ReaderView vs Encore
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Encore
This app uses a virtual cat companion to guide users through custom time-based schedules designed to boost productivity. It combines work, rest, activity, and mindfulness to help you achieve your daily tasks more efficiently.
- Virtual cat companion guide
- Custom time-based schedules
- Productivity techniques
- Work, rest, activity, mindfulness balance
- Task completion motivation
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Meet Momo the cat! Your Encore buddy! Momo will guide you through Encore's different productivity techniques to give you a fully motivated task completion experience. Encore creates custom time-based schedules derived from well-researched techniques so that you can achieve your tasks for the day. These schedules are an efficient combination of work, rest, activity, and mindfulness, and can improve your productivity by almost 70% when followed diligently. So what are you waiting for? Go and achieve more, with Encore.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: ReaderView at Free against Encore's $0.99. ReaderView also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 17 months) and ratings volume (67 vs 11). Encore's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). On rating, review sentiment, 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
ReaderView is free to download; Encore costs $0.99 up front. ReaderView sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Encore asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for ReaderView against 4.6 for Encore. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ReaderView has 67 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 89% of ReaderView's written reviews are positive against 92% of Encore's.
ReaderView ships an update every 2 days, Encore every 17 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ReaderView | Encore |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (67 ratings) | 4.6 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.6% of reviews | 92.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 67 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 17 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AppBlit LLC | Igor Katselenbogen |
Customer experience
ReaderView
Encore
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
Encore
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ReaderView
- ReaderView PRO$4.99
Encore
No in-app purchases









