Comparison

Squiddle vs Bibliome

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

Head to head
About

Squiddle

This app allows you to quickly sketch ideas, notes, or reminders using your finger on your phone. You can then save these doodles, share them with others, or upload them to cloud storage. It's a fun and flexible way to capture thoughts on the go.

Highlights
  • Finger sketching and note-taking
  • Save and share doodles
  • Cloud storage integration
  • Mark up photos and images
  • Set doodle reminders
  • Organize notes with tags
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Squiddle is the fun way to doodle and take notes on the go! Squiddle gives you the freedom to use your finger to sketch your thoughts right onto your phone at the exact moment they are on your mind. Then you can save them for later or share them with friends. Be silly, serious, or both: it’s up to you. Draw a mustache on your friend, sketch an expressive idea for your spouse or share a brainstorming byproduct with a coworker. Squiddle does the remembering so your mind can be free to think! Features include: - Quickly sketch an idea and share it with friends or upload it to your cloud storage (Evernote, Dropbox, Google Drive, etc - must have those apps installed) - Mark up a photo or image with important annotations or entertaining messages - Use a doodle to set a lively reminder for yourself - Organize notes into a series of tags

About

Bibliome

Organize and search your personal document library with intelligent categorization and on-device processing. It suggests filing locations, performs keyword searches, and can even answer questions using passages from your own documents. All data remains private and offline, with optional iCloud sync across devices.

Highlights
  • Intelligent document categorization
  • On-device OCR for scans
  • Keyword search ranked by meaning
  • Answers questions from your documents
  • PDF manipulation (merge, compress)
  • Optional iCloud sync
Features
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Bibliome is the mobile companion to Bibliome Library for Mac — read, search, mark up, and file PDFs on your iPhone or iPad, synced to your Mac library through your own iCloud. Get Bibliome Library for Mac: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6786826590 It also stands completely on its own, no Mac required. Point it at your documents and Bibliome suggests where each one belongs: manuals, papers, datasheets, statements, receipts, whatever your library is made of. Accept with a tap, and it learns from what you file. No uploading, no accounts, no waiting on a server. WHAT WORKS WITH NO MAC AT ALL • Suggests a category for every document and learns from your filing • Move and re-file with a tap • Searches your whole library by keyword, ranked by meaning • Reads scans with on-device OCR • Scans paper to PDF, converts documents, merges, compresses, and reorders pages • Detects dates, totals, and IDs; builds citations; exports notes • Answers questions with the passages from your own documents that address them WHAT NEEDS APPLE INTELLIGENCE Bibliome's sharpest filing and its written answers use Apple Intelligence, which requires iOS 26 on a supported iPhone or iPad with Apple Intelligence turned on. Without it, every feature above still works exactly the same — this is a hardware difference, not a paywall. There is no subscription and nothing to unlock. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • The app makes no network connections of its own — no servers of ours, no third parties. Your documents never reach us. • All the intelligence runs on your device, offline. • The only data movement anywhere is Apple iCloud, inside your own account: optional library sync, plus a tiny device-presence file (app version and document count — never names or contents) so your devices can notice each other. We can never see any of it. • No ads, no analytics, no tracking. Your documents are yours. ONE LIBRARY, ALL YOUR DEVICES (OPTIONAL) Turn on iCloud sync and your library is shared across iPhone, iPad, and Mac — through your own Apple iCloud account, never a third-party server. Off by default; you're always in control. Bibliome is built for people who keep a real library of documents and want it organized, searchable, and private — without handing it to anyone.

Screenshots

Squiddle4 screens
Bibliome4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Bibliome at every 2 weeks against Squiddle's every 2 months. Bibliome also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Squiddle against 5.0 for Bibliome. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Squiddle ships an update every 2 months, Bibliome every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Squiddle versus Bibliome: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSquiddleBibliome
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThink Tank ProductionsJoshua Langberg

Customer experience

Squiddle

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bibliome

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Squiddle

No in-app purchases

None

Bibliome

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Squiddle free?
Squiddle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bibliome free?
Bibliome is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Squiddle or Bibliome?
Squiddle and Bibliome are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Squiddle or Bibliome have ads?
Neither Squiddle nor Bibliome shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Squiddle or Bibliome?
Squiddle ships an update every 2 months, and Bibliome every 2 weeks. Most recently, Squiddle was updated on October 4, 2026 and Bibliome on October 10, 2026.

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