Simply.Bible vs Bookkeeprr
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simply.Bible
Access the King James Version of the Bible, along with apocryphal texts, completely offline and without advertisements. Organize your study with features like note-taking, highlighting, and folder sorting. Customize your reading experience with themes and light/dark modes.
- Offline access
- Ad-free experience
- Apocrypha books included
- Note taking and highlighting
- Folder sorting
- Light/Dark mode
- Bible search
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Simply.Bible represents an ad-free, offline application housing the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible along with Jubilees, Jasher, and 1 Enoch. Its primary objective is to offer a user-friendly and uncomplicated experience for individuals seeking access to the scriptures. Features: - Completely OFFLINE with no ads. - Apocrypha books (Jubilees, Jasher, and 1 Enoch) - Light/Dark mode - Bible search - Folder sorting - Note taking - Highlighting - History tracking - Theming
Bookkeeprr
This app acts as a self-hosted reading room for all your digital reading materials, including manga, novels, comics, ebooks, and audiobooks. It organizes your library, automatically tracks new releases, and provides built-in readers for a seamless experience. Requires a separate self-hosted server to function.
- Unified library for all formats
- Automatic release tracking
- Built-in ebook, audiobook, and comic readers
- Reading progress tracking and goals
- Customizable metadata and naming
- Private, self-hosted architecture
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bookkeeprr is a self-hosted reading room for everything you read - manga, light novels, comics, ebooks and audiobooks - all monitored, organized and ready to read in one beautiful app. Inspired by the *arr stack (Sonarr, Radarr and friends), bookkeeprr brings the same automation to your reading life. Point it at your sources, tell it what you're collecting, and it keeps every series complete - then gets out of the way so you can read. REQUIRES A SELF-HOSTED SERVER bookkeeprr is a companion app for your own bookkeeprr server. You'll need a running, self-hosted bookkeeprr instance to sign in - the app connects to it over your network to manage and read your library. There's no separate cloud account, and we don't store your data. ONE LIBRARY FOR EVERY FORMAT • Manga, light novels, comics, ebooks and audiobooks, side by side • Group volumes into series and see exactly what you own and what's missing • Pick up instantly with Continue Reading across all your devices NEVER MISS A RELEASE • Monitor any series and auto-grab new volumes, chapters and releases the moment they land • Connect your own indexers, search providers and download client • Follow progress live in the Activity feed - downloading, imported and blocked BUILT-IN READERS, MADE TO ENJOY • A calm, paginated ebook reader with adjustable type and a full table of contents • A clean audiobook player with chapters, scrubbing and narration credits • A smooth manga and comic reader for single pages or spreads YOUR READING, MEASURED • Track time read, units finished and your daily streak • Set yearly reading goals and watch them fill up • See your whole reading life at a glance on iPhone and iPad POWER-USER CONTROL, ZERO CLUTTER • Flexible naming templates for series folders, volumes, chapters and batches • Rich metadata from Google Books, MyAnimeList, the New York Times and more • Quality profiles, housekeeping and library sync, all configurable PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Fully self-hosted - your library lives on your server, not someone else's cloud • Sign in with your own identity provider (OIDC) • Works beautifully across iPhone, iPad and the web Note: bookkeeprr requires your own self-hosted bookkeeprr server. It is not a store or streaming service and does not include or provide any content. bookkeeprr - the reading-room the *arr stack forgot.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Simply.Bible at 89% against Bookkeeprr's 0%. Simply.Bible also leads on rating (4.6 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (43 vs 1). Bookkeeprr's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 11). 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. Simply.Bible sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Bookkeeprr asks for nothing beyond the download.
Simply.Bible holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simply.Bible has 43 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of Simply.Bible's written reviews are positive against 0% of Bookkeeprr's.
| Parameter | Simply.Bible | Bookkeeprr |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (43 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 43 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Malachi Partlow | Alexandru Paul Csiki |
Customer experience
Simply.Bible
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In-app purchases
Simply.Bible
- $3$3.00
- $5$5.00
- $10$10.00
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Bookkeeprr
No in-app purchases









