Comparison

ReaderView vs Web page text only reader

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

Head to head
About

ReaderView

Transform cluttered web pages and documents into a clean, distraction-free reading experience. Save articles, videos, and more for offline access, with features like highlighting, note-taking, and full-text search.

Highlights
  • Distraction-free reading mode
  • Save content for offline access
  • Highlight passages and add notes
  • Full-text search across saved articles
  • Organize content with folders
  • Sync across devices with iCloud
Features
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Web pages, documents, podcasts, and videos can be difficult to save, read, and search later. ReaderView transforms them into clean, distraction-free articles so you can focus on what matters. Save content for later, read offline, highlight important passages, and quickly find them again. ReaderView works with: - Web articles and blog posts - PDF documents, including images, tables, and mathematical formulas - Word documents and text files - Apple Podcasts and Spotify podcast episodes - YouTube videos - Vimeo and Dailymotion videos - X/Twitter posts, long-form articles, and videos TRANSCRIPTS THAT FEEL LIKE ARTICLES ReaderView looks for publisher-provided captions before generating a transcript, giving you faster and more accurate results whenever captions are available. With media transcripts, you can: - Read while listening or watching - Tap a word or timestamp to jump to that moment - Follow synchronized highlighting and automatic scrolling - Navigate with source-provided or automatically generated chapters - Play, pause, seek, and adjust playback speed - Show or hide videos for a distraction-free reading experience - Keep videos visible while scrolling when shown - Cancel queued transcriptions - Download source media when available READ, ORGANIZE, AND FIND EVERYTHING - Open a clean Reader View with a single tap - Listen with high-quality voices that work offline - Save articles and images for offline reading - Highlight passages and add notes - Search across your entire library - Find text within individual articles - Organize articles into folders - Sync across devices with iCloud - Find saved articles using Spotlight - Read comfortably with Dark Mode and Auto-Scroll - Support for Asian and right-to-left languages, including Arabic and Hebrew COPY, SHARE, AND EXPORT Export articles as plain text, Markdown, HTML, WebVTT, or PDF. You can also copy or share the original link. WebVTT is available for timestamped media transcripts. Share content with ReaderView from Safari, Apple News, X/Twitter, Feedly, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Word, and many other apps. When captions are unavailable, automatic on-device transcription for podcasts and X/Twitter videos requires iOS 26 or later. Have feedback or ideas? Contact laurent@appblit.com. If ReaderView helps you, an App Store review would mean a lot.

About

Web page text only reader

Extracts and displays the text content of web pages in a book-like format. Customize your reading experience with adjustable fonts, backgrounds, and page-turning effects. Save and share your notes and highlights.

Highlights
  • Extracts text-only from web pages
  • Book-style reading with page curl
  • Customizable fonts, sizes, and background colors
  • Long tap for notes, highlights, and comments
  • Offline reading of downloaded content
  • Share highlighted text as PDF
  • Reading history and favorites
Features
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Read a web site page from browser in the classic book style, remember where you read? Select background, font for reading, curl the pages page by page? Just open "Action/Share" dialog in Safari, select ReaderView App and read the very text of the selected page! IMPORTANT: To read a website page content in the Reader just click "share by" on the the web browser and select "Reader app". Make sure the Reader is on the list of apps that you permit share content with. Read "text-only" version of any website page, works for majority sites, including flibusta: - Text extracted by "readability" like Safari Reader Mode - Support a Few different methods of extracting text from web site - Use long tap to make notes, highlight text, add comments - You can lock downloaded content for offline read - Read website page text in "book style" with curl flip pagination - You can change fonts, sizes, background color on the flight - Keep history of your readings, save favourites - Share the texts with your highlights as PDF - Share your notes/comments with friends The application is free; however, in-app purchases are available for unlocking the some limits and locked functionality. Please leave a feedback trough the feedback button in "more" tab. We are working on improving the ReaderView to get the correct textual data from majority of the important sites. Feel free to point us to the web sites you need us to deal with first! Note, that some sites are designed the way that prevents text extraction. Feel free to send us the URL over feedback email and we will think how to parse this specific site for you.

Screenshots

ReaderView4 screens
Web page text only reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: ReaderView at 88% against Web page text only reader's 0%. ReaderView also leads on rating (4.5 vs 2.0) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 8 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. ReaderView sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Web page text only reader sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ReaderView holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ReaderView has 66 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of ReaderView's written reviews are positive against 0% of Web page text only reader's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ReaderView ships an update every 3 days, Web page text only reader every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
ReaderView versus Web page text only reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReaderViewWeb page text only reader
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (66 ratings) — better2.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews88.4% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings66 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 8 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAppBlit LLCVasilisa Akselevich

Customer experience

ReaderView

All ratings66 ratings
Positive87.9%
Neutral3.0%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews69 reviews
Positive88.4%
Neutral4.3%
Negative7.2%

Web page text only reader

All ratings3 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral33.3%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ReaderView

One-time1
  • ReaderView PRO$4.99
1 purchases

Web page text only reader

One-time1
  • Remove Limits$2.99

Questions

Is ReaderView free?
ReaderView is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Web page text only reader free?
Web page text only reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ReaderView or Web page text only reader?
ReaderView is rated higher. ReaderView averages 4.5 out of 5 from 66 ratings, while Web page text only reader averages 2.0 from 3 ratings.
Do ReaderView or Web page text only reader have ads?
Neither ReaderView nor Web page text only reader shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ReaderView or Web page text only reader?
ReaderView ships an update every 3 days, and Web page text only reader every 8 months. Most recently, ReaderView was updated on September 21, 2026 and Web page text only reader on September 9, 2026.

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