Comparison

Comprehensy vs Reader IQ

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

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About

Comprehensy

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Read what you love. Learn a language naturally. Comprehensy helps you improve English, Spanish, German, French or Italian through content you actually care about. Add any article you want to read, and Comprehensy adapts it to your level, helping you learn through comprehensible input and build vocabulary in context without boring textbooks or generic exercises. CHOOSE YOUR LANGUAGE Learn English, Spanish, German, French or Italian, and pick the native language you want translations to come back in. The app itself switches to the language you are learning, so you are immersed in it from the first minute. READ AT YOUR LEVEL Adapt any article to match your level. Comprehensy uses AI to adjust the language and make challenging content more accessible and easier to read. GENERATE AUDIO AND FOLLOW ALONG Turn any article into natural-sounding audio and listen whenever it suits you. You can also read along while the audio plays, with each word highlighted in sync so it is easy to follow the text as you listen. UNDERSTAND WORDS IN CONTEXT Not sure what a word means? Just tap it. Get a clear explanation based on the exact sentence you are reading, written in the language you are learning. If that is still too much, one tap translates the word, its sentence and its explanation into your native language. LEARN ANYWHERE Download articles together with their audio and keep reading and listening offline, whether you are commuting, traveling, or simply away from an internet connection. With Comprehensy, language practice becomes part of your everyday life. Your interests. Your level. Your language journey. SUBSCRIPTION Comprehensy requires an auto-renewable subscription (Monthly or Annual) to access all features. The Annual plan includes a free trial for eligible new users. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed or cancelled in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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Reader IQ

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That Spanish you took in high school, the language your abuela still speaks at home, the manga you've always wanted to read in the original โ€” Reader IQ gets you there. Hard words are translated right above the line, a tap on any word explains it in context, and every book can be listened to as well as read. BOOKS THAT SPEAK. AUDIOBOOKS YOU CAN READ. Focus mode turns any book into a listening lesson โ€” no audio edition needed. It reads any e-book aloud sentence by sentence and highlights each word as it's spoken. For supported language pairs on compatible devices, it shows full-sentence subtitles; otherwise, word translations remain available. Tap any word for the dictionary without stopping the audio. On compatible devices and systems, where the book's language and speech model are supported, on-device transcription turns audiobook speech into word-synced text with translated subtitles; otherwise, the audiobook still plays normally. Listening time counts toward shared time, streak, and goal totals. YOUR BOOKS, MANY FORMATS Tired of a library that runs out of new stories after a few weeks? Import your own โ€” from email, cloud, messaging apps, or your browser โ€” and the catalog never runs dry: - Books: EPUB, FB2, MOBI, AZW3, TXT, Markdown and more - Research & scans: PDF and DjVu โ€” scanned pages read with on-device OCR - Comics: CBZ, including manga read right to left, the way it was drawn - Audiobooks: m4b, mp3 and more TRANSLATIONS ABOVE THE LINE โ€” ONLY WHERE YOU NEED THEM Brushing up before a trip to Mexico City, or starting Japanese from scratch? Tell Reader IQ your level โ€” or take a two-minute test โ€” and it translates only the words you don't know yet, right above the line. You read for meaning, not decoding, and the hints fade as your vocabulary grows. A DICTIONARY THAT UNDERSTANDS CONTEXT Tap any word and an on-device model reads the sentence to select the most likely meaning โ€” "spring" the season, not the coil. Pronunciation, word forms, example sentences, conjugation tables for 8 languages, and kanji/hanzi breakdowns with stroke order. Once downloaded, the dictionaries live on your device and work offline. A GRADED PATH FROM YOUR FIRST 10 WORDS You don't start with a 400-page novel. Adapted books and a graded path of short stories take you from your first words to longer texts, adding just a few new words at each step. Read-along speech, quizzes and spaced re-reads make it stick โ€” so you're ready when you pick up a real novel. SPACED REPETITION, STRAIGHT FROM YOUR BOOKS Every word you tap is saved with the sentence it came from, and that sentence becomes your flashcard. Four practice modes โ€” recognition, fill-in-the-blank from your own books, listening, and typed recall โ€” run on a real spaced-repetition schedule with honest next-review dates. Meet a saved word again while reading and it advances on its own: reading is the review. See how much of each level (A1โ€“C2) you've covered, and export your words โ€” handy for a book club reading the same title. GOALS, STREAKS AND 40 AWARD LADDERS Set a daily reading goal and keep it going with a weekly ring and a heatmap. Set a word-count goal for a date and watch it get closer. Around 40 awards celebrate how learning actually happens โ€” first book finished, longest streak, biggest day, getting back on track after you fall off. 10 READING LANGUAGES English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Chinese, and Thai. Pinyin with tone colors, furigana and vertical Japanese text, Thai tone marks, and beginner modes if you don't know the script yet. Translations into 30+ languages. Reading in the original is still the most natural way to learn a language โ€” no drills, just the story pulling you forward. Reader IQ clears out what made it hard: the dictionary detours, books too advanced, words forgotten the next day. Open your first book tonight.

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Comprehensy3 screens
Reader IQ4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Reader IQ at none against Comprehensy's 2. Reader IQ also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Comprehensy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. Reader IQ asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Comprehensy ships an update every 11 days, Reader IQ fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Comprehensy versus Reader IQ: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterComprehensyReader IQ
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 11 days โ€” betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size59 MB188 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperNormabase Inc.Dmitry Zaika

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Comprehensy

Subscriptions2
  • App Access$19.991 Month
  • App Access7 Days trial$199.991 Year
None

Reader IQ

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Comprehensy free?
Comprehensy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Reader IQ free?
Reader IQ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Comprehensy or Reader IQ have ads?
Neither Comprehensy nor Reader IQ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Comprehensy or Reader IQ?
Comprehensy ships an update every 11 days, and Reader IQ fortnightly. Most recently, Comprehensy was updated on October 10, 2026 and Reader IQ on October 19, 2026.

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