Comparison

Sam Webpage Summarizer vs Margina

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

Head to head
About

Sam Webpage Summarizer

This app transforms lengthy webpages into concise summaries or translations directly from your device's share sheet. It allows for immediate reading as content generates and saves results to a local history for later review and follow-up questions. Users can customize AI models and settings, and track token usage.

Highlights
  • Summarize webpages
  • Translate webpages
  • iOS share sheet integration
  • Stream content generation
  • Local history saving
  • Customizable AI models
  • Token usage tracking
Features
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Turn long webpages into clear summaries and translations with Sam. Share a page from Safari or paste a link directly into the app, then read the result as it generates. READ AND REVISIT Save useful results to your history, search across titles, saved results, and follow-up questions, and return to what matters. Ask follow-up questions without starting over. Optional iCloud sync keeps your saved results available across your devices. CHOOSE YOUR AI Use your own OpenRouter API key or configure an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Choose separate models for summaries and translations, adjust generation settings, and view token usage and estimated cost when your provider supplies them. YouTube links require a model that supports video input. MADE FOR IPHONE AND IPAD Summarize or translate from the share sheet, add links directly, and find saved pages with native search. On iPhone Duo and iPad, browse history beside the reading pane when space allows. Sam adapts as you fold, rotate, or resize. No Sam account is required. AI generation requires access to a supported provider. Provider accounts, API keys, availability, and usage charges depend on the service you choose. Optional coffee tips support Sam's development and do not unlock AI credits.

About

Margina

This app provides a private, distraction-free reading environment for various document types. Organize, highlight, and annotate your readings, with options to export your notes. It prioritizes user privacy by keeping all data on the device.

Highlights
  • Supports PDF, EPUB, Word, Markdown, and text
  • Distraction-free reading experience
  • Highlight and annotate with notes
  • Organize library with folders
  • Search across documents and annotations
  • Export highlights and notes
  • Offline reading
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Margina is a calm, private home for everything you read. Send yourself a PDF, EPUB, Word doc, Markdown file, or plain text. Margina opens them all in one distraction-free reader that remembers exactly where you left off. No account, no cloud requirement, no clutter: just you and the page. A LIBRARY THAT LOOKS LIKE ONE Your documents live on a clean shelf of covers, each showing its format and how far you have read. Prefer rows? Switch to list view with one tap. Filter by what you are reading now, what is new, and what you have finished, and pin the book you keep coming back to. HIGHLIGHT AND ANNOTATE Mark passages in five colors, attach a note in the margin, and drop bookmarks anywhere. Drag across a PDF page to select and highlight in one motion. Every annotation is gathered in one place, ready to browse, filter, and revisit. Tap any highlight to jump straight back to its page. FIND ANYTHING, FAST Search across titles, authors, highlights, and notes at once. Matches light up inside the results exactly like highlights on a page, grouped by document so you always know where a passage came from. STAY ORGANIZED Sort your library into color-coded folders for work, study, research, or that stack of essays you have been meaning to get to. Jump back into any book at the exact spot, or the exact highlight, you were last at. MADE FOR LONG READING A reading experience designed like a well-set book: quiet paper tones, generous margins, and your progress drawn as a thin rule in the margin itself. Choose paper, sepia, or dark. Tune font, size, line spacing, and margins right in the reader. Includes a dyslexia-friendly typeface option and respects your system accessibility settings, from Dynamic Type to VoiceOver, Reduce Motion, and Reduce Transparency. EVERY FORMAT YOU ACTUALLY USE PDF reader, EPUB reader, Word document viewer, Markdown reader, and plain text, all in one app. Import from the share sheet, the Files app, email attachments, or anywhere else you can tap Share. Everything works offline, on the train, on a plane, or at the cabin with no signal. EXPORT AND SHARE Turn your highlights and notes into a clean Markdown file or a formatted PDF and send them to your notes app, your research workflow, or a friend. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your library lives on your device. No account, no sign-up, no tracking, nothing to set up. Margina hosts nothing about you. Reading is personal; your reading data should be too. MARGINA PRO Upgrade to back up your library to your OWN iCloud, unlock the sepia reading theme, export your annotations, and add unlimited documents. Available monthly, annually, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Your backup stays in your iCloud, never on our servers, so even Pro keeps your data yours. WHO MARGINA IS FOR Students annotating readings and lecture notes. Researchers working through papers. Book club readers who argue in the margins. Writers collecting passages. Anyone who sends themselves things to read later and actually wants to read them, without ads, feeds, or noise. Read anything. Mark it up. Keep it yours. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://margina.app/privacy Margina Pro is offered as a monthly or annual auto-renewable subscription or a one-time Lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings.

Screenshots

Sam Webpage Summarizer4 screens
Margina4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Sam Webpage Summarizer at every 3 days against Margina's every 3 weeks. Sam Webpage Summarizer also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sam Webpage Summarizer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Margina sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Sam Webpage Summarizer against 5.0 for Margina. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sam Webpage Summarizer ships an update every 3 days, Margina every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Sam Webpage Summarizer versus Margina: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSam Webpage SummarizerMargina
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB63 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDine Creative Design LLCEcho Persona LLC

Customer experience

Sam Webpage Summarizer

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Margina

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Sam Webpage Summarizer

One-time1
  • Coffee Tip$4.99
3 purchases

Margina

Subscriptions2
  • Margina Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Margina Pro Annual$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Margina Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is Sam Webpage Summarizer free?
Sam Webpage Summarizer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Margina free?
Margina is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sam Webpage Summarizer or Margina?
Sam Webpage Summarizer and Margina are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Sam Webpage Summarizer or Margina have ads?
Neither Sam Webpage Summarizer nor Margina shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sam Webpage Summarizer or Margina?
Sam Webpage Summarizer ships an update every 3 days, and Margina every 3 weeks. Most recently, Sam Webpage Summarizer was updated on October 28, 2026 and Margina on October 31, 2026.

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