Comparison

ReaderView vs MXTNote

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

MXTNote

This app helps organize research and study materials by linking PDFs, notes, and web pages. It offers PDF reading, text and handwriting notes, and an arXiv explorer for academic papers. Create a knowledge graph to visualize connections between your research fragments.

Highlights
  • PDF reader with link navigation
  • Text and handwriting note-taking
  • Link notes and PDFs to create a knowledge graph
  • ARXIV explorer for academic papers
  • Web page import (HTML to PDF)
  • OCR and image search for PDFs
  • Sync across devices
Features
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MXTNote is a free PDF reader and note taking app. When we study for a subject, we start by collecting reference, document idea fragments, then we expand our knowledge structure by creating links between these fragments, or add more content around them. MXTNote provide ways to simplify some of these steps Here are some examples: - A PDF references another PDF, you can select the two location and link them. - After embedding a selection from PDF to notebook, a two way link is automatically created between PDF and notebook. - Link can be created between notes to form a graph, to capture a knowledge/task dependency At block level, MXTNote consists of the following: - PDF reader - Text note taking - Handwriting note taking - Graph view - ARXIV explorer - Calendar Here are the detail features: (those marked with (*) requires MXTNote account, free signup) Reading: - PDF reader with thumbnail index, link navigation - Import web page (HTML will be converted to PDF) - support DJVU/MOBI (*)(file will be converted to PDF) - Text search (using text in PDF, or OCR) - Image search (useful for searching math symbols) - Translate selected text into English Notes: - Simple text note - Write on PDF or select box from PDF - Support links between notes, attach tags to notes. - Search notes by original PDF, tags, or text - Built-in split screen to copy note to notebook - Multiple page notebook with text or handwriting. - Support pressure sensitive input (Apple pencil). - Print notebook to PDF file or printer - Use Latex input for math formula or use the Math formula editor ARXIV: - Search ARXIV and download paper - Monitor ARXIV for new papers matching predefined query Sync: - Sync across all your device (*) - Available as web app Other: - In-app tutorial available for major functions please visit our website for details: https://note.mxtsoft.com/doc

Screenshots

ReaderView4 screens
MXTNote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MXTNote at none against ReaderView's 1. MXTNote also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). ReaderView's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks) and ratings volume (67 vs 2). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ReaderView sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. MXTNote asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

MXTNote holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ReaderView has 67 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ReaderView ships an update every 2 days, MXTNote every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
ReaderView versus MXTNote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReaderViewMXTNote
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (67 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings67 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB131 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAppBlit LLCTao Ma

Customer experience

ReaderView

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

MXTNote

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ReaderView

One-time1
  • ReaderView PRO$4.99
None

MXTNote

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ReaderView free?
ReaderView is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MXTNote free?
MXTNote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ReaderView or MXTNote?
MXTNote is rated higher. ReaderView averages 4.6 out of 5 from 67 ratings, while MXTNote averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do ReaderView or MXTNote have ads?
Neither ReaderView nor MXTNote shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ReaderView or MXTNote?
ReaderView ships an update every 2 days, and MXTNote every 2 weeks. Most recently, ReaderView was updated on October 9, 2026 and MXTNote on September 24, 2026.

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