Comparison

BOOKIO vs My Library

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

BOOKIO

Features
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Bookio Digital Publishing is a platform which allows you to easily create, customize and publish your content to the iPhone or iPad, very fast! Bookio Viewer is part of the Bookio Digital Publishing Platform family used to preview a magazine before publishing to the App Store. In order to start creating your mobile magazine you need two apps; Any Browser to open up Bookio Manager Web App on your desktop and Bookio Viewer on your iPhone or iPad. All free to download. Please remember, in order to preview a magazine your desktop computer and iPad must remain in the same wireless network. And as specified in the Bookio Viewer App, you should open a browser on your computer to open the Bookio Manager Wep App via given IP Address.

About

My Library

Features
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Your entire bookshelf in your pocket. My Library makes cataloging your books a pleasure: point the camera at a book's barcode โ€” one beep, and it's in. Title, author, cover and page count are filled in automatically. No barcode? Search by title, or add it by hand with a photo of the cover. TRACK YOUR READING โ€ข Start and finish books with one tap, and see how long each one took โ€ข Set the page you're on and watch the progress bar move โ€ข See what percentage of your library you've read, and how long it'll take to read it all A SHELF THAT FILLS WITH COLOR Your books appear as spines on a virtual shelf. Unread books stay gray; every book you finish adds color. Share your shelf as an image with one tap. COLLECTIONS Group your books by author and series. See what percentage of an author's best-known works you own, and which volumes are still missing from a series. KEEP THE PASSAGES YOU LOVE Photograph a page and the text is extracted automatically. Crop it to the quote you want, add the page number, done. Mark the best ones to memorize and review them in their own tab. SMART STATS Charts of books and pages finished per week, month or year. Average time per book, time per 1,000 pages, reading speed, top authors, books by genre โ€” and an estimate of how long your whole library will take. YOURS, TRULY No account. No cloud. No subscription. Your library lives on your iPhone, and you can export it to a file anytime for backup. The free version holds 50 books โ€” a single one-time purchase unlocks unlimited.

Screenshots

BOOKIO4 screens
My Library4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BOOKIO at none against My Library's 1. BOOKIO also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 17.0). On price and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. My Library sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. BOOKIO asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
BOOKIO versus My Library: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBOOKIOMy Library
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS6.0 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size25 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCRENNO TechnologiesMANUEL NOVO LOPES

In-app purchases

None

BOOKIO

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

My Library

One-time1
  • My Library Unlimited$4.99

Questions

Is BOOKIO free?
BOOKIO is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is My Library free?
My Library is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do BOOKIO or My Library have ads?
Neither BOOKIO nor My Library shows ads.

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