Comparison

ReaderView vs QR Reader & Creator Premium

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
Read full description

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

QR Reader & Creator Premium

Features
Read full description

This QR app not contain any type of ads or publicity. The QR reader and generator is a scanner with automatic QR code detection. You can generate your own QR codes and share them. Now you can also scan QR codes from the image gallery. Detects de type of QR Code (contact, wifi, maps, calendar event, send sms, phone call,send email, url, etc... ) and show to you the corresponding action. After scanning, you can open the url, open maps, save contact, open wifi network, share content, send sms, send email, make phone call, add event calendar o copy content to clipboard. Includes history of scanned codes. Option to turn on the flashlight to scan in dark conditions.

Screenshots

ReaderView4 screens
QR Reader & Creator Premium4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ReaderView at Free against QR Reader & Creator Premium's $2.99. ReaderView also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 34 months). QR Reader & Creator Premium's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On 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

ReaderView is free to download; QR Reader & Creator Premium costs $2.99 up front. ReaderView sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. QR Reader & Creator Premium asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ReaderView ships an update every 2 days, QR Reader & Creator Premium every 34 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
ReaderView versus QR Reader & Creator Premium: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReaderViewQR Reader & Creator Premium
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.6 (67 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews88.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings67 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 34 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAppBlit LLCArnau Egea

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
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  • 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

QR Reader & Creator Premium

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ReaderView

One-time1
  • ReaderView PRO$4.99
None

QR Reader & Creator Premium

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ReaderView free?
ReaderView is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is QR Reader & Creator Premium free?
QR Reader & Creator Premium costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do ReaderView or QR Reader & Creator Premium have ads?
Neither ReaderView nor QR Reader & Creator Premium shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ReaderView or QR Reader & Creator Premium?
ReaderView ships an update every 2 days, and QR Reader & Creator Premium every 34 months. Most recently, ReaderView was updated on October 24, 2026 and QR Reader & Creator Premium on October 10, 2026.

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