Comparison

RePaper Web PDF Highlighter vs Story Wiki

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

Head to head
About

RePaper Web PDF Highlighter

Annotate web pages, PDFs, Word, and PowerPoint documents with customizable highlights and comments. Organize your content into folders and sync across devices using iCloud. Share and export your annotated files to various cloud services and other apps.

Highlights
  • Highlight web pages and PDFs
  • Add comments in multiple colors
  • Reader View for web and PDF
  • Organize content in folders
  • iCloud synchronization
  • Share and export annotations
Features
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One app to highlight Web pages, PDF, Word and Powerpoint documents, synchronized to iCloud. Our users say: - "Highlight Delight" - Cat North - "Only app that highlights properly" - Sparticle - "Exactly what I was looking for" - Bren With RePaper: - Open web pages and PDF files from anywhere - Add your highlight and comments in several colors - "Reader View" like Safari but works for Web and PDF files (text only) - Organize your articles in folders - Synchronized with iCloud - Share your highlights on social media and email - Export to other apps like iBooks, DropBox, Box, Drive and Evernote

About

Story Wiki

Organize your creative universe with a searchable notebook for characters, locations, and lore. Link entries with wiki-style connections and create custom templates. Export your worldbuilding to PDF and sync across devices.

Highlights
  • Wiki-style connections and backlinks
  • Custom templates with custom fields
  • Export to PDF
  • Full accessibility support
  • Dark Mode
  • iCloud syncing
Features
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Story Wiki is a quiet, reliable notebook for your creative universe. Built for writers, game designers, and worldbuilders, it helps you organize characters, locations, lore, and events in one searchable place. It is fully accessible, exportable, and never asks you for a monthly fee. Features: • Connect your universe: Link related entries and jump through your world with wiki-style connections and backlinks. • Custom layouts: Create reusable templates with custom fields for characters, species, or magic systems. • Export to PDF: Turn your entire wiki, or a hand-picked selection of entries, into a polished PDF for printing or sharing. • Fully accessible: Built natively to support Apple's VoiceOver, strict keyboard navigation, and extra-large Dynamic Type text. • Dark Mode: Switch to a high-contrast dark theme across all menus and sheets. • Stay synced: iCloud automatically keeps your writing updated across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Screenshots

RePaper Web PDF Highlighter4 screens
Story Wiki3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Story Wiki at 100% against RePaper Web PDF Highlighter's 32%. Story Wiki also leads on price (Free vs $2.99) and rating (4.0 vs 3.1). RePaper Web PDF Highlighter's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On ratings volume, 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

Story Wiki is free to download; RePaper Web PDF Highlighter costs $2.99 up front. Story Wiki sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. RePaper Web PDF Highlighter asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Story Wiki holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 32% of RePaper Web PDF Highlighter's written reviews are positive against 100% of Story Wiki's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RePaper Web PDF Highlighter ships an update monthly, Story Wiki every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
RePaper Web PDF Highlighter versus Story Wiki: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRePaper Web PDF HighlighterStory Wiki
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating3.1 (11 ratings)4.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews31.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11 — better5
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB2 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperAppBlit LLCColin Wright

Customer experience

RePaper Web PDF Highlighter

All ratings11 ratings
Positive54.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative45.5%
Written reviews69 reviews
Positive31.9%
Neutral1.4%
Negative66.7%

Story Wiki

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

RePaper Web PDF Highlighter

Reported bugs

24 issues
  • Things don’t sync between devices if folders aren't created
  • Text in reader font can’t be adjusted
  • Deleting a paper seems temporary
  • Tutorial video gives code 404 message
  • Instruction video is missing, link broken
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  • Video tutorial has been removed
  • Bookmarklet doesn't work
  • App will not find documents
  • Won't allow highlighting on iPhone
  • Force closes when extracting files
  • Cannot use on PDF documents saved in iBook, PDF, and Dropbox directly
  • Stubborn highlighting, difficult to adjust selection
  • App shuts down after 30 seconds
  • Crashes multiple times or does not highlight
  • App crashes when hitting save
  • Undefined is not an object error
  • Doesn't work at all
  • No selection made
  • Says 'no selection found'
  • Does not allow highlighting more than one word at a time in a PDF
  • Does not allow highlighting more than one sentence at a time
  • Highlights only in its own browser
  • No logical segregation in library
  • Takes 10 to 20 times to make one highlight

Requested features

10 requests
  • Cloud support
  • More obvious new folder creation
  • Consistent stable operation without folders
  • IOS 8 extension
  • Bookmarklet
Show 5 more
  • Shortened link to highlighted article
  • Comments pop up automatically
  • Ability to comment on highlighting
  • Dark mode option
  • Advanced analytics dashboard

Story Wiki

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

RePaper Web PDF Highlighter

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Story Wiki

One-time1
  • Pro$4.99

Questions

Is RePaper Web PDF Highlighter free?
RePaper Web PDF Highlighter costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Story Wiki free?
Story Wiki is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, RePaper Web PDF Highlighter or Story Wiki?
Story Wiki is rated higher. RePaper Web PDF Highlighter averages 3.1 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Story Wiki averages 4.0 from 5 ratings.
Do RePaper Web PDF Highlighter or Story Wiki have ads?
Neither RePaper Web PDF Highlighter nor Story Wiki shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RePaper Web PDF Highlighter or Story Wiki?
RePaper Web PDF Highlighter ships an update monthly, and Story Wiki every 10 days. Most recently, RePaper Web PDF Highlighter was updated on November 1, 2026 and Story Wiki on October 31, 2026.

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