Comparison

SwiftRead vs Wexley Pro

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

Head to head
About

SwiftRead

Enhance your reading speed and comprehension with focus modes and natural text-to-speech narration. Import content from various sources and customize your reading experience across devices.

Highlights
  • Import PDFs, EPUBs, web articles
  • Visual focus modes (RSVP, pacing)
  • Human-like TTS narration (90+ languages)
  • Sync across devices
  • Customizable fonts, themes, speed
  • Works with Kindle Cloud Reader & Libby
Features
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Read any text up to 3X faster with research-backed visual and audio speed reading techniques, like RSVP and text-to-speech. Loved by students, professionals, and language-learners everywhere. Import text from PDFs, EPUBs, web articles, even external ebook readers like Kindle Cloud and Libby. Then read with visual focus modes or listen with human-like text-to-speech that improve reading speed, focus and comprehension. KEY FEATURES • Import documents in seconds — PDF, EPUB, web links, and pasted text • Works with web-based ebook readers — including Kindle Cloud Reader and Libby • Improve reading focus with research-backed visual reading modes — paced highlighting, different guided word displays, and RSVP with a patent pending eye anchor • Improve reading comprehension with natural text-to-speech — follow along with human-like text-to-speech and synced word highlighting in 90+ languages • Customize your reading experience — fonts, colors, spacing, and target reading speed • Sync across devices — pick up where you left off on phone, tablet, or computer PERFECT FOR • Finishing a long article PDF before a meeting • Getting through research papers for class • Improving reading fluency in a new language • Finally completing that ebook you started YOUR CONTENT, YOUR CONTROL • Your documents stay private. See swiftread.com/privacy for details. • Internet required for use. • Need help? Contact me (Troy, the developer) anytime at swiftread.com/help. PRICING SwiftRead is free to use within limits. Upgrade to Pro to remove limits and unlock advanced features. Payment charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. Cancel anytime in Settings. Terms of Use: https://swiftread.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://swiftread.com/privacy-policy

About

Wexley Pro

Features
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Your complete book studio, built for iPhone. Wexley Pro brings writing, story development, book design, provenance, and professional publishing into one local-first workspace. Start with a blank page or an existing manuscript. Finish with organized EPUB, Editable DOCX, and professional Print packages built from the same structured book. FROM MANUSCRIPT TO STRUCTURED BOOK Create a book from scratch, paste text, or import DOCX and TXT. Wexley detects chapters and known front and back matter, preserves supported rich content, and turns the manuscript into a navigable publication instead of a collection of disconnected pages. Write with rich formatting, headings, lists, semantic tables, hyperlinks, bookmarks, scene breaks, images, captions, accessibility descriptions, and managed footnotes. Search and replace across the book without flattening its structure. Use local dictionary and thesaurus tools, statistics, readability analysis, styled previews, and Version History as the manuscript evolves. BUILD THE WORLD BESIDE THE BOOK Story Bible keeps Characters, Locations, Factions, World Rules, Plot Threads, Timeline Events, Terms, Research, Outlines, and notes beside the manuscript without mixing them into the publication. DESIGN THE EDITION Choose from twelve typography presets, then shape the details. Control ebook typography, paragraph treatment, chapter headings, numbering, drop caps, scene breaks, margins, running headers, pull quotes, epigraphs, and more. Manage covers, contributors, publication dates, ISBNs, publisher information, rights, series details, copyright modes, and reusable Publisher Profiles from the same workspace. Need a box set, anthology, or omnibus? Collections create independent multi-book editions with their own order, matter, metadata, style, tools, provenance, and exports—without changing the source books. PUBLISH FROM THE SAME BOOK Run a Publication Readiness Check before export, then generate the actual deliverables. • EPUB — Prepare destination-organized packages for twelve publishing destinations. Wexley writes the EPUB, validates the exact generated bytes on device, and keeps selected outputs separated and organized. • Editable DOCX — Export a clean Word manuscript for collaboration, revision, or later re-import. • Print — Generate retailer-specific interior PDFs with supported trim, margin, gutter, bleed, embedded-font, color, pagination, and manufacturing rules applied automatically. Six Print profiles and twenty trim intents are built into the production system. • Complete Package — Prepare multiple formats from one acknowledged revision and receive an organized release package instead of sorting files by hand. PROTECT THE PUBLICATION HISTORY VaultMark records a private, local provenance history across the life of a Book or Collection. Create checkpoints, seal milestones using Face ID, Touch ID, or device passcode, export verification bundles, and verify whether an exact release file matches a recorded artifact. VaultMark is provenance and release verification—not copyright registration, identity proof, ownership proof, or cloud backup. LOCAL-FIRST BY DESIGN Your manuscript, Story Bible, publication files, and creative context remain on your device unless you choose to export them. Core writing, development, preview, analysis, publishing, and provenance workflows are built around local processing. Wexley Pro is not a writing app with an export button. It is a book-production environment from manuscript to finished release—right from iPhone. MacOS + iPad versions currently in development. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://wexley.pro/privacy

Screenshots

SwiftRead4 screens
Wexley Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: SwiftRead at 3 against Wexley Pro's 1. SwiftRead also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. SwiftRead sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month and Wexley Pro sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SwiftRead ships an update every 9 days, Wexley Pro fortnightly. Both last shipped on November 7, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
SwiftRead versus Wexley Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSwiftReadWexley Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (43 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews84.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings43 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB89 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSwiftReadWexley Pro

In-app purchases

3 purchases

SwiftRead

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly$19.991 Month
  • Quarterly$44.993 Months
  • Annual$119.991 Year
3 purchases

Wexley Pro

Subscriptions2
  • Wexley Pro Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Wexley Pro Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • Wexley Pro Lifetime$149.99

Questions

Is SwiftRead free?
SwiftRead is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Wexley Pro free?
Wexley Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SwiftRead or Wexley Pro have ads?
Neither SwiftRead nor Wexley Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SwiftRead or Wexley Pro?
SwiftRead ships an update every 9 days, and Wexley Pro fortnightly. Most recently, SwiftRead was updated on November 7, 2026 and Wexley Pro on November 7, 2026.

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