NextSpeedReader vs Speedready

SpeedReader shows a book's text one word at a time, always in the same spot on the screen, at the pace you choose. Your eyes stop scanning lines and your attention stays on meaning. This is RSVP (rapid serial visual presentation) — a way to read faster with less fatigue. READING • 100 to 900 words per minute, 1–4 words at a time • Space to pause and resume; left/right arrows step one word, up/down arrows change speed (with a keyboard on Mac and iPad) • Slightly longer pauses at periods and commas, so the text reads naturally • Clean text: page numbers and repeated running headers (including chapter titles) are removed, hyphenated words are joined • Optional highlight of the optimal recognition point (ORP) • Word typeface of your choice: sans-serif, serif or monospaced BOOKS • Import PDF, EPUB, FB2 or plain-text (.txt) files from your device or cloud storage through the system file browser • Scanned PDFs or PDFs with a broken text layer: recognize the text on your device (OCR) once and read it • Pick the pages (or chapters, in an EPUB) to read first and skip contents and front matter • The library remembers where you stopped in every book • Named bookmarks return you to the exact word • Table of contents from the book itself or from detected chapter headings • Full-text search: find a word or phrase and start reading right there • For PDFs, "Open this place in the PDF" shows the original page with the current sentence highlighted QUOTES • One tap saves the current sentence with the book and page number • Add author, publisher and year and copy a ready citation: "quote" — Author. Title. Publisher, year, p. N • Quotes are grouped by edition; copy them all at once PRIVACY • No sign-up, analytics or ads. Books, bookmarks and quotes stay on your device. Works on iPhone, iPad and Mac, in English and Russian. Made by Vlad Sitnikov. Inspired by Anton Bulanov and his book "The Nature of Cunning" (Природа хитрости).

Read faster, and read in the language you are learning. Speedready is a speed reader and a bilingual reader in one, for any book you own. READ FASTER • A highlight sweeps through the text at your pace, or words flash one at a time in the center of the screen, so your eyes stop jumping around • Set your speed anywhere from 40 to 1,500 words per minute • Natural pauses at commas, sentence ends and paragraphs keep it readable at speed • See how many minutes are left in the chapter and the book LEARN A LANGUAGE BY READING • Ten languages, in any combination: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Russian and Swedish • Above every word you do not know yet sits its translation in your own language • Tap the translation once you know a word: it disappears from the whole book, and the page gets cleaner as your vocabulary grows • Hold a word you are still learning: it is underlined everywhere and the pace slows for it • Sentences are read aloud by your device's voice, with the text following along • Export everything you look up as an Anki deck • Reading German? Nouns are colored by gender: blue for der, red for die, green for das YOUR OWN BOOKS, CLEANLY Open any EPUB or text file; the app recognizes its language. Page numbers and headers left over from print are removed, sentences broken by a page are joined again, and every book opens at chapter one. A German storybook is built in so you can start right away. YOUR LIBRARY • Add several books at once, or let Speedready find the EPUB and text files in a folder you choose, then tick the ones you want • Every book reopens right where you left it • The app speaks your language too: English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Russian or Swedish PRIVATE No account, no tracking, no ads. A language pair's dictionary downloads once (about 2 MB) and then works offline. Your books and your progress never leave your device. IN SAFARI TOO Turn on the Speedready extension in Settings, Safari, Extensions, and read any web page or selected paragraph in the same pacer, with translations. The reader is free, open-source software. Dictionaries use Wiktionary data under CC BY-SA 4.0.