Dyslexia Reader vs Spoons
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dyslexia Reader
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Dyslexia Reader is the ultimate reading tool for people with reading difficulties. The reader screen is fully customisable: - Change fonts - Change colors - Change the font size - Highlight text one word at a time - Text to speech - Automatic reading - Make all characters uppercase - Letter spacing - Line spacing
Spoons
This app helps autistic adults track their energy levels to identify patterns of burnout, sensory overload, and masking fatigue. By logging energy and triggers, users can gain insights to better pace themselves, set boundaries, and reduce exhaustion.
- Energy level tracking (0-10 slider)
- Identify energy drains (sensory overload, masking, burnout)
- Identify energy restorers (stimming, time alone)
- Pattern analysis for triggers and recovery
- Reflection cards for deeper insights
- Offline functionality
- Data export and import
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Spoons is an energy tracker for autistic adults dealing with burnout, sensory overload, and masking fatigue. Diagnosed, self-identified, or still figuring it out. Log how much energy you have at any moment and see patterns around burnout, masking, shutdowns, and sensory overload. I built Spoons after years of autistic burnout and sensory overload, because the accommodations around me were not enough, and most autism apps on the app store are made specifically for kids, almost NOTHING out there exists for us. Spoons uses a 0-10 slider to track your energy at any moment. Simply slide and release. (Auto saves upon release) There is also a history view from the past 14 days right below the slider to view patterns on: What is draining you: — Sensory overload — Masking — Shutdowns — Autistic Burnout What may help restore you: — Stimming — Time alone — Reducing sensory input Over time, tracking can help you notice subtle drains, recovery patterns, and situations that cost more energy than they first seem to. Once you start seeing what drains your energy and what helps you recover, you can plan ahead, pace yourself, set boundaries, and make changes that reduce unnecessary exhaustion. — Taking time off work on very low-energy days — Removing routines that consistently drain you or create unnecessary friction — Can lead to fewer meltdowns, shutdowns, and burnout cycles, since your nervous system has less to "fight against". Spoons also includes reflection cards that makes discovering patterns and drains involves certain days, weeks, months, or even years much more obvious. Drains like: - Your Mondays tended to be lower recently ->Could correlate specific days that could involve more masking, and more sensory overload, which is usually subconscious and invisible - Higher-energy days were sometimes followed by lower days soon after. -> Could be a brief recovered period where you have more energy, but after masking or special interest engage, energy is lower for a certain period - |"Your lowest entries were lower than usual over the past few months".-> Could possibly indicate accumulated sensory overload which could make it hard to recover & deal with more masking or other types of sensory overload that drains you. These are made to be purely observational as well as actionable, not to point out context that it doesn't know. This can be very specific and are highly influential from the patterns on your energy you built over time, which helps can you help you plan ahead and self-accommodate yourself what is likely to have the best impact on your energy over time. Spoons has.. No accounts. No notifications. No streaks. No motivational messages. Just tracking your energy. No ads. Ever. Spoons works offline, and your data stays on your device. Export and import are always available, even without a subscription. Spoons includes 30 days of full access. No payment information is required to get started. Spoons is $2.99/month or $29.99/year. These prices never go up. Ever. Even if you stop paying and eventually want to come back. Regional pricing is available in 45+ countries to keep energy tracking more affordable globally. Starting once the sustainability threshold has been reached, 40% of Spoons revenue goes toward funding autism diagnoses for those of us who cannot afford them. I created this app to help us accommodate ourselves in a world that clearly doesn't do enough to help us. Terms of Service: https://getspoons.app/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://getspoons.app/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Spoons at every 10 days against Dyslexia Reader's every 6 weeks. 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. Dyslexia Reader sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Spoons sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Dyslexia Reader ships an update every 6 weeks, Spoons every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dyslexia Reader | Spoons |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 2.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Applorium Ltd | Spoons |
In-app purchases
Dyslexia Reader
- Lifetime upgrade$3.99
Spoons
- Spoons Monthly$2.991 Month
- Spoons Yearly$29.991 Year









