MegaText vs SpeedReader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MegaText
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MegaText turns your iPhone or iPad into a giant big-text sign and a scrolling LED banner — type your words once, hold up your phone, and be read from across the street. Create reusable word sets in seconds. Show names and messages as huge full-screen letters. Switch to LED mode for dot-matrix signs in vivid colors, or let a scrolling marquee loop your words across the screen like a real LED display. Swipe between cards by hand or let auto-play run the whole set on a loop. WHAT YOU GET â‘ Big Text — huge, high-contrast, full-screen letters. Pinch to zoom, portrait or landscape. â‘¡ LED Marquee — your message scrolls across the screen like a classic LED banner. Adjustable speed and direction. â‘¢ LED Matrix — dot-matrix signs with color themes, rainbow palettes, and animated wave & burst effects. â‘£ Word Sets — save sets offline and replay them anytime, with per-card colors, fonts, and sizes. ⑤ Photo Import — pull word lists in from photos with on-device text recognition (Vision). No long typing. MADE FOR REAL MOMENTS â‘ Airport pickups — hold up a name that cannot be missed. â‘¡ Concerts & fan events — light up your message in your colors. â‘¢ Silent communication — talk across a quiet room, library, or noisy street. â‘£ Learning & accessibility — big flashcard-style word practice behind a parent gate; high-contrast letters help readers with low vision or dyslexia. PRIVATE BY DESIGN â‘ Works fully offline — no account, no ads, no analytics. â‘¡ Photo import runs on-device; your pictures never leave the phone. â‘¢ Parent gate protects settings and editing. â‘£ English and ç®€ä½“ä¸æ–‡. iPhone and iPad. Light and dark. Contact: sectojoy@gmail.com Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://zelonai.com/app/megatext/privacy-policy
SpeedReader
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## App Description Reading shouldn't be this hard. SpeedReader is a free Safari extension that lets you speed read any web page using RSVP (Rapid Serial Visual Presentation) — showing one word at a time at a controlled pace. For neurodivergent readers — people with ADHD, dyslexia, or other processing differences — traditional reading is exhausting. Eyes jump between lines, focus drifts mid-paragraph, and articles get abandoned halfway through. RSVP removes the cognitive overhead of eye tracking and line scanning, so your brain just processes. **How it works** Tap the SpeedReader icon in Safari's toolbar. The article text is extracted automatically and words appear one at a time with a highlighted focus point. Tap anywhere to pause, tap again to resume. That's it. **Features** • Focus-point highlighting — each word highlights its optimal recognition point, the letter your eye naturally anchors to • Context preview — pause and see the surrounding sentence to re-orient quickly • Punctuation pacing — periods and commas add natural micro-pauses so content flows like speech • Speed control — 100 to 600 words per minute • OpenDyslexic font — toggle the dyslexia-friendly font with one tap • Light and dark mode — follows your system theme or override manually • Keyboard shortcuts — on Mac and iPad: Space to play/pause, arrows to navigate • Text selection fallback — select any text on a page and speed read just that • Works entirely offline — no data leaves your device No accounts. No subscriptions. No tracking. Free and open source.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: SpeedReader at Free against MegaText's $2.99. SpeedReader also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 5 months). MegaText's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On 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
SpeedReader is free to download; MegaText costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
MegaText ships an update every 5 months, SpeedReader every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 13, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MegaText | SpeedReader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 雷 陈 | Chris Cantu |
In-app purchases
MegaText
No in-app purchases
SpeedReader
No in-app purchases





