Libro vs Home Library Manager
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Libro
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Libro is a book sharing platform. Use Libro to find books to read around your neighbourhood, create your neighbourhood library, meet like minded readers and discover new writers! How does it work? Libro transforms your neighbourhood into a library. You can use Libro to find new books to read and exchange books with your neighbors. Anyone can contribute to your local library! Use the My library feature to add all your books and allow others on Libro to borrow them from you. Use the app to see if anyone around you has the books you're looking for and borrow them for 30 days! When you're done reading, simply return the book to its home. By using Libro, you can help save our forests too! Less freshly printed books means less paper, less shipping boxes, less packaging...! --- By downloading and installing this app you agree to our Privacy Policy (https://readwithlibro.app/privacy) and Terms of Use (https://readwithlibro.app/terms)
Home Library Manager
Easily manage your personal book collection by scanning barcodes, adding detailed descriptions, and organizing them into smart collections. Track your reading progress and sync your library across all your devices.
- Barcode scanning for quick book entry
- Detailed book information fields
- Smart collections based on various parameters
- Reading status and page tracking
- iCloud sync across iOS devices
- Home screen widgets for reading progress
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Leto is a simple and beautiful book management app that helps you to easily keep track of the books you are currently reading, would like to read or already have. EASILY ADD BOOKS BY SCANNING THEIR BARCODE Adding books to Leto is super easy and fast. Just by scanning its barcode, the book cover, title, author and number of pages will be automatically added. You can also import your book collection from other sources such as Goodreads or Calibre. ADD RICH DESCRIPTIONS TO YOUR BOOKS When you add a new book, Leto allows you to specify a wide variety of details for a better description of the book. The available parameters range from the title and author of the work, to the genre, the original language of the text, whether it is written in verse or prose, identifiers such as ISBN and Thema codes, and even its dimensions and weight. It will not be necessary for you to include all that information at first, but you will have it at your disposal if you wish. ORGANIZE YOUR BOOKS IN SMART COLLECTIONS Leto allows you to create smart book collections based on a wide variety of parameters, so that you can have your books grouped according to the criteria that you consider the most appropriate. Specifically, you can keep your library organized by creating collections based on author, language, read-status, publisher, genre, and so on. KEEP TRACK OF THE BOOKS YOU ARE READING AND ITS CURRENT PAGE Each book you add to Leto has a read-status, which can be: “To Read”, “Reading”, “Finished” or “Left Unfinished”. Leto automatically creates different book collections based on their status so that you can have them well organized. In addition, you can keep track of your reading progress by indicating the current page of the books in question. SEAMLESSLY SYNC YOUR LIBRARY ACROSS DEVICES With Leto, you can keep all your books stored in iCloud and synced seamlessly across all of your iOS devices so you can access your library from your, iPhone and iPad. WIDGETS Widgets are a great way to keep track of the books you are reading. Add to your Home Screen as many widgets as you like, each one displaying a different book. Widgets makes it easy for you to see your progress at a glance and entice you to read more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Libro at none against Home Library Manager's 1. Libro also leads on iOS requirement (15.5 vs 18.4). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Home Library Manager sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Libro asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Libro | Home Library Manager |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.6 (171 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 77.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 171 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 18.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 284 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gomoku Studio Pty Ltd | Alejandro Garcia Fernandez |
Bugs and requests
Libro
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Home Library Manager
Reported bugs
8 issues- Unable to export since last update
- Difficulty in saving certain data
- Edit feature doesn’t save changes
- App returns to home screen without saving
- Widget not working
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- Manual add books doesn't save title
- Page marker feature won't save changes
- Login screen freezes
Requested features
24 requests- Add rating system (1-5 stars)
- Add start and end date for reading
- More configurable default settings
- Mac app
- Accent color customization
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- Ability to sort books by author last name
- Support for CSV import from Calibre
- Batch update book metadata online
- More diversified search engines for book covers
- Increased search support for Chinese books
- Ability to manually order books within collections
- More options for 'status' and filters
- Distinction between 'want to read' and 'to be purchased'
- Ability to sort library by TBR, to be purchased, not finished, etc.
- Add date of finishing and rating
- Add custom categories (e.g., cookbook, photography)
- Add wish list section
- Ability to add own fields for multiple formats (e.g., audiobooks, ebooks)
- Add ability to rate books
- Book dictionary/web option for easy adding
- Star ratings with notes section
- Ability to sort books A-Z and Z-A
- Sort by author
- Create barcodes or QR codes for lent books
In-app purchases
Libro
No in-app purchases
Home Library Manager
- Leto (Full Version)Free
Questions
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