free?
Study Time is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Reading Trainer or Study Time have ads?
Neither Reading Trainer nor Study Time shows ads.

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