TooFar Media vs Scriptorio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TooFar Media
Experience immersive multimedia storyworlds that blend literature, music, art, and animation. Explore unique narrative universes crafted by award-winning artists and musicians for transformative journeys into imagination.
- 15 immersive storyworlds
- Fusion of literature, music, art, animation
- Original music and cinematic elements
- Avant-garde art and cutting-edge animation
- Award-winning multimedia studio
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STORIES FROM THE EDGE TooFar Media publishes stories by Rich Shapero that test the limits of mind. His protagonists are seekers adrift in a sea of dreams, a domain of illusion and startling vision. They encounter strange gods and unearthly presences, conjured from within or appearing with a mission that cannot, at first, be understood. Their thoughts, like their author’s, are warped toward a state that is different than the one we’re born into—a state more profound, where the truths of our practical world unravel and reveal themselves as the illusions they are. Like the seekers themselves, readers grapple with surprising ideas about human potential. TooFar Media is also a creative sandbox. Each of our sixteen titles is both a novel and a multimedia experiment combining book, music, art, animation, and video. We have a small core team and dozens of collaborators—writers, musicians, artists, animators, and people with knowledge meaningful to our stories. Our content is freely available to anyone with an interest.
Scriptorio
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Everything about the books you read in one place. The passages you keep, and the reading itself. What you read should become part of your thinking, not a fading memory. Scriptorio is a reading companion for people who take books seriously. Point your camera at a page, and the passage is yours. No typing, no retyping, no losing the thread of what you were reading. But saving a passage is only the beginning. Scriptorio helps your ideas come back, connect with what you've read before, and gradually become part of the way you think. CAPTURE WITHOUT INTERRUPTION Photograph a page from the physical book in front of you and text recognition lifts the passage out. Save from Safari, Books, or anywhere else through the share sheet. Everything lands on the same shelf. BRING YOUR KINDLE HIGHLIGHTS Sign in to your Kindle notebook and every highlight you have ever made comes across, book by book, with locations intact. Publishers cap how much of a book may be exported. Where that happens, Scriptorio says so per book, instead of quietly dropping lines. ONE IDEA, MANY BOOKS Theme Collections gather passages across books, so writers who never met end up side by side on the same question. CONNECTIONS YOU DIDN'T LOOK FOR Passages you never thought to pair surface on their own, each with one line on the idea they share. An explanation, not a summary. And when you see a link the app missed, you draw it yourself and write down why. Your reasoning stays with the pair. IT COMES BACK TO YOU Spaced repetition built on your own highlights. The shelf checks in with you, gently, until the ideas stay. Rate a card in one tap and the schedule adapts to how you actually remember. YOUR READING, MEASURED A reading timer, page progress, streaks and goals. For the books you are in the middle of, not the ones you meant to start. Finish a book and rate it, note the one thing that stays, and who you would hand it to. BUILT TO STAY PRIVATE Text recognition runs entirely on your device. The semantic understanding behind the connections graph is computed on your device too, using Apple's own frameworks. Your notes are never sent to a third-party AI service to be indexed. What syncs between your devices is yours alone. SUBSCRIPTION Scriptorio is a subscription. Every new reader starts with a 14-day free trial, no card required. After the trial, full access requires a monthly or yearly subscription, available in the app. The first 100 yearly subscribers receive a founding-member badge. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://scriptorio.app/app-terms Privacy Policy: https://scriptorio.app/app-privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Scriptorio at fortnightly against TooFar Media's every 2 months. TooFar Media's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. TooFar Media sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Scriptorio sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
TooFar Media ships an update every 2 months, Scriptorio fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | TooFar Media | Scriptorio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (383 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 71.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 383 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 191 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Too Far LLC | Impelechy LLC |
Bugs and requests
TooFar Media
Reported bugs
3 issues- No sound or audio playback issues
- App crashes or freezes on launch
- Compatibility problems with older devices
Requested features
4 requests- Expand the library of stories and genres
- Improve audio/video integration and stability
- Add more customization options (e.g., font size, dark mode)
- Introduce social features (e.g., bookmarking, sharing)
Scriptorio
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
TooFar Media
- Wild Animus$0.99
- Too Far$0.99
- The Hope We Seek$0.99
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- Arms from the Sea$0.99
- Island Fruit Remedy$0.99
- Dissolve$0.99
- The Slide That Buried Rightful$0.99
- Balcony of Fog$0.99
- Rin, Tongue and Dorner$0.99
- Dreams of Delphine$0.99
Scriptorio
- Scriptorio Monthly$9.991 Month
- Scriptorio Yearly$79.991 Year
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