Comparison

Amazon Kindle vs Little Stories

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

Head to head
About

Amazon Kindle

Access a vast library of eBooks, magazines, and comics on your mobile device. Customize your reading experience with adjustable text, brightness, and page-turning options. Look up words, track progress, and sync across devices.

Highlights
  • Read purchased eBooks
  • Access Kindle Unlimited
  • Customizable text and display
  • Built-in dictionary and lookup
  • Track reading progress
  • Sync reading across devices
  • Listen to Audible books
Features
Currently charting
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READ ANYTIME, ANYWHERE On the bus, on your break, in your bed—never be without a book. Kindle books you have purchased on Amazon will automatically appear in your app. Kindle Unlimited and Amazon Prime members can select and download Kindle books directly in the app. FIND YOUR NEXT GREAT READ • Read the books you buy on Amazon in the Kindle app. Choose from over six million Kindle books (including those with Audible narration), magazines, and comics and start reading in seconds. Explore Amazon Charts best sellers and titles across genres like romance, science fiction, children’s books, self-help, religion, nonfiction, and more—and try any book with a free sample straight from the Kindle app. • Kindle Unlimited members can enjoy unlimited reading and listening, with the freedom to explore over 1 million titles, thousands of audiobooks, and current magazines. • Over 1,000 books, magazines, comics, and more included with Amazon Prime. GO BEYOND PAPER Turn your iPhone or iPad into a book with the free Kindle app—so you can read anytime, anywhere. Explore these reading features in the Kindle app: • Read your way. Customize your text size, font type, margins, text alignment, and orientation (portrait or landscape)—and choose whether to turn pages from left to right or continuously scroll. Read comfortably day and night with adjustable brightness and background colors. Go to the Aa menu in your book to get started. • Look up words, people, and places while you read. Breeze through words you don’t know and characters you can’t remember with the built-in dictionary, X-Ray, Wikipedia lookup, instant translations, and search within your book. Simply tap and hold a word to view its definition, or use the Google and Wikipedia links to get more information. • Track your reading progress. See what percent of the book you’ve read, real page numbers (for most top titles), and how much time you have left in the chapter or book based on your actual reading speed. • Bookmark places you want to revisit, and make highlights and take notes throughout your book. Open My Notebook to see all your notes in the same place. • Hop, skim, and jump with Page Flip. Flip between pages or get a bird’s-eye view of your book with Page Flip—don’t worry, we’ll save your place. • Zoom in on high-definition color images in Kindle books, magazines, comics, and manga. • Sync your books across devices. When you’re reading a book, the Kindle app will automatically sync where you left off—along with any bookmarks, highlights, or notes—so you can start reading on one device and pick up where you left off on another. • When you can’t read, listen. Switch seamlessly from reading your Kindle book to listening to the Audible book, all within the Kindle app. • Get notified when authors you love have new releases. By using this app, you agree to Amazon’s Conditions of Use (www.amazon.com/conditionsofuse) and Privacy Notice (www.amazon.com/privacy).

About

Little Stories

Create personalized storybooks where your child is the star, with custom illustrations and soundtracks. Record your own voice to make unique audiobooks for bedtime. A collection of enchanting tales designed to foster a love of reading.

Highlights
  • Personalized stories starring your child
  • Custom illustrations matching child's gender
  • Original soundtracks for each story
  • Record your own voice for audiobooks
  • Extensive library of 80+ stories
  • Over 3500 detailed illustrations
Features
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Little Stories is a collection of books where your child is the main character. Our authors and illustrators don’t use generative AI, meaning every story is thoughtfully created to help your child fall in love with reading. Enter your child’s name and gender in the settings to enjoy personalized stories starring your son or daughter. To make things even better, we've added beautiful soundtracks and detailed illustrations to accompany each story and help you raise your child in a positive environment. You can also make your own audiobooks! Take a few minutes to record yourself and your child will be able to listen to a charming audiobook in your voice! If you like fairy tales, bed time stories for kids, or children’s books, then “Little Stories” is a great option for you! Let love and kindness fill your family’s leisure time! Why Little Stories? • 4500+ illustrations • Illustrations will match your child’s gender • 90+ exciting stories, and many more to come • Enchanting music accompanying each story • Create audiobooks by recording your voice! We’d like to tell you a bit more about the process we use to create personalized stories for kids so that you have a better idea of the hard work we put into “Little Stories”. 1) We search for an author. Regardless of the writer’s nationality or language, we look for unique and captivating short stories. Our main condition is that each bedtime story contains at most 50 scenes and is educational. Author’s bedtime story must be interesting for both – parents and kindergarteners. And the story shouldn’t contain more than 800 words, because it’s important to read short stories before bedtime. 2) Then we create the storyboard. It consists of rough sketches that serve as the template for the finalized drawings in the storybook, helping us decide how it will look. 3) Once the storyboard has been approved by our team, we search for an illustrator. We take great pride in matching each artist with a story that suits their style. Personal touches make our bedtime stories for kids come to life! 4) At the same time, our composer begins creating the soundtrack for the story. Inspired by the theme of the tale, he designs a gentle melody that will transport your child to relaxation and sleep (maybe you too). 5) At the same time we are looking for a professional narrator. We want to be sure our app could read aloud books for kindergarten kids. Currently you can listen to our audio books in three languages: English, Spanish and Russian. But don’t forget that we support 14 languages total. 6) After the story is finished, we translate it so that the children of the world can enjoy it in their language. 7) The story is then published in our library of books for kids. The entire process might take anywhere from two to nine months. We take great care to provide an amazing experience. We also provide 4 free books that you can read to your baby anytime. We are always looking for the highest quality content because we want to create the best bedtime stories for reading. We constantly add new children's stories to our collection! Our books are good for kids 3 to 6 year olds. Follow us on social media: @diveomedia

Screenshots

Amazon Kindle4 screens
Little Stories4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Amazon Kindle at 5.8M against Little Stories's 46K. Amazon Kindle also leads on chart position (#4 vs #138) and rating (4.9 vs 4.7). Little Stories's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). On price, review sentiment, 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. Amazon Kindle sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $13.99 per month and Little Stories sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Amazon Kindle holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Amazon Kindle has 5.8M ratings behind it against 46K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 68% and 69% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Amazon Kindle ships an update every 2 weeks, Little Stories weekly. Both last shipped on September 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Amazon Kindle versus Little Stories: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAmazon KindleLittle Stories
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (5.8M ratings) — better4.7 (46K ratings)
Positive reviews68.2% of reviews69.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5.8M — better46K
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#4 — better#138
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size196 MB163 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAMZN Mobile LLCDiveo Media

Customer experience

Amazon Kindle

All ratings5,821,307 ratings
Positive97.6%
Neutral1.3%
Negative1.0%
Written reviews8,244 reviews
Positive68.2%
Neutral8.8%
Negative23.0%

Little Stories

All ratings45,842 ratings
Positive91.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews436 reviews
Positive69.0%
Neutral10.6%
Negative20.4%

User reviews

Amazon Kindle

From 5.8M App Store ratings

What we love

  • 📚 Huge library of books
  • 📱 Portable and convenient
  • 🔍 Useful features like dictionary lookup and highlighting
  • 🌙 Adjustable reading settings (font, brightness, etc.)
  • 🔁 Seamless syncing across devices

Room to improve

  • 🛒 Cannot purchase books directly in the app
  • 🗂️ Difficulty organizing and managing large book libraries
  • 🔍 Inconsistent behavior when highlighting/taking notes
  • 🔄 Unreliable syncing between devices
  • 🔌 Drains device battery quickly

Little Stories

From 46K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Engaging stories
  • 🎨 Beautiful illustrations
  • 🎉 Personalized with child's name
  • 🌙 Helps with bedtime routine
  • 🧠 Educational and promotes reading

Room to improve

  • 💰 Paid content model, limited free stories
  • 🔤 Poorly written stories with grammar issues
  • 🗣️ Lack of narration/voice-over options
  • 🔢 Only supports one child profile

Bugs and requests

Amazon Kindle

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes or freezes when switching between apps
  • Incompatibility issues with newer iOS versions
  • Dictionary lookup feature not working reliably

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to create and manage collections/folders for books
  • Option to easily see which books have been read vs unread
  • Improved highlighting and note-taking functionality
  • Better syncing between Kindle devices and apps
  • Dark mode and other customization options

Little Stories

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Subscription issues and inability to access purchased content
  • Inconsistent personalization (name not appearing correctly)

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more free stories
  • Implement voice-over/narration feature
  • Allow multiple child profiles
  • Expand to more languages and locales
  • Introduce a reward/badge system for reading

In-app purchases

12 purchases

Amazon Kindle

Subscriptions2
  • Kindle Unlimited$13.991 Month
  • Kindle Unlimited1 Month trial$13.991 Month
One-time10
  • 140 Tokens - Kindle Vella (US)$1.39
  • 100 Tokens - Kindle Vella (US)$1.39
  • 140 Tokens - Kindle Vella (US)$1.99
Show 7 more
  • 368 Tokens - Kindle Vella (US)$3.49
  • 300 Tokens - Kindle Vella (US)$3.99
  • 368 Tokens - Kindle Vella (US)$4.99
  • 770 Tokens - Kindle Vella (US)$6.99
  • 770 Tokens - Kindle Vella (US)$9.99
  • 900 Tokens - Kindle Vella (US)$11.49
  • 2000 Tokens - Kindle Vella(US)$23.99
10 purchases

Little Stories

Subscriptions2
  • Books for Kids: monthly3 Days trial2 variants$9.991 Month
  • Books for Kids: yearly3 Days trial$59.991 Year
One-time8
  • The Magic Christmas TreeFree
  • Who Is the First?$0.99
  • The Union of Three Planets$0.99
Show 5 more
  • The Fruit Kingdom$1.99
  • A Curious Mouse$1.99
  • A Stegosaur Story$1.99
  • Reading Books for Kids$5.99
  • All Books for Kids$29.99

Questions

Is Amazon Kindle free?
Amazon Kindle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Little Stories free?
Little Stories is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Amazon Kindle or Little Stories?
Amazon Kindle is rated higher. Amazon Kindle averages 4.9 out of 5 from 5.8M ratings, while Little Stories averages 4.7 from 46K ratings.
Do Amazon Kindle or Little Stories have ads?
Neither Amazon Kindle nor Little Stories shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Amazon Kindle or Little Stories?
Amazon Kindle ships an update every 2 weeks, and Little Stories weekly. Most recently, Amazon Kindle was updated on September 24, 2026 and Little Stories on September 24, 2026.
Which is more popular, Amazon Kindle or Little Stories?
Amazon Kindle currently peaks at #4 in the App Store charts, and Little Stories at #138. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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