Polli vs BuRead
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Polli
This app helps language learners advance beyond the basics by generating interactive stories on any topic. Users can tap on words for deeper insights and save them to their library. An optional upgrade unlocks unlimited creation, audio playback, and more.
- AI-generated interactive stories
- Tap-to-learn word definitions
- Save vocabulary to library
- Customizable story mood and style
- Natural-sounding audio playback (PRO)
- Unlimited content creation (PRO)
Read full descriptionHide full description
Once you’ve learned the basics of a language, the next challenge is finding materials to reinforce what you know and expand your knowledge. Learners tend to hit a plateau and have trouble pushing their skills further. Polli solves this by allowing you to generate content on any topic in your language, controlling the mood, style, and grammar. The stories you create are interactive. Every word is tappable and savable to your Library. Anytime you’re confused about a word or expression, you can generate an insight to dive deeper into the usage. Upgrade to Polli PRO to get - Unlimited story creation - Unlimited grammar insights - Unlimited translations - Listen to your stories with high quality, natural sounding voices Sign up for a free trial to try out all the PRO features today! Polli currently offers Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, English, Finnish, French (FR/QC), German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (PT/BR), Romanian, Russian, Spanish (MX/EU), Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian. More coming soon! Let us know which language you’d like to use with Polli. Privacy Policy: https://getpolli.com/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://getpolli.com/terms-of-service
BuRead
Read full descriptionHide full description
BuRead is a reader for people learning a language by reading real things: articles, books and videos with subtitles. Tap a word to see what it means in this exact sentence. The words you tap come back later for review, inside sentences you have already read. WHAT YOU CAN READ • Articles: paste a link, and the page opens as clean text. • Books: EPUB, with a paged mode and a table of contents. • YouTube videos with subtitles: the transcript sits next to the video, and its words behave like words in a text. • Add a link or an EPUB right from your iPhone or iPad, or save a page from your desktop browser with the Chrome extension. WHILE YOU READ • Tap a word: translation, pronunciation, and what it means in this particular sentence. • Select a phrase: it is saved whole and broken down word by word. • Give a word a status with one tap: 1, 2, 3, known, ignore. The marks show right in the text and fade as you learn. • Every text shows what share of its words you already know, so you can pick by difficulty instead of guessing. • Listen to any word or sentence. YOUR WORDS • One vocabulary across everything: a word learned in an article is recognised in a book and in video subtitles. • Review in your own sentences: a word comes back inside the sentence where you met it, not on a bare card. A few minutes a day, and the intervals take care of themselves. • See how many words you know and how it grows. ONE ACCOUNT EVERYWHERE iPhone, iPad and the web. Reading positions, vocabulary and notes are the same everywhere: start on the tablet, and the phone opens the same place. Downloaded texts read offline. LANGUAGES Read in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese or Russian, with meanings in your own language. PRIVACY No ads and no trackers. Your materials stay yours: nobody else sees them. Details at buread.app/privacy. Made by one developer who wanted to read novels in a new language without a dictionary in the other hand. Questions and ideas: support@buread.app
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BuRead at none against Polli's 3. Polli's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Polli sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. BuRead asks for nothing beyond the download.
Polli ships an update every 5 days, BuRead every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Polli | BuRead |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AnApps, LLC | Dmitrii Efremov |
In-app purchases
Polli
- PRO Weekly$4.997 Days
- PRO Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- PRO Yearly14 Days trial$99.991 Year
BuRead
No in-app purchases









