Booky Call vs OBC Reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Booky Call
Discover your next favorite read through a unique dating app-style interface. Swipe through "humanized" book profiles, listen to audio clips, and engage with books before deciding to "date" them. Get personalized recommendations delivered to your inbox.
- Dating app-style book discovery
- Humanized book profiles
- Audiobook clips
- Direct messaging with books
- Personalized "Booky Calls"
- Purchase options for books
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Booky Call is a revolutionary book discovery app disguised as a dating app. By combining the psychology and functionality of dating apps with a creative book review in the form of a "humanized" dating profile, we help readers swipe right and engage with books in an innovative way. Each book review crafted by our staff of writers reveals answers to questions such as: - Who should swipe right on me? - What are my most attractive traits? - What do I spend a lot of time thinking about? - What will we eat/drink on our first date? - Tell me about your book daddy/mama. Each review also contains a short clip of the audio book (if available) to help you make your decision of whether or not to take the book on a "date." Users can swipe right on books they are interested in and send the book to your Direct Messages to further engage with the book. You are then given the opportunity to purchase the physical, digital or audio version of the book. Enable your notifications and receive custom "Booky Calls" twice a week with up to three hand-selected books looking for a "book-up" based on your personal profile preferences.
OBC Reader
Access a library of ePub2 books, download free titles from a community collection, and enjoy private books for members. Features include copy-paste, bookmarking, and text search for an enhanced reading experience.
- Read ePub2 books
- Download free books
- Community library access
- Private member books
- Copy-paste text
- Bookmarks
- Text search
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You can read books, download free books from the community library, and private books for Online Book Club members. This first version supports ePub2 format books in English. The e-reader allows copy-paste, bookmarks, and text search.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Booky Call at 4.1 against OBC Reader's 2.8. Booky Call also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (64 vs 10). OBC Reader's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (78% vs 61%). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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.
Booky Call holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Booky Call has 64 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 61% of Booky Call's written reviews are positive against 78% of OBC Reader's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Booky Call ships an update every 3 weeks, OBC Reader every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on July 5, 2026 and June 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Booky Call | OBC Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (64 ratings) — better | 2.8 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 61.0% of reviews | 77.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 64 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Booky Call LLC | OnlineBookClub.org LLC |
Customer experience
Booky Call
OBC Reader
In-app purchases
Booky Call
No in-app purchases
OBC Reader
No in-app purchases
