Comparison

听了么 vs Readova

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

Head to head
About

听了么

Features
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专注本地有声书与电子书管理与播放,支持导入 EPUB/PDF/文本,提供目录浏览、进度记录与后台播放,界面简洁易用。

About

Readova

A peaceful and focused eBook reader for iOS. Enjoy a fluid reading experience with customizable layouts, text, and a powerful AI voice narration feature. Organize your library and sync progress across devices.

Highlights
  • Extensive eBook format support
  • AI-powered text-to-speech narration
  • Customizable reading layouts and fonts
  • Cloud sync for library and progress
  • Annotation and note-taking tools
  • Reading statistics and insights
  • Hands-free reading modes
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Readova is a quiet, focused iOS eBook reader. Our goal is simple: make reading feel peaceful again. No forced sign-in. No built-in bookstore. No ads. Open your library and start reading. A Quiet, Fluid Experience Enjoy smooth scrolling, natural page turns, and carefully rendered text, images, and layouts. Open Your Books Supports EPUB, PDF,MOBI, AZW, AZW3, TXT, FB2, and other popular formats. Import local files directly without complicated conversions. Read Your Way Choose continuous scrolling or page-turning mode. Customize fonts, text size, spacing, and themes. Import your own fonts and look up selected words with the system dictionary. Listening Is Reading Too Listen while commuting, doing chores, or resting your eyes. Use system voices right away, or enjoy clear, natural narration with the high-quality offline voice engine. Follow along with sentence highlighting, adjust rate and pitch, set a sleep timer, and control playback from the Lock Screen or Control Center. You can also connect your own cloud voice service for more voice options. System voices and the offline engine can process text on your device. Hands-Free Reading Auto Scroll moves the page at your preferred pace. Timed Page Turns advance pages automatically. Sentence Mode reads one sentence at a time and continues onto the next page. Annotations and Notes Use highlights, underlines, wavy underlines, or strikethroughs in multiple colors. Add private notes to selected text. Reading Statistics Explore daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly statistics, including reading time, words read, streaks, trends, and focused hours. Organize Your Library Create categories, reorder books, pin favorites, and sort by title or date. Switch between English and Chinese on layouts optimized for different iPhone sizes. Continue Across Devices Use iCloud or WebDAV to sync your library, book files, progress, annotations, notes, and categories. Sync is optional and enabled only by you. Readova does not provide a public library or upload books to Readova servers. Upgrade to Pro Choose a Pro subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. High-Quality Offline Voices Generate speech on your device for natural narration without a constant internet connection. Cloud Sync Sync your library, files, progress, notes, and categories through iCloud or WebDAV. WebDAV Import Connect your own WebDAV service and import eBooks directly. 49-Encoding Detection Recognize Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and many other text encodings. Unlimited Library, Categories, and Notes Organize your collection and capture thoughts without limits. Custom Fonts and Sorting Import fonts and arrange categories by name, date, or drag and drop. Reading Insights View weekly, monthly, and yearly reading trends. The free version includes core reading, system text-to-speech, Auto Reading, basic encoding support, daily statistics, and annotations. Your Reading Stays Private Readova does not include a bookstore, distribute eBooks, or analyze your book content. Books and reading data stay on your device by default. If you enable iCloud or WebDAV, relevant data is synced to your own account or configured service. If you connect a cloud voice service, narrated text is sent to that service. System text-to-speech, Auto Reading, and the offline voice engine can run locally on your device. Made by an independent developer who loves reading. No ads. No third-party tracking. No unnecessary distractions. Just reading. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

听了么4 screens
Readova4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 听了么 at none against Readova's 3. Readova's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Readova sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. 听了么 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for 听了么 against 5.0 for Readova. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
听了么 versus Readova: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter听了么Readova
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequency—Every 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB76 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer上海洛歪歪科技有限公司俊 汪

Customer experience

听了么

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Readova

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

听了么

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Readova

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Weekly$0.997 Days
  • Pro Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
One-time1
  • Readova Pro · Lifetime$14.99

Questions

Is 听了么 free?
听了么 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Readova free?
Readova is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, 听了么 or Readova?
听了么 and Readova are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do 听了么 or Readova have ads?
Neither 听了么 nor Readova shows ads.

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