Comparison

ReadVortex vs Slurp

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

Head to head
About

ReadVortex

Features
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Save anything worth reading. Then actually read it. ReadVortex turns the articles you save into a library you'll come back to — clean, offline, and yours. SAVE FROM ANYWHERE Share any article from Safari, Chrome, or any app. ReadVortex strips the ads, popups, and clutter, and keeps the text — available offline, wherever you are. LISTEN INSTEAD OF READ Turn your reading list into audio. Word-by-word highlighting keeps your place while you drive, walk, or do the dishes. Upgrade to Pro for natural-sounding neural voices. ASK YOUR LIBRARY Forgot which article made that point? Just ask. ReadVortex searches everything you've saved and answers in plain language, with sources. GET A DAILY DIGEST Wake up to an AI brief that connects what you've been reading — the throughline across your week, not just a list of links. READ BEAUTIFULLY Distraction-free typography built for long-form. Highlight passages, tag articles, and pick up exactly where you left off. Your library, your pace. No feed. No algorithm. No interruptions.

About

Slurp

Features
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Read it later. Hear it now. Slurp reads anything aloud and lights up every word as it is spoken. Articles, PDFs, Word documents, newsletters, feeds, podcasts and video live in one library that syncs through your own iCloud. Free, with no account and no tracking. SAVE IT FROM ANYWHERE • Share a link, text, an email or a file from any app: Slurp sits in the share sheet • Web links become a clean article, pictures and all • PDF, Word, OpenDocument, RTF, TXT, Markdown and HTML files keep their formatting • Posts from X and Bluesky arrive complete A READING LIST THAT STAYS TIDY • Collections and sub-collections, in the order you drag them into • Want to Read and Finished lists, and filters for articles, PDFs, posts, podcasts and video • Search runs over the full saved text, not just titles • Items, collections and reading position sync through your own iCloud A READER WORTH STAYING IN • Clean typography with the article's real images, kept for offline reading • The highlighted word stays in view as the page scrolls with the voice • PDFs read page for page, with headers and footers left unspoken • Pick up exactly where you stopped, on whichever device is in your hand FIVE VOICES, FOUR ON YOUR DEVICE • Kokoro, KittenTTS and Inflect: neural voices that run on your iPhone, with no key and no network • Apple: every voice installed on your device, Siri voices included • ElevenLabs: optional, with your own key • Read at 0.75Ɨ to 2Ɨ, and switch voice for a single item GENERATE ONCE, LISTEN EVERYWHERE New saves are narrated in the background and the finished audio syncs to your other devices, so playback starts at once, even with no signal. PODCASTS AND VIDEO, SAME LIBRARY YouTube, Vimeo, Apple Podcasts and Spotify episodes play beside your articles, with the same player and Lock Screen controls. Podcasts download when you add them. YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS, SPOKEN Follow any RSS or Atom feed, play a new entry on the spot or file it away for later. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION No account, no analytics, no server of ours that holds what you read. Your library lives on your devices and in your own iCloud. A bug report is sent only when you send one. Slurp is also on the Mac, with browser extensions and a shortcut that reads whatever you select in any app: slop.ee/goodies/slurp Made by Slop Agency.

Screenshots

ReadVortex4 screens
Slurp4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: ReadVortex at 13.0 against Slurp's 18.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ReadVortex ships an update every 6 months, Slurp every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
ReadVortex versus Slurp: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReadVortexSlurp
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 4 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB71 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEMDES SOLUTIONS LLCKempu OU

In-app purchases

None

ReadVortex

No in-app purchases

None

Slurp

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ReadVortex free?
ReadVortex is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Slurp free?
Slurp is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ReadVortex or Slurp have ads?
Neither ReadVortex nor Slurp shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ReadVortex or Slurp?
ReadVortex ships an update every 6 months, and Slurp every 4 months. Most recently, ReadVortex was updated on October 9, 2026 and Slurp on October 24, 2026.

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