Little Bookmates vs Hedgehog reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Little Bookmates
Receive a curated selection of 8 children's books delivered to your home each month. This service makes reading together easier and more enjoyable than screen time, fostering quality family moments.
- Monthly book delivery
- Curated selections
- 8 books per shipment
- Children's literature
- Family reading time
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Now enjoying with them through books is easier than turning on the TV and you will never regret the time together. With your membership we take home 8 books specially selected for your children and we exchange them every month.
Hedgehog reader
This app allows you to read a wide variety of e-book and audiobook formats, organize your personal library, and even translate text offline. It offers features like full-text search, typo correction, and text-to-speech functionality.
- Supports multiple e-book and audiobook formats
- Organize library with shelves, search, and filtering
- Offline text translation
- Full-text search and notes
- Typo correction
- Text-to-speech with adjustable speed
- Import from local devices and cloud storage
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An app for reading books and organizing a personal library. The supported formats are FB2, MOBI, EPUB, DOCX, CBZ, CHM, RTF, HTML, MHTML, WebArchive, PDF, MD, TXT, and MP3, M4A, M4B for audiobooks. Import from local devices, iCloud, and Dropbox, as a single book and as a batch. An ability to create an internal shelves structure with search and filtering by genre, keywords, languages, series, and ratings. An ability to translate (even when there is no Internet connection) selected words and phrases to the chosen language, by presetting the list of languages to translate from. An ability to perform a full-text search throughout the entire library and the notes added to books. An ability to quickly correct typos in a book. Reading the text aloud (even when there is no Internet connection) with different variants of speed and operating from the music control. Bookmarks and notes with the ability to upload the latter as a file. An ability to directly download books from servers that support OPDS. Automatic synchronization of library content (and reading progress) across multiple devices.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Little Bookmates at none against Hedgehog reader's 2. Little Bookmates also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 67%). On price, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Hedgehog reader sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Little Bookmates asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Little Bookmates | Hedgehog reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.9 (17 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 17 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.7 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Little Bookmates SAPI de CV | Anna Diubina |
Customer experience
Little Bookmates
Hedgehog reader
In-app purchases
Little Bookmates
No in-app purchases
Hedgehog reader
- Advertisement free mode$5.99
- Book export$14.99
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