Comparison

BooksPlus vs Read Reality

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

Head to head
About

BooksPlus

Enhance your reading experience by scanning book pages to unlock interactive digital content. Discover multimedia like videos, audio, and photos that bring stories to life. Find new books and explore additional content for titles you already own.

Highlights
  • Scan book pages to unlock content
  • Access multimedia (video, audio, photos)
  • Interactive text and engaging content
  • Discover similar books
  • Enhance existing book collections
Features
Read full description

A good book takes you to a place where reality and your imagination mingle. BooksPlus transports you to this place with the use of augmented reality and rich content. Just scan the pages of the book you’re reading and get immersed in the digital content. BooksPlus (sometimes searched as Books Plus: Augmented Reality) uses the power of augmented reality to let your smartphone bring you rich, interactive content to select books. All you need is a book with the BooksPlus interactive technology built in and your mobile phone. Just launch the app, scan the select images and experience multimedia including photos, audio, video, interactive text and other engaging content. Quickly scan images and access rich, interactive content associated with that book. View videos, listen to audio, view photo galleries and read in-depth content Enjoy additional content for the books you already may own Find similar books in the Books Plus catalog BooksPlus is free to download (search using BooksPlus or Books Plus) Publishers, talk to us to get your books enhanced with our augmented reality technology.

About

Read Reality

Features
Read full description

With the app, you will be able to bring our books to life, visualize them, and travel through the digital world. AR technology will allow you to see the elements of the book in the camera, play games, collect points, and buy prizes from points. good luck!

Screenshots

BooksPlus4 screens
Read Reality3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: BooksPlus at none against Read Reality's shown. BooksPlus also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BooksPlus ships an update monthly, Read Reality every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
BooksPlus versus Read Reality: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBooksPlusRead Reality
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size82 MB174 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperIgnite Solutions India Private LimitedSkangoGames LLC

In-app purchases

None

BooksPlus

No in-app purchases

None

Read Reality

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BooksPlus free?
BooksPlus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Read Reality free?
Read Reality is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do BooksPlus or Read Reality have ads?
Read Reality shows ads; BooksPlus does not.
Which is updated more often, BooksPlus or Read Reality?
BooksPlus ships an update monthly, and Read Reality every 3 months. Most recently, BooksPlus was updated on October 6, 2026 and Read Reality on October 20, 2026.

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