Sermon Slides (Live) vs Reading Tutor | Dr. Read
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sermon Slides (Live)
This app helps you focus on sermons by displaying presentation slides in real-time. Save key slides, add contextual notes, and link scriptures to deepen your understanding and discipleship.
- Live presentation slides in real-time
- Save key slides with a single tap
- Contextual note-taking under slides
- Link relevant scripture verses
- Organized digital archive of teachings
- Powerful search functionality
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Focus on learning, not photographing the screens. Welcome to Sermon Slides, the ultimate digital companion designed to eliminate distractions and help you truly anchor yourself in the weekly message. We know how frustrating it is to feel divided between taking meaningful notes and catching the core points on the screen. With our revolutionary Live Slides feature, you don't have to choose. Live Slides: Delivered in Real-Time During the teaching, the current presentation slide appears instantly and automatically on your screen. Tap to Save: Instantly save any key slide to your personal notes timeline with a single tap. No more trying to grab blurry photos or missing key points while you scroll through your camera roll later. Distraction-Free: Keep your eyes off the screen and on your teacher. The slides appear quietly and automatically, letting you follow along effortlessly. Intuitive, Faith-Driven Note Taking Your notes are organized precisely the way you hear the message. Contextual Notes: Type your thoughts, insights, and "aha" moments directly underneath the slide they belong to. Scripture Links: Quickly search for and link relevant Scripture verses right into your notes for immediate reference and deeper study later. Prayer & Action: Easily save points that require prayer or immediate action steps, turning passive listening into active discipleship. Deepen Your Study & Discipleship The message doesn't end when the music starts. Sermon Slides makes your follow-up and reflection more powerful with the same visuals you saw during the message. Organized Archive: Every teaching is saved and organized within your other documents, creating a powerful digital journal of your faith journey, not locked to some random company's monthly subscription. Powerful Search: Find any specific insight or verse you wrote down weeks ago using your mac or phone's robust search functionality. Prepare for small group, Bible study, or personal reflection in seconds. Stop viewing the Sunday message as just an hour of content, and start treating it as the foundation for a week of devotion. Download Sermon Slides and transform the way you engage with God's Word every week.
Reading Tutor | Dr. Read
This app provides a patient, private reading tutor that listens as you read aloud from any text. It offers help with pronunciation, tricky words, and comprehension, making reading practice calm and useful for learners of all levels.
- Listens to reading aloud
- Helps with tricky words
- Assists with pronunciation
- Builds vocabulary
- Improves comprehension
- Practices fluency
- Supports reading confidence
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Dr. Read is a reading tutor that listens as you read aloud and offers patient help with real books, homework pages, articles, and passages. Reading practice should feel calm, private, and useful. Dr. Read helps readers by letting them bring in the text they already want to read, then practice aloud with support close by. Use Dr. Read to: • Read aloud with a tutor that listens • Get help with tricky words and pronunciation • Slow down unfamiliar words and sound patterns • Ask questions about the page • Build vocabulary and comprehension • Practice fluency without pressure • Keep going when reading gets hard Dr. Read is built for families who want reading help at home without turning practice into a test. It can support readers who need help with decoding, fluency, pronunciation, comprehension, unfamiliar words, or reading confidence. The reader stays in control. Start with a book, article, homework page, or passage. Dr. Read follows along and gives calm spoken guidance when help is needed. For readers, Dr. Read feels like support beside the page. For parents, it creates another way to make reading practice happen at home. Dr. Read is designed to support reading practice, not replace teachers, tutors, or reading specialists. Start a reading session when you are ready. Terms of Service: https://drread.com/terms-of-service Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://drread.com/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sermon Slides (Live) at none against Reading Tutor | Dr. Read's 2. Reading Tutor | Dr. Read's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. Reading Tutor | Dr. Read sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $99.99 per month. Sermon Slides (Live) asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Sermon Slides (Live) against 5.0 for Reading Tutor | Dr. Read. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Reading Tutor | Dr. Read has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Sermon Slides (Live) ships an update monthly, Reading Tutor | Dr. Read every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Sermon Slides (Live) | Reading Tutor | Dr. Read |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 225 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Unwritten Media | Skilldome Corporation |
Customer experience
Sermon Slides (Live)
Reading Tutor | Dr. Read
In-app purchases
Sermon Slides (Live)
No in-app purchases
Reading Tutor | Dr. Read
- Dr. Read Plus$99.991 Month
- Dr. Read Plus$999.991 Year
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