Comparison

AQUAL VERA vs Readray (formerly LilysAI)

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

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AQUAL VERA

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AQUAL์€ ๋ฌผ ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์‰ฝ๊ณ  ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ธฐ๋กยท๊ณต์œ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ˆ˜์งˆ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ์•ฑ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. AQUAL ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฝ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ ๊ณผ์ •์„ ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋ณ„๋กœ ์•ˆ๋‚ดํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ธฐ ์‰ฌ์šด ํ˜•ํƒœ๋กœ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•ด์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผ์š” ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ 1) QR ์Šค์บ”์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ„ํŽธ ์‹œ์ž‘ โ€ข ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฝ QR ์ฝ”๋“œ๋ฅผ ์Šค์บ”ํ•ด ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€ข ์ œํ’ˆ/์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฝ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ์™€ ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ ํ๋ฆ„์„ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ™”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2) ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋ณ„ ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ ์•ˆ๋‚ด โ€ข ์•ฑ ํ™”๋ฉด์—์„œ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ˆœ์„œ๋ฅผ ์•ˆ๋‚ดํ•ด ์ดˆ๋ณด์ž๋„ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€ข ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ƒํƒœ๋ฅผ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ธก์ • ๊ณผ์ •์„ ๋”ฐ๋ผ๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 3) ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ํ•œ๋ˆˆ์— ํ™•์ธ โ€ข ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ง๊ด€์ ์ธ ํ™”๋ฉด์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์ธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€ข ํ•ญ๋ชฉ๋ณ„ ๊ฐ’๊ณผ ์ƒํƒœ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ธฐ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•ด ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 4) Parameter Details(ํ•ญ๋ชฉ ์„ค๋ช…/๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ) โ€ข ๊ฐ ์ธก์ • ํ•ญ๋ชฉ์ด ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•˜๋Š”์ง€, ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์„ํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹์€์ง€ ์•ˆ๋‚ดํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€ข ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ค์Œ ํ–‰๋™(์žฌ์ธก์ •/๊ด€๋ฆฌ)์— ์ฐธ๊ณ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 5) ํžˆ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌ ์ €์žฅ ๋ฐ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ โ€ข ์ธก์ • ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ๋ก์œผ๋กœ ์ €์žฅ๋˜์–ด ์–ธ์ œ๋“ ์ง€ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ™•์ธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€ข ๋‚ ์งœ/์œ„์น˜ ๋“ฑ์˜ ์ •๋ณด์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ํ๋ฆ„์„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 6) ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ ๋‚ด๋ณด๋‚ด๊ธฐ(PDF/Excel) โ€ข ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ PDF ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ๋กœ ๋‹ค์šด๋กœ๋“œํ•ด ๊ณต์œ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€ข Excel ํŒŒ์ผ๋กœ ์ €์žฅํ•ด ์ถ”์  ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ ๋‚ด๋ถ€ ๋ฌธ์„œํ™”์— ํ™œ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๋ฐ ๊ณ„์ • โ€ข ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๋Š” ์•ฑ ๋‚ด์—์„œ ๊ณ„์ • ๋ฐ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์‚ญ์ œ๋ฅผ ์š”์ฒญํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€ข ๊ฐœ์ธ์ •๋ณด ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ ๋ณดํ˜ธ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๋‚ด์šฉ์€ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ •๋ณด์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋ฐฉ์นจ(Privacy Policy)์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ™•์ธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ˆ๋‚ด(์ค‘์š”) โ€ข AQUAL ์•ฑ์ด ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ์ •๋ณด๋Š” ์ฐธ๊ณ ์šฉ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ง€์—ญ/๊ธฐ๊ด€๋ณ„ ๊ณต์‹ ๊ธฐ์ค€ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ทœ์ • ์ค€์ˆ˜ ๋ชฉ์ ์˜ ํŒ๋‹จ์€ ๊ด€๋ จ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ๋ผ์ธ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ํ™•์ธ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€ข ์•ฑ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ ๋ฐ ์ง€์› ๋ฒ”์œ„๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. AQUAL๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ฌผ ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋” ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ , ๋” ์ฒด๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•ด๋ณด์„ธ์š”.

About

Readray (formerly LilysAI)

This app acts as an AI assistant for reading, summarizing and researching content from various sources like videos, articles, and documents. It organizes your reading material into a personal library and provides interactive insights, key points, and follow-up research.

Highlights
  • AI-powered summaries and key points
  • Interactive visuals and follow-up research
  • Captures screenshots and tables from content
  • Precise source citations for AI output
  • Organized library with folders and reading status
  • Cross-platform synchronization
Features
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On your phone, one share is all it takes. Share from YouTube, Safari or Files to Readray, and it lands in your library with a report on the way. Sources you read with the extension on your computer are right there on your phone. The AI lens for reading all day Readray reads everything you read on your computer together with you: papers, videos, textbooks, articles. It proactively hands you the key points, interactive visuals, and follow-up research on any missing context, so you fly through everything and miss nothing. โ–  Anything you read on your computer, Readray reads with you Window switching, file attachments to a chat, and prompts interrupt reading. Readray automatically brings you everything you need to understand, right where you're reading. YouTube, PDFs, research papers, web articles, podcasts, newsletters, social media, and video or audio files are all supported. โ–  Trust starts with reading the source right โ€ข Sees the scene, captures the frame. Not just the transcript. Slides and charts on screen are captured as frames straight into your notes. โ€ข Every image and table in the paper. Charts, tables and equations are read with their layout intact. โ€ข Every sentence links to its exact source. Each line of AI output carries a precise citation. Click it and the viewer jumps straight to the original passage. โ–  The right report for every source. Read faster, understand deeper Choose a Key Points report or a Deep Research report, depending on what you need. โ€ข Papers: figures become interactive ones you can touch to understand. Readray traces the lineage of prior work, lays out the key gaps in a table, and explains hard terms with one click. โ€ข Investing videos: buy and sell calls are laid out in a table, the current price of every ticker mentioned is looked up, and the speaker's background is checked. โ€ข Tutorial videos: key prerequisites and screenshots captured from the video are organized into a playbook you can follow right away. โ–  The smartest AI agent, that also knows everything you've read An agent with everything a modern agent has, skills, memory and model choice, working on top of the sources you trust. โ–  A library for both you and your AI โ€ข Folders and reading status: tag sources as reading, read or archived, group them into folders, and pull up what you need instantly. โ€ข The agent keeps it organized: new sources are filed into folders automatically, and you can chat with a whole folder at once. โ€ข Anywhere via MCP: use what you've read inside other AI tools. โ€ข Enterprise-grade security: SOC 2 Type 2 certification is in progress, protecting your sources at the level teams and companies require. โ–  Pick up wherever you read The Chrome and Safari extensions, the Mac and Windows desktop apps, and the iPhone and iPad apps all share one library. Continue on your phone what you started on your computer, and the other way around. Loved by 1.3 million researchers, students, and business leaders worldwide. LilysAI is reborn as Readray. Your existing LilysAI account and sources carry over as they are. Terms of Use: https://slashpage.com/lilys-terms/terms

Screenshots

AQUAL VERA4 screens
Readray (formerly LilysAI)4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AQUAL VERA at none against Readray (formerly LilysAI)'s 6. AQUAL VERA also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Readray (formerly LilysAI) sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $10.49 per month. AQUAL VERA asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

AQUAL VERA ships an update weekly, Readray (formerly LilysAI) every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 5 level
AQUAL VERA versus Readray (formerly LilysAI): the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAQUAL VERAReadray (formerly LilysAI)
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviewsโ€”75.0% of reviews
Update frequencyWeekly โ€” betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
Monetizationโ€”Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS13.0 โ€” better15.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size96 MB173 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developerleebio inc.LilysAI, INC.

In-app purchases

None

AQUAL VERA

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Readray (formerly LilysAI)

Subscriptions6
  • LilysAI Starter Monthly$10.491 Month
  • LilysAI Basic Monthly$19.991 Month
  • LilysAI Pro Monthly$59.991 Month
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  • LilysAI Starter Yearly$91.991 Year
  • LilysAI Basic Yearly$179.991 Year
  • LilysAI Pro Yearly$599.991 Year

Questions

Is AQUAL VERA free?
AQUAL VERA is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Readray (formerly LilysAI) free?
Readray (formerly LilysAI) is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do AQUAL VERA or Readray (formerly LilysAI) have ads?
Neither AQUAL VERA nor Readray (formerly LilysAI) shows ads.
Which is updated more often, AQUAL VERA or Readray (formerly LilysAI)?
AQUAL VERA ships an update weekly, and Readray (formerly LilysAI) every 3 weeks. Most recently, AQUAL VERA was updated on November 4, 2026 and Readray (formerly LilysAI) on November 13, 2026.

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