Bera Reader vs Purgd
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Purgd
This app helps declutter your mind by capturing thoughts via voice or text and automatically organizing them into actionable categories. It prioritizes tasks and offers a focused mode to help you concentrate on what matters most.
- Voice and text capture
- Automatic task sorting
- Prioritized 'Today' view
- Focus mode with timer
- Calendar awareness
- Locked vault for sensitive data
- Offline functionality
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Your brain isn't broken. Your to-do app is. Dump whatever's in your head (by voice or text) and Purgd sorts it into Today, Next, Someday, Reference, or a locked Vault. Automatically. Then it shows you what matters and stays quiet until you ask. No 47-item list staring you down. Features • Voice capture in under 2 seconds. Hold, talk, release -- Purgd extracts the urgency, date, and project in one step. • Today shows three actions. Picked by urgency, due dates, and your patterns. Not a wall of tasks. • Focus mode with a timer. It reads the task out loud. Finish one, the next appears. • Calendar aware. Reads your events, never writes to them. Packed day? Smaller tasks. • Locked vault. Biometric unlock. Your personal context stays on your phone. • Fully offline. Optional Pro backup is encrypted with your passphrase. We cannot read it. Privacy • No tracking. No ads. No data sold. • Analytics off by default. You opt in, not out. • Local storage encrypted. Pro • Encrypted cloud backup (beta during launch -- contact support for new-device restore) • Custom categories • AI routing with offline fallback • Focus session insights and weekly review Free trial. Cancel anytime in Settings. Note on ADHD: Purgd is designed with ADHD brains in mind. It is not a medical tool and does not treat, diagnose, or cure any condition. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: support@purgd.app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Purgd at 5.0 against Bera Reader's 4.0. Bera Reader's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Bera Reader sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Purgd sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Purgd holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively.
Bera Reader ships an update every 4 days, Purgd fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bera Reader | Purgd |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tran Phuong | FlyFission Consulting Group |
Customer experience
Bera Reader
Purgd
In-app purchases
Bera Reader
- Berä Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
- Berä Premium Yearly$19.991 Year
Purgd
- Purged Pro Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Purgd Pro Annual7 Days trial$34.991 Year









