Monocle vs ScrollWizard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Monocle
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Read Together, Think Deeper. Monocle brings curious readers into one vibrant space to highlight, discuss, and discover books in new ways. What You Can Do 1. Share Highlights & Notes β’ Mark any passage and add text, images, or GIFs. Make your note public for conversation or keep it private for later. 2. Create Snippets (Book Stories) β’ Capture a quote, layer on visuals or doodles, and publish a story-style post that sparks instant engagement. 3. Ask Beacon (AI Companion) β’ Unsure about a theme, reference, or character arc? Want to learn more about a particular topic? Beacon answers context-aware questions right inside the book. 4. Discover New Reads β’ Follow readers you admire, browse trending notes, and get smart recommendations based on the ideas you love. Reading is richer when itβs social. Download Monocle and bring your books to lifeβone highlight, question, and conversation at a time. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
ScrollWizard
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Your books deserve a better home. ScrollWizard is a full EPUB and PDF reader for people who care how they read -- not just what. Tune the type to taste -- font, size, line height, spacing, reading width, margins, alignment, hyphenation -- and override any of it per book. Speed-read with a built-in focus engine. No subscription, ever. Pay once, own it forever. READING, YOUR WAY -- 12 fonts including OpenDyslexic, with size, line height, and letter and word spacing -- Text alignment, paragraph indent and spacing, hyphenation -- Reading Width control sets your line length and centres the column on wide screens, plus top and bottom margins -- 5 built-in themes (Light, Dark, Sepia, Solarized Dark, Nord) plus unlimited custom themes -- Page-turn animations: slide, fade, or none -- Per-book overrides -- some books just read better in a different font -- A Lock Screen Live Activity shows your reading progress at a glance FOCUS READING (RSVP SPEED READER) -- Words appear one at a time at the pace you set, from 100 to 1500 WPM -- A focus mode: fewer distractions, one word at a time, your pace -- Adjustable word highlighting and a tunable pause curve -- Sentence navigation: swipe back or forward with full context -- Eases back up to speed after a pause, so you never lose the thread SPLIT READER (iPad) -- Two books side by side with a draggable divider -- Paragraph-proportional sync keeps both sides aligned -- Reference pane: open footnotes or an appendix beside the text without losing your place VOCABULARY & ANNOTATIONS -- Select any word for an instant dictionary definition -- Save words with their sentence and book attached, then export them to a flashcard file (Anki, TSV, or JSON) -- Highlight in 5 colors, with optional notes -- Export every annotation to Markdown, Obsidian, Notion, Logseq, or JSON -- no caps, no publisher limits -- Full-text search within any book YOUR LIBRARY -- Smart collections that sort themselves by your rules -- Browse free books from Project Gutenberg, ManyBooks, and Feedbooks, plus Standard Ebooks for Patrons Circle members -- Connect your own Calibre server -- iCloud sync for books and reading position, in a folder you can actually see -- Cover grid with sorting, filtering, metadata editing, and batch actions READING STATISTICS -- Daily reading charts with 7- and 30-day views, goals, pages, and time -- See how far you have come -- not how far you have to go No ads. No analytics. No feed pulling you somewhere else. No account to make. Just you and the book. The base reader is completely free. Advanced Wizard Mode -- the RSVP Speed Reader, the iPad Split Reader, and custom font import -- is a one-time purchase. No subscription. No recurring charges. One wizard, one price, forever. Reflowable EPUB and PDF. App available in 12 languages.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Monocle at every 2 days against ScrollWizard's every 2 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Monocle sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and ScrollWizard sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Monocle ships an update every 2 days, ScrollWizard every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Monocle | ScrollWizard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days β better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod β better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 β better | 16.2 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 119 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Monocle Group Inc. | Merijn Douwes |
In-app purchases
Monocle
- Monocle AI$3.991 Month
- Monocle AI$35.991 Year
ScrollWizard
- Advanced Wizard Mode$4.99









