Comparison

SimplyRead vs Shift Pocket Calendar

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

Head to head
About

SimplyRead

This app allows you to read and listen to your own e-books in various formats. Customize typography, scroll, and bookmarks for a comfortable reading experience. It also offers natural voice narration with highlighting and library management features.

Highlights
  • Read TXT, EPUB, Markdown files
  • Customizable typography and themes
  • Page or continuous scroll
  • Natural voice narration with highlighting
  • Import from Files app, clipboard, URL
  • Built-in editor with Find & Replace
  • iCloud Drive backup and restore
Features
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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.

About

Shift Pocket Calendar

Features
Read full description

Shift Pocket Calendar is a personal scheduling tool designed for store employees and other shift workers, helping you easily record shifts, schedule reminders, and view work hours and estimated income at any time. If your work schedule frequently changes, there are many last-minute shifts, it is easy to forget working hours, or you always have to manually calculate working hours and income, this app can help you organize these things into a clearer and more worry free place. You can use Shift Pocket Calendar: -Save commonly used shift templates, such as morning shift, day shift, night shift, night shift, or custom shift -Quickly add, edit, and delete shifts in the monthly calendar -Arrange multiple days of schedules at once through fast scheduling and weekly scheduling modes -Set reminders before the start of the shift to reduce the risk of missed and late work -Automatically view daily, weekly, and monthly work hours and estimated income -Export shifts to the system calendar when needed This app is more suitable for personal use rather than enterprise collaborative scheduling scenarios: -No need to register an account -The core process is simple and direct -Suitable for high-frequency recording and easy viewing -More focused on individual shift management rather than complex team systems Whether you are a nurse, retail store employee, food and beverage clerk, or any user who needs to work shifts, Shift Pocket Calendar hopes to help you make scheduling easier, clearer, and more reassuring.

Screenshots

SimplyRead4 screens
Shift Pocket Calendar4 screens

Verdict

The call

SimplyRead and Shift Pocket Calendar are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. SimplyRead sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Shift Pocket Calendar sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SimplyRead ships an update every 6 days, Shift Pocket Calendar weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
SimplyRead versus Shift Pocket Calendar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimplyReadShift Pocket Calendar
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size146 MB2 MB
Age rating4+9+
Developer阳 张LEGALISS Inc.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

SimplyRead

One-time1
  • Pro User$1.99
1 purchases

Shift Pocket Calendar

Subscriptions1
  • Shift Pocket Pro$4.991 Month

Questions

Is SimplyRead free?
SimplyRead is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Shift Pocket Calendar free?
Shift Pocket Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SimplyRead or Shift Pocket Calendar have ads?
Neither SimplyRead nor Shift Pocket Calendar shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SimplyRead or Shift Pocket Calendar?
SimplyRead ships an update every 6 days, and Shift Pocket Calendar weekly. Most recently, SimplyRead was updated on November 13, 2026 and Shift Pocket Calendar on November 9, 2026.

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