Reading Trainer

I truly love this app, so far it’s been great to help me develop my reading without underchallenging or overstimulating me. I feel like every task I do has a clear reason and they’re thoughtfully spaced out between one another. I appreciate the clear communication as to what objectives we are trying to target. I do feel myself progressing in a relatively short amount of time. I’d love to purchase a lifetime subscription, but the price as of now definitely forces me to practice habitually to feel real improvement by the end of the 3 months I paid for. My single nitpick so far (not really a criticism)— please change the names for your milestones. I read 140ish wpm and know that I’m novice so, though I appreciate the support, you can’t label the milestone “Reading PHD” when I’m only 22 Units in (which is only 4 days worth of practicing). I believe they level up way too early and it is the only part of the user experience that bothers me.

This is the best app I have seen for improving reading speed and comprehension. I like how it not only encourages reading speed but improves precise interpretation/observations such has making you focus on small variation in word spelling and letter grouping. There are some sections where numbers a flipped extremely fast but sentences very slow. It seems intuitive that sentences should be moved faster also. It would help if one could upload material and have app force faster reading and comprehension from “real world” documents to improve studying. I imagine with AI coming that will likely occur. I use this almost every day but have not seen the improvement in speed and retention others report. My reading speed with retained comprehension has been about 50 wPm in the one month i have used it. Still now shabby for someone approaching 80. Hope this also fights dementia!!!

I love this app. In one week I’ve nearly doubled my reading speed AND, at the same time, am comprehending more of what I read. The exercises are well designed and the power reading feature where I can practice my speed with copied text is also useful. My only concern is that it’s been 3 years since the last update. I hope that either this current version will continue to work on future versions of iOS, or that the developers will update when needed. A+, well worth the $3.