Dooru Library vs Let's Read
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dooru Library
Explore a digital library with over 200 books in Korean and other languages, categorized by reading level. Interactive features like narration and word pronunciation support young readers. Discover diverse topics and cultures through engaging stories and illustrations.
- 204 books in Korean and other languages
- 6 reading levels
- Narration function
- Highlighting function
- Tap-to-pronounce words
- Multilingual books (Vietnamese, Chinese, English, Thai)
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■ The "Dooru Library" was created through a partnership between The Foundation SeeArt and educational tech start-up Enuma. › The library is comprised of 124 Korean books and 84 books in other languages, making a total of 204 books categorized into 6 levels. › You can choose between various levels starting from level 1, which contains short words and sentences, up to level 6, which is perfect for 1st and 2nd graders. › The books cover various topics, such as animals, science, food, life, nature, history, and adventure. You're free to choose whatever interests you the most. ■ Kids can immerse themselves in books on their own, fully engaged in the topics of their choice. › The books have a "narration" function that reads for you as well as a "highlight" function that points out where you’re at and makes reading easy for kids at any level. › You can even tap on a word you don’t know to hear how it sounds. ■ There are 21 books about Vietnam, China, the Philippines, and Thailand available in multiple languages. › You can read the same books in Vietnamese, Chinese, English, and Thai in addition to Korean. › The stories and illustrations really come alive since they're written and illustrated by natives of the specific countries. › The various books cover subjects ranging from mythology and fairy tales to modern civilization and culture.
Let's Read
Access a vast collection of free, colorful storybooks for children, featuring thousands of titles from local authors and illustrators. Support language learning with multilingual options and offline reading capabilities. Discover culturally relevant stories in underrepresented languages and English.
- Thousands of free storybooks
- Books from local authors and illustrators
- Multilingual reading support
- Offline reading capability
- New books added regularly
- Culturally relevant stories
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Enjoy reading fun and colorful storybooks with the children in your life for free with the Let’s Read app. With thousands of books from local authors and illustrators in a wide variety of underrepresented languages and English, help your children fall in love with reading and learning! All books on the Let’s Read app are 100% free to read. Your favorite books are also free to download and save for reading anytime, online or offline. Multilingual readers can switch between languages within the storybooks with a quick tap, accessing the many languages available on the Let’s Read app, including English. New books are being added to the Let’s Read library all the time through our wide network of local authors, illustrators, and translators. Let’s Read is an initiative of The Asia Foundation’s Books for Asia program that fosters young readers in Asia. We focus on underserved languages and original content developed through community-based workshops that produce culturally relevant stories. Learn more about the Let’s Read initiative: www.letsreadasia.org/about
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Let's Read at 4.7 against Dooru Library's 4.2. Let's Read also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 73%). Dooru Library's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Let's Read holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Let's Read has 487 ratings behind it against 31, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Dooru Library's written reviews are positive against 100% of Let's Read's.
Dooru Library ships an update every 5 months, Let's Read every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dooru Library | Let's Read |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (31 ratings) | 4.7 (487 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 31 | 487 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 655 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Enuma, Inc. | The Asia Foundation |
Customer experience
Dooru Library
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In-app purchases
Dooru Library
No in-app purchases
Let's Read
No in-app purchases
