Plural Star vs Lexable
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Plural Star
A private, offline-first system management app designed for individuals experiencing plurality, including DID and OSDD. It offers detailed tracking of fronting states, member profiles, custom fields, and system mapping. The app prioritizes user data privacy by keeping all information on the device.
- Three-tier front tracking (Primary, Co-Front, Co-Conscious)
- Detailed member profiles with rich-text bios and custom fields
- Observatory Mode for singlet access and journaling
- Interactive system map for relationship visualization
- Comprehensive history and insights on fronting and member activity
- Local-only IRC-style system chat
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Plural Star is a private, offline-first system management app built for plural individuals, those with DID, OSDD, or any form of plurality. Made in part with AI assistance, which is one of the main reasons we went Open Source. So that anyone wishing to, or with concerns, can examine the code. Simply Plural and Octocon have been discontinued. Plural Star is the replacement you own entirely; your data stays on your device. Features Three-Tier Front Tracking Track Primary Front, Co-Front, and Co-Conscious. Each tier has its own member, mood, note, and energy (1–10); Primary also tracks location. Members are exclusive to one tier. A persistent notification keeps all tiers visible. Optional front-check reminders. Friends & Syncing Optional end-to-end encrypted networking, off by default; the relay sees only encrypted blobs. Add friends with short mutual codes and see their front live. Privacy Buckets set what each friend sees: members, groups, journal, history, profile, whiteboard, or planner. Link your own devices: pick which sends first, then everything syncs both ways, pictures included. Pin up to five friends into the notification, or the iOS Live Island. Member Profiles Profile pictures, 900×300 banners, names, pronouns, roles, colors, rich-text bios with full Markdown. Freeform tags and colored groups with multi-group membership. Facets and Custom Fronts for parts that aren't members. Filter, search, sort six ways. Tier badges when fronting. Archive dormant members: history preserved, restorable. Your Words Rename Headmate, Front, Facet, and more. The whole app follows your system's language. Observatory Mode Turns Plural Star into a manual status tracker and journaling app with a rebuilt UI for the Singlets in our lives, granting almost every feature. For non-plural friends, family, and caretakers. Day Planner Calendar of appointments and repeating reminders, each with its own mark color and alerts. Whiteboard Freeform canvas: pen, shapes, fill, and eraser. Custom Fields Define your own per-member fields, eight types from text to Markdown. Reorderable, renameable, exportable. Mailbox System-wide mail between headmates: per-member inboxes with unread badges, replies, and pinning. Syncs across devices. System Polls Polls the whole system can vote on. Vote tallies, voter tracking, optional closure. One vote per member; changeable until closed. System Map Chart relationships between headmates on an interactive force-directed graph. Members join as you create relationships. History & Insights Front History: timestamped log of every switch by day, with co-front and co-conscious tiers inline. Member History: every session, mood/location/note change, energy, and journal entry per headmate, with totals. Add retroactive entries with three-tier support and overlap detection. System Statistics Total fronting time, session and message counts, with time-range filtering. Leaderboards for fronters, co-fronters, co-conscious, chatters, moods, and locations. Peak Hours shows when your system is most active. System Chat Local-only IRC-style chat, up to 100 channels. Speaker is independent of who's fronting; chat doesn't affect front or history. Text, images, replies, emoji reactions. Archive channels to free storage. System Journal The same rich-text entries with full Markdown as member profiles. Tag by author and topic hashtag. Optionally lock individual entries or the whole journal with passwords. Import & Export Import full system data from Simply Plural, PluralKit, Octocon, Ampersand, Ourcana, HiveMind, Tupperbox, Parallax, PluralLog & PluralSpace. Export as .zip, HTML, or email summary with per-category toggles. Import .txt, .md, or .json directly as journal entries. Multilingual 24 languages: English, Español, Français, Deutsch, Português, Suomi, Norsk, Italiano, Türkçe, Bahasa Melayu, Tiếng Việt, ไทย, 简体中文, 繁體中文, 日本語, Русский, Українська, Nederlands, Íslenska, हिन्दी, Afrikaans, 한국어, Svenska, Polski. Auto-detects on first launch.
Lexable
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Most reading apps were designed for readers who already read comfortably. Lexable is built differently — it reformats any text or PDF into a layout your eyes can actually follow, right on your device, with nothing sent anywhere. Paste a work email, import a PDF, or share any document from another app. Lexable strips the formatting clutter and renders it in a reader you control: OpenDyslexic font, adjustable spacing, tinted overlays, and a Focus Reading Mode that bolds the leading part of each word to anchor your eye and cut visual noise. Everything stays on your iPhone. No account. No internet. No data collected. Ever. What Lexable does: - Focus Reading Mode bolds the start of each word so your eye lands in the right place every time — adjust fixation strength to match how you read. - Text-to-speech with synchronized word highlighting reads aloud while the current word is highlighted, so eyes and ears work together. - OpenDyslexic font bundled and ready — no download, no subscription, just tap to switch. - Five typography controls — font size, line spacing, letter spacing, paragraph spacing, and reading width — adjusted live so you see the effect immediately. - Color themes and tinted overlays (cream, sepia, dark, high-contrast, and more) reduce visual stress without needing special glasses. - Saved Library keeps your reformatted documents ready to reopen — no re-importing. - PDF import extracts text from PDF files so you can reformat reports, articles, and study materials you already have. Perfect for: Adults with dyslexia who read for work, study, or daily life and want a faster, more comfortable way to get through text — without a monthly subscription and without handing their documents to a cloud service. Free to use: Paste text, reformat with OpenDyslexic and spacing controls, use Focus Reading Mode, listen with text-to-speech, and save a few documents — all free, no time limit. Lexable Pro (one-time purchase, $4.99): Unlock unlimited PDF imports, the full color theme library, finer voice and speed controls for text-to-speech, and an unlimited saved library. Pay once, use forever — no subscription, no renewal. Restore a previous purchase any time from the Lexable Pro screen or Settings. Your documents stay on your device. Lexable does not collect, transmit, or store any personal data or document content.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Plural Star at none against Lexable's 1. Plural Star also leads on ads (none vs shown) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Lexable sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Plural Star asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Plural Star | Lexable |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (45 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 45 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zachary Boyle | Christian Pedersen |
In-app purchases
Plural Star
No in-app purchases
Lexable
- Lexable Pro$3.99









