Comparison

Paperback vs Kraken Bingo

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

Head to head
About

Paperback

This app provides an ad-free reading experience for comics and manga from a Komga server. It offers extensive customization through a scripting API, allowing users to extend its functionality with TypeScript or JavaScript.

Highlights
  • Ad-free reading
  • Komga server support
  • TypeScript/JavaScript scripting API
  • Extensible functionality
Features
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An Ad-Free Komga client for iOS. Supports an extensive scripting API using TypeScript/JavaScript to extend the app functionality.

About

Kraken Bingo

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Kraken Bingo turns real life into a game your whole team plays together. Put challenges on a bingo card, prove them with photos and videos, and race for a line on a live leaderboard — over an evening, a month, or a whole year. HOW IT WORKS 1. Create a team and a game — pick a 3×3, 4×4 or 5×5 card. 2. Add your own challenges, or start from a ready-made game. 3. Invite everyone with a QR code or a link. 4. Complete tasks and upload photo or video proof. 5. A full row, column or diagonal is bingo. The leaderboard updates live. READY-MADE GAMES Don't feel like writing 25 tasks? Start from a template: team building, icebreakers for new colleagues, party dares, a summer with the family, conference networking, or a year of goals — each one sized to exactly fill its card. MAKE IT PERSONAL Give any player a secret challenge of their own. It appears only on their card, right at the centre — nobody else sees it until it's done. PROOF, NOT PROMISES Every completed task needs a photo or a video. Proofs become stories your team can watch, react to and comment on — and by the end, the card is an album of everything you did together. CHAT BUILT IN Team chat for everyone, private group chats for plotting missions together, and direct messages — with photos, replies, reactions and push notifications. RUN IT YOUR WAY — Public teams anyone can find, or private ones joined by invite only — Add tasks in bulk, edit them anytime, reshuffle a card without losing progress — Follow everyone's cards and completions as the organizer — Sign in with Apple, Google, or email Great for team building, onboarding new hires, birthdays and bachelorette parties, family holidays, conferences, clubs — and New Year's resolutions that actually survive January. Free to play, in English and Czech. Also works in any web browser at krakeni.app, so your team plays together whatever device they're on. One card. Real challenges. Release the kraken.

Screenshots

Paperback4 screens
Kraken Bingo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Kraken Bingo at every 2 days against Paperback's every 2 weeks. Paperback's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Paperback ships an update every 2 weeks, Kraken Bingo every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Paperback versus Kraken Bingo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPaperbackKraken Bingo
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (645 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews53.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings645 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB11 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperFaizan DurraniJan Zenisek

Bugs and requests

Paperback

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • JSON token errors when interacting with server
  • Inability to add/remove manga from library
  • Disappearing navigation UI elements

Requested features

4 requests
  • Bookmark/resume reading feature
  • Panel-by-panel/smart panel reading mode
  • Sync reading progress across devices
  • Better documentation and support resources

Kraken Bingo

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Paperback

No in-app purchases

None

Kraken Bingo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Paperback free?
Paperback is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kraken Bingo free?
Kraken Bingo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Paperback or Kraken Bingo have ads?
Neither Paperback nor Kraken Bingo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Paperback or Kraken Bingo?
Paperback ships an update every 2 weeks, and Kraken Bingo every 2 days. Most recently, Paperback was updated on November 3, 2026 and Kraken Bingo on October 31, 2026.

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