Comparison

BoostLectura vs Readence

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

Head to head
About

BoostLectura

Features
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Read your books (PDFs and EPUBs) comfortably and stay focused on them. BoostLectura brings together everything you need to read and study: highlights, notes, a dictionary, and answers to your questions about the book. FEATURES โ€ข Turn any PDF into text mode and read it like a book, with your font size and colors, instead of zooming and scrolling around the page. โ€ข Ask about anything in the book you're reading and get answers based on its content. โ€ข Select a word you don't know to see its definition and example sentences, even offline. Save the ones you want to remember to your Vocabulary list. โ€ข Highlight passages, write notes, and find them all later. โ€ข Pick your own background and text colors. Paper white at noon, dark at 1am. โ€ข Sync your library, reading progress, highlights and notes across your iPhone, iPad and Mac. โ€ข Your books live on your device, so you can open them without a connection. โ€ข Open your books straight from your Home Screen with beautiful widgets. Pick the book that's been waiting on your phone and start today.

About

Readence

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Readence turns reading into something you do every day โ€” not something you mean to get back to. Fifteen minutes is the default goal. Meet it and the day is done: the ember fills, the streak survives, and tomorrow asks the same small thing. No targets you have to beat, no reading speed to defend. Consistency is the whole game. A LIBRARY THAT IS ALREADY YOURS Hundreds of classics from Standard Ebooks and the Hungarian Electronic Library, cleared title by title and free to open the moment you sign in. Browse by genre, see how long a book will actually take you, and start reading in one tap. BRING YOUR OWN BOOKS Add EPUB, PDF, TXT, DOCX, RTF, HTML or Markdown from your phone or iCloud. The file itself never leaves your device โ€” we keep the title, the author and a fingerprint, never the text. TWO WAYS TO READ Read the page the ordinary way, or switch on RSVP: one word at a time at a fixed point on screen, so your eyes stop travelling and your attention has nowhere to wander. Set the pace yourself, from a gentle 150 words a minute upwards. Long words are given a little longer. It is a reading mode, not a party trick โ€” and you can leave it off entirely. A STREAK WORTH KEEPING Daily goals, streaks, XP and levels, and eighteen hand-drawn achievements that mark real things: a first week, a month, a finished book, fifty finished books. Two streak freezes so one bad day does not undo a month. FRIENDS, QUIETLY Add the people you actually know โ€” both sides have to agree, so this list only ever fills up on purpose. See who kept the flame lit today, share a book you finished, and let a friend's streak be the reason you open the app at eleven at night. Your shelf is private until you say otherwise โ€” twice: once for the whole shelf, once per book. FREE, AND HONEST ABOUT IT Everything above is free. Ads appear when a session ends, never before it starts, and never in the middle of a chapter. Readence Plus removes them. After a one-time setup, Readence works offline. Your position, your streak and your books are on your phone first and synced when there is a signal. --- Terms of Use (EULA): https://readence.hu/terms Privacy Policy: https://readence.hu/privacy

Screenshots

BoostLectura4 screens
Readence4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: BoostLectura at none against Readence's shown. BoostLectura also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Readence's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 10 days). On price, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. BoostLectura sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Readence sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BoostLectura ships an update every 10 days, Readence daily. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
BoostLectura versus Readence: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBoostLecturaReadence
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysDaily โ€” better
AdsNo โ€” betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better16.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size71 MB43 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperDaniel Matias Carvajal CarvajalLajos Gere

In-app purchases

5 purchases

BoostLectura

One-time5
  • Small Credits Pack$1.99
  • Library Sync$3.99
  • Medium Credits Pack$4.99
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  • Plus Credits Pack$9.99
  • Max Credits Pack$19.99
2 purchases

Readence

Subscriptions2
  • Readence Plus (Monthly)$2.991 Month
  • Readence Plus (Annual)7 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is BoostLectura free?
BoostLectura is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Readence free?
Readence is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do BoostLectura or Readence have ads?
Readence shows ads; BoostLectura does not.
Which is updated more often, BoostLectura or Readence?
BoostLectura ships an update every 10 days, and Readence daily. Most recently, BoostLectura was updated on November 5, 2026 and Readence on November 6, 2026.

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