Best "Spritz-like" App; Needs a Placement-Tracker Pane – Sprint - Spritz Powered Speed Reading and Audio Browser Review

I've waited a long time for this app. Ever since I learned about the Spritz speed-reading technology (which is so far only available as a *native* app on the Samsung Galaxy S5), I've wanted the chance to get my daily fix of reading various news articles at the rate of 1k per minute. The Sprint application accomplishes this, and it does it very well. I've tried all the other "Spritz-like" apps in the App Store, and so far (as of early May 2014) this is THE app to get for reading news articles (or other web text) DIRECTLY from a special browser. (The other apps require copying and pasting text from Safari to the application in order to speed-read, which is of course annoying.) The fact that you can open and save multiple tabs in the browser window is also a huge plus for me. The only reason I didn't give this app five stars is due to it lacking a much-needed feature: the ability to see where you are in the body of an article via a pane situated below the speed-reading pane, so that if you miss a critical word or phrase, you can simply pause the speed-reading and glance down at the part of the text you missed. (This could be like the 'Speak' function, where each word spoken by the phone is dynamically highlighted.) All in all, I really do have to applaud the developer(s) for the quality of this app; they've done a great job with it. If they update it with the placement tracker functionality, I will definitely update my rating to the full five stars it would so easily deserve.
Review by Fauxlosopher on Sprint - Spritz Powered Speed Reading and Audio Browser.

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