Tally Counter vs SimplyRead
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tally Counter
This app offers a stylish and intuitive way to track any number of items or events. It features a clean interface with haptic feedback and automatic saving. Upgrade for unlimited counters and all future features with a one-time purchase.
- Unlimited counters
- Haptic feedback
- Beautiful, clean interface
- Light & dark mode
- Persistent storage
- Quick actions (increment, decrement, reset)
- Swipe to delete
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Tap Pro - The Ultimate Counting Companion Count anything, anywhere, with style. Tap Pro is a beautifully designed counter app that makes tracking numbers effortless and enjoyable. KEY FEATURES • Unlimited Counters - Create as many counters as you need • Haptic Feedback - Feel every tap with satisfying vibrations • Beautiful Design - Modern, clean interface that's easy on the eyes • Light & Dark Mode - Automatic theme support for your preference • Persistent Storage - Your counters are saved automatically • Quick Actions - Increment, decrement, reset, or delete with ease • Swipe to Delete - Intuitive gestures for fast counter management • Smooth Animations - Delightful transitions and number animations UPGRADE TO TAP COUNTER PRO (OPTIONAL ONE-TIME PURCHASE) • Unlimited counters • All future Pro features included • No subscriptions — pay once, yours forever PERFECT FOR • Inventory counting • Event attendance • Daily habits • Any counting task • Fitness tracking (reps, sets, laps) • Score keeping (games, sports) Download Tap Pro today and experience the simplest, most elegant way to count.
SimplyRead
This app allows you to read and listen to your own e-books in various formats. Customize typography, scroll through pages, and bookmark your progress. It also offers natural voice narration and library management features.
- Customizable typography and themes
- Page-by-page or continuous scroll
- Automatic chapter detection
- Natural voice narration with highlighting
- Import from Files app, clipboard, or URL
- Built-in editor with Find & Replace
- iCloud Drive backup and restore
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A book you can read — and listen to. SimplyRead opens TXT, EPUB and Markdown files as real books, with clothbound covers, expressive typography and paper textures. Read at your own pace, or listen with natural iOS voices. READ - Comfortable typography with five paper themes and Light or Dark appearance - Page by page, or one continuous scroll — whichever you prefer - Chapters found automatically, including Chinese numeral titles, with a panel to jump anywhere in the book - Bookmarks, find-in-book with highlighted matches, and a Continue Reading card that puts you back where you stopped - Adjust fonts, text size and line spacing, with layouts for iPhone, iPhone Duo and iPad LISTEN - High-quality iOS system voices, at a speed you set - The sentence being spoken is highlighted, and the page follows along - Sleep timer, plus Lock Screen and Control Center controls — keep listening with the screen off BUILD YOUR LIBRARY - Import from the Files app, create a file straight from your clipboard, or download from a URL and watch it arrive - Discover books from public catalogs and open-license sources, with clear labels for downloadable files, online reading and catalog pages - Book covers, clear author labels, folder sorting and destination folders to keep a long shelf tidy EDIT AND KEEP - A built-in editor with Find & Replace, undo for whole-book replacements, recovery after failed saves, and a Fix New Lines tool - iCloud Drive backup and restore for the whole library, reading positions included FREE AND PRO Your own files, the entire reader, themes, chapters, bookmarks and backup are unlimited and free. Pro lifts the daily listening allowance and the download limit. Download availability depends on the source and its access terms. Only import or download content you are entitled to use.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Tally Counter at free against SimplyRead's freemium. SimplyRead's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Tally Counter sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and SimplyRead sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Tally Counter against 5.0 for SimplyRead. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Tally Counter ships an update every 3 weeks, SimplyRead weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tally Counter | SimplyRead |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 145 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | James Butler | 阳 张 |
Customer experience
Tally Counter
SimplyRead
In-app purchases
Tally Counter
- Tap Counter Pro Lifetime$8.99
SimplyRead
- Pro User$1.99








