Polimi Library vs Egea Digitabook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Polimi Library
Access the Politecnico Milano university library catalog from your smartphone or tablet. Manage your reader status, request and extend loans, save bibliographies, and receive notifications. Search by typing, voice, or barcode scanning.
- Search university library catalog
- Manage reader status
- Request, book, and extend loans
- Save bibliographies
- Receive library notifications
- Search by voice or barcode
- View new books and news
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Polimi Library is the App for the libraries of the Politecnico Milano. Designed specifically for library patrons, you can use it to search the catalog of the university, using smartphones and tablets. With the App Polimi Library you can: • View your reader status • Request, book or extend a loan • Save your bibliographies • Choose your favorite libraries, to highlight the material they have. • Receive library notifications • Suggest new purchases to your library With the Polimi Library APP you can search using the keyboard typing or by voice, dictating the title or keywords of the desired document. Searches can also be done by reading the bar code ISBNs by activating the scanner. Moreover, with the Polimi Library App you can: • View a gallery of new books together with the latest news • Refine the search using facets (title, author, ...) • Change the order of the results: from relevance to title or to author or year of publication ... and with the social network functions you can share your favorite books on social media! Using the navigation menu you can: • consult the libraries list and map with relative information (address, opening times ...) • read messages addressed to you Enrich your life, download the Polimi Library APP!
Egea Digitabook
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Digitabook è un libro digitale, fruibile sia online sia offline su diversi device, pensato appositamente per lo studio. L’utente avrà la possibilità di combinare i principali vantaggi offerti dal formato cartaceo (evidenziare, annotare, inserire segnalibri) e da quello digitale (fare uno screenshot della pagina e commentarlo, aggiungere la pagina ai preferiti, eseguire una ricerca full text, accedere ai materiali integrativi di approfondimento), inclusa la sincronizzazione delle annotazioni Particolare attenzione è stata prestata agli utenti con DSA: Digitabook consente infatti di selezionare il colore dello sfondo, la grandezza e il tipo di font, l’ampiezza dell’interlinea ed ha il Text to Speech.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Egea Digitabook at every 5 months against Polimi Library's every 12 months. Polimi Library's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). 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.
Polimi Library ships an update every 12 months, Egea Digitabook every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Polimi Library | Egea Digitabook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 520 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DOT BEYOND SRL | Egea Editore |
In-app purchases
Polimi Library
No in-app purchases
Egea Digitabook
No in-app purchases
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