Summary.com vs Kahua
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Summary.com
Access key insights from thousands of bestselling business books with time-saving summaries. This app allows existing customers to access their library, download content for offline viewing, and discover new releases.
- Access existing library
- Download for offline viewing
- Search and filter content
- Save for later reading
- Highlight and notate
- Create custom bookshelves
- New content notifications
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Don't Just Survive Your Job, Thrive In It Gain access to the key insights from thousands of bestselling business books with time-saving summaries. This app provides existing Soundview customers with access to their Library, and the ability to download content directly to their device for offline viewing. Summary.com Customers: Access your Library by signing in with your Summary.com login information. Every item in your library can be accessed through the app seamlessly. Within the app you can search and filter content by subject, content type, favorites and more. Newly released summaries will appear on the app's home screen, and we’ll notify you whenever new content becomes available. Features: - Log in to access all of your content. - Search, filter, and browse available content. - Pick up where you left off, or save content to read later. - Download summaries for offline access. - Highlight and notate. - Create custom bookshelves. - Get notified when new summaries become available.
Kahua
Manage construction projects and files on the go. This app allows users to handle documents, track job costs, and send/receive tasks directly from their mobile device, ensuring connectivity and flexibility for fieldwork.
- File management on the go
- Task assignment and tracking
- Industry-leading document management
- Job cost tracking and management
- Mobile construction workflow
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With kahua mobile for iOS, work the way you want to work. Stay connected when you're on the go with kahua. Key Features: - File Manager: Manage your files when and where you want - Tasks: Send and receive tasks directly from your device - Document Management: Our industry-leading document management suite - Cost Management: Manage and track job cost documents on a construction project.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Kahua at weekly against Summary.com's every 8 months. Kahua also leads on rating (3.8 vs 3.4). Summary.com's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Kahua holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 10 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 31% of Summary.com's written reviews are positive against 26% of Kahua's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Summary.com ships an update every 8 months, Kahua weekly. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Summary.com | Kahua |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (10 ratings) | 3.8 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 31.3% of reviews — better | 25.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 397 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Soundview | kahua |
Customer experience
Summary.com
Kahua
Bugs and requests
Summary.com
Reported bugs
24 issues- Search function returns no results
- Menu options lead to 'page moved' screens
- Sharing crashes the app
- Downloads don't download
- App opens but summary doesn't load
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- No option to read or listen
- Book cover doesn't appear
- App doesn't function at all
- App freezes on opening
- App stuck on an article and freezes
- App does not get beyond 'refreshing library'
- App crashes frequently
- Phone shuts off before app loads
- App keeps crashing on iPhone 5
- Audio is unusable
- Video crashes the app
- App crashes on login
- Downloaded PDFs do not render properly
- Most books have only 1 minute audio
- App won't load on iPhone
- App won't accept password after iOS 7 update
- App shows book thumbnails, but many have no titles or download icons
- Hard to use main screen, colors blend in
- App barely tells you how to use it
Requested features
10 requests- Listen and see text simultaneously
- Car Play support
- Apple Watch support
- Download MP3s easily
- Dark mode option
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- Identify listened reviews
- Optimize for iPhone 6plus
- Recover password
- Highlight PDF files
- Sync with iTunes
Kahua
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Summary.com
No in-app purchases
Kahua
No in-app purchases
