Kortext vs Y/n
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kortext
Access and read eBooks from various publishers with enhanced multimedia. Tools are included to help learners and academics engage with their content, offering features like note-taking, referencing, and text-to-speech.
- Read PDF and EPUB files
- Access 13,000+ free eTextbooks
- Highlight text and create notes
- Add Harvard/APA references
- Read Aloud functionality
- Adjust text size and background
- Search within books
- 500MB free cloud storage
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Kortext provides access to online eBooks from multiple publishers, with enhanced in-built audio and video content, combined with tools to assist learners and academics to make the most of their content. Features include: - Add and read PDF/EPUB files from your iPhone and iPad - Enjoy free access to a collection of over 13,000 eTextbooks - Easy navigation to content, providing quick access to pages - Highlight text in a range of colours and create notes, enabling quick reference of key sections - Add a reference (Harvard or APA), making creation of bibliographies much easier - Read Aloud sections, providing help with accessing content - Increase text size, change font and background of pages making it easier to view content - Search for keywords and phrases within the books directly from your bookshelf, allowing quicker access to relevant content - 500MB of free cloud file storage. Simply upload your study materials and harness the full potential within
Y/n
Engage with interactive stories where your choices shape the narrative and character relationships. Explore a vast library of community-created tales or write and publish your own.
- Play interactive stories
- Choices affect story and characters
- Rewind and change decisions
- Explore 1M+ community stories
- Write and publish own stories
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On Y/n, you play a character in your story. Be a boarding school student and get the boys to fall in love with you, or plan a jailbreak with Sherlock Holmes. Stories are made for you. Your texts change the plot and how characters feel about you (oops!). No two playthroughs are the same (but you can rewind). There's a Y/n story for every taste: romance, fanfiction, fluff, mystery, and more. Discover 10M+ stories created by the community. Can't find the one you want? Write and publish your own. Download Y/n for free and play your story! EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Y/n at 60% against Kortext's 17%. Y/n also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.9) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). Kortext's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Y/n sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Kortext asks for nothing beyond the download.
Y/n holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.5K and 6K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 17% of Kortext's written reviews are positive against 60% of Y/n's.
Kortext ships an update every 2 months, Y/n every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kortext | Y/n |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (1.5K ratings) | 4.5 (6K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 17.4% of reviews | 60.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K | 6K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #203 | #13 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Kortext | Emittance Inc. |
Customer experience
Kortext
Y/n
User reviews
Kortext
From 1.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to use
- 💡 Helpful features like highlighting and note-taking
- 👍 Convenient to access textbooks on the go
- 🚀 Efficient for studying
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
- 🐛 Unreliable performance
- 🐛 Overlapping text and pages
- 🐛 Inconsistent navigation and page turning
- 🐛 Laggy and slow
Y/n
From 6K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✨ Amazing app experience
- 👍 Fun and easy to use
- 🤝 Close-knit community
- 💡 Innovative features
Room to improve
- 🐛 Freezing and glitches
- ⏱️ Slow bot responses
- 🚫 Difficulty signing up
Bugs and requests
Kortext
Reported bugs
4 issues- Frequent crashes and freezes
- Pages not loading properly
- Highlighting and annotations not saving
- Login issues and inability to access content
Requested features
5 requests- Improved text-to-speech functionality
- Better organization and navigation of content
- Ability to customize text size and layout
- Syncing across multiple devices
- Offline reading mode
Y/n
Reported bugs
2 issues- Continue button not working
- Incompatibility with older devices
Requested features
2 requests- Private and delete characters
- Email sign-up option
In-app purchases
Kortext
No in-app purchases
Y/n
- Y/n+ Weekly$4.997 Days
- Y/n+ Monthly$14.991 Month
