Comparison

PowerReader Lite vs 坚果百科

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

Head to head
About

PowerReader Lite

This application allows users to view a wide range of document and image file formats, including text, PDF, and office documents. It offers features like full-text search, online translation, and automatic saving of reading progress. The app supports landscape mode and various text encoding options for a comfortable reading experience.

Highlights
  • Supports txt, pdf, png, jpg, doc, xls, ppt, and more
  • Landscape view mode
  • Diverse text encoding options
  • Full text search
  • Online translation engine
  • Automatically saves last reading point
Features
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PowerReader is a simple but powerful reading tool.
 Features: 
 - It is available to view the files with various formats as below: txt, pdf, png, jpg, tiff, gif, bmp, htm, html, doc, xls, ppt, docx, xlsx, pptx. - Supports landscape view mode. - Diverse kinds of encoding for txt reading. - Turning pages forward or backward quickly. - Uploading files through iTunes. - Automatic line breaks. 
 - Full text search, you can easily search the entire text. - Online Translation engine. - Automatically save the last reading point. - Automatically separate the big txt file to accelerate the access speed - More features in full edition: - It is also available to play mp3 & mp4 files. - Supports Google docs downloading. - Supports "Open-in" feature, you can open the supported data from mail, safari or some other APPs that supported open-in feature. - Various types of font for txt reading. - Text color and background color setting. - Bookmark feature. - Single/multi page display for PDF viewer.

About

坚果百科

Features
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【主要功能】 ● 果蔬识别,速度快、精度高; ● 坚果百科:营养成分大全,应有尽有; 【产品特点】 ● 内容丰富,精选内容,百看不厌。 ● 完全开放,不用花钱即可享受。 ● 简洁界面,方便操作 自动订阅说明: 1、名称:去除APP内部广告 2、价格:8元/月 3、购买自动订阅会员的账号,会在每个月订阅期到期前24小时,从您的iTunes账户中扣费,扣费成功后顺延一个订阅周期。 4、如需取消订阅,请手动打开苹果手机“设置”—->进入“iTunes Store 与 App Stor系统设置->Apple ID->订阅->找到后点击进去->取消订阅 ,在订阅期结束的至少24小时前关闭订阅的,将视为您同意继续授权,此订阅将会自动续订。 「自动订阅服务协议」:https://docs.qq.com/doc/DZEhtc2ZybGFSZlZx

Screenshots

PowerReader Lite4 screens
坚果百科1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PowerReader Lite at none against 坚果百科's 1. PowerReader Lite also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence 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. 坚果百科 sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. PowerReader Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PowerReader Lite ships an update every 10 days, 坚果百科 fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
PowerReader Lite versus 坚果百科: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPowerReader Lite坚果百科
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews53.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer冠兰 姜浩杰 姬

In-app purchases

None

PowerReader Lite

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

坚果百科

Subscriptions1
  • 坚果百科-去除APP内部广告$0.991 Month

Questions

Is PowerReader Lite free?
PowerReader Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is 坚果百科 free?
坚果百科 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PowerReader Lite or 坚果百科 have ads?
坚果百科 shows ads; PowerReader Lite does not.
Which is updated more often, PowerReader Lite or 坚果百科?
PowerReader Lite ships an update every 10 days, and 坚果百科 fortnightly. Most recently, PowerReader Lite was updated on October 15, 2026 and 坚果百科 on October 5, 2026.

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