ResumePlayer vs RubiMask
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ResumePlayer
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- Plays both video and audio files. - Resume playback lets you continue right where you left off. - Organize your media easily with playlists. - Adjust playback speed from 0.5× (slow motion) up to 2.0×. Resume Player is the perfect app for enjoying long-form content such as radio programs, movies, TV shows, and lectures at your own pace. Watch or listen a little at a time, and always pick up exactly where you stopped. Of course, it also works great as a full-featured music player for your everyday listening.
RubiMask
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【PDF & Photo to Text, Audio, Translation】OCR, translate, and read aloud — all in ONE app! Load scanned books, PDFs, or photos → OCR text extraction → translate → listen with text-to-speech or export audio files. Everything in one app. For vertical Japanese books, RubiMask auto-masks ruby (furigana) before OCR, so small phonetic characters never scramble your text — a unique feature for Japanese book digitization. PROBLEM SOLVED "OCR scrambles my Japanese text because furigana mixes with main characters..." "Scanned books have terrible text recognition accuracy..." "I want to listen to my books as audio..." "I need to translate a printed document I photographed..." KEY FEATURES 【Multilingual OCR】 - Specialized recognition for vertical Japanese text - Supports English, Chinese, Korean, French, German, Spanish, and many more - Choose the recognition language per document - Edit recognized text directly in-app - Real-time character change tracking - Automatically removes running headers and page numbers, recognizing body text only 【Auto Ruby Masking】(unique for vertical Japanese) - Automatically detects text columns in vertical Japanese - Calculates column spacing to mask only ruby areas - Robust on gray-paper scans and irregular layouts - Fully adjustable column width and pitch, tap-to-edit masks 【Enhanced Photo Import】 - Auto perspective correction for documents photographed at an angle - Rotate photos 90° left or right - Recognizes high-resolution photos (12MP+) at full quality 【Translation】 - Translate recognized text with one tap (iOS 17.4+) - Great for language learning and reading foreign documents 【Text to Speech】 - Listen to recognized text with natural voices - Export audio files (M4A) — turn books into audiobooks! - Adjustable speed and voice 【Multiple Export Formats】 - Text file (.txt) - Audio file (M4A) - PNG images (ZIP compression available) - Masked PDF output - Save directly to Photos - Export options: insert page breaks or join lines into sentences 【Convenience Features】 - App interface available in 35 languages - Sample PDFs in your language to try every feature - Margin masking (remove page numbers, headers) - Manual mask editing (drag & drop) - Undo/redo for mask editing - Project save/load for pause & resume - Pinch-to-zoom for precise adjustments PERFECT FOR - Digitizing paper books and rare editions - Extracting text from novels and documents - Preparing source text for translation - Creating furigana-free versions for Japanese learners - Converting books to audiobook format - Creating accessible text for screen readers - Reading printed foreign-language documents PREMIUM FEATURES - Remove all ads - Unlimited pages (free: 100 pages) - Unlimited project saves (free: 3 projects) - PDF export - Audio export (M4A) Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://keik.co.jp/rubimask/privacy-en.html
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The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ResumePlayer at none against RubiMask's 3. ResumePlayer also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). RubiMask's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 7 months). On price, 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
Both are free to download. RubiMask sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. ResumePlayer asks for nothing beyond the download.
ResumePlayer ships an update every 7 months, RubiMask every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ResumePlayer | RubiMask |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yasuto Saito | KeiK LLC |
In-app purchases
ResumePlayer
No in-app purchases
RubiMask
- RubiMask Premium$2.991 Month
- RubiMask Premium7 Days trial$11.991 Year
- RubiMask Premium$19.99
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