Comparison

ReadCloud vs Deakin Borrow

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

Head to head
About

ReadCloud

This e-reading platform provides Australian schools with digital access to educational content, eNovels, and teacher-curated resources. It facilitates collaboration, annotation, and seamless integration with learning management systems, supporting a digital-first strategy for students and educators.

Highlights
  • Digital access to educational content and eNovels
  • Teacher content curation and upload
  • Virtual class clouds for collaboration
  • Highlighting and annotation tools
  • LMS and publisher platform integration
  • Reading analytics for teachers and parents
  • Single Sign-On (SSO)
Features
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ReadCloud is the leading eReading software provider to Australian schools. Locally developed and fully supported the software is valuable for any school that has embarked or is considering embarking on their digital transformation journey. ReadCloud offers schools (teachers and students): Access to their in-classroom resources digitally – educational content from the world’s leading educational publishers, together with non-traditional educational resources, as well as eNovels. Connect seamlessly via a single login to selected publishers’ digital interactive resources with Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) integration or simply link and login to publisher platforms whilst still inside the application. The ability to highlight, annotate, collaborate and communicate with class members. These “ring-fenced” class conversations are made possible through ReadCloud’s virtual class clouds which mimic the actual classroom by grouping the members of each physical class. ReadCloud’s innovative Content Manager affords teachers the ability to curate their own content and upload their own resources into ReadCloud’s virtual class clouds to further contexualise the learning experience. Teacher curated content sits alongside the commercial curriculum and can be in the form of a PDF, website, video, audio or image. LMS connectivity - ReadCloud provides deep integration into many LMS’s allowing users to quickly and securely access ReadCloud’s Bookshelf. Stream PDF’s and access publisher interactive content. Alternatively embed the App into your chosen LMS to assist with session plans. Single Sign-On (SSO) capability. Easily accessible reading analytics at a class cloud level assisting teachers and parents. A comprehensive on-boarding, in-servicing and a tailored professional development programme which takes place at school and runs for the course of the school year, enabling sharing of best practice teaching methods in order to maximize student learning outcomes. ReadCloud also supports blended classrooms Today over 500 education institutions and in excess of 115,000 students regularly go to ReadCloud to achieve a “digital first” strategy for simplified consumption of in-classroom resources.

About

Deakin Borrow

Features
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Borrow Deakin University Library items from your mobile device

Screenshots

ReadCloud4 screens
Deakin Borrow3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Deakin Borrow at 11.0 against ReadCloud's 13.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
ReadCloud versus Deakin Borrow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReadCloudDeakin Borrow
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews20.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB106 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperReadCloudFE Technologies Pty Ltd

In-app purchases

None

ReadCloud

No in-app purchases

None

Deakin Borrow

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ReadCloud free?
ReadCloud is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Deakin Borrow free?
Deakin Borrow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ReadCloud or Deakin Borrow have ads?
Neither ReadCloud nor Deakin Borrow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ReadCloud or Deakin Borrow?
ReadCloud ships an update every 3 months, and Deakin Borrow every 3 months. Most recently, ReadCloud was updated on October 21, 2026 and Deakin Borrow on October 9, 2026.

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