Flash Reader: Reading at Speed
Read anything, faster
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Flash Reader is back, and better than ever. Paste it, share it, open a file or point the camera at a page, and you're reading. Everything happens on your device.
Flash Reader is back, and better than ever.
It read you one word at a time years before that was a trend. On the App Store since 2010, rebuilt from scratch for version 4, and everything happens on your device.
Paste it, share it from any app, open a PDF, EPUB or Word file, or point the camera at a page, and you're reading. Every document keeps your place, and a widget, Control Center or Siri takes you straight back in.
THREE WAYS TO READ
• Flash: one word, one spot, and the pages fly. Centered by width, one letter in red to hold your eye.
• Chunk: a few words at a time, for when you would rather stroll.
• Reader: the whole text, for a look back.
Tap to pause. Play picks the sentence back up, so you never lose the thread.
SPEED, WITH RECEIPTS
Understanding holds to about 350 words a minute, then it slips. Flash Reader starts you at 250, the ruler shows which zone you are in, and your real speed counts the pauses too. Go faster whenever you like; the ruler tells you what it costs. Little words pass quickly, long or rare ones get a beat more, and a full stop gets its pause. Rest breaks when you want them.
READ ANYTHING, START ANYWHERE
• Copy anything, anywhere. Tap the clipboard chip, or the button in Control Center, and it flashes.
• Share text, a web page or a link from any app: articles, mail, messages, notes.
• Open PDF, EPUB, Word and text files from the Files app.
• Point the camera at a page, or pick a photo or a screenshot. The text is read on your device.
• Drop in a link and get the article, with none of the clutter around it.
• Say "Flash my clipboard" or "Resume reading" and Siri does the rest.
• Every document keeps its place, its mode and its speed.
• Search, sort and rename. Deleted documents wait in Recently deleted.
BACK IN ONE TAP
Continue Reading and Streak widgets for the Home and Lock Screens. Flash clipboard and Resume reading in Control Center. Stats keep words read today, your streak and your real speed, pauses and all.
ROOM TO READ
Four themes (Paper, Ink, Sepia and High Contrast), a choice of fonts, an adjustable word size, and reading in landscape. On iPad, the library sits beside the reading view and a keyboard drives both. Designed for iPhone Duo, with a context pane when it is open. The whole app speaks 50 languages.
FREE AND PRO
Free to start. Text you paste, copy or share reads free, forever, at full quality: every mode, every speed, every theme, links, TXT and Markdown files, and three documents on the shelf at a time.
Pro opens PDF, EPUB, Word, RTF and HTML files, scans and photos, and an unlimited shelf. One purchase covers iPhone and iPad, and your library and your place travel between them through your own iCloud. Choose Pro by the year with a 14-day free trial, by the month, or pay once and keep it.
Annual and monthly Pro renew automatically until cancelled in your Apple Account settings, at least 24 hours before the period ends.
No account. No ads. No analytics and no tracking.
COMING BACK?
Your books, your speed and your bookmark come along from the old version. If you bought Pro inside Flash Reader before, it is still yours: Restore purchases in Settings brings it back on any device. If you bought the separate Flash Reader Pro app, write to us and we will sort it out.
More formats and modes are coming as free updates.
Flash Reader 4 needs iOS 26 or later. On an older iPhone or iPad, the App Store keeps offering the last version that runs there.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy: https://flashreaderapp.com/privacy
Questions: support@flashreaderapp.com
Flash Reader is back, and better than ever.
It first came to the App Store in 2010. Sixteen years later we rebuilt it from scratch, and everyone who has it gets 4.0 free, with their library and their place right where they left them. Bought Pro back in the day? It is still yours.
• Paste it, share it, open a PDF, EPUB or Word file, or point the camera at a page, and you're reading.
• Three ways to read: Flash, Chunk and Reader. Tap to pause, and Play picks the sentence back up.
• Speed with receipts: the ruler shows the zone you are in, and Stats keep your real speed and your streak.
• Back in one tap: Continue Reading and Streak widgets, Flash clipboard and Resume reading in Control Center, and Siri.
• iPad, with the library beside the words. Designed for iPhone Duo.
• 50 languages, and everything happens on your device.
More formats and modes are coming as free updates.
The developer, Didstopia, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Didstopia
- Size
- 22.5 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 47 more
- English, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Flash Reader Pro $1.99
- Flash Reader Pro $4.99
- Flash Reader Pro $1.99
- Flash Reader Pro $0.99
- Flash Reader Pro $2.99
- Flash Reader Pro $3.99
- Pro Lifetime $79.99
- Pro Lifetime $39.99
- Pro Monthly $4.99
- Pro Annual $29.99
- Copyright
- © 2010-2026 Didstopia
