Comparison

Read Sentences vs BookHighlight

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

Head to head
About

Read Sentences

Features
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This app helps you learn sentences from classic books, allowing you to learn practical Japanese and Chinese in context. - Learn through the comparison of three languages: Chinese, English, and Japanese - Intelligent sentence difficulty ranking ensures you progress from easy to difficult, so you don't have to worry about books being too hard to start with - High-quality sentence translations help you understand on a deeper level - Supports human voice reading of sentences - Provides a review function to consolidate your learning achievements - Sentence sharing function to share your learning achievements with friends - Daily learning reminders

About

BookHighlight

Features
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BOOKS AND HIGHLIGHTS An app for students, teachers, writers, academics, and readers. The books in your library and the highlights in your books are now always with you. Make friends with books. Enrich your world with books. You can use the app for free without subscribing and logging in. In this case, your data is only stored on your local device. For syncing on all devices, an active subscription and the app must be used by logging in. When you cancel your subscription, you will continue to access your existing data on all your devices. However, you cannot make changes to new data entry and existing data. You can do the following with the application. 1) You can save all the basic information of the book. 2) You can record and follow your highlights in the books. 3) You can create favorite lists from your books and highlights.. 4) You can add tags and categories to books and highlights. 5) You can group books and highlights by author, tag and category. 6) You can search for books and highlights, tags and categories. 7) You can share books and highlights with others. 8) You can edit or delete books, authors, and highlights. 9) You can use the application horizontally and vertically on your mobile devices. 10) You can use the application for free. In this case, the data is not synchronized with other devices. 11) You can sync your data on all your devices using a paid subscription. 12) You can import your data as csv. 13) You can export your data as csv. 14) You can convert highlight entries from camera or image file to text with ocr and save. 15) You can add PDF files, a PDF file's share URL, or a direct PDF link to your books from your device and access them from within the app. 16) You can access books with PDF files or URLs from within the app and navigate to the PDF page containing the highlight using highlights. The app only supports Google Drive share URLs, excluding uploading PDF files from your device and direct PDF URLs. Due to some limitations imposed by Google Drive, you may not be able to download Google Drive share URLs larger than 25 MB. For these files, you must use direct PDF URLs or upload PDF files from your device. Term of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Read Sentences4 screens
BookHighlight4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: BookHighlight at 15.0.0 against Read Sentences's 17.0. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Read Sentences sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and BookHighlight sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Read Sentences ships an update every 3 days, BookHighlight every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Read Sentences versus BookHighlight: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRead SentencesBookHighlight
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB83 MB
Age rating12+4+
Developer俊彦 何Hayrettin Koktas

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Read Sentences

One-time1
  • Pro$1.99
2 purchases

BookHighlight

Subscriptions2
  • BookHighlight Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • BookHighlight Annual7 Days trial$12.991 Year

Questions

Is Read Sentences free?
Read Sentences is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BookHighlight free?
BookHighlight is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Read Sentences or BookHighlight have ads?
Neither Read Sentences nor BookHighlight shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Read Sentences or BookHighlight?
Read Sentences ships an update every 3 days, and BookHighlight every 6 days. Most recently, Read Sentences was updated on October 7, 2026 and BookHighlight on October 17, 2026.

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