Ordo vs Chimereader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ordo
Capture all your thoughts and tasks effortlessly. This app sorts your brain dumps into actionable lists for today, soon, and later, with reminders and quick access widgets. It's designed for simplicity, requiring no setup or account.
- Capture thoughts via typing or voice
- Automatic sorting into Now, Next, Someday lists
- Set reminders with notifications or alarms
- Home screen widget for quick access
- Add tasks from other apps
- Optional cloud backup and restore
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Your head is full. Ordo empties it. Type or say everything on your mind, in any order, all at once. Ordo turns it into a clean list, sorted into three places: NOW — for today NEXT — for soon SOMEDAY — for no rush Most apps want you to get organized before you can start. Ordo works the other way: dump it as messy as it is, and get back a list that makes sense. No folders, no projects, no setup. DUMP IT • One box for everything. Type it, or tap the mic and say it as it comes. • One thing or ten: “call the landlord today, book the dentist for Tuesday, buy milk” becomes three cards, each in its place. • Add from anywhere: share text from another app, or ask Siri to “Dump to Ordo”. MAKE IT YOURS • Move any card between Now, Next and Someday with a tap. • Rename it, add notes, star what matters. • Swipe to delete. Deleted things wait 30 days in case you change your mind. • Tick things off. Keep them where they are, or send them to Done: everything you finished, in one place. Your choice in Settings. WHEN IT MATTERS • Say a time, like “call the dentist at 4” or “wake me up at 7”, and Ordo sets a reminder. • Choose how each one reaches you: a notification, or an alarm that rings like the Clock app (iOS 26). • See your reminders in Apple Reminders too, if you like. Alerts come from Ordo, so you never get two. • A home screen widget shows what’s Now. Tick things off right there. MADE FOR • The end of a long day, when everything is still in your head. • Leaving a meeting or a class with five new things to do. • Ideas that show up at the wrong moment. • Anyone who has tried a planner and given up on the setup. CALM BY DESIGN • No account. No sign-up. Your list lives on your phone. • Light or dark, each designed with care. Ordo follows your phone, or you pick one in Settings. • Back up and restore anytime. To sort a dump, its words go to Ordo’s sorting service, so sorting needs a connection. Offline? Ordo keeps your dump and sorts it when you’re back.
Chimereader
This app reads your documents and web articles aloud with natural AI voices, highlighting text as it speaks. It preserves original layouts and syncs across devices, offering a hands-free reading experience for those with limited time.
- Natural AI voices
- Word-by-word highlighting
- Cross-device sync
- Web page reading
- AI layout detection
- Offline processing
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Chimereader reads your PDFs, EPUBs and web pages aloud in a natural AI voice, and highlights each word on the page as it's read. • One subscription for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Sync your books, where you left off, bookmarks and favourites across your devices with iCloud • Natural AI voices you can listen to for hours • Follow along with word or sentence highlighting, or both, and choose your own highlight colour • Character voices (experimental): dialogue in novels is read in distinct male and female voices, separate from the narrator, and you choose all three voices. Available on compatible devices • Skips headers, footers, page numbers and figures, so you hear just the text • Listen to web pages right on the website, including ones you're signed in to • Private by design: your documents are read on your device and never sent to our servers. With sync on, they are kept in your own iCloud account Built for people with more reading than time: students, researchers, and anyone who gets through papers on a commute or a walk. Reading documents takes the Chimereader Monthly subscription, at the price shown in the app before you subscribe. New subscribers start with a one-month free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase, and the subscription renews automatically until you cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://chimereader.com/privacy What you need A Mac with Apple silicon running macOS 15 or later, or an iPhone or iPad running iOS 26 or later. About the 16+ age rating Chimereader is rated 16+ for one reason only: the built-in web reader can open any web page, which is classified as unrestricted web access. The app contains no violence, profanity, sexual content, gambling or drug references of its own, and shows no ads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ordo at none against Chimereader's 1. Ordo also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). Chimereader's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). 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
Both are free to download. Chimereader sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Ordo asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Ordo against 5.0 for Chimereader. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.
Ordo ships an update every 2 weeks, Chimereader every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Ordo | Chimereader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 208 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | DANIEL LAREDO | KANWALJEET KAUR CHHABRA |
Customer experience
Ordo
Chimereader
In-app purchases
Ordo
No in-app purchases
Chimereader
- Chimereader Monthly1 Month trial$2.991 Month









