Comparison

Writing Assistant vs Speedready

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

Head to head
About

Writing Assistant

Features
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Speech to Text app with further dictionary lookups.

About

Speedready

Features
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Read faster, and read in the language you are learning. Speedready is a speed reader and a bilingual reader in one, for any book you own. READ FASTER • A highlight sweeps through the text at your pace, or words flash one at a time in the center of the screen, so your eyes stop jumping around • Set your speed anywhere from 40 to 1,500 words per minute • Natural pauses at commas, sentence ends and paragraphs keep it readable at speed • See how many minutes are left in the chapter and the book LEARN A LANGUAGE BY READING • Ten languages, in any combination: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Russian and Swedish • Above every word you do not know yet sits its translation in your own language • Tap the translation once you know a word: it disappears from the whole book, and the page gets cleaner as your vocabulary grows • Hold a word you are still learning: it is underlined everywhere and the pace slows for it • Sentences are read aloud by your device's voice, with the text following along • Export everything you look up as an Anki deck • Reading German? Nouns are colored by gender: blue for der, red for die, green for das YOUR OWN BOOKS, CLEANLY Open any EPUB or text file; the app recognizes its language. Page numbers and headers left over from print are removed, sentences broken by a page are joined again, and every book opens at chapter one. A German storybook is built in so you can start right away. YOUR LIBRARY • Add several books at once, or let Speedready find the EPUB and text files in a folder you choose, then tick the ones you want • Every book reopens right where you left it • The app speaks your language too: English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Russian or Swedish PRIVATE No account, no tracking, no ads. A language pair's dictionary downloads once (about 2 MB) and then works offline. Your books and your progress never leave your device. IN SAFARI TOO Turn on the Speedready extension in Settings, Safari, Extensions, and read any web page or selected paragraph in the same pacer, with translations. The reader is free, open-source software. Dictionaries use Wiktionary data under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Screenshots

Writing Assistant2 screens
Speedready4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Speedready at every 4 days against Writing Assistant's every 2 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Writing Assistant ships an update every 2 months, Speedready every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
Writing Assistant versus Speedready: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWriting AssistantSpeedready
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEvan AngerGustavo cesar Sola Barreto Marcelino

In-app purchases

None

Writing Assistant

No in-app purchases

None

Speedready

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Writing Assistant free?
Writing Assistant is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Speedready free?
Speedready is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Writing Assistant or Speedready have ads?
Neither Writing Assistant nor Speedready shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Writing Assistant or Speedready?
Writing Assistant ships an update every 2 months, and Speedready every 4 days. Most recently, Writing Assistant was updated on November 12, 2026 and Speedready on November 10, 2026.

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