ReaderView vs PrecastX
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.
PrecastX
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PrecastX is a concrete maturity monitoring platform designed for precast manufacturers, ready-mix producers, and construction teams. It connects wirelessly to PX-Sens temperature sensors and PX-Base gateway devices using Bluetooth to collect real-time thermocouple readings, ambient temperature, and humidity data during the curing process. Key features Real-time sensor monitoring View live temperature and humidity data from up to three thermocouple channels per sensor. The system also provides automatic strength estimates based on concrete maturity. Project and product management Organize work by project and track individual precast products such as beams, columns, slabs, and other elements. Log activities with photos, mix designs, formwork details, and slump values. Reading sessions Start timed recording sessions, attach photos, assign probe placements, and review results through interactive charts. Reports can be exported when needed. Offline data and sync If a sensor operates without a cloud connection, the data is stored on the device and synced through Bluetooth once a connection is available again. Notifications and alerts Set temperature and humidity limits and receive alerts when values go beyond the defined thresholds so you can respond quickly. Team collaboration Create organizations, invite team members, and manage roles. Everyone on the team can access the same projects, products, and sensor data. Device management Discover nearby devices, check battery and signal status, update firmware, and export raw sensor data for deeper analysis. Multilingual support Available in English and Turkish, with language preferences synced across devices. PrecastX requires PX-Sens or PX-Base hardware to capture sensor data. Sign in with Apple, Google, or email to get started.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PrecastX at none against ReaderView's 1. ReaderView's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). On price, ads, device support 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
Both are free to download. ReaderView sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PrecastX asks for nothing beyond the download.
ReaderView ships an update every 2 days, PrecastX weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ReaderView | PrecastX |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (67 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 88.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 67 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AppBlit LLC | Mehmet Sumer |
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
PrecastX
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ReaderView
- ReaderView PRO$4.99
PrecastX
No in-app purchases









