Readrrr vs Columnam
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Readrrr
Enhance reading speed and focus with a distraction-free experience. This app uses RSVP technology to display words sequentially, helping you process text faster and track your comprehension progress.
- RSVP speed-reading technology
- Customizable reading speeds
- Distraction-free reading environment
- PDF import and text extraction
- Reading progress tracking
- Cross-device synchronization
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Readrrr uses Rapid Serial Visual Presentation to show words one at a time in the same spot, and a natural voice can read each word aloud as it appears. Your eyes don't have to jump across lines, so you don't lose your place and read faster. Seeing and hearing every word at the same time also keeps your mind from drifting. Start at your normal pace and speed up as it gets comfortable. A Readrrr subscription or one-time purchase includes everything below: RSVP READER Every word has one letter marked in red for your eyes to rest on, so you never have to look for where the word starts. You can change the speed at any time. NARRATION Pick a voice and it reads along in sync with every word at any speed. The voice runs on your phone, so it works offline. SHORT READS Non-fiction you can finish in 10 to 20 minutes, on topics like history, health, science and economics. Each one is written to be read in Readrrr and sits in a collection with related reads. New ones come out every week, and you can suggest a topic. READ ANYTHING Import PDFs and EPUBs, send an article from Safari with one tap, paste text, or scan pages from a paper book. APP LOCKING Pick the apps that take up your day. Starting at 4 am they stay locked until you've read your daily word goal. Every day you hit it adds to your streak. If you really need one of them, you can unlock for 10 minutes once a day. HIGHLIGHTS Save any passage while you read. Readrrr sorts your highlights into themes and brings old ones back to you in the app and in a Home Screen widget, so you don't forget what you read. STATS Track your reading speed, words read and streak as they grow. SYNC Your library, reading position and stats stay in sync across your devices. SUBSCRIPTION Readrrr requires a subscription or a one-time purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. You can manage them in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://www.ocule.no/readrrr/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Columnam
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Columnam - The Self Actualization App With Columnam, you can produce greater work in a more efficient manner, with an improved understanding and appreciation of whatever it is you do. Columnam trains users, through highly structured work sessions and psychological techniques, to enter the state of focus on command. By tracking users' focus and work habits, it creates a personalized system of improvement that includes analytics to display those habits, and challenges to improve them. That improvement is made extremely achievable by the rigid structure of the program. Our community provides a social environment of ambitious learners who are overcoming, or have overcome, the same challenges that the user is facing. By learning to focus on demand, users will engage with their work on a deeper level, deepening at the same time their appreciation of that work, as its virtues are viewed with a clear eye. As a result, users of Columnam will produce greater work in a more efficient manner, with an improved state of mind and relationship with their work. Learn to Focus Deeply: Train deep focus while doing your work/schoolwork. To properly train this skill, we split your work sessions into two separate categories 1. Deep Work: When you want to deeply engage with a task. During these sessions, you go through a series of psychologically proven methods to induce a state of deep focus and reduce split attention. Apps are blocked and a longer period of time is dedicated. Analytics are collected on your habits. 2. Other Work: When you need to focus, but don't need to engage deeply. A lighter focus ritual is performed and app blocking is less strict. Analytics are collected on your habits. Seamless Scheduling: Easily create your daily work schedule with our framework. Track Your Habits Automatically: Columnam automatically collects 30 different data points from your work sessions and produces 129 insights on the way you work. You can check important statistics anytime from the analytics page and, starting after your third week of our program, you will receive a weekly summary containing personal insights on your habits and special "insight challenges" to improve them. Improve with Challenges : Our challenges provide you with both a personalized and a structured system for improving your focus and work habits over time. Join the Community: Learn to focus deeply alongside other ambitious people and high achievers. Achieve Flow State on Command: Columnam is built to train you to enter "flow state," the mental zone where you work better and faster with greater understanding. Rigid Structure = Improvement: rely on a focus optimized system that guides you through success; not motivation, willpower, or "Dopamine Replacement." Not Pomodoro: Columnam is built to fix your broken attention span, not to cater to it. Your Life is not a Game: badges, streaks, and little birds won't help you. Columnam has no gamification Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Columnam at none against Readrrr's 10. Columnam also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Readrrr sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Columnam asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Readrrr | Columnam |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (48 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 29.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 48 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 138 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Ocule AS | Little Commerce |
In-app purchases
Readrrr
- Readrrr Monthly3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Weekly$2.997 Days
- Weekly$4.997 Days
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- Monthly$7.991 Month
- Monthly$9.991 Month
- Yearly$19.991 Year
- Readrrr Yearly$24.991 Year
- Yearly$29.991 Year
- Yearly$39.991 Year
- Readrrr Lifetime$99.99
Columnam
No in-app purchases









