OBC Reader vs scrolly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
scrolly
Transform your PDF reading with a delightful experience. Customize text size and themes, save your progress with bookmarks, and enjoy a unique vertical scrolling mode. Perfect for books, papers, articles, and textbooks.
- Customizable text size
- Theme selection
- Bookmark saving
- Vertical snap-to-scroll
- Read books, papers, articles, textbooks
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replace your scrolling addiction with reading! this app displays PDFs in a beautiful reading experience where you can change the text size, choose a theme, and save bookmarks scroll through your book with a vertical snap-to-scroll use it to read books, scientific papers, articles, and textbooks easily!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: scrolly at 5.0 against OBC Reader's 2.8. scrolly also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). OBC Reader's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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.
scrolly holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of OBC Reader's written reviews are positive against 86% of scrolly's.
OBC Reader ships an update every 2 months, scrolly weekly. The most recent releases landed on June 2, 2026 and July 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OBC Reader | scrolly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.8% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | OnlineBookClub.org LLC | totally important LLC |
Customer experience
OBC Reader
scrolly
In-app purchases
OBC Reader
No in-app purchases
scrolly
No in-app purchases
