Comparison

ReadMaxx vs My Echoes

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

Head to head
About

ReadMaxx

Boost your reading efficiency by importing documents, web links, or pasted text. Choose to read faster with a word-by-word display or get concise summaries and key points to grasp essential information quickly.

Highlights
  • RSVP speed reading
  • Text summarization
  • Key point extraction
  • Import PDFs, EPUBs, web links, and text
  • Haptic cues for reading focus
  • Concise content overviews
Features
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ReadMaxx helps you get through more of what you want to read — whether you want to read it faster or understand the essentials in seconds. Import a PDF, EPUB, Web Link, or text you’ve pasted in. Then choose how you want to engage with it: read using ReadMaxx’s RSVP speed reader, or generate a concise summary and key points to quickly understand what matters. - Read faster - ReadMaxx’s RSVP reader presents one word at a time at a controlled pace, reducing eye movement and helping you maintain attention while reading. Optional haptic cues reinforce the structure of what you’re reading, from subtle taps at the start of each word to stronger signals at sentence boundaries — helping anchor attention without pulling focus away from the text. - Understand faster - When you don’t need to read every word, ReadMaxx can summarise your content for you. Generate a concise overview and key points from documents, books, articles, and other long-form text — giving you a faster way to understand what something is about and decide where to spend your attention. Read it. Summarise it. Get through more with ReadMaxx. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

My Echoes

Features
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You've read the words that moved you. Where are they now? A line from a book. A thought in the shower. Something your grandmother said. You meant to remember it. You didn't. Echoes closes that gap - between knowing and living, between underlining and applying, between feeling moved and actually being changed. 1. Discover wisdom from books you love. Type any title - Atomic Habits, The Power of Now, Never Split the Difference, Principles - and get practical echoes you can apply today. Not summaries. Not generic quotes. Ideas worth living, surfacing alongside your own words every single day. Most people read 12 books a year. Remember fragments of three. Apply the lessons of maybe one. Echoes changes that ratio. 2. Save anything that moves you. A passage you underlined, a podcast line, something your grandmother said. Photo it, type it, or paste it - captured instantly. 3. Write reminders to your future self. "Tell your parents you love them before it's too late." "Stop waiting for life to slow down. This is life." "The version of you from five years ago would be proud." Because the you of today knows what matters - and the you of tomorrow, caught up in the noise of daily life, needs to be reminded. 4. Resurface it on your terms. Not randomly, not algorithmically. You choose when your wisdom comes back to you - as often as you need it. This is not a quote app. This is your wisdom - the words you chose, the lines that hit different - surfacing at the right moment, again and again. Save it. Resurface it. Live it. Terms of Use: https://platinum-mastodon-23c.notion.site/TERMS-CONDITIONS-30ab34202b0f80e0a570cfe543172d3e

Screenshots

ReadMaxx4 screens
My Echoes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: My Echoes at 15.1 against ReadMaxx's 18.2. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. ReadMaxx sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and My Echoes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ReadMaxx ships an update every 6 days, My Echoes every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
ReadMaxx versus My Echoes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReadMaxxMy Echoes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (13 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.215.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size289 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMAXX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDGalina Barengo

In-app purchases

3 purchases

ReadMaxx

Subscriptions3
  • Unlimited Weekly$2.997 Days
  • Unlimited Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Unlimited Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
2 purchases

My Echoes

Subscriptions2
  • Echoes Pro$1.991 Month
  • Echoes Power$4.991 Month

Questions

Is ReadMaxx free?
ReadMaxx is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is My Echoes free?
My Echoes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ReadMaxx or My Echoes have ads?
Neither ReadMaxx nor My Echoes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ReadMaxx or My Echoes?
ReadMaxx ships an update every 6 days, and My Echoes every 9 days. Most recently, ReadMaxx was updated on November 13, 2026 and My Echoes on November 5, 2026.

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