Eclipse vs Hardwire
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Eclipse
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Hate reading PDFs at night? So did we. Eclipse is the dark mode PDF reader your eyes have been waiting for. One tap transforms any PDF into a beautiful, eye-friendly dark document โ no more blinding white backgrounds in bed, on the couch, or during late-night study sessions. TRUE DARK MODE โ NOT A FILTER Most apps just dim your screen. Eclipse is different. Our smart color inversion engine flips the actual content โ white becomes black, black becomes white โ giving you a true OLED-friendly dark reading experience that saves battery and protects your eyes. Choose from three reading themes: โ Pure Dark โ Full inversion, maximum contrast, perfect for OLED โ Warm Dark โ Soft tones for relaxed reading (Pro) โ Sepia โ Paper-like warmth for long sessions (Pro) ANNOTATE & MARK UP YOUR DOCUMENTS Eclipse isn't just a viewer โ it's your complete PDF workspace: โ Highlight text with a translucent highlighter โ Draw freehand with pen, marker, or highlighter tools โ Pick from multiple colors and adjust line thickness โ Undo strokes and erase individual annotations โ All changes are saved directly to the PDF file SMART READING FEATURES โ Bookmark any page with a custom title โ Full-text search across your entire document โ Go-to-page navigation for quick access โ Reading progress bar with page tracking โ Continue Reading โ pick up exactly where you left off โ Screen brightness control built right in โ Share PDFs directly from the reader YOUR LIBRARY, ORGANIZED โ Import PDFs from Files, iCloud, email, or any app โ Thumbnail previews for every document โ Search your library by file name โ Delete documents with a long-press โ Clean, elegant interface โ no clutter, no distractions 100% PRIVATE. ALWAYS. Your PDFs never leave your device. No cloud uploads. No servers. No analytics. No tracking. Everything happens on-device. We can't see your documents even if we wanted to. FREE TO USE โ PRO FOR POWER READERS Eclipse is free with Pure Dark mode. Upgrade to Eclipse Pro to unlock Warm Dark & Sepia themes, bookmarks, and annotation tools. โ Monthly: $1.99/month โ Lifetime: $4.99 โ one-time, forever No ads. No data collection. Just reading, the way it should be. Download Eclipse today and never read a blinding white PDF again. Terms of Use: https://burakani.github.io/eclipse-legal/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://burakani.github.io/eclipse-legal/privacy.html
Hardwire
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Disciplined is the app for people who don't need another dopamine hit โ they need a system. Every morning, one quote. Not a feed of them โ one, chosen for the day, the same one on your Lock Screen, your home screen widget, and your notification. Sometimes calm and Stoic, sometimes blunt. You choose the voice. Then the system that keeps you honest: TASKS โ daily to-dos with priority and recurrence. Finish one, the next one already knows when to reappear. HABITS โ track up to 3 for free, unlimited with Premium. A heat map for every habit, so a 40-day streak isn't a number, it's a wall of colored squares you don't want to break. FOCUS โ a Pomodoro timer with Live Activity support: watch the countdown from your Lock Screen or Dynamic Island without opening the app. Every session is logged, even the ones you don't finish. JOURNAL โ a one-line morning intention, an evening reflection, a mood score. No pressure to write an essay. GOALS & STATS โ weekly trends, your strongest and weakest habits, badges earned from what you've actually done, not what you unlocked. WIDGETS โ this is where Disciplined actually lives. Small, Medium, Large, Lock Screen, StandBy โ every family, every size, all free, no exceptions. A widget you'd lock behind a paywall is a widget nobody puts on their home screen, so none of ours are. PRIVACY โ no account, no sign-in, no server holding what you write. Your tasks, habits, journal entries and focus sessions never leave your device. PRICING โ Disciplined is not a subscription. Premium is one purchase, forever: unlimited habits, the full quote library, 30-day focus history instead of 7, 12-week stat trends instead of 4, journal search, and every theme. Buy it once. Nothing renews, nothing to cancel, nothing to forget you're paying for. This is not a feed. It's not gamified for its own sake. It's the app version of someone who actually expects you to show up.
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Verdict
Eclipse and Hardwire are too close to call on the numbers: across 3 compared parameters โ price, in-app purchases and iOS requirement among them โ neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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
Both are free to download. Eclipse sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Hardwire sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Eclipse | Hardwire |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | โ | Every 3 days |
| Ads | โ | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | โ | iPhone โ better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Burak ANI | Emircan Bakar |
In-app purchases
Eclipse
- Monthly Premium$1.991 Month
- Lifetime Premium$4.99
Hardwire
- Hardwire Premium$9.99









