Comparison

ReaderView vs TomatoFlex

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 - Summarize any article with on-device Apple Intelligence (supported devices only) - 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

TomatoFlex

This app helps you manage your time using the Pomodoro technique with customizable work and break intervals. It offers seamless synchronization across Apple devices and provides detailed statistics on your focus time. The app allows for flexible session management, including pausing and skipping breaks.

Highlights
  • Customizable work/break intervals
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • Apple Watch complications
  • iOS widgets
  • Detailed productivity statistics
  • Exportable history
  • Shortcuts integration
Features
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TomatoFlex is a productivity app based on the pomodoro time management technique - focusing on simplicity. It comes with a standalone Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad and Mac app, synchronised when used together. Features: - 3 different Apple Watch complication types, supporting all watch faces - 5 different types of iOS widgets - Work/break settings from 1 minute to 90 minutes - Apple Watch alarm and actionable iOS notifications - Seamless synronisation of your session and statistics across all the supported devices - Smart statistics which automatically groups sets and detects breaks - Unlimited statistics history which you can export to csv - Hourly productive breakdown and daily focus time tracking - Stop, Pause and partial pomodoro completion - Skip break when you are in flow - Recents tracking for quick switch between intervals - Add or delete pomodoro completions if you forgot to start tracking - iCloud saving of statistics to never lose your history - iPad multitasking - Light and dark theme - Shortcuts integration More details for black belt pomodoro ninjas: It is flexible because it does not force you into intervals with second precision. It just notifies you about the interval end and you decide when do you want to continue with the next interval. This is more realistic in a real world scenario as you might need an extra minute or so to complete your current work before you want to go for a break. It is a similar experience as a traditional analog pomodoro timer. Our statistics module can figure out what counts as a set or break, so you still get the same insight and discipline for your focused work. If you have any question don't hesitate to reach us at [company@talkingchickenfriend.com](mailto:company@talkingchickenfriend.com) "The Pomodoro Technique is a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. The technique uses a timer to break down work into intervals, traditionally 25 minutes in length, separated by short breaks. Each interval is known as a pomodoro, from the Italian word for 'tomato', after the tomato-shaped kitchen timer that Cirillo used as a university student." - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique)

Screenshots

ReaderView4 screens
TomatoFlex4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ReaderView at Free against TomatoFlex's $0.99. ReaderView also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months) and rating (4.6 vs 4.2). TomatoFlex's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and device support (5 vs 2). On review sentiment, ads and iOS requirement 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

ReaderView is free to download; TomatoFlex costs $0.99 up front. ReaderView sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. TomatoFlex asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ReaderView holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ReaderView has 67 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of ReaderView's written reviews are positive against 86% of TomatoFlex's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ReaderView ships an update every 2 days, TomatoFlex every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
ReaderView versus TomatoFlex: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReaderViewTomatoFlex
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.6 (67 ratings) — better4.2 (12 ratings)
Positive reviews88.6% of reviews — better85.7% of reviews
Number of ratings67 — better12
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAppBlit LLCTalking Chicken Friend

Customer experience

ReaderView

All ratings67 ratings
Positive88.1%
Neutral3.0%
Negative9.0%
Written reviews70 reviews
Positive88.6%
Neutral4.3%
Negative7.1%

TomatoFlex

All ratings12 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%

Bugs and requests

ReaderView

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • Unable to read PDFs from web
  • Images get blurred in saved files
  • Error message: "No Content Yet"
  • App not working on iPhone 13 Pro
  • Lost all folders and files
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  • Forces sharing its own link
  • Disabled copy-paste
  • Comments not appearing in reader view
  • Formatting issues: gaps between lines
  • App not working with Apple's News app (iOS 10)

Requested features

18 requests
  • Support for Simplified Chinese
  • Folders displayed on home page
  • In-App Purchase for macOS version
  • Swipe to go back/exit function
  • Dark mode in reading mode
Show 13 more
  • More color options, tags, and note management tools
  • Sync with Instapaper
  • Add comments along with annotations
  • Import Instapaper articles with highlights
  • Filter highlights by color
  • Text search function
  • Return to page location after exiting reader
  • Sync saved stories across devices
  • Sync with Evernote and Dropbox with tags
  • Copy all text function
  • Copy text feature for text-to-speech
  • Sync with Evernote
  • Change default colors

TomatoFlex

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ReaderView

One-time1
  • ReaderView PRO$4.99
None

TomatoFlex

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ReaderView free?
ReaderView is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TomatoFlex free?
TomatoFlex costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ReaderView or TomatoFlex?
ReaderView is rated higher. ReaderView averages 4.6 out of 5 from 67 ratings, while TomatoFlex averages 4.2 from 12 ratings.
Do ReaderView or TomatoFlex have ads?
Neither ReaderView nor TomatoFlex shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ReaderView or TomatoFlex?
ReaderView ships an update every 2 days, and TomatoFlex every 2 months. Most recently, ReaderView was updated on October 18, 2026 and TomatoFlex on October 14, 2026.

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