YiKe vs Readmate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
YiKe
This app offers a simple way to record daily moments with text, photos, and videos. It features automatic saving and allows easy editing of past entries. Track your activity and revisit memories effortlessly.
- Local data storage
- Text, photo, and video entries
- Edit past entries
- Automatic draft saving
- Activity statistics
- Date-based entry recall
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YiKe is a lightweight life journaling app. No complicated layouts — just open and write. Text, photos, videos, recordings, locations and more can all live in one entry, and you can scroll back through your timeline like a feed. You can even add notes to an entry later, whenever a new thought comes to mind. 【Capture Every Form of Memory】 · Text diaries, quick notes, random thoughts, and moods · Photos, videos, recordings, locations, and tags — all in one entry · Speech recognition: just speak, and it's recorded · Freely manage your recording tools — reorder, hide, and personalize 【Find It, and It Matters】 · Search and tag system with time and tag filters — find any entry in seconds · Tag management, Library, Footprints, and Widgets keep your memories organized 【Turn Entries into Art】 · Generate beautiful posters in one tap, with adjustable background colors and text sizes · Export your entries as folders or spreadsheets — take them anywhere, anytime 【Local Storage, Private by Design】 · Entries stay on your device by default — works offline · Face ID lock keeps your diary yours alone · Optional iCloud sync across all your devices Start today — record every moment that's yours. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Readmate
This app helps you revisit and organize your saved book highlights and personal notes. It syncs with your reading history, allowing you to rediscover meaningful passages and share them as beautifully designed cards. Keep your favorite quotes accessible through widgets and search functionality.
- Sync WeRead highlights and thoughts
- Organize highlights by book
- Daily highlight reminders
- Search highlights and books
- Create shareable highlight cards
- Home screen widgets for highlights and bookshelf
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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 monetization model: Readmate at free against YiKe's free with in-app purchases. Readmate also leads on ratings volume (38 vs 7). YiKe's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and review sentiment (100% vs 89%). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. YiKe sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Readmate sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
YiKe holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Readmate has 38 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of YiKe's written reviews are positive against 89% of Readmate's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | YiKe | Readmate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better | 4.8 (38 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 89.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 38 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 181 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | 昱琨 程 | WHITESSPACE SDN. BHD. |
Customer experience
YiKe
Readmate
In-app purchases
YiKe
- YiKe PRO Monthly$0.991 Month
- YiKe PRO Annual$2.991 Year
- YiKe PRO Lifetime$4.99
Readmate
- Lifetime$2.99









