Comparison

Speed Reading vs NextSpeedReader

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

Head to head
About

Speed Reading

Enhance your reading speed and comprehension with this app. It offers multiple reading modes, including a visual pacer and eye training exercises, to help you read faster and more efficiently. Manage your library of books and articles, and track your progress with gamified drills.

Highlights
  • Multiple reading modes (Stream, Flash, Fixation)
  • Visual pacing and highlight
  • Eye training drills
  • EPUB and web article import
  • Built-in classic literature
  • Progress tracking and sync
  • Customizable reading themes and fonts
Features
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Speble is a reader that trains you to read faster. Upload your own EPUB, paste an article link, or start with a classic, and Speble paces your eyes at the speed you choose. THREE READING MODES • Stream: the full book text with a flowing highlight that sets your rhythm and stops you from re-reading. Full control: pace (60-1000 wpm), punctuation and paragraph pauses, marker style and color, context contrast, focus mode. • Flash (RSVP): words shown one at a time at a fixed point, with the optimal recognition point (ORP) highlighted. Zero eye movement, maximum speed. • Fixation (eye training): a soft spot guides your eyes through fixed stops on every line. Fewer fixations per line, more rhythm. YOUR LIBRARY • EPUB files up to 20 MB • Articles from the web: paste a link, read without distractions • Classic literature built in • Reading progress remembered for every book EYE TRAINING Six drills that build peripheral vision, focus and pace: Schulte tables, spot the difference, glance reading and more. Levels, points and daily streaks. Training that feels like a game. READING, REFINED • Three themes: dark, light and sepia • Choose fonts, text size, column width, line height and alignment • Screen stays awake while you read • Private by design: your books live locally on your phone ACCOUNT & SYNC Create a free account (email code sign-in, no password) and your books, progress and settings are safely synced and also available in your browser at speble.com. Reading slower every year because everything competes for your attention? Speble reverses that. Start at 250 words per minute and watch yourself pass 400.

About

NextSpeedReader

Features
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SpeedReader shows a book's text one word at a time, always in the same spot on the screen, at the pace you choose. Your eyes stop scanning lines and your attention stays on meaning. This is RSVP (rapid serial visual presentation) — a way to read faster with less fatigue. READING • 100 to 900 words per minute, 1–4 words at a time • Space to pause and resume; left/right arrows step one word, up/down arrows change speed (with a keyboard on Mac and iPad) • Slightly longer pauses at periods and commas, so the text reads naturally • Clean text: page numbers and repeated running headers (including chapter titles) are removed, hyphenated words are joined • Optional highlight of the optimal recognition point (ORP) • Word typeface of your choice: sans-serif, serif or monospaced BOOKS • Import PDF, EPUB, FB2 or plain-text (.txt) files from your device or cloud storage through the system file browser • Scanned PDFs or PDFs with a broken text layer: recognize the text on your device (OCR) once and read it • Pick the pages (or chapters, in an EPUB) to read first and skip contents and front matter • The library remembers where you stopped in every book • Named bookmarks return you to the exact word • Table of contents from the book itself or from detected chapter headings • Full-text search: find a word or phrase and start reading right there • For PDFs, "Open this place in the PDF" shows the original page with the current sentence highlighted QUOTES • One tap saves the current sentence with the book and page number • Add author, publisher and year and copy a ready citation: "quote" — Author. Title. Publisher, year, p. N • Quotes are grouped by edition; copy them all at once PRIVACY • No sign-up, analytics or ads. Books, bookmarks and quotes stay on your device. Works on iPhone, iPad and Mac, in English and Russian. Made by Vlad Sitnikov. Inspired by Anton Bulanov and his book "The Nature of Cunning" (Природа хитрости).

Screenshots

Speed Reading4 screens
NextSpeedReader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: NextSpeedReader at every 2 days against Speed Reading's fortnightly. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Speed Reading ships an update fortnightly, NextSpeedReader every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Speed Reading versus NextSpeedReader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpeed ReadingNextSpeedReader
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.416.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKamil ZielinskiVladilen Sitnikov

In-app purchases

None

Speed Reading

No in-app purchases

None

NextSpeedReader

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Speed Reading free?
Speed Reading is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is NextSpeedReader free?
NextSpeedReader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Speed Reading or NextSpeedReader have ads?
Neither Speed Reading nor NextSpeedReader shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Speed Reading or NextSpeedReader?
Speed Reading ships an update fortnightly, and NextSpeedReader every 2 days. Most recently, Speed Reading was updated on October 28, 2026 and NextSpeedReader on October 29, 2026.

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