帳(Tobari) vs Readmate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
帳(Tobari)
This app provides a digital space to organize notes, photos, and drawings on a freeform board. Create distinct boards for various purposes like journaling or travel memories, and share them securely with trusted individuals.
- Freely place notes and text
- Add photos to boards
- Draw sketches and notes
- Create separate boards
- Share boards with trusted users
- End-to-end encryption for shared content
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帳(Tobari) is an app for placing notes, photos, and hand-drawn moments freely on a spacious board. Tobari comes from the Japanese character 帳, which can mean a notebook or ledger — a place for keeping records. It can also be read as “Tobari,” meaning a curtain or veil. For this app, the name suggests a quiet place where memories, thoughts, and small moments of everyday life can be gently kept. Pin down everyday thoughts like sticky notes, line up photos like printed snapshots, and leave ideas wherever they feel right. Use separate boards for journaling, travel memories, family notes, idea collections, or personal scraps you want to keep close. Alongside text, you can place photos and hand-drawn notes in watercolor or fountain pen ink on the same board. Words, sketches, colors, and small moods can stay together in one quiet place. Boards can also be shared with people you trust. Only invited people can join, and shared content is protected with end-to-end encryption. Instead of a social feed that quickly flows away, Tobari is a calm place to return to and look through again and again. Features: - Freely place notes and text on a board - Add photos to keep visual memories together - Draw sketches and notes in watercolor or fountain pen ink - Create separate boards for journals, travel, ideas, and more - Share boards with close friends or family - Protect shared content with end-to-end encryption
Readmate
This app helps you revisit and organize your saved book highlights from WeRead. Rediscover past passages, search for specific lines, and share memorable quotes as beautifully designed cards. Your reading data stays private on your device.
- Sync WeRead highlights
- Organize by book
- Daily highlight reminders
- Search highlights
- Create shareable quote cards
- Home screen widgets
- Offline data storage
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Some lines stay with you longer than the book itself. Every line you save means something to you. Revisit it later, and it may mean something different. Readmate brings them back. Sync your books, highlights, thoughts, and reading history from WeRead, and keep the words you once highlighted together on your own bookshelf. Revisit old highlights, read the thoughts you wrote at the time, find a line you remember, or turn a favorite passage into a card worth sharing. Sync your WeRead highlights & thoughts There is no need to organize everything you have already highlighted all over again. • Sync books, highlights, thoughts, and reading history from WeRead • Keep highlights and thoughts organized by book • Sync again to bring in newly saved highlights and thoughts • Return to books you have read from your bookshelf Your highlights. And the thoughts between. Sometimes what stays with you is not just the passage, but what you thought when you read it. • A note corner peeks out beside highlights with thoughts, pull it out to read what you wrote at the time • Switch to see what other readers wrote on the same passage, or browse all notes and reviews in Book Info • Tear off any note to copy the text, save it as an image, or share it Scroll through past highlights A line you highlighted does not have to be something you see only once. Scroll through your saved highlights in Readmate and rediscover words from your past reading. It might be something you highlighted yesterday, or a sentence from a book you finished years ago. Revisit a highlight every day Let something you once highlighted find its way back to you. • Set a daily highlight reminder • Rediscover a past highlight each day • Open Readmate directly from the reminder • Keep saved highlights and your bookshelf on your Home Screen with widgets You do not have to remember which book to open. A line you wanted to keep can simply show up again. Find the line you remember Remember a few words, but not where they came from? Search your books, authors, or highlight text to find the passage in your collection and return to the book it came from. Share the words worth keeping Some words are worth keeping. Some are worth passing on. • Turn highlights into beautifully designed cards • Choose from different templates, typography, and layouts • Adjust text size, line spacing, margins, and aspect ratios • Keep the book title, author, and attribution • Give longer passages room to breathe with multi-page or full-length layouts • Export cards and share them with other apps Keep highlights and your bookshelf on your Home Screen You do not have to open Readmate to view an old highlight again. Choose from different Daily Quotes and Bookshelf widget sizes and keep your books and saved lines where you can see them. A quick glance can bring back a book, a passage, or the reason you highlighted those words in the first place. Your reading stays on your device Readmate does not require an account. Your reading data is stored on your device. Your WeRead API key is securely stored in iOS Keychain, and highlight cards are rendered on device. Readmate currently supports WeRead, with more reading sources planned for the future. Some features require a one-time purchase. Readmate is an independent, unofficial product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Tencent or WeRead. WeRead and related names, logos, and trademarks belong to Tencent and their respective rights holders. Questions or feedback: hello@readmate.app Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 帳(Tobari) at none against Readmate's 1. 帳(Tobari) also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and review sentiment (100% vs 89%). Readmate's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly) and ratings volume (36 vs 4). 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
Both are free to download. Readmate sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 帳(Tobari) asks for nothing beyond the download.
帳(Tobari) holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Readmate has 36 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of 帳(Tobari)'s written reviews are positive against 89% of Readmate's.
帳(Tobari) ships an update fortnightly, Readmate every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 帳(Tobari) | Readmate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 4.8 (36 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 89.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 36 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 183 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shikaka, Inc. | WHITESSPACE SDN. BHD. |
Customer experience
帳(Tobari)
Readmate
In-app purchases
帳(Tobari)
No in-app purchases
Readmate
- Lifetime$2.99








