Comparison

Reading Tool vs Truly Simple Text Converter

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

Head to head
About

Reading Tool

Features
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Reading Tool is a simple and focused app that helps you to create and share reading notes or quotes. - Crafted with system native design with Liquid Glass style. - Focused, easy to use. - You can sync your books and notes across multiple Apple devices (login with same Apple ID).

About

Truly Simple Text Converter

Features
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Truly Simple Text Converter is a fast, private utility for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Paste messy text, build a sequence of transformations, and copy the clean result. Designed for writers, developers, students, and anyone who wrangles text, this app does exactly what you need it to do without accounts, network calls, or bloat. How It Works: Instead of pressing one-off buttons, you build a visible pipeline. Add as many steps as you need—trim whitespace, strip HTML, convert to camelCase—and your text will change accordingly. Features: • Recipes: Save your favorite chain of transformations as a Recipe. Run complex formatting workflows with a single tap. Export, share, and back up Recipes as small .tstrecipe files. • Live Stats: See character, word, line, and sentence counts, plus estimated reading time, as you type. • Everywhere You Work: Send text directly to the app using the iOS Share Sheet, macOS Services menu, or our native Apple Shortcuts action. • Fully Native: Built natively for Apple platforms with full support for Dark Mode, VoiceOver, and Dynamic Type. • Private & Offline: Truly Simple Text Converter collects zero data. Everything runs securely on your device. 37 Free Transformations: Every single text tool is completely free to use forever. • Case: UPPERCASE, lowercase, Title Case, Sentence case, camelCase, PascalCase, snake_case, kebab-case. • Cleanup: Trim whitespace, collapse extra spaces, remove line breaks, delete empty or duplicate lines, fix smart/straight quotes, and remove accents. • Lines: Sort lines alphabetically, reverse order, number lines, and add prefixes or suffixes. • Encode / Format: URL encode/decode, Base64 encode/decode, strip HTML, and convert Markdown to plain text. • Style Text: Generate Bold, Italic, Monospace, Cursive, Gothic, Circled, Squared, Fullwidth, and Upside-down text, or strip existing styles back to plain text. • Find & Replace: Quickly swap words with optional case sensitivity.

Screenshots

Reading Tool4 screens
Truly Simple Text Converter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Reading Tool at none against Truly Simple Text Converter's 1. Truly Simple Text Converter's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Truly Simple Text Converter sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Reading Tool asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Reading Tool versus Truly Simple Text Converter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReading ToolTruly Simple Text Converter
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCreationAct (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd.Colin Wright

In-app purchases

None

Reading Tool

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Truly Simple Text Converter

One-time1
  • Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Reading Tool free?
Reading Tool is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Truly Simple Text Converter free?
Truly Simple Text Converter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Reading Tool or Truly Simple Text Converter have ads?
Neither Reading Tool nor Truly Simple Text Converter shows ads.

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