番剧助手 vs PaperVN
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
番剧助手
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番剧助手能为您提供最新的动画连载信息。在这里，您可以轻松查看任意一天的动画连载节目单，掌握新番播放时间；轻松查看每一部动画的制作人员、声优以及剧情介绍，从而挑选适合自己口味的动画。当您关注的动画连载新的剧集时，番剧助手将立刻把更新资讯推送给您，帮助您第一时间观看。
PaperVN
Discover and track visual novels with this companion app. Browse titles, learn about characters, and manage your personal library. Features daily selections, personalized recommendations, and extensive search capabilities.
- Discover visual novels
- Track play progress
- Manage personal library
- Daily visual novel selections
- Personalized recommendations
- Extensive search functionality
- Character and title details
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PaperVN is a visual novel companion built for Apple devices. It helps you discover visual novels, learn more about titles and characters, and record every step of your play journey. Browse, explore, and search VNDB's public data without signing in. After signing in to your VNDB account, you can also read and edit your personal library. Coming Swiftly: Throughout its development, PaperVN has followed a “beauty first” principle. It is built entirely with SwiftUI, and every detail has been carefully considered. Today: Today presents a daily selection of visual novels worth your attention and recent events. PaperVN can also analyze your library and use machine learning to generate a “For You” list. Library: After signing in to your VNDB account, you can edit your library and update play status, played release, rating, and start or finish date. Preferences such as language, appearance, and content safety are customizable as well. Visual Novel / Character Details: PaperVN includes localizations for more than 6,000 VNDB visual novel tags and character traits, with support for Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, and Korean. We are also working to localize the descriptions of more than 200,000 visual novels and characters on VNDB. Search: Search visual novels, characters, releases, staff, developers, and publishers, then narrow the results with matching filter criteria. LICENSED APPLICATION END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT：https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: PaperVN at 100% against 番剧助手's 0%. PaperVN also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0). 番剧助手's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. PaperVN sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.59 per month. 番剧助手 asks for nothing beyond the download.
PaperVN holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of 番剧助手's written reviews are positive against 100% of PaperVN's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 番剧助手 | PaperVN |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 204 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Chaoran Li | 训杰 潘 |
Customer experience
番剧助手
PaperVN
In-app purchases
番剧助手
No in-app purchases
PaperVN
- PaperVN Senkou1 Month trial$0.591 Month
