Bera Reader vs MustDo
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
MustDo
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"I'll do it later." Later never came. The notification came and went while your phone was face down on the table. MustDo is for the things you cannot let slide. Add a to-do and a time. At that time, a real alarm rings and keeps ringing until you stop it. Stopping it means you did it. Not yet? Snooze until you do. ■ A real alarm, not a notification MustDo uses AlarmKit, the same system behind the Clock app's alarms. It rings full screen. It rings through Silent mode and Focus. It keeps ringing until you reach over and stop it. A notification you can swipe away is not a reminder. ■ Stop it when it's done Stopping the alarm marks the to-do as done, and it moves to Completed in the Today tab. Tapped Done by mistake? Swipe left to undo. ■ Not yet? Snooze until you do it "10 min", "1 hour" and "Tomorrow" are right on the alarm screen and in the Live Activity on the Lock Screen. It comes back and rings again, as many times as it takes. Tomorrow rings at the same time, or at a fixed morning time if you set one. ■ Repeats Daily, or weekly on the days you pick. The medicine at 9 PM, the bins on Tuesday, the report every Friday. Snoozing a repeating to-do to Tomorrow skips today's occurrence only. ■ Your to-dos stay in your iCloud Everything is stored in your own iCloud (CloudKit private database) and synced across your devices by Apple. MustDo has no servers of its own. No account, no sign-in. We never see your to-dos. ■ Add to-dos from AI (MCP) A small MCP server for your Mac lets Claude and other AI clients read and add your to-dos, straight into your iCloud. Tell your assistant what needs doing; MustDo rings until it's done. ■ Make it yours 25 alarm sounds, or vibrate only. Light, dark, or match your device. Optional Face ID lock: alarms still ring and can be stopped while the app is locked. ■ Free for 30 days, then a subscription Try everything for 30 days. After that, a subscription (monthly or yearly, auto-renewing) is needed to add new to-dos. To-dos you have already added keep ringing without one, and you can still stop, snooze and delete them. An app like this should never go quiet because of billing. Requires iOS 26 or later. Website and user guide: https://ltng.jp/mustdo Privacy Policy: https://ltng.jp/mustdo/privacy Terms of Use: https://ltng.jp/mustdo/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Bera Reader at 13.0 against MustDo's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Bera Reader sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and MustDo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Bera Reader | MustDo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tran Phuong | Lightning LLC. |
In-app purchases
Bera Reader
- Berä Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
- Berä Premium Yearly$19.991 Year
MustDo
- Monthly$0.991 Month
- Yearly$7.901 Year









