Comparison

readin vs Pilsa

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

Head to head
About

readin

This app helps you track your reading by stacking books visually, earning titles based on your reading height. It allows for quick book entry, sentence collection via photo-to-text, and provides reading statistics and goals. Perfect for those wanting to organize their reading and build a consistent habit.

Highlights
  • Visual book stacking for read books
  • Quick book entry by title search
  • Collect sentences by taking photos of text
  • Share collected sentences as images
  • Reading statistics and goal tracking
  • Earn reading titles based on book height
Features
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์ฝ์€ ์ฑ…์ด ํ•œ ๊ถŒ์”ฉ ํƒ‘์œผ๋กœ ์Œ“์ด๋Š” ๋…์„œ ๊ธฐ๋ก ์•ฑ, readin ๋‹ค ์ฝ์€ ์ฑ…์€ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ํ•ด์„œ ์ €์žฅ๋งŒ ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ์ ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋งค๊ธฐ์ง€ ์•Š์•„๋„ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋ก๋ผ์š”. ๊ธฐ๋กํ•œ ์ฑ…์€ ์‹ค์ œ ๋‘๊ป˜๋งŒํผ ์ฑ…ํƒ‘์œผ๋กœ ์Œ“์ด๊ณ , ์Œ“์ธ ๋†’์ด์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ "~๊ธ‰ ๋…์„œ๊ฐ€" ์นญํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ”๋€๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ–  3์ดˆ ๋…์„œ ๊ธฐ๋ก โ€ข ์ฑ… ์ด๋ฆ„์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ํ•ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ €์žฅ โ€ข ์ ์ˆ˜, ์ฝ์€ ๋‚ ์งœ, ๋ฉ”๋ชจ๋Š” ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๋งŒํผ๋งŒ โ€ข ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ฝ์€ ์ฑ…์€ ์žฌ๋… ๊ธฐ๋ก์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ โ–  ์ฑ…ํƒ‘๊ณผ ์นญํ˜ธ โ€ข ์ฝ์€ ์ฑ…์ด ์‹ค์ œ ๋‘๊ป˜๋งŒํผ ์Œ“์ด๋Š” ๋‚˜๋งŒ์˜ ์ฑ…ํƒ‘ โ€ข ์ฑ…์„ ๋ˆŒ๋Ÿฌ ๊ธฐ๋ก๊ณผ ์ฑ… ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ํ™•์ธ โ€ข ํƒ‘์ด ๋†’์•„์งˆ์ˆ˜๋ก ์˜ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋…์„œ๊ฐ€ ์นญํ˜ธ โ–  ๋ฌธ์žฅ ์ˆ˜์ง‘ โ€ข ์ฑ… ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ์ฐ์œผ๋ฉด ๊ธ€์ž๋ฅผ ์ฝ์–ด ๋ฌธ์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ฎ๊ฒจ ์ค˜์š” โ€ข ๋ฐ‘์ค„ ์นœ ๋ฌธ์žฅ, ๋งˆ์Œ์— ๋‚จ์€ ๊ธ€๊ท€๋ฅผ ์ฑ…๋ณ„๋กœ ๋ชจ์•„ ๋ณด๊ธฐ โ€ข ๋ฌธ์žฅ์„ ์นด๋“œ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๊ณต์œ  โ–  ๋…์„œ ํ†ต๊ณ„์™€ ๋ชฉํ‘œ โ€ข ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ยท์›”๊ฐ„ ๋…์„œ๋Ÿ‰๊ณผ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ ๋น„์œจ, ์ ์ˆ˜ ๋ถ„ํฌ โ€ข ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋…์„œ ๋ชฉํ‘œ์™€ ์ง€๊ธˆ ์†๋„, ์›”๋ณ„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ ํ˜„ํ™ฉ โ–  ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ถ„๊ป˜ ์ถ”์ฒœํ•ด์š” โ€ข ์ฝ์€ ์ฑ…์„ ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๋ถ„ โ€ข ๊พธ์ค€ํ•œ ๋…์„œ ์Šต๊ด€์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๋ถ„ โ€ข ์ข‹์€ ๋ฌธ์žฅ์„ ํ•„์‚ฌํ•˜๋“ฏ ๋ชจ์•„ ๋‘๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๋ถ„ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•œ ์ ์ด๋‚˜ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์€ ๋”๋ณด๊ธฐ > ๊ฑด์˜ํ•˜๊ธฐ์—์„œ ๋กœ๊ทธ์ธ ์—†์ด ๋ณด๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

About

Pilsa

This app offers a peaceful space for handwritten scripture and sutra practice. Choose your faith to see relevant texts, and enjoy various writing modes. Offline functionality and iCloud sync ensure your journal is always accessible and shareable.

Highlights
  • Faith-based scripture and sutra content
  • Multiple handwriting modes (trace, copy, recall, dictation)
  • Offline writing and reading
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Calming design with sounds and stickers
  • Shareable journal pages
Features
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Pilsa is a quiet place to copy scripture, sutras and good sentences by hand. You choose your faith when you start, and you only see writing that fits it: Church, Cathedral, Temple, or none at all. Open the app, take a breath, and write today's line with Apple Pencil. One line a day is enough. The pages you finish stack up in your journal, and you can share them as a card. Pilsa opens on iPhone too. On iPhone you read and listen to today's passage and see the pages and writing videos you made on iPad. Save a passage and pick it up on iPad. The handwriting itself happens on iPad with Apple Pencil. WRITE YOUR WAY - Trace: write over soft guide letters - Copy: read a line, then write it below - Recall: look, hide, and write from memory - Dictation: listen, then write what you hear Every way of writing is free. When you write English, meanings, word notes and pronunciation sit beside the page. WHAT YOU CAN WRITE - Scripture from the King James Version, or the Douay-Rheims Bible for Catholics - Classic Buddhist texts such as the Heart Sutra, with plain English explanations - Short affirmations, including one-page stories Choose your religion when you start, or none at all. You only see writing that fits your choice, and you can change it anytime. MADE TO FEEL CALM - Hand-drawn doodle design, with Meok the octopus and Sagak the pencil hedgehog - Stickers you can place on your page and keep on your finished card - Papers like Manuscript Grid, Hanji, Lamplight and Kraft Notebook - Gentle sounds: rain, brook, fireplace and dawn chords - Natural read-aloud voices that work offline YOUR PAGES STAY YOURS - No account and no sign-in. iCloud keeps iPad and iPhone in sync - Your pages can always be opened and shared, subscription or not - Everything you write works offline FREE AND PAID Today's line, starter packs, the first days of every pack and a free sticker set are free. Every copywork mode is free too. Buy a single pack and keep it forever, with or without a subscription. There are also books of four weeks, one page a day. Pilsa Plus opens every book, pack, paper, sound and sticker at once, and brings a new book each month. Pilsa Plus is an auto-renewing subscription (monthly or yearly). Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. It renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and you can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. The yearly plan starts with a 7-day free trial. If you don't cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends, the yearly price is charged. Terms of Use: https://jsonpassion.github.io/pilsa-site/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://jsonpassion.github.io/pilsa-site/privacy/ The read-aloud voices are AI-generated. Bible texts are public-domain translations, shown unchanged.

Screenshots

readin4 screens
Pilsa4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Pilsa at none against readin's shown. readin's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs freemium) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. readin sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Pilsa sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

readin ships an update every 4 days, Pilsa every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 5 level
readin versus Pilsa: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterreadinPilsa
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 3 days โ€” better
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationAd-supported โ€” betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size56 MB131 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJeongbin ParkJason Lee

Customer experience

readin

Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Pilsa

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

readin

Subscriptions2
  • readin Pro ์›”๊ฐ„$1.991 Month
  • readin Pro ์—ฐ๊ฐ„$19.991 Year
10 purchases

Pilsa

One-time10
  • The Words of Jesus, 29 Days$2.99
  • Gospel and Prayer, 28 Days$2.99
  • A Book of Classics, 28 Days$2.99
Show 7 more
  • Faith and Wisdom, 28 Days$2.99
  • Walking with Mary, 27 Days$2.99
  • Taking Care of Me, 31 Days$2.99
  • Steadying the Mind, 30 Days$2.99
  • Everyday Sense, 30 Days$2.99
  • Sutra Copying, 27 Days$2.99
  • Practice of the Mind, 27 Days$2.99

Questions

Is readin free?
readin is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pilsa free?
Pilsa is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do readin or Pilsa have ads?
readin shows ads; Pilsa does not.
Which is updated more often, readin or Pilsa?
readin ships an update every 4 days, and Pilsa every 3 days. Most recently, readin was updated on October 30, 2026 and Pilsa on October 31, 2026.

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