Comparison

SABA Reader vs Sleeping Ritual

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

Head to head
About

SABA Reader

This app offers a new audio book listening experience with simple tools and a dedicated navigation tab. It also provides a customizable reading experience with various page themes, font adjustments, and note-taking capabilities. Explore a vast collection of books across different categories.

Highlights
  • Audiobook listening experience
  • Downloadable chapters for offline listening
  • Customizable reading themes and fonts
  • Add highlights and notes to text
  • Explore book collections by category
  • Track reading progress
Features
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About app: We have added new audio book listening experience. It is a new design with new and simple tools to make audio listening as simple as it's supposed to be. • Navigation tab only for audio books • Backward and forward functionality • Download chapters and save them in your local storage • Offline Listening  New reading experience: • Choose from five easy-to-read page themes • Add highlights and notes to texts • Change font size, that you like • Change text height and page margins • View table of contents • View saved texts and comments Features: • Subscribed users are able to read books • See book status where you stopped reading • Explore great collection of books in different categories, from best authors and best sellers • Detailed book description page

About

Sleeping Ritual

Features
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Sleeping Ritual helps families create calmer bedtimes with soothing audio stories and familiar voices. Build a nightly playlist from curated bedtime stories, record your own stories, or invite family members to record for your child. Designed for gentle routines, winding down, and making bedtime feel close even when loved ones are far away. Features: Curated bedtime story library Family voice recordings Simple invite codes for relatives Personalized bedtime playlist Sleep-friendly audio player Offline listening for saved stories No ads or tracking

Screenshots

SABA Reader4 screens
Sleeping Ritual4 screens

Verdict

The call

SABA Reader and Sleeping Ritual are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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 weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
SABA Reader versus Sleeping Ritual: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSABA ReaderSleeping Ritual
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (7.4K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7.4K — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size105 MB53 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLeavingStoneLuka Maghalov

Bugs and requests

SABA Reader

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Previewing audio book excerpts not working after update
  • Books disappearing from library after payment method change
  • App crashing on launch for some iOS 11 users
  • App not displaying any books for some users

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add note-taking/bookmarking functionality for audio books
  • Implement character/speaker labeling for audio books
  • Increase font size options on iPad
  • Add support for English language books

Sleeping Ritual

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

SABA Reader

No in-app purchases

None

Sleeping Ritual

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SABA Reader free?
SABA Reader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sleeping Ritual free?
Sleeping Ritual is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SABA Reader or Sleeping Ritual have ads?
Neither SABA Reader nor Sleeping Ritual shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SABA Reader or Sleeping Ritual?
SABA Reader ships an update weekly, and Sleeping Ritual weekly. Most recently, SABA Reader was updated on October 26, 2026 and Sleeping Ritual on October 21, 2026.

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