Tellar vs Being
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β 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.
Being
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HTML is a better content container. Exist is a local reader and library built around HTML. It helps you save webpages, documents, notes, and AI-generated content as local HTML files for reading, organizing, and long-term preservation. We chose HTML not because it is complex, but because it is open, stable, and close enough to the real structure of reading. A piece of content is never just text β it also includes headings, paragraphs, hierarchy, images, links, quotes, and context. Compared to plain text or Markdown, HTML preserves these details better; compared to platform bookmarks, it is lighter and freer, able to be saved, migrated, and archived as a local file. Here, HTML is no longer just a page in a browser, but personal material that can be archived, migrated, translated, and exported. You can save important webpages as offline snapshots, turn documentation, study notes, and generated content into local files, and build your own library organized by folders. Exist does not try to replace the browser, nor does it turn knowledge management into a complex system. It is more like a quiet reading space: bringing content back to local storage from temporary links, chat windows, and scattered bookmarks, in a lightweight, clear, and long-lasting way. AI features require you to configure your own API Key. The Key is stored in the local system Keychain and is never uploaded to Exist's servers β more secure, and more controllable. The Pro version unlocks the translation overlay and PDF export. One-time purchase, yours forever.
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Verdict
Tellar and Being are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters β price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them β neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Tellar sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Being sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Tellar | Being |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | β | Daily |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 17.0 β better |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Mor Almalach | δΌ ε |
In-app purchases
Tellar
- Thank you!$0.99
- You Rock!$3.99
Being
- Being Pro$0.99









