Comparison

Ostroreads vs Joysa

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

Head to head
About

Ostroreads

Features
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About

Joysa

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Joysa is a personal book library for iPhone. Keep track of your books, your reading, and the impressions you want to remember. Explore your library Browse your books on a spatial canvas. Pan, zoom, and focus on a cover. Search your library by title, author, ISBN, or words from your reviews. Add books your way Enter a title and author, scan an ISBN barcode, or import your Goodreads library from a CSV file. Find covers through Open Library or choose your own image from Photos. Remember what you read Mark books you want to read, are currently reading, or have finished. Add ratings and reviews, organize books into series, and save related article links. Keep your library with you Your library is stored on your device. Save and restore backups, export a copy to Files, or choose a folder for automatic backups, including a folder in iCloud Drive. Keep a backup outside the app so it survives deleting Joysa. Internet access is used to look up book information and covers. No account required. No ads or tracking. Collections Find books in selections from curators. Browse collections and add individual books, or a whole selection, to your library. Joysa helps you organize books. It is not an ebook reader.

Screenshots

Ostroreads4 screens
Joysa4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Joysa at weekly against Ostroreads's every 4 weeks. Ostroreads's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Ostroreads ships an update every 4 weeks, Joysa weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Ostroreads versus Joysa: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOstroreadsJoysa
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB83 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFamil GadzhievAlexander Kuznetsov

In-app purchases

None

Ostroreads

No in-app purchases

None

Joysa

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ostroreads free?
Ostroreads is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Joysa free?
Joysa is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Ostroreads or Joysa have ads?
Neither Ostroreads nor Joysa shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ostroreads or Joysa?
Ostroreads ships an update every 4 weeks, and Joysa weekly. Most recently, Ostroreads was updated on October 18, 2026 and Joysa on October 9, 2026.

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