Rapid Reader - with Spritz app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Wasdesign, LLC
First release : 21 Jun 2014
App size: 29.91 Mb
The premier app for speed-reading any website, presented beautifully.
Rapidly speed-read any page using the official Spritz reading technology. Connect your Pocket, Readability, or Instapaper account to import and Spritz any of your bookmarks from these services.
Using Spritz, Rapid will quickly flash one word at a time at any of 40 different speeds. This eliminates the need for your eyes to scan the text in order to read efficiently. Spritz provides a reticle at the ideal position in a word to allow your mind to comprehend each word despite seeing it for only a fraction of a second. Read up to 1000 words per minute while maintaining or improving your current comprehension. The average person reads normally at about 250 words per minute, but with Rapid, you will very soon double or triple that speed.
Features
• View current word position
• View Spritz time remaining
• Select from 40 different speeds
• Beautiful newspaper grid layout of all bookmarks
• Instantly seek to any word in the text
• Quickly jump back a sentence to pick up any words you may have missed
• Paste any URL copied from any other app as a bookmark
• Import from and sync with Pocket, Readability, and Instapaper
• Fullscreen Spritz mode
• Fullscreen Article mode
• Fullscreen Web mode
• View and Spritz articles in Article or Web mode
• Archive read articles
• Share any article over Facebook/Email/Airdrop/Messages
• Get support and help (or request new features) any time using our help section accessed from the main menu
Using Rapid, instantly improve your speed and comprehension reading the articles you read each day.
Note: For your articles to sync from Instapaper, you must have an Instapaper "Subscriber" account
Latest reviews of Rapid Reader - with Spritz app for iPhone and iPad
Cant add custom text on iPad pro. Only as url.
Need to improve the integration with Pocket App! If delete a article on Pocket it should disappear on Rapid too after reload the articles! (ie. Velocity App)
The icon looks confusing on the home screen. Change please - more neutral colors. Further more the ui seems to be somewhat slow at times (iPhone 5)
Crashes every single time on iOS 8.
I am quite dissappointed with this app. I mean, I like the idea very much and it works reasonably well, once you managed to open a text to read. But 1. You dont recognize the structure of your text. A headline looks exactly the same as normal text and you keep wondering what these half sentences mean, before you realize it was a headline. Also, it would be good, if pictures could be displayed while reading in their vicinity, but it seems that, as soon as you start reading all that is shown are 13 characters. 2. The more serious drawback however is that I cannot read the ebooks i have stored with my kindle app or iBooks or PDFs - at least I did not find a way. How shall I use the app if not for my regular reading material? There seems to be a way to connect with pocket, readability, or instapaper, all of which I neither use nor even know, and it is possible to read from URLs, the latter being the only sensible use I can make of the app.