Comparison

Readmate vs Flowment

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Sync WeRead highlights
  • Organize by book
  • Daily highlight reminders
  • Search highlights
  • Create shareable quote cards
  • Home screen widgets
  • Offline data storage
Features
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Some lines stay with you longer than the book itself. Every line you save means something to you. Revisit later, and it may mean something different. Readmate brings them back. Sync your books, highlights, thoughts, and reading history from WeRead(More platform support coming soon.), and keep the words you once highlighted together on your own bookshelf. Revisit old highlights, find a line you remember, or turn a favorite passage into a card worth sharing. Sync your WeRead highlights 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 organized by book • Sync again to bring in newly saved highlights • Return to books you have read from your bookshelf 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 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 • Pick an aspect ratio that fits the content • Keep the book title, author, and attribution • Give longer passages room to breathe • Export cards and share them with other apps Keep highlights on your Home Screen You do not have to open Readmate to view an old highlight again. Choose from different Home Screen widget sizes and keep 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/

About

Flowment

Features
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Flowment keeps the moments that matter quietly on your Home Screen—no feed, no chat, no noise. Write a personal card, or share a private moment with one other person. Time becomes a calm layer under your own words. PERSONAL CARD POSTERS • Turn a thought, a date, or a promise into a living poster. • Choose from varied compositions, palettes, type styles and alignment. • Add a photo or gradient background, or import your own theme. • Count up from a day that matters, or down to one you're waiting for. • Share it as an image, or pin it to a Home Screen widget. A QUIET HOME SCREEN • Small and Medium widgets keep your words and dates in sight. • Open the app and it's ready—your cards, right where you left them. A PRIVATE SPACE FOR TWO • Create a shared moment and invite one person with a private link. • Once they join, you can both add the shared card to your Home Screens and see its latest changes. • Track your days together, or count down to the next time you meet. SEND A QUIET SIGNAL • A soft "Miss you" or "Hug" appears on their app and widget for a while. • No message thread to maintain, and nothing that demands an immediate reply. PRIVATE FROM THE START • No public profile and no social feed. • No contacts access and no precise location—city is an optional, approximate network estimate you can turn off. • Start right away. If you change phones, you can choose to restore your content by linking Apple. GENTLE BY DESIGN • Ending a shared moment enters a cooling-off period first—restoring needs both of you. • When it's truly over, keep it as a personal memorial card. FREE TO START, OPTIONAL PURCHASES • Start with personal cards, one shared card and one custom theme import slot. • Optional Theme Packs unlock their included themes. Flowment Lifetime is a one-time purchase for expanded card and custom theme limits, personal sync and full shared history. • Lifetime does not automatically include separately sold themes. There are no subscriptions. Flow this moment. See our time.

Screenshots

Readmate4 screens
Flowment4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Flowment at none against Readmate's 1. Readmate's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Readmate sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Flowment asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Readmate ships an update every 3 days, Flowment weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Readmate versus Flowment: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReadmateFlowment
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (35 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews88.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings35 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size171 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWHITESSPACE SDN. BHD.广东极速网络科技有限公司

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Readmate

One-time1
  • Lifetime$2.99
None

Flowment

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Readmate free?
Readmate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Flowment free?
Flowment is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Readmate or Flowment have ads?
Neither Readmate nor Flowment shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Readmate or Flowment?
Readmate ships an update every 3 days, and Flowment weekly. Most recently, Readmate was updated on October 12, 2026 and Flowment on October 6, 2026.

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