TrainDesign vs Page Reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TrainDesign
Design and plan your model railroad tracks with ease. This app allows you to create custom layouts, modify track segments, and adjust curves to your specifications. Unleash your creativity and build intricate routes with intuitive touch controls.
- Plan model railroad tracks
- Create custom track lines
- Modify track segments (orient, stretch, shrink)
- Adjust curve width, angle, and radius
- Determine track altitude
- Intuitive touch controls
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TrainDesign is born with the purpose to plan your model railroad track. In a few minutes you can create lines of any kind. Using a set of tracks you can choose the type of binary-to-use, orient, stretch or shrink it. The curves can be modified to width angle and radius of curvature. TrainDesign stands out for its ease of use and the versatility, giving space for creativity. You will learn that it is very easy to edit lines, determine the altitude, change every single piece in an intuitive and simple manner. With only the use of your fingers, you can create small or large tracks, focus on building a single part using the touch or see the route as a whole.
Page Reader
Transform any page into an audiobook with intelligent text recognition and an audio player. Scan pages with your camera, import from photos or PDFs, and edit the recognized text. Save narrated pages as audio clips or export text for later use.
- Scan pages with camera
- Import from photos/PDFs
- Read scanned text aloud
- Save narrated audio clips
- Export text to other apps
- Organize pages into books
- Choose from various voices
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Page Reader lets you scan any page and read it out loud. Turn any page into an audiobook using Page Reader’s intelligent text-recognition & audio player. Browse history and re-listen to your pages. Copy scanned text for use later, or export to other apps. Save Audio Clip. Choose from a range of voices. Import text from virtually anywhere! • Scan a page with your camera • OR Open page from photo library • OR Open PDF from files • Read any scanned text out loud • Save scanned pages to history • Organise scanned pages into books • Edit scanned text • Export text for use later, or to other apps • Choose from a range of voices • Edit speed, pitch and volume of speech • Save narrated pages as Audio Clips to save or share
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Page Reader at Free against TrainDesign's $1.99. Page Reader also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months) and review sentiment (50% vs 33%). TrainDesign's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (14 vs 3). On rating and ads 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
Page Reader is free to download; TrainDesign costs $1.99 up front. Page Reader sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. TrainDesign asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 2.4 for TrainDesign against 2.3 for Page Reader. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 3 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 33% of TrainDesign's written reviews are positive against 50% of Page Reader's.
TrainDesign ships an update every 4 months, Page Reader monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TrainDesign | Page Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.4 (14 ratings) — better | 2.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kind of Blue | THE CLEVER APP COMPANY LIMITED |
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TrainDesign
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In-app purchases
TrainDesign
No in-app purchases
Page Reader
- Remove Ads$2.99
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