Comparison

Tuck vs NexReader

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

Head to head
About

Tuck

Features
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Tuck keeps the things you love online, for good. Share a post, article, video or profile to Tuck from Safari or any app, and Tuck saves a clean copy to your own private feed. Scroll it like a social feed, read articles in a calm reader, and tap a video to play it. Posts get deleted, accounts go private and links stop working. What you tuck away stays. ONE PRIVATE FEED • Everything you save lands in Home • Make your own feeds, like Cooking, Hiking or Design, and switch between them from the top of the screen • Show any mix of posts, people, videos, articles or your own posts • Sort by when you saved something or when it was posted • Search across everything you've saved • Lock a feed with Face ID, or keep it out of Home MADE FOR EACH KIND OF CONTENT • Posts show the author, text, images and any quoted post, without the noise • Articles open in a clean reader with your choice of font, size and theme, and the original page is saved too so you can read it offline • Videos play right in the feed. Tap one and swipe up to keep watching your saved videos • Save profiles too, and jump straight to them in their own app WHAT TUCK SAVES • X, Bluesky, Threads and Mastodon posts, with photos, quoted posts and counts • Reddit, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Telegram posts, with every image and video • Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and Snapchat captions, photos and covers • YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch, Bilibili and niconico videos, with their details, playing in the official player • Weibo, RedNote, Douyin, VK and Naver Blog posts • Articles from any website and Substack, Apple Podcasts and Spotify episodes, and profiles everywhere • Any other link, as a card with its title and preview SAVE IN A TAP • Share from any app, or copy a link and tap the add button • Import a list of links, and export everything you've saved • Choose per save whether to keep photos and videos, or just the text and a thumbnail YOUR OWN POSTS Write notes with photos, videos and links straight into any feed, and keep them alongside everything you've saved. LOCAL FEEDS Turn a folder of your own videos and photos into a feed that scrolls like the rest: pick one in Files on iPhone and iPad, or any folder or external drive on the Mac. Tuck only reads the folder; nothing is copied or uploaded. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-up • Everything is stored on your device and synced through your own iCloud, and you choose whether photos and videos sync • No ads, no analytics, no tracking • Pages are fetched directly from your device, never through our servers Tuck works on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and is made for both screens of iPhone Duo.

About

NexReader

Features
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Read Markdown the way it was meant to look. NexReader turns any .md file into a clean, comfortable page. Headings, tables, code, task lists and quotes are rendered natively — no web view, no clutter, nothing between you and the words. It is made for the documents you actually receive: notes, READMEs, specs, and the long answers AI tools write for you. BEAUTIFUL RENDERING • Full GitHub-Flavored Markdown: headings, bold and italic, lists, task lists, quotes, tables and links • Code blocks with syntax highlighting for 16 languages, and one-tap copy • Tables that keep their alignment and scroll sideways instead of squashing • Images you can open full screen and pinch to zoom MAKE IT YOURS • Four reading themes: Classic White, Sepia, Midnight and AMOLED Black • Four typefaces, including New York for long reads • Text size, weight, line height, letter spacing and paragraph spacing • Three reading widths, so lines never run too long on a big screen FIND YOUR WAY • An outline of every heading, with your current section marked • Find in document, with every match highlighted • Opens exactly where you left off — even after you change the text size A LIBRARY THAT STAYS TIDY • Real folders you can create, rename and rearrange • Favorites, sorting, search, and reading progress on every document • Your documents also appear in the Files app, in the same folders GET FILES IN EASILY • Import from Files, or open .md files straight from other apps • Wi‑Fi Transfer: drop files from any computer's browser onto your iPhone or iPad. No cable, no cloud, no account GREAT ON IPAD • Your library and the page side by side • Keyboard shortcuts for find, the outline, text size and moving between sections ALSO ON MAC • Open any .md file from Finder in its own window • The same library, themes and typography, with a full menu bar NO ACCOUNT NEEDED There is nothing to sign up for, and your documents stay on your device. NexReader collects no data at all: no analytics, no tracking, no ads.

Screenshots

Tuck4 screens
NexReader4 screens

Verdict

The call

Tuck and NexReader are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Tuck versus NexReader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTuckNexReader
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS27.026.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB6 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperRogue Superintelligence LLCPhyo Myanmar Kyaw

In-app purchases

None

Tuck

No in-app purchases

None

NexReader

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tuck free?
Tuck is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is NexReader free?
NexReader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tuck or NexReader have ads?
Neither Tuck nor NexReader shows ads.

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