Paperback vs Kraken Bingo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Ad-free reading
- Komga server support
- TypeScript/JavaScript scripting API
- Extensible functionality
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An Ad-Free Komga client for iOS. Supports an extensive scripting API using TypeScript/JavaScript to extend the app functionality.
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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
| Parameter | Paperback | Kraken Bingo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (645 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 53.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 645 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Faizan Durrani | Jan 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
Paperback
No in-app purchases
Kraken Bingo
No in-app purchases
Questions
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Do Paperback or Kraken Bingo have ads?
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