ReaderView vs Captur
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.
Captur
Quickly capture and organize your thoughts using voice or text. This app processes your input into structured memories with summaries, action items, and topics for easy retrieval. It helps manage life and work by creating a searchable archive of your ideas.
- Voice and text capture
- Smart summaries
- Automatic action item extraction
- Searchable memory archive
- Collections and topics for organization
- Cross-device syncing
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Captur is the fastest way to capture and organize your thoughts. Speak or type whatever's on your mind — an idea, a reminder, a plan, a loose thread. Captur processes it into structured memory with summaries, action items, and topics you can search and return to later. HOW IT WORKS • Capture — Tap the mic and speak naturally, or type a quick thought • Organize — Captur extracts the useful parts: title, summary, actions, topics • Return — Search your memory, browse collections, and act on what matters WHAT YOU GET • Voice and text capture with instant processing • Smart summaries that distill your raw thoughts • Action items extracted automatically • Searchable memory archive that grows with you • Collections and topics for natural organization • A calmer way to keep life and work together CAPTUR PREMIUM Unlock unlimited captures, smart organization, city history, mood insights, and more with Captur Premium. • Monthly: $7.99/month • Annual: $49.99/year (7-day free trial) Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel subscriptions in your Account Settings on the App Store after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://gist.github.com/zachmael/23a6b41dadc8b4bcb5e17b7651d1f690 Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Captur at 5.0 against ReaderView's 4.6. ReaderView's advantage is ratings volume (67 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 and Captur sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Captur 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 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ReaderView | Captur |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (67 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 67 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | Every 2 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AppBlit LLC | ZACHARY ANDREW CHMAEL |
Customer experience
ReaderView
Captur
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
Captur
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ReaderView
- ReaderView PRO$4.99
Captur
- Captur Premium (Monthly)7 Days trial$7.991 Month
- Captur Premium (Annual)7 Days trial$49.991 Year









