ReadMe! (Spritz & BeeLine) Reviews

Excellent support

Jentropy

I've had a little trouble since the update, as a couple of my books hang at the "preparing book" screen, but I've had some great help from the ReadMe devs and these books are freebies available from multiple sources so I'm unconcerned. In general, I love this app, and the Spritz feature made reading a lot easier (and FASTER) for someone with attention problems and mild dyslexia. It's been cool to pick up classics I never thought I could tackle.

Very Poorly Executed.

jmc1701

The Spritz Reader is a fantastic concept, but this app is definitely lacking. After having to create an account to upload books, create an account to use the Spritz reader at a decent speed, and signing up for the monthly $1 charge, the PDFs I uploaded didn't work. Although this advertises itself capable of reading PDFs, it still has a plethora of problems dealing with them. Navigating where you want the reader to start and finding where you left off is a frustrating nightmare. The Spritz reader frequently splits up words for absolutely no reason, breaking up worlds like variety and years into "var"... "iety", and "yea"... "rs". This makes reading with this app extremely frustrating, especially given that fact that if you try to turn your phone horizontal while using the Spritz reader, the whole app formatting glitches out and won't return to normal until you close and reopen the file. While reading ePub files is certainly a better experience, the app still runs into problems with integrating the Spritz reader (which is probably why you downloaded this app) and with horizontal phone display. In conclusion, don't download this app. It's a waste of time. If you want to use the Spritz reader, I would recommend checking out the "BookShout!" App. It's not as straightforward or minimalistic as this app (which is disappointing) but it does a much better job at integrating the Spritz reader.

Load of Rubbish

Hansgiant

This is the most cumbersome Reading Ap i have ever used. Very complicated work around in order to load existing ePub books from Apple. Don't bother installing it, you'll just get frustrated!

.99 cents a month. A MONTH?

Branchini

What in the hell is this sheeit. You guys are high if you think I'm gonna pay .99 per month to read my own pdfs and ePub files. Reading is... Free.... I could justify .99 for the app. Maybe 1.99. But you have turned reading into a monthly service. You're not Microsoft. This isn't office. You're not even Adobe and this isn't photoshop. So stupid. Ya bunch of turds. Good luck with this business strategy. I look forward to the IPO when your business goes public, except, oh wait. That will never happen...

Awesome

G Man 6

Totally free if you want, lets you speed read if you have internet. Works very well with project Gutenberg (100,000+ free books). Flying through Bronte and Dumas at 400 wpm.

Needs changes badly

Dgyyyvddgjji

I first downloaded this app to help my reading speed. The idea that Spritz has is brilliant and the BeeLine reader even more so in my mind, but the idea that I have to pay a MONTHLY fee to use it just completely turns me off. I would purchase for a one time fee but to pay for a subscription every month and then only be able to read ePub files which have a VERY small pool of literature to work with is not even close to being worth it in my mind. Let's call this what it is, a great idea by a group who has no idea to properly market/manage it. Sell your rights to a larger company like Amazon who has the resources to make this worth my while by offering almost every book on the planet as compared to your paltry ePub books

Overall thankful, but room for improvement

Joey&Christy

Thankful I found an app that lets me speed read books. As other reviewers have noted, this app could be improved in terms of ease and user interface. I hope Spritz technology grows in popularity and more people use it to develop apps because I can FLY through thick books and stay focused when using speed reading apps like this one

Not functionally useful

Hoopz1215

1) Wasn't easy to pull in ebooks I've purchased on Amazon 2) Most books I want to read are DRM 3) Started my free trial and now don't know how to cancel it before it transitions into a paid sub

Some Glaring Issues

batCattle

Bizarrely there is no way to go back a page because swipe that direction pulls the flyout menu. There are klunky workarounds but this kind of slop is unacceptable even if by some ill-chosen design. Also strange that the app does not recognize my subscription even though I could see it set up in iTunes. Needless to say I cancelled. A valiant but flawed effort at getting some handy tools like Spritz integrated with an ebook reader. Development seems to have stopped short of quality. Unfortunate that Kindle and other top of the line apps have skipped out on things like Spritz.

Great idea, poor execution

tempusername

App is still very buggy, e.g., sync not working, not staying signed in, sync toggle not staying on. It's so close to being awesome, but not worth the subscription

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