Comparison

RePaper Web PDF Highlighter vs Narrativ Timeline

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

Narrativ Timeline

This app helps creative writers plan their stories by mapping out plotlines, characters, locations, and world events. It allows for detailed character and scene planning, capturing loose thoughts, and organizing entire story universes. Export your comprehensive story bible in various formats when planning is complete.

Highlights
  • Character planning with relationships and traits
  • Scene mapping with summaries and plotline tags
  • World event tracking
  • Notepad for loose ideas
  • Series planning and universe building
  • Character relationship graph visualization
  • Exportable story bible (PDF, Word, Markdown)
Features
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Narrativ is a planning tool for creative writers. Map out the shape of your story. Add a cast, sketch your plotlines, create locations, note important world events, and link it all to the timeline so you can get a clear picture of the structure of your story. Plan your cast Build characters with photos, roles, descriptions, traits, relationships, and the connections that make them more than a list of names. See who knows whom in a graph. Track who appears in which scene. Plan your scenes Scenes with summaries, tension, cast, and plotline tags. View them as cards, on a timeline, or in story order. This is where the story takes shape. The manuscript comes later, in your writing app of choice. Find the structure Follow each plotline through the story, beat by beat. Start from a framework if it helps: Three-Act Structure, Save the Cat, Hero’s Journey, Seven-Point, Story Circle, Freytag’s Pyramid, Fichtean Curve, Four-Act or Kishotenketsu. Or ignore them all and build your own. Plan your world The story is ten per cent on the page. The world is the ninety per cent underneath. World Events and Lore are where that ninety per cent lives: everything you know about your world that the reader never sees. Add events with your own when-labels, link them to the scenes that show them, and switch the timeline between story order and world time. Capture loose thoughts Not every idea is ready to become a character or a scene. Notepad is where it waits until it is. Write one note or a hundred, with bold, italics and highlights, and link a note to any card in your story with the @ feature. Set milestones Give your next step a deadline: “First act mapped”, Friday at nine. Get a reminder at the deadline, and every day, week or month before it if you want one. See your milestones in a calendar or add them to your phone’s Calendar. Reminders only come from milestones you set up yourself. Plan a series A universe holds multiple stories that share characters, locations, and world events. Add a story and it inherits the cast. The bundled Sherlock Holmes example shows a three-book universe in action. See the connections The character graph maps your cast as a force-directed network. Characters who share scenes pull closer together, loosely connected characters drift apart. Tap a node to open a character card. Tap a line to see the scenes they share. The graph shows you where relationships are overloaded, where they are thin, and where a connection is missing that the story needs. Your book on your Home Screen Widgets show your book’s cover and what it holds, your whole bookshelf, or the shortcuts you choose. Add a Narrativ button to the Lock Screen, Control Center or the Action button to start a note, a character or a scene in one tap, in the book you choose. Quick actions and Siri get you there too. Wherever the idea strikes Narrativ is universal across iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and made for iPhone Duo, folded or open. Work at your desk or on the go. Your work syncs through iCloud. One-time purchase, no subscription. Exports When the planning is done, export everything as a story bible. Choose PDF, Word, Markdown, or plain text. Select which sections to include: characters, scenes, plotlines, world events, or the full document. A clean reference to keep open while you write. Your look Narrativ’s own colours and type, or the system look with iOS colours and fonts. Light, dark, or following your device. Before the story, there’s Narrativ.

Screenshots

RePaper Web PDF Highlighter4 screens
Narrativ Timeline4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: RePaper Web PDF Highlighter at $2.99 against Narrativ Timeline's $24.99. RePaper Web PDF Highlighter also leads on review sentiment (32% vs 0%) and ratings volume (11 vs 2). Narrativ Timeline's advantage is rating (3.5 vs 3.1) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On ads, in-app purchases 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

RePaper Web PDF Highlighter costs $2.99 and Narrativ Timeline $24.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Narrativ Timeline holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RePaper Web PDF Highlighter has 11 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 32% of RePaper Web PDF Highlighter's written reviews are positive against 0% of Narrativ Timeline's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RePaper Web PDF Highlighter ships an update monthly, Narrativ Timeline weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
RePaper Web PDF Highlighter versus Narrativ Timeline: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRePaper Web PDF HighlighterNarrativ Timeline
Price$2.99 — better$24.99
Rating3.1 (11 ratings)3.5 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews31.9% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11 — better2
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB21 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperAppBlit LLCEIRIK ANDRE STEEN

Customer experience

RePaper Web PDF Highlighter

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

Narrativ Timeline

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

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

Narrativ Timeline

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

RePaper Web PDF Highlighter

No in-app purchases

None

Narrativ Timeline

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is RePaper Web PDF Highlighter free?
RePaper Web PDF Highlighter costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Narrativ Timeline free?
Narrativ Timeline costs $24.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, RePaper Web PDF Highlighter or Narrativ Timeline?
Narrativ Timeline is rated higher. RePaper Web PDF Highlighter averages 3.1 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Narrativ Timeline averages 3.5 from 2 ratings.
Do RePaper Web PDF Highlighter or Narrativ Timeline have ads?
Neither RePaper Web PDF Highlighter nor Narrativ Timeline shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RePaper Web PDF Highlighter or Narrativ Timeline?
RePaper Web PDF Highlighter ships an update monthly, and Narrativ Timeline weekly. Most recently, RePaper Web PDF Highlighter was updated on October 27, 2026 and Narrativ Timeline on October 24, 2026.

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