Comparison

Pura Letra vs PureWrite

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

Head to head
About

Pura Letra

Save articles from Safari to a personal library for distraction-free reading. Enjoy clean typography, highlighting, note-taking, and organization with tags. Access your saved content on any device.

Highlights
  • Save articles from Safari
  • Ad-free reading view
  • Highlighting and notes
  • Organize with tags
  • Cross-device syncing
  • Search saved articles
Features
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Pura Letra is a Safari extension that saves articles to your personal reading library. It strips away ads, banners, pop-ups, and clutter — leaving you with clean, beautifully typeset text. Save any article with one tap from Safari. Pura Letra extracts the main content and stores it in your library so you can read it anytime, on any device. Features: Save articles from Safari with a single tap Clean reading view with elegant serif typography Highlight passages and add notes as you read Organize your library with tags Search across all your saved articles Reading time and word count for every article Share clean article links with others Works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac Pura Letra is for readers who value focus. No algorithms, no feeds, no notifications — just your articles, ready when you are.

About

PureWrite

Features
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PureWrite is a writing tool with no distractions. Your documents are Markdown files in your own folder, and other apps such as Obsidian can edit them too. Writing and exporting are free. Writing Studio, a one-time purchase, is for making a longer work: a screenplay, a novel or a paper. The free app: • Start typing and the file sidebar and the table of contents leave the screen. Move the pointer back and they return. • Open a folder you already have. There is no import step and no database, and the folder can stay an Obsidian vault or a git repository. • Edit the document as it looks, while the file on disk stays ordinary Markdown, tables and links included. • Hebrew and English in one document: each paragraph takes its own direction, and nothing is written into the file to do it. • Search the whole folder, with the context around every match. • Keep footnotes and images in the file as you wrote them. • Use focus mode, typewriter scrolling, find and replace, and quick open. • Export a folder or a single document as Word, PDF or EPUB. • Autosave runs a second after you stop typing. Writing Studio: • Screenplays in the standard page format: Courier 12, (MORE) and (CONT'D), dual dialogue, locked scene numbers and production revision marks. Scripts are plain Fountain files, written with nothing else on screen. • Export to PDF, Word and Final Draft, and import from Final Draft. Final Draft does not support right-to-left text, so a Hebrew or Arabic script goes out as PDF or Word. • Templates for fiction, life stories, academic work, Torah study and screenplays, with questions and a length target for each part. The prompts appear in the editor and stay out of your files, so you can switch structure without touching your text. • A sources desk: keep a passage with its source, and leave a short reference in the document. Citations come in seven styles, and a source is looked up only when you ask. • Two languages side by side: a document and its translation, each in its own file, with the matching paragraph marked. • Versions of a document, saved as you write, compared word by word and restored. • An on-device assistant: translate, reword or shorten a selection, then compare the result with your original. Ask a question about the folder, or look for contradictions between chapters. It needs Apple Intelligence on a supported device. PureWrite never sends your documents anywhere: no account, no telemetry. The network is used only when you ask the studio to look up a source. macOS, iPhone and iPad. The download is free. Writing Studio is a one-time purchase, not a subscription, shared across your devices with the same Apple Account.

Screenshots

Pura Letra4 screens
PureWrite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pura Letra at none against PureWrite's 1. PureWrite's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. PureWrite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pura Letra asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pura Letra ships an update every 3 months, PureWrite every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Pura Letra versus PureWrite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPura LetraPureWrite
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRicardo SanchezYechiel Ben David

In-app purchases

None

Pura Letra

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

PureWrite

One-time1
  • Writing Studio$29.99

Questions

Is Pura Letra free?
Pura Letra is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PureWrite free?
PureWrite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pura Letra or PureWrite have ads?
Neither Pura Letra nor PureWrite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pura Letra or PureWrite?
Pura Letra ships an update every 3 months, and PureWrite every 5 days. Most recently, Pura Letra was updated on October 31, 2026 and PureWrite on November 11, 2026.

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