Comparison

Reading Browser vs Moonflower

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

Head to head
About

Reading Browser

Features
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Reading Browser turns cluttered websites into clean, book-like pages focused entirely on the content. - Premium Reading Mode: Instantly strip away distractions for a pure, focused reading experience. - Recently Read: Quickly jump back into your favorite articles with a dedicated reading history. - Private Browsing: Surf the web securely without saving your history or data. - Eye Care: Comfortable Dark and Sepia themes designed for long reading sessions. Download now to experience the web the way it was meant to be read.

About

Moonflower

Features
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Moonflower gives every website a beautiful dark mode in Safari โ€” designed to feel like it was always meant to be there. Create your own themes with exactly the colors you want, and fine-tune every website individually: its own theme, its own on/off rule, its own exceptions. Most sites still don't offer a dark theme. Moonflower fixes that: its engine reads each page's actual colors and generates a tailor-made dark theme on the fly, so text stays crisp, images stay natural, and nothing looks washed out or inverted. DARK MODE, DONE PROPERLY โ€ข Works on every website, automatically โ€ข Dynamic colors: a custom dark theme generated per site โ€” not a crude filter โ€ข Respects sites that already have a dark mode (or override them if you prefer) โ€ข Smart image handling: photos stay untouched, bright diagrams and logos are gently adapted โ€ข Flash-free page loads โ€” pages paint dark from the first moment DESIGN YOUR OWN THEMES โ€ข Six hand-tuned themes to start: Black, Dark, Gray, Sepia, Paper, Focus โ€ข Create unlimited custom themes โ€” pick your exact background and text colors โ€ข Fine-tune image brightness, grayscale, and sepia per theme โ€ข Edit with a live preview on a real article, so you see every change instantly FINE-TUNE EVERY WEBSITE โ€ข Auto, On, or Off โ€” globally or per site โ€ข Give each website its own theme โ€ข Pause a site until tomorrow with one tap โ€ข Ignore a site's built-in dark mode when yours looks better โ€ข Keyboard shortcuts for toggling, cycling themes, and pausing A READER BUILT IN โ€ข One tap turns any article into a clean, beautiful reading view โ€ข Apple Books-style themes โ€” each with a light and dark variant โ€ข Adjustable text size, and your custom reader themes come along EVERYWHERE YOU BROWSE โ€ข iPhone, iPad, and Mac โ€ข iCloud sync keeps your themes and site settings identical on all your devices PRIVATE BY DESIGN Moonflower collects no data. Which sites you visit never leaves your device โ€” all darkening happens locally, with no accounts, no analytics, and no tracking of any kind. FAIR PRICING Free for 3 days, full-featured. Then a single one-time purchase unlocks Moonflower forever, on all your devices. No subscription.

Screenshots

Reading Browser4 screens
Moonflower4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Reading Browser at 16.0 against Moonflower's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Reading Browser sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Moonflower sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Reading Browser ships an update every 4 weeks, Moonflower every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Reading Browser versus Moonflower: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReading BrowserMoonflower
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks โ€” betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac โ€” better
Requires iOS16.0 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size61 MB13 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperAn NguyenRoman Marchenko

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Reading Browser

One-time1
  • Unlock reading mode$2.99
1 purchases

Moonflower

One-time1
  • Moonflower Unlock$0.99

Questions

Is Reading Browser free?
Reading Browser is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Moonflower free?
Moonflower is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Reading Browser or Moonflower have ads?
Neither Reading Browser nor Moonflower shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Reading Browser or Moonflower?
Reading Browser ships an update every 4 weeks, and Moonflower every 6 weeks. Most recently, Reading Browser was updated on November 5, 2026 and Moonflower on November 14, 2026.

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