Speed Reading vs Nana's Focus

Speed Reading is a transparent offline tool for reading books and training speed reading skills. Created for those who want to read faster and more effectively: - Free app - No subscriptions - No ads - No account registration - No analytics trackers - Works completely offline - All data is stored locally on your iPhone FORMAT SUPPORT AND LIBRARY Import books and articles to keep them in one place: - Support for .epub, .fb2, and .txt formats - Fast file parsing and unpacking - Smart text cleaning from unnecessary tags and "junk" - Automatic detection of metadata and covers SPEED READING MODE (RSVP) Master the Rapid Serial Visual Presentation method: - Attention focus (ORP): highlighting the optimal recognition point in the word in red. - Flexible speed setting (WPM): from a comfortable pace to professional speeds. - Smart pauses: the algorithm automatically slows down at punctuation marks and difficult words for better context understanding. - Navigation: fast rewind and forward by words. CLASSIC MODE (PAGES) For thoughtful and comfortable reading: - Full typography customization: choice of font, size, line spacing, and letter spacing. - Margin and indent settings to your taste. - Natural pagination. - Instant switch to speed reading mode with a double tap on any word. STATISTICS AND PROGRESS Track real metrics, not just feelings: - Count of words read and time (for today and all time). - Calculation of real average reading speed (WPM). - Visualization of reading progress for each book. - Estimation of remaining time to finish the book. PRIVACY BY DESIGN Your entire library, settings, and statistics are stored exclusively on your device. Speed Reading does not require account creation, does not upload your books to cloud servers, and does not transfer data to third parties.

Nana's Focus is a reader for studying from your own texts. It does not promise you will read three times faster, because that would not be true. It looks after something plainer. Three pages in, you should still have the first one. Three ways to read, because different things slip away from different people. Spot: words arrive one at a time, in one place on the screen. Your eyes stop wandering, because there's nowhere to wander to. Line: the whole sentence in front of you, with a pointer leading your eye underneath. Traditional reading: a plain page at your own pace. This is where you drag your finger over what you need to know. A breath before reading. In through the nose, a short sip more on top, then a long breath out through the mouth. The out-breath has to be longer than both in-breaths together, because the whole thing rests on that proportion. One minute, three or five, and you can turn it off. Noise in the background, if it happens to help you. Steady pink noise, generated as it plays, so your ear never catches a loop. Here is the honest version of where this stands: in a 2024 pooling of thirteen studies, steady noise improved performance for people with ADHD and made it worse for people without. The gain was small, and it varied a lot between individuals. Turn it on for one session and see for yourself. Highlights become cards. Drag your finger across a sentence and pick what it is: a definition, a date, a key point, or "I don't get it". The app writes questions from the first three. From the last one it writes nothing, because there's no point cramming what you don't understand. Cards come back to fit the date. Give the app your exam date and it spreads the reviews so the last round lands before the exam, not after it. The closer the date, the more often the questions come back. The Study tab works out how much you have to read each day to get through the material in time. It leaves the final days for reviews alone, because a chapter read once isn't enough. Nine lessons called "How to study". Active recall, spaced repetition, desirable difficulty, prequestions and more. Each lesson says how much evidence stands behind it, and where the evidence is thin it says so. Six ways to remember. For the things that have to come back word for word, or in order. None of them will help you understand a text, and the first screen says so before you start. At the end of every sitting, one question: what stayed with you, in one sentence, out of your own head. That is how remembering works. Read your own: PDF, EPUB, FB2, MOBI, DOCX, txt, or text you paste in. That is what this app is for. One short text is waiting on the shelf to start with, "Evening in the building", the same passage you read during the reading test, so the shelf isn't empty on the first day. No account in the app, and no sign-in. Your texts, highlights, cards and progress stay on your phone, because there's no server for them to go to. What this app doesn't do: it doesn't speed your reading up and it doesn't claim to switch off the voice in your head. The popular advice about silencing that voice isn't backed by the research, and the app says so plainly. Trial and purchase You turn on seven days of the full version whenever you like, with no card and no account. Until then, the free version works. After that it's one purchase, once and for good: 29.00 USD. No subscription. The purchase unlocks the whole app. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://nanas.pro/legal/privacy