Tellar vs Kanso Reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Tellar
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Listen instead of reading! Tellar turns any webpage into a clear, natural narration. Whether you're walking, driving, cooking, or just giving your eyes a break. Tap, paste, and press play. Features: Paste a URL or share from Safari. Extracts clean article content automatically. Smart sentence-by-sentence narration. Modern, minimalist interface. Works offline once text is loaded. Designed with accessibility in mind. Perfect for catching up on long reads, blogs, or research; all without needing to stare at your screen. Future features: - Copy and paste any text, offline, without providing a URL to an article - and narrate it. - Choose a voice pack. All done locally, no third party, no tracking, all running locally on your iOS device and providing human voice. - Support articles in different languages. No ads. Ever.
Kanso Reader
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Kanso Reader is trying to be distraction-free reading app for saving web articles and PDFs to read later. It try to remove clutter like ads, promos, related links, and other unnecessary page elements so you can focus on the content that matters. Save from a shared link or pasted URL, import PDFs, and read in a clean, comfortable view designed for focus. Kanso Reader helps you build a private reading library on your device, with simple tools to organize and revisit what you save. Features: ⢠Save web articles and PDFs to read later ⢠Clean reader view for reading ⢠Import from shared links or pasted URLs ⢠Add notes to saved content ⢠Organize with tags ⢠Search your library quickly ⢠Export saved content when needed ⢠Local-first storage or icloud sync Free users can keep 1 saved item at a time. Delete it anytime to save another. Unlock Kanso Reader Lifetime to save unlimited articles and PDFs.
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Verdict
Tellar and Kanso Reader are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters ā price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them ā neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Tellar sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Kanso Reader sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Tellar | Kanso Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 17.6 ā better |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 114 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mor Almalach | Michael Lee |
In-app purchases
Tellar
- Thank you!$0.99
- You Rock!$3.99
Kanso Reader
- Kanso Reader$7.99









