Read&Write vs Think Bilingual Learn by Doing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Read&Write
This app offers advanced text-to-speech capabilities, allowing users to have text read aloud with synchronized highlighting. It also includes writing assistance features like word prediction and spell check, along with extensive formatting options for improved readability and document creation.
- Text-to-Speech with synchronized highlighting
- Word prediction for faster writing
- Customizable font and layout settings
- Save text as audio files
- Import and open various document formats
- Read webpages via toolbar extension
- Spellcheck and grammar check with word descriptions
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Read&Write for iPad is a reading and writing app with high-quality text-to-speech, formatting controls, a wide range of fonts and styles and cloud storage integration. Read&Write provides visual highlighting in-sync with spoken words, a great range of colour and font settings to allow for optimum reading, and word prediction to help with writing. Read&Write is a quality app for proofreading text through listening, helping with reading and literacy development, and creating audio files from any text. PRODUCT FEATURES • Text-to-Speech - Type into Read&Write and have the text read back to you. You can check text and proofread it quickly and easily. - You can import documents into Read&Write from apps such as Mail, or import directly from Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive.. Read&Write can open a range of document formats including Word doc, PDF and epub. - Text from any app can be copied and pasted into Read&Write ready to be read back. - Apple's speech recognition can be used to dictate text directly into Read&Write, and can be listened back to ensure it is right. - The Apple spell check works in Read&Write too, further helping accuracy. - You can save the text as an audio file using the same high-quality voice. • Word Prediction Word prediction helps with writing more quickly and accurately. • Visual Highlighting Text is highlighted as the text is read back. Highlighting allows you to coordinate reading and listening. Read&Write lets you pick the colour and style of highlighting required. There are four highlighting modes to choose from: none, word by word, word trail, or sentence by sentence highlighting. • Font & Layout Change the font type, size or colour to suit your needs. Layout the text for easier reading by adjusting the character, line and paragraph spacing and adjusting the page margins. Text can be formatted bold, italic and underlined to emphasise. Images can be inserted into the text from the camera or your library. • Save to Audio Convert any text into an audio file using any of the high-quality voices. This is quick and easy, allowing text to be listened to on the move. Great for proofreading on the go. • Share your text Text created within Read&Write can be emailed, messaged, printed, opened in another app, or copied and pasted into another app, like Safari. • Read webpages You can now read webpages in Safari and other browsers, using the "Read&Write Toolbar" extension from the share menu. * Spellcheck & Grammar check Use the Read&Write spellcheck feature that can provide you with additional word descriptions and pictures to help you find the correct word. Also included in this app is the Read&Write Keyboard app, which is a powerful keyboard replacement that works in every app. Supporting reading, writing, comprehension and vocabulary development, Read&Write provides a rich set of features which extend accessibility and provide a range of tools to help with literacy including: • Text to speech • Prediction • Dictionary / Talking dictionary • Picture Dictionary • Check It • Talk&Type (available for iOS 10 and above) • Speak as I type • OpenDyslexic font support • Language translation in Safari (French or Spanish, Locale dependent) • French language localisation The Read&Write keyboard app provides help everywhere it’s needed whether it’s working on documents, presentations, being creative or just using mail. It’s great for those with individual needs such as Dyslexia and those where English is not their first language, but it’s designed for everyone.
Think Bilingual Learn by Doing
Learn a new language through immersive, real-world scenarios like driving or cooking. This app helps you think directly in the target language, accelerating fluency. It's designed for learners with some existing vocabulary.
- Immersive real-world scenarios
- Think in the new language
- Spanish, French, English support
- High beginner to low intermediate level
- iPad only
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Drive a car, cook in a real kitchen, or fix up the house- all in a new language! Are you translating everything when you study a language? Is this slowing you down? Immersion will help you THINK in the new language, the first step to real fluency. This version is Level 2, for students who know some words of the new language. For younger students, try the beginner version. -Spanish, French, English included -High beginner to low intermediate level -iPad only
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Think Bilingual Learn by Doing at 96% against Read&Write's 24%. Think Bilingual Learn by Doing also leads on rating (4.2 vs 3.1) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Read&Write's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support 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. Read&Write sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Think Bilingual Learn by Doing asks for nothing beyond the download.
Think Bilingual Learn by Doing holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29 and 15 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 24% of Read&Write's written reviews are positive against 96% of Think Bilingual Learn by Doing's.
Read&Write ships an update monthly, Think Bilingual Learn by Doing every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Read&Write | Think Bilingual Learn by Doing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (29 ratings) | 4.2 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 24.2% of reviews | 95.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 7.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 225 MB | 448 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Everway Opco Ltd. | Interact and Immerse |
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Read&Write
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In-app purchases
Read&Write
- Unlock Premium Feature$19.99
Think Bilingual Learn by Doing
No in-app purchases
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