Comparison

TCCL vs Bookaroo

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

TCCL

Access library services, browse the catalog, and manage your account. Scan book barcodes to check availability, discover events, and find branch locations and hours. Enjoy digital content like ebooks and audiobooks.

Highlights
  • Manage library account
  • Search and browse catalog
  • Scan book barcodes
  • Discover and filter events
  • Access digital content
  • Find branch locations and hours
Features
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The Tulsa City County Library app is your portal to the library's services from your mobile devices. Check your account, search and browse the catalog, request an item, use your digital library card, renew items and get the latest recommended reads suggestions. Summary and detailed descriptions are at your fingertips, plus reviews and lists of similar items or authors. All our events are shown and you can filter by location, age and event type. Want to check whether we have a book you've just seen in a cafe? You can scan the book's barcode and we'll check whether any branches have it. And if not you can request we purchase it. See all our locations and find the nearest branch to where you are. You can see opening hours at a glance and get directions to any of our branches. Access digital content - ebooks, audiobooks, music, movies, magazines and more.

About

Bookaroo

Features
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Bookaroo keeps your reading on your phone. No account, no server, no advertising. Everything you record — books, pages, dates, notes, quotes — lives in a file on your device. Not because we promise not to look, but because none of it is ever sent to us. WHAT IT DOES Log the page you stopped on, and Bookaroo works out the rest: how far through you are, your pace, how long the book has left, and how many days in a row you have read. Four shelves, in the order a book moves through them: Unread, Up next, Reading, Finished. A Wishlist for the ones you do not have yet, and a separate note of whose copy it is — so a borrowed book sits on the same shelf as your own without pretending to be the same thing. Lend a book out and Bookaroo remembers who has it and since when. Closed loans are kept, so you can see who had what. Keep the lines. Type a quote or photograph the page and let your phone read it. Tag it, find it again, and share it as something worth looking at. Watch the year add up: pages, books, streaks and best months, with last year beside this one once there is a last year. FOUR WAYS TO ADD A BOOK Scan the barcode. Search by title, author or ISBN. Photograph the cover and let the phone read the title off it — for the books no catalogue has. Or type it in yourself when all three come up empty. YOUR COPY, YOUR CLOUD Automatic backup to your own Dropbox, in an app folder Bookaroo cannot see past. The file is yours, in your account. We hold no tokens and run no server, so your library never passes through us. Or export it as a plain JSON file you can open and read. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No account. No ads. No analytics or tracking SDKs. No social feed. No profile of you, because there is no way for us to know who you are.

Screenshots

TCCL4 screens
Bookaroo4 screens

Verdict

The call

TCCL and Bookaroo are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
TCCL versus Bookaroo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTCCLBookaroo
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.2 (44 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews20.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings44 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTulsa City-County LibraryDarko Joska

In-app purchases

None

TCCL

No in-app purchases

None

Bookaroo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TCCL free?
TCCL is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bookaroo free?
Bookaroo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TCCL or Bookaroo have ads?
Neither TCCL nor Bookaroo shows ads.

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