Simplify Text vs Paraphrase Tool
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simplify Text
This app helps you understand complex text by providing clear summaries of documents and books. It allows you to scan text from images, share, print, and save simplified versions, making reading easier for professionals and students.
- Text summarization
- Scan text from images
- Upload documents from photo library
- Share simplified text
- Print simplified text
- Save simplified text
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Introducing Simplify Text - the ultimate app for simplifying your reading and boosting your productivity! With Simplify, you can quickly and easily scan text from any book, document, or other confusing text, and receive a clear, easy-to-understand summary in a matter of seconds. But that's not all - Simplify also allows you to upload documents from your photo library for scanning, and provides a range of options for sharing, printing, and saving the updated text. Whether you're a busy professional looking to streamline your workload, a student struggling with dense textbooks, or just someone who wants to make reading a breeze, Simplify has got you covered. So why wait? Download Simplify today and simplify your reading like never before! Here is the Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Here is the Privacy Policy: https://twitter.com/JARAPPS5
Paraphrase Tool
This AI-powered tool helps you enhance your writing by rephrasing sentences. It's useful for crafting emails, messages, or improving existing text.
- AI-powered writing improvement
- Sentence rephrasing
- Email and text composition aid
- Paragraph enhancement
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Use AI to improve your writing. Whether you want to reply to an email, write an important text or simply spice up your paragraph, Paraphraser can help you! Privacy policy: https://panikka.studio/apps/privacy-policy Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Paraphrase Tool at 100% against Simplify Text's 0%. Paraphrase Tool also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.6). Simplify Text's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Simplify Text sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Paraphrase Tool sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Simplify Text ships an update every 2 months, Paraphrase Tool every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and August 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simplify Text | Paraphrase Tool |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.7 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 27 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Raj Sheth | STAGE ARCADE LTD |
Customer experience
Simplify Text
Paraphrase Tool
In-app purchases
Simplify Text
- Text Simplification Pro Access$4.991 Month
- Pro User Subscription$9.991 Month
- 1 Simplification$1.99
- 3 Simplifications and More!$4.99
- Pro User$9.99
Paraphrase Tool
- Paraphraser Pro$4.997 Days
- Paraphraser Pro$5.991 Month
- Paraphraser Pro$9.991 Month
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- Paraphraser Pro$12.993 Months
- Paraphraser Pro$14.993 Months
- Paraphraser Pro$19.991 Year
- Paraphraser Pro$29.991 Year
Questions
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