Comparison

Meditations vs ClickBook

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

Head to head
About

Meditations

Access the timeless wisdom of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations in a peaceful, ad-free reading experience. This app offers a distraction-free environment to explore Stoic philosophy and principles for living a virtuous life.

Highlights
  • Read Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  • Distraction-free reading environment
  • No ads
  • No accounts required
  • Focus on Stoic wisdom
Features
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Read Meditations by Marcus Aurelius — a timeless reflection on discipline, virtue, and the art of living — in a calm, distraction-free environment. No ads. No accounts. Just Stoic wisdom.

About

ClickBook

Features
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Tap a word. Understand it. Keep reading. ClickBook is an ebook reader with an AI that lives inside the app. Tap any word you do not know and it explains it right there on the page, without leaving your book and without looking anything up. Because the AI runs on your phone, it works anywhere — on a plane, on the underground, in a country where your data plan does not. There is no account to create, no email to hand over, and no subscription. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TAP A WORD • Meaning — a short, plain definition in the language of the book • Example — the word used in fresh sentences, so it actually sticks • Translation — the word explained in your own language (Pro) • Context — the sentence around it explained in your own language (Pro) • Ask ChatGPT — open the word and its passage in ChatGPT when you want to go further (Pro) FOR READING IN A LANGUAGE YOU ARE STILL LEARNING Choose your mother tongue when you set the app up, and explanations come back in it. You can read a novel slightly above your level without a dictionary in your other hand, and without breaking the thread of the story every few minutes. Every word you look up is saved to your vocabulary list, with the sentence you found it in. PRIVACY, THE REAL KIND The AI model ships inside the app. It is not a wrapper around a chatbot in a data centre, so your books and the words you look up stay on your device. Turn on airplane mode and the reader and every explanation still work — that is the test, and it passes. The one exception is Ask ChatGPT (Pro), which sends a word and its passage to ChatGPT only when you tap it, and asks you first. No account. No sign-up. No tracking. No ads. FREE, AND WHAT PRO ADDS Free gives you the whole reader, your library, offline AI explanations of what a word means, examples that use it, and your vocabulary list. ClickBook Pro is a single one-time purchase — not a subscription — and adds translation into your own language, context translation of the whole sentence, the Ask ChatGPT button, changing your mother tongue whenever you like, and control over the order the answers appear in. YOUR BOOKS Open EPUB files from anywhere on your device or from iCloud Drive. PDFs are converted when you import them. Three classics are included so you have something to read the moment you open the app. Four fonts, adjustable text size and line spacing, white, sepia, mint and dark pages, and page-by-page or continuous scrolling, because a reader you cannot read comfortably is not much of a reader.

Screenshots

Meditations4 screens
ClickBook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Meditations at none against ClickBook's 1. ClickBook's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ClickBook sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Meditations asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meditations ships an update every 3 weeks, ClickBook every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Meditations versus ClickBook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeditationsClickBook
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (9 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB1.8 GB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPedro MoitinhoMohamad Mohamad

In-app purchases

None

Meditations

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

ClickBook

One-time1
  • ClickBook Pro$12.99

Questions

Is Meditations free?
Meditations is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ClickBook free?
ClickBook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Meditations or ClickBook have ads?
Neither Meditations nor ClickBook shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Meditations or ClickBook?
Meditations ships an update every 3 weeks, and ClickBook every 4 days. Most recently, Meditations was updated on October 28, 2026 and ClickBook on October 29, 2026.

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