Comparison

MegaText vs SpeedReader

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

Head to head
About

MegaText

Features
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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 ① Big Text — huge, high-contrast, full-screen letters. Pinch to zoom, portrait or landscape. ② LED Marquee — your message scrolls across the screen like a classic LED banner. Adjustable speed and direction. ③ LED Matrix — dot-matrix signs with color themes, rainbow palettes, and animated wave & burst effects. ④ 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 ① Airport pickups — hold up a name that cannot be missed. ② Concerts & fan events — light up your message in your colors. ③ Silent communication — talk across a quiet room, library, or noisy street. ④ Learning & accessibility — big flashcard-style word practice behind a parent gate; high-contrast letters help readers with low vision or dyslexia. PRIVATE BY DESIGN ① Works fully offline — no account, no ads, no analytics. ② Photo import runs on-device; your pictures never leave the phone. ③ Parent gate protects settings and editing. ④ English and 简体中文. 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

About

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.

Screenshots

MegaText4 screens
SpeedReader1 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

SpeedReader is free to download; MegaText costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
MegaText versus SpeedReader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMegaTextSpeedReader
Price$2.99Free — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer雷 陈Chris Cantu

In-app purchases

None

MegaText

No in-app purchases

None

SpeedReader

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MegaText free?
MegaText costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is SpeedReader free?
SpeedReader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do MegaText or SpeedReader have ads?
Neither MegaText nor SpeedReader shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MegaText or SpeedReader?
MegaText ships an update every 5 months, and SpeedReader every 4 days. Most recently, MegaText was updated on September 13, 2026 and SpeedReader on September 18, 2026.

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