Comparison

Clew vs Easy Read AI

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

Head to head
About

Clew

Capture and organize quotes, notes, and highlights from books, articles, films, and podcasts. Discover connections between your saved content through powerful tagging and intelligent recommendations. This app acts as a digital commonplace book, synced across all your devices.

Highlights
  • Save highlights from books, web, film, TV, and podcasts
  • Organize and search saved content
  • Discover connections between saved items
  • Tagging and intelligent recommendations
  • Syncs across all devices
  • Camera scanning for book pages
Features
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Clew is the fastest, easiest way to save passages, quotes, and notes from the things you read, watch, and listen to, so you can start discovering connections between everything you save. Remember the last time you wrote in the margin of a novel, only to finish the book and never see that thought again? How many times have you clipped parts of articles, songs, and podcasts and saved them to a note somewhere, hidden and forgotten? Clew is a single place for all your highlights, clips, and favorite lines—stored, organized, and searchable in one place. It's a commonplace book that you'll always have with you, easily searchable and synced between all your devices. Clew helps you connect thoughts across sources, centuries, and media types through powerful tagging and intelligent recommendations. Start discovering connections between everything you've saved from: - Books and poems you read - Movies and TV shows you watch - Podcasts and audiobooks you listen to - Songs you love - Articles you read online or on paper Simply copy-and-paste text into the app, use the Share extension, or scan book pages and documents with your device's camera to save a new highlight. Clew makes it easy to sort and search your highlights by source (author, website, etc.), date saved, publication year, genre, keywords, and more. Build your collection, and watch as you start finding connections and patterns across books, artists, decades, genres, languages, and more. This is your new favorite place to store, sort, and share clippings from all your favorite media, whether it's a mind-blowing plot twist in a novel, a hilarious quote in a movie or play, a devastating song lyric, a grand discovery in an article, or simply a quirky adjective you can't wait to use in your own writing. This is Clew. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Easy Read AI

Features
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Easy Read AI transforms complex topics into clear, beautifully structured answers you'll actually enjoy reading. Unlike other AI chat apps that give you walls of text, Easy Read AI formats every response into the style that works best for you — whether that's a structured breakdown, a timeline, Q&A, flashcards, key highlights, or plain text. 6 Output Formats Pick the format that fits your question. Get step-by-step timelines for history, flashcard-style cards for study topics, Q&A for quick facts, structured breakdowns for complex subjects, highlights for the key points, or plain text when you want it simple. 3 AI Models Switch between Llama 3.3, GPT-4o Mini, and GPT-4o depending on what you need — fast casual answers or deeper, more nuanced responses. Key Takeaways Every response includes a concise Key Takeaways section so you can grab the essentials at a glance. Follow-Up Suggestions Keep the conversation going with smart follow-up questions suggested after every response. Full-Screen Read Mode Tap to expand any response into a clean, full-screen reading view — no distractions, just content. Image Attachments Attach photos and images to your questions for visual context. Dark Mode & Custom Fonts Choose between light and dark themes, and pick the font that's easiest on your eyes. Conversation History All your conversations are saved locally on your device. Search, rename, or pick up right where you left off. No Account Required Start chatting immediately. No sign-up, no login, no tracking. Your data stays on your device. Ready to print answers. Built by Indus Bridge LLC.

Screenshots

Clew4 screens
Easy Read AI4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Easy Read AI at none against Clew's 3. Easy Read AI also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Clew sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Easy Read AI asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Clew ships an update every 3 weeks, Easy Read AI every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Clew versus Easy Read AI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClewEasy Read AI
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThomas TwardzikJaffer Hussain

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Clew

One-time3
  • Small Tip - $0.99$0.99
  • Generous Tip - $2.99$2.99
  • Super Tip - $9.99$9.99
None

Easy Read AI

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Clew free?
Clew is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Easy Read AI free?
Easy Read AI is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Clew or Easy Read AI have ads?
Neither Clew nor Easy Read AI shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Clew or Easy Read AI?
Clew ships an update every 3 weeks, and Easy Read AI every 10 days. Most recently, Clew was updated on October 24, 2026 and Easy Read AI on October 25, 2026.

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