Ostroreads vs Joysa
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ostroreads
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Заходи и устраивайся поудобнее. Тут ты найдёшь всё что надо для приятного путешествия в параллельные миры, созданные классиками и современниками. Проза, поэзия, рассказы и романы – нам предстоит немало путешествий! Загляни в раздел медитаций, где я собрала любимые практики, которые помогут расслабиться или наоборот сфокусироваться. А ещё следи за новостями, слушай самые свежие озвучки и участвуй в жизни нашего большого сообщества. Уверена, что тебе здесь понравится!
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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Ostroreads ships an update every 4 weeks, Joysa weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ostroreads | Joysa |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Famil Gadzhiev | Alexander Kuznetsov |
In-app purchases
Ostroreads
No in-app purchases
Joysa
No in-app purchases









