Comparison

Aura vs Rhymia

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

Head to head
About

Aura

Features
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Turn documents into a private listening experience with Aura. Import text, TXT, EPUB, DOCX and text-based PDFs, then listen with clear on-device speech. Aura keeps your documents and generated audio on your iPhone or iPad. After you download the speech model and a voice, you can listen without a connection. READ YOUR WAY • Import files, paste text, or share documents to Aura from other apps • Continue from your saved place, with sentence-by-sentence follow-along • Play, pause, skip sentences and choose a comfortable speed • Keep listening with the screen locked, with Lock Screen controls • Choose from the available voices and narration languages • Save a narration as an M4A audio file WORK WITH TEXT IN MORE WAYS • Take or pick a photo and turn the printed text into something you can hear • Translate text on your device after downloading the language • Six reading themes and adjustable font, size and spacing • Use Aura in English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Korean, Swedish or Danish PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your document text, filenames, reading position and generated audio stay in Aura's private storage on your device. Aura does not use a cloud text-to-speech service. Downloading the speech model, voices and optional languages needs an internet connection. The free version shows ads and limits listening time, library size and export. Aura Pro removes ads and unlocks every voice, EPUB import, offline translation, unlimited listening and export, and an unlimited library. Pro is available monthly, yearly or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period, and can be managed in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Rhymia

Features
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Rhymia is a home for poetry: for the people who read it, and for the people who write it. WRITE AND PUBLISH YOUR OWN POEMS Rhymia is not just a reading app. If you write, you get a stage: a poet page of your own, in front of readers who came here to read poems. • Publish as many poems as you like, for free. • Open your poet page in one tap: pen name, bio, country, and links to your website and social profiles. • Write in the editor, or upload a PDF, TXT or Markdown file. Save drafts, or schedule a poem to appear later. • Give each poem a picture: your own, or one from a free photo library. • Tag each poem with a mood, so it shows up where readers look, next to Keats, Rilke and Petőfi. • Every poem you publish gets an audio version automatically, read in the language you wrote it in. • Collect your poems into books. Readers can follow you, save your poems and put them on their own shelves. POET PREMIUM • Upload your own recording of a poem, so readers hear your voice instead of the machine voice • Statistics: reads and listens for every poem • Links on your poet page: social media, your website, and where to get your book • Title and mood suggestions for your poems: 30 a day (3 on the free account) • Spell check as you write: misspelled words are underlined, tap for the correct form • Turn up to eight lines of a poem into a quote card and share it • Read without limits, save poems, make shelves and listen to any poem READ THE CLASSICS Hundreds of classic poems by poets from around the world: Goethe, Keats, Baudelaire, Rilke, Emily Dickinson, Pushkin, Petőfi and many more, each in the language it was written in. Every text comes from Wikisource, and every poem names its source. MADE FOR READING, NOT SCROLLING One poem at a time, with the line breaks the poet wrote. No endless feed, no autoplay. Browse by mood (love, friendship, grief, hope, philosophy, night and many more) or by the country the poet came from, and let any poem be read aloud in its own language. READER PREMIUM A free account reads up to three poems a day. Reader Premium removes the limit and adds saved poems, shelves, listening to any poem and offline downloads. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically for the same period and price unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before it ends. Manage or cancel it in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Deleting the app does not cancel it. Terms of Use: https://rhymia.eu/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://rhymia.eu/privacy/

Screenshots

Aura4 screens
Rhymia4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Rhymia at none against Aura's shown. Rhymia also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 10 days) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). Aura's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price and in-app purchases 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. Aura sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Rhymia sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Aura ships an update every 10 days, Rhymia daily. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 2 level
Aura versus Rhymia: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAuraRhymia
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB45 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMohamed Ali MasmoudiROBERT NAGY

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Aura

Subscriptions2
  • Aura Pro Monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Aura Pro Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Aura Pro Lifetime$59.99
4 purchases

Rhymia

Subscriptions4
  • Rhymia Premium7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Rhymia Poet Premium7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Rhymia Premium7 Days trial$24.991 Year
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  • Rhymia Poet Premium7 Days trial$34.991 Year

Questions

Is Aura free?
Aura is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rhymia free?
Rhymia is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Aura or Rhymia have ads?
Aura shows ads; Rhymia does not.
Which is updated more often, Aura or Rhymia?
Aura ships an update every 10 days, and Rhymia daily. Most recently, Aura was updated on November 10, 2026 and Rhymia on November 10, 2026.

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