Byline vs toongether
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Byline
Collaborate with others to create unique stories, one line at a time. Each participant only sees the previous line, fostering surprising and creative narratives. Share your finished tales with friends or the wider community.
- Collaborative story creation
- Line-by-line writing
- Public story posting
- Private group invitations
- Story titling and sharing
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Byline is a modern take on exquisite corpse. Serendipitous stories come together one line at a time, with each writer only seeing one line before theirs. Create the weirdest, funniest, spookiest, strangest story you can. POST DIRECTLY TO BYLINE Write the first line to your story and post on the site for strangers to finish. INVITE YOUR FRIENDS Write the first line to your story and then send it to a specific group of people you know. Once finished, you decide who can view. Once everyone has written their line, it's your turn to title and share the result in all its glory!
toongether
Create and read fantasy comic stories, inspired by popular magical and mystery series. Build your own worlds, characters, and plots panel by panel. Collaborate with others by remixing existing panels or developing full comic series.
- Create manga/manhwa inspired stories
- Build magic academies and mysterious worlds
- Remix panels and publish your own take
- Develop serialized comic story series
- World-building playground with characters and locations
- No drawing skills required
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Make your own manga, manhwa and webcomics. Build dramatic romance scenes, cinematic panels, and characters readers won't forget. All from your phone. You supply the ideas. We'll supply the assets. toongether keeps you in charge of the story: you write the script, compose the scenes, choose the vibe. We handle the canvas, the posing, the backgrounds, so you can go from idea to published chapter in one afternoon. Drag, drop, write, publish. That's the loop. FIND YOUR SQUAD You're not posting into the void. toongether publishes straight to a community of readers and creators who care about webcomics. Read free romance, fantasy and slow-burn series from creators around the world while you build your own. Drop a cliffhanger and watch the reactions roll in. Trade tips. Find a co-writer for your next series. WHY CREATORS LOVE TOONGETHER - Characters that stay consistent between panels. Your protagonist looks exactly like themselves from page one to the finale. - Cooking an enemies-to-lovers arc? Fake dating? CEO romance? Fanfic? Generate the poses, outfits and backgrounds to match in one tap. - Real layout control. Layer, rotate, resize, stack speech bubbles until the scene looks how you saw it in your head. You aren't just prompting, you are directing. - Built-in readers. Your chapter goes live in front of manga and manhwa fans the moment you hit post. - A real community. Co-writers, comments, and a fanbase you build from chapter one. Start your story today. Who is your main character falling for first? Terms of Use: https://toongether.ai/terms Privacy Policy: https://toongether.ai/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Byline at none against toongether's 16. Byline also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.9 vs 4.7). toongether's advantage is ratings volume (3.8K vs 16) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, review sentiment 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. toongether sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Byline asks for nothing beyond the download.
Byline holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: toongether has 3.8K ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Byline's written reviews are positive against 83% of toongether's.
Byline ships an update every 2 weeks, toongether every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Byline | toongether |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (16 ratings) — better | 4.7 (3.8K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better | 83.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 16 | 3.8K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | App't | Kartoon |
Customer experience
Byline
toongether
Bugs and requests
Byline
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
toongether
Reported bugs
4 issues- Unable to add characters to stories
- Zooming issues
- Requests for custom characters not working
- Crashes and freezing
Requested features
5 requests- Add search bar
- Allow custom character/background creation
- Improve character pose options
- Add more text/speech bubble styles
- Implement voting/commenting system
In-app purchases
Byline
No in-app purchases
toongether
- toonpass standard monthly$9.991 Month
- toonpass plus monthly$19.991 Month
- toonpass max monthly$39.991 Month
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- toonpass plus monthly [LEGACY]$39.991 Month
- toonpass standard yearly$89.991 Year
- toonpass plus yearly$359.991 Year
- credits pack 12 variants$1.99
- credits pack 22 variants$4.99
- credits pack 3$9.99
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- credits pack 3$14.99
- credits pack 4$19.99
- credits pack 5$29.99
- credits pack 6$49.99
- credits pack 4$49.99
