Curio Library vs BooksRUs
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Curio Library
Organize and manage your personal book collection. Keep track of all your reading materials in one place, with a simple and intuitive interface. Discover new ways to catalog your library.
- Personal library management
- Catalog all book types
- Intuitive interface
- Track reading materials
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Personal library with all types of books.
BooksRUs
Manage your personal book collection with detailed records. Add author, publisher, ISBN, genre, and ratings. Include book photos and sync data across all your Apple devices.
- Create detailed book records
- Attach author, publisher, ISBN
- Include storage location and genre
- Add book ratings
- Include book photos
- Sync data across Apple devices
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This app allows the User to create database records for Books. Full Book details may be attached including author, publisher, ISBN, storage location, genre, rating and more. A photo of the Book may be included. The app synchronizes all data across all iOS, iPadOS devices that have the same Apple ID User signed into iCloud.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: BooksRUs at every 5 months against Curio Library's every 21 months. Curio Library's advantage is iOS requirement (11.1 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Curio Library against 5.0 for BooksRUs. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
Curio Library ships an update every 21 months, BooksRUs every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Curio Library | BooksRUs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 21 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NTDE | John Grauel |
Customer experience
Curio Library
BooksRUs
In-app purchases
Curio Library
No in-app purchases
BooksRUs
No in-app purchases
