Softgoods vs Glimmer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Softgoods
Organize and journal your favorite fan fiction. Create custom shelves, add notes to stories, and track your reading habits. Share your discoveries and thoughts with friends.
- Store and bookmark fan fiction
- Create custom shelves
- Add notes to stories
- Track reading statistics
- Share shelves and notes publicly
- Tag stories for easy searching
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What you can do with Softgoods: • Save and bookmark fics from anywhere on the web! Paste a link or use the share sheet • Build shelves by fandom, ship, trope, mood, or anything you want • Tag fics with warnings, characters, and freeform tags for instant search • Journal your thoughts on every fic and rate them with stars • Log reading sessions chapter by chapter for works in progress • Track stats: total fics read, monthly word count, authors followed, and how this month compares to last • Make shelves and notes public to share with friends or keep them private just for you • Export your data anytime For fic readers, by fic readers We built Softgoods because spreadsheets and browser bookmarks weren't cutting it. We're a small team and we ship updates often. Your feedback shapes what we build next. Got a feature request or hit a bug? Email contact@softgoods.app A real person reads every message. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://softgoods.app/privacy-policy
Glimmer
Engage with interactive fanfiction where you are the protagonist. Make choices to shape the narrative, explore various fandoms and original stories, and experience different genres and relationship tropes. Customize your character and discover multiple story paths and endings.
- Choose-Your-Own-Adventure stories
- Character customization
- Multiple story paths and endings
- Customizable character responses
- Track story playthroughs
- Favorite stories and updates
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Glimmer is the app for Choose-Your-Own-Adventure fanfiction. Play as the main character, and shape the story through your choices. **Why choose Glimmer?** - Immersive stories where you play and make choices as the Main Character - Stories in all your favorite fandoms, plus original content - A story for every mood, from one-shots to collections to epic sagas - Live out your favorite relationship tropes, from enemies-to-lovers to school rivals, and more - Play stories in a variety of genres, from slice-of-life to action/thriller, and more - Stories published by our talented community of authors, with new stories published every day **Features** - Choose-Your-Own-Adventure stories with multiple-choice options and custom responses - Customize your character and self-insert as whoever you want to be - Unlock different story paths and endings depending on the choices you make - Character interactions, dialogue, and relationships are unique and tailored to your playthrough - Keep track of multiple story playthroughs, rewind and try making different decisions - Keep track of your favorite stories and easily receive story updates **Follow us everywhere** - Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/glimmerfics - Discord: https://discord.gg/glimmerfics - Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/glimmerfics/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/glimmer_fics Need help? Email us: info@glimmerfics.com We don't do creepy stuff with your data —> https://glimmerfics.com/privacy Terms —> https://glimmerfics.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Glimmer at 5.7K against Softgoods's 74. Glimmer also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.4) and review sentiment (91% vs 74%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Softgoods sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Glimmer sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Glimmer holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Glimmer has 5.7K ratings behind it against 74, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Softgoods's written reviews are positive against 91% of Glimmer's.
Softgoods ships an update fortnightly, Glimmer weekly. Both last shipped on October 22, 2026.
| Parameter | Softgoods | Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (74 ratings) | 4.7 (5.7K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 74.4% of reviews | 91.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 74 | 5.7K — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #17 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Jordan Wagner | Glimmer Fics |
Customer experience
Softgoods
Glimmer
Bugs and requests
Softgoods
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Glimmer
Reported bugs
1 issue- Issues with loading answers
Requested features
2 requests- Ability to earn more chances to read through watching ads
- Sort stories by completed or not
In-app purchases
Softgoods
- Premium$1.991 Month
- Premium$19.991 Year
Glimmer
- 20 Turns$0.99
- 15 Turns$0.99
- 20 + 5 Undos$3.99
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- 100 Turns$3.99
- 75 + 15 Turns$4.99
- 50 + 30 Undos$9.99
- 265 Turns$9.99
- 150 + 50 Turns$9.99
- 300 + 125 Turns$19.99
- 750 + 350 Turns$49.99
- 1500 + 800 Turns$99.99









