Apricity vs Readora
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Apricity
This app offers a comprehensive reading and note-taking experience, transforming your device into a personal library. Enjoy features like text-to-speech, customizable bookshelves, and robust PDF annotation tools.
- Read Aloud with highlighting
- Customizable digital bookshelves
- PDF and document annotation
- Handwriting and note-taking
- Audio recording synced with notes
- Focus timer and soundscapes
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Apricity (n.): the warmth of the sun on a winter's day. The best reading happens late, when the house is quiet and a single lamp makes a small warm room inside the dark. Apricity is built around that feeling: a reading room for your books, a voice to read them to you, and a desk for your notes. SOMEONE TO READ TO YOU Read Aloud lights up each sentence as it's read, plays on with the screen locked and in CarPlay, and has a sleep timer. Choose Apple's voices or 54 natural voices in eight languages, made on your device. Character Voice gives a story's characters a voice of their own, and Expressive Reading lets a whispered line sound whispered. Siri knows it: "Read my book in Apricity." YOUR BOOKS, ON REAL SHELVES Add a PDF, EPUB, Word document, MOBI, FB2, Markdown or text file and it stands on a wooden shelf, lit by a lamp at night and daylight by morning. Pick one of four bookcases, stand books by cover or spine, and keep some in a cabinet. Furnish it with 21 themes, 21 wallpapers or your photo, 13 woods, seven lamps and shelf decorations. THE WEB AND THE CLASSICS Paste a link or share a page from Safari, and its story becomes a book, ready to read or hear at once. Or turn the bookcase to thousands of free public-domain classics, shelved by kind like a bookshop's; pick one and it's yours in seconds. TWO WAYS TO READ Original shows the page exactly as published, recoloured for the light you read by. Reflow sets the words like a book, in the face, size and spacing you choose. Scans are read too, and comics and manga open as pages, manga right to left. Highlight, keep notes, look up words and see how much you've read this week. KEEP THE LINES YOU LOVE Save a quote or a word as you read; the Quote of the Day and Word of the Day widgets bring them back each morning. WRITE ON YOUR PDFS Markup puts the notebook's pens on a PDF's own pages: circle a figure, answer a worksheet, and the PDF stays as it was. Split View keeps a notebook open beside the book. NOTEBOOKS THAT FEEL LIKE PAPER Write with Apple Pencil or a finger; pinch in close and the page stays sharp. Neat Writing tidies your hand, and shapes snap clean. Pages come in 81 kinds of paper, from Cornell notes to music staff. Add stickers, photos and sticky notes, choose from 30 covers, and search your handwriting. Notability and GoodNotes notes come in as ink you can keep editing. RECORD THE LECTURE Record as you write, then tap your writing to hear that moment again. Transcripts are made on your device, and with Apple Intelligence, Smart Notes sums up a notebook or quizzes you on it. SOMETHING TO READ BY A fire in the grate, birdsong, rain on the roof, jazz in a busy café: four soundscapes made on the device, and a focus timer to study by. YOUR BOOKS STAY WITH YOU There is no account; your books stay on your device, and iCloud sync carries your highlights, notes, Markup, notebooks and recordings to your other devices. FREE AND PREMIUM Free, for good: every kind of book, pages from the web, the free classics, shelves, both ways of reading, highlights, notes, Markup, every book's notebook, your own notebooks with the seven Classic covers, recording, and iCloud sync. Apricity Premium adds Read Aloud with every voice, transcripts, Smart Notes, exporting notes and notebooks, the Crafted and Illustrated covers, stickers, stamps and washi tape, the soundscapes and focus timer, furnishing the room, and your own fonts. Every new reader gets 14 days of Premium free, with no card asked for. After that, Premium is an auto-renewing yearly subscription, or a one-time purchase for good. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. When Premium ends, nothing you made is deleted. Made by Tesorin. Terms of Use: https://www.trytesorin.com/apricity/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.trytesorin.com/apricity/privacy
Readora
Organize and read your personal ebook collection, including EPUB, PDF, and TXT files. Highlight passages, add notes, track reading progress, and even listen to books. Unlock full features with a one-time purchase.
- Import EPUB, PDF, TXT, MOBI
- Organize library into categories
- Highlight text and add notes
- Track reading time and progress
- Listen to books with text-to-speech
- Sync across Apple devices via iCloud
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Read more. Keep the words that stay with you. Readora brings your own ebooks, favorite passages and reading history into one calm, personal space. Open a book, swipe through its pages and return to the ideas you want to remember. YOUR BOOKS, TOGETHER Import EPUB, PDF, TXT and DRM-free MOBI files. Add supported books from ZIP and unencrypted RAR archives, organize your library into categories and read downloaded local books offline. Readora does not include a book catalog; you bring the books you have the right to use. READ AT YOUR PACE Turn pages with a swipe, adjust text size in supported formats and choose a light, paper or night background. Your reading position is saved so you can pick up where you left off. MAKE GOOD WORDS LAST Highlight selectable text, add notes and collect passages by book. Return to the source, turn a quote into a shareable card or revisit your collection with quote reminders. SEE YOUR READING GROW Review reading time and progress in your calendar and watch your reading garden take shape. Bring your bookshelf, quotes and garden to your Home Screen with widgets. LISTEN AND CONTINUE Listen to supported text with available voices and adjust playback speed. Optionally enable iCloud sync for your books, highlights and reading progress across your Apple devices. Voice and text support depend on the file, language and device. START SMALL, GROW WITH PRO The free library holds up to 3 books. Readora Pro is a one-time purchase that unlocks an unlimited library, highlights and notes, listening, widgets, the reading calendar and garden, quote reminders and iCloud sync. Your local price is shown in the app before purchase. Readora supports compatible, unprotected files. It does not remove DRM; encrypted or multipart archives and text recognition in scanned PDFs are not supported. Privacy Policy: https://readora.layseallone.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://readora.layseallone.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Readora at 4.8 against Apricity's 4.1. Readora also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Apricity's advantage is review sentiment (88% vs 56%) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 days). On price, ratings volume, ads 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
Both are free to download. Apricity sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year and Readora sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Readora holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 5 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 88% of Apricity's written reviews are positive against 56% of Readora's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Apricity ships an update every 2 days, Readora every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Apricity | Readora |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (8 ratings) | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better | 55.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 212 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 16697518 Canada Inc. | 澄娜 余 |
Customer experience
Apricity
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In-app purchases
Apricity
- Apricity Premium$14.991 Year
- Apricity Premium Lifetime$49.99
Readora
- Permanent$4.99








