Balfour eYearbook Reader vs Y/n
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Balfour eYearbook Reader
Access an interactive, multimedia version of your school's yearbook on your iPad. This free app requires a subscription to the Balfour eYearbook service, with login details provided by your school's yearbook adviser.
- Interactive yearbook experience
- Multimedia content
- School-specific access
- iPad compatibility
- Digital yearbook storage
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The Balfour eYearbook Reader allows member school’s subscribers to experience Balfour’s interactive, multimedia version of the yearbook. This application is free to download but the service is only available to subscribers of the Balfour eYearbook service. If your school is participating in this service, your school’s yearbook adviser will provide your login information. Balfour provides subscribers with an interactive yearbook experience, capturing the special moments of your school year for your iPad to carry with you.
Y/n
Engage with interactive stories where your choices shape the narrative and character relationships. Explore a vast library of community-created tales or write and publish your own.
- Play interactive stories
- Choices affect story and characters
- Rewind and change decisions
- Explore 1M+ community stories
- Write and publish own stories
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On Y/n, you play a character in your story. Be a boarding school student and get the boys to fall in love with you, or plan a jailbreak with Sherlock Holmes. Stories are made for you. Your texts change the plot and how characters feel about you (oops!). No two playthroughs are the same (but you can rewind). There's a Y/n story for every taste: romance, fanfiction, fluff, mystery, and more. Discover 10M+ stories created by the community. Can't find the one you want? Write and publish your own. Download Y/n for free and play your story! EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Balfour eYearbook Reader at 100% against Y/n's 61%. Balfour eYearbook Reader also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). Y/n's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (5.5K vs 1). On price, ads 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. Y/n sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Balfour eYearbook Reader asks for nothing beyond the download.
Balfour eYearbook Reader holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Y/n has 5.5K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Balfour eYearbook Reader's written reviews are positive against 61% of Y/n's.
Balfour eYearbook Reader ships an update every 5 months, Y/n every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Balfour eYearbook Reader | Y/n |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.5 (5.5K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 60.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5.5K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #13 — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Balfour Yearbooks | Emittance Inc. |
Customer experience
Balfour eYearbook Reader
Y/n
Bugs and requests
Balfour eYearbook Reader
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Y/n
Reported bugs
2 issues- Continue button not working
- Incompatibility with older devices
Requested features
2 requests- Private and delete characters
- Email sign-up option
In-app purchases
Balfour eYearbook Reader
No in-app purchases
Y/n
- Y/n+ Weekly$4.997 Days
- Y/n+ Monthly$14.991 Month
Questions
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