Comparison

Bera Reader vs Jot That Down

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

Head to head
About

Bera Reader

Save articles, books, and more for offline reading and annotation. Transform long content into magazine-style layouts with adaptive notes and bento notebooks. Export content as PDFs for sharing or AI summarization.

Highlights
  • Offline article and book saving
  • Magazine-style content reflow
  • Adaptive notes with emojis
  • Bento notebook creation
  • PDF export for sharing and AI
  • Spaced repetition
  • On-device web clipper
Features
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## Deep reading space for millions of words Instantly clip and save beautiful articles, books, photos, and authors, or RSS feeds to your library for offline use. Put all your paid and free subscriptions in one place for multiple purposes: deep reading, annotation, spaced repetition, and content generation. ## A beautiful reader. Deeply read by scrolling less. A completely new feature that instantly transforms long form content like essays, articles and books into professionally laid out publications like magazines. Not only is it beautiful, but the Auto Grid Reflow Layout also adjusts the layout compatible with different screen sizes, optimizing font and display components for a better reading experience. ## Adaptive notes with emojis Enhanced annotation allows you to create notes injected right under the page, helping you retrieve information in context. You can also set emojis as icons for notes to help categorize and look them up more effectively. ## Instantly create bento notes Instantly generate your notes and marks to a bento grid notebook. You can add, reorder notes, marks, photos from multi documents into a collection and transform it into a bento grid notebook. ## Export as magazine-like pdf You can gather good documents into a collection and easily export them as professional PDF layouts for sharing. And of course, you can use this PDF to import into ChatGPT for tasks such as summarizing, extracting, creating new content… ## Private by design (*) This data is only stored locally on your device and synced with your iCloud account.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ When you install a new device and log in with your iCloud account, the app will restore all your data. All tasks, from extracting document content, searching, layout formatting, to exporting PDFs, are performed entirely on your device only, zero request to servers or APIs. *: The app has integrated Adapty.io for subscription management and Google Analytics with IDFA and IDFV collection disabled. ## Notable features - Auto grid layout (magazine-like) - Adaptive notes with emoji - Spaced repetition - Quick look - Replay - RSS feed - Nested collection with drag & drop - Mix content types in a collection - Read aloud - Enhanced language listening - Build vocabulary - On device web clipper - Weekly reading time recap - Create bento, outliner notebook - Export as beautiful PDF, Text Bundle, Markdown, Epub, HTML

About

Jot That Down

Quickly capture thoughts, ideas, and to-do lists. Organize your notes later with flexible categorization. This app offers a clean interface to manage your information without clutter.

Highlights
  • Quick note-taking
  • Idea capture
  • To-do list creation
  • Flexible organization
  • Categorization
  • Reminder integration
Features
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Capture the Chaos, Organize the Calm Introducing Jot That Down, your new go-to for jotting down thoughts in a flash. Whether it's a random idea, a to-do, or a quick note, get it down fast and sort it out later. Notes meet reminders in this fun, flexible app that lets you organize when you're ready. No more clutter—just clean, categorized brilliance at your fingertips!

Screenshots

Bera Reader4 screens
Jot That Down2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Jot That Down at 5.0 against Bera Reader's 4.0. Jot That Down also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2). Bera Reader's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.5). On price, ratings volume, 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. Bera Reader sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Jot That Down asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Jot That Down holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Bera Reader versus Jot That Down: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBera ReaderJot That Down
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.5
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB2 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperTran PhuongMPR Ventures LLC

Customer experience

Bera Reader

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Jot That Down

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Bera Reader

Subscriptions2
  • Berä Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Berä Premium Yearly$19.991 Year
None

Jot That Down

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bera Reader free?
Bera Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Jot That Down free?
Jot That Down is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bera Reader or Jot That Down?
Jot That Down is rated higher. Bera Reader averages 4.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Jot That Down averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Bera Reader or Jot That Down have ads?
Neither Bera Reader nor Jot That Down shows ads.

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