Libstack vs milkyway
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Libstack
Organize your personal library, track your reading progress, and jot down notes for each book. Share your reading journey with friends and discover what they're reading.
- Customizable shelves
- Quick book adding via search or camera
- Reading progress logging
- Personal book notes
- Shareable reading cards
- Friend activity and book sharing
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A bookshelf you actually keep. - Shelves you arrange yourself Name your own shelves and drag books into the order you want. See them covers out, or spines lined up. Whatever you're reading sits at the front of its shelf. - Add a book in seconds Search by title, author or ISBN, or point your camera at the barcode on the back. No barcode? Photograph the cover and it finds the book. - Days that add up Read today? Mark it — the calendar fills in and your streak grows. Log where you are by page or by percent. - Notes along the way A sentence worth keeping, or your thoughts when you finish — every book holds your notes, and they're yours alone. - Your reading becomes a card Books finished, days reading, your pace, your most-read author — one library card. Share it to Stories, Photos, or anywhere else. - Read alongside friends Invite a friend by link and see what they have open right now. Browse their shelves, leave a compliment on a book they've read, and poke the ones who've gone quiet. Friendships are mutual, and only friends can see your library. - Pick up where you left off Jump straight to the book in the app you read it in, or borrow it free from your local library through Libby. Korean and English throughout. Light and dark. iPhone and iPad.
milkyway
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milkyway, where a universe opens the moment you pause Some sentences make you stop mid-read. milkyway is where the thought and the afterglow of that moment go. One book and one line at a time, a universe of your own takes shape, and it meets the universes of others who paused at the same book :) - Notes for the moments you paused - keep what you felt, not just a highlight - Questions that go further - a question lands on your note and carries the thought on - Meeting other universes - find and share what others took from the same book - A record that adds up - the books, the notes, the days you read become one trail Right where you stopped reading, open a universe of your own
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Verdict
Libstack and milkyway are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
Libstack ships an update every 10 days, milkyway weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Libstack | milkyway |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sounho Chung | JAEHA HWANG |
In-app purchases
Libstack
No in-app purchases
milkyway
No in-app purchases








