Regal Vault vs Reader AI

Most people who love antiques learn in the same scattered way: a paragraph from a reference book, a remark overheard at a sale, a guess at a hallmark that is never confirmed. RegalVault replaces that with structured practice. It covers fifteen fields of the decorative arts and teaches each one through short interactive lessons, then makes you prove what you learned against a question bank that remembers your weak points. Every lesson is written as a dialogue. It presents one idea, stops, and asks you to make a judgement before it goes on. A lesson on porcelain will show you two paste bodies and ask which one rings; a lesson on case furniture will show you a dovetail and ask what it says about the decade. Each one closes with a mini challenge, an observation exercise, an authenticity check and a set of summary notes you keep. What you can study and do: - Fifteen museum cabinets covering furniture, porcelain, silver, paintings, clocks, glass, books, sculpture, coins, militaria, jewellery, ceramics, textiles, lighting and decorative objects. - Object files with production period, country of origin, common materials, identifying characteristics, authenticity indicators, restoration guidance, collector notes and historical background. - A personal collection that fills wooden display cabinets as you work, recording rarity, timeline, country, period, material and preservation difficulty for every piece you catalogue. - Museum stamps and archive pages awarded for completed lessons, plus achievement medals and artifact series to complete. - An Academy with six training modes: a daily lesson, multiple choice quizzes, era identification, material challenges, original-or-reproduction judgements, and a twenty question collector examination. - Automatic repetition of anything you answer incorrectly, so weak distinctions keep returning until they are mastered. - A weekly timed challenge with its own rewards. - A searchable archive of historical periods, furniture styles, ceramic types, wood species, metal finishes, makers marks, hallmarks, artists, manufacturers, restoration techniques, auction vocabulary and museum terminology, with timelines and cross references. - Bookmarks and personal notes on any archive article. - A collector dashboard showing rank, experience, museum level, daily streak, weekly progress, completed lessons, collection completion, examination accuracy, study time and a learning calendar. - Selectable appearance themes and an adjustable typewriter reveal speed for lesson prose. Ranks run from Visitor through Collector, Curator, Restorer and Historian to Master Curator. Each promotion is earned against the question bank rather than handed out for time spent in the application. RegalVault asks nothing of you in return. There is no account to create, no subscription gate in front of the lessons, no advertising and no analytics. The entire corpus of lessons, archive articles and examination questions ships inside the application, so every feature works with no connection at all. Your progress record is written to your device's private storage and stays there. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Read books and web articles in their original language, with help when you need it. Reader AI brings reading, language learning and listening together. Import your own books, save articles from a link or the Safari share sheet, or follow websites with Feeds, then read in a layout you can make your own. READ AND UNDERSTAND Look up words in context and ask AI to explain sentences, expressions and passages. Set your native language and level for explanations that fit you. Read books and articles side by side with a translation, or the translation only. Ask about a book, quoting several passages, images or part of a PDF page, follow answers back to the text, or get an AI summary of the book or what you've read so far. LISTEN AND FOLLOW ALONG Narration runs on your device after you download a voice pack. Follow the highlighted text, change voices, turn on translated subtitles, and switch between the reader and player without losing your place. PDFs with selectable text can be narrated too. With Pro, Daily Podcast turns new articles from your feeds into an episode each day. BUILD YOUR LIBRARY Import EPUB, TXT, MOBI, AZW3, PDF and other formats. Follow websites and blogs with Feeds. Import from your WebDAV library or OPDS catalogs. Dropbox, OneDrive, Box, Google Drive imports and the Discover catalog are available outside mainland China. Add books to Want to Read and organize articles into folders. MAKE READING YOUR OWN Adjust fonts, spacing and colors, choose a page-turning effect, and use an external keyboard. On iPad, read in separate windows with a sidebar for contents, search and thumbnails. Highlight passages and add notes. Write on PDFs with Apple Pencil or your finger, using pens, highlighter, shapes and a zoom window, then export them. Text on scanned PDF pages is recognized on your device, so you can look up words. REMEMBER WHAT YOU READ Save words, expressions and sentences in Saved with their meanings and original sentences. Review them, track your progress and return to the original passage. FREE READING AND PRO Reading, highlighting, notes and PDF annotation are free. The free bookshelf holds 3 books (articles and the sample book don't count); add a spot for 3 AI credits. The sample book and your first 3 books are free to listen to and translate; other books unlock listening or translation for 5 credits each. A one-time No bookshelf limit purchase or Pro removes the limit and makes every book free to listen to and translate. Free AI credits let you try lookups, explanations and article translation; outside mainland China, you can also watch a short video for credits. Pro includes lookups, explanations, pronunciation, Book Chat, AI Summary, Similar Books and Daily Podcast. Plans and prices are shown in the app. NO APP ACCOUNT REQUIRED Your library, progress and study data are stored on your device and in your iCloud storage. AI features process the requested text and needed context. Narration and book translation run on your device; for Daily Podcast, our server reads your feeds to write each episode. Reward videos outside mainland China are provided by Google AdMob. AI output may contain errors. Only import content you have the right to use. Requires iOS 18 or later. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm a purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple Account settings and restore purchases in the app. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://reader.lorpaves.com/privacy/ Terms of Service: https://reader.lorpaves.com/terms/