Royal Road vs LiterallyForBooks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Royal Road
Discover a vast library of web novels across popular genres like fantasy and sci-fi. Explore over 50,000 titles and find your next captivating read. Premium features offer an ad-free experience, offline reading, and enhanced profile customization.
- Vast web novel library
- Multiple fantasy and sci-fi genres
- Over 50,000 novels
- Ad-free reading (Premium)
- Offline chapter downloads (Premium)
- Customizable profile (Premium)
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Your main source for Action, Adventure, Fantasy, and Science Fiction. Find many stories within your new favorite genres such as Progression Fantasy, Litrpg, Portal Fantasy and Isekai stories, among many others. Explore over 50,000 novels and be the first to discover captivating stories. Royal Road Premium - Subscribe to our Premium service to receive the following features: - Ad-free reading experience - Downloading chapters for offline reading - Premium badge on your comments - Itemized reading history of individual chapters read - Replace your standard avatar border with a premium one and unlock a new one for each month of your subscription - Customize your profile page with a banner For our terms of service, visit https://www.royalroad.com/tos For our privacy policy, visit https://www.royalroad.com/privacypolicy Royal Road Author Premium - We offer a subscription service for authors as well; this gives you all of the benefits above, plus extra benefits available on our author dashboard online. Please note that our app does not have features for authors, this subscription tier is present for convenience.
LiterallyForBooks
This app helps you track your reading progress, manage your book lists, and connect with other readers. Organize your library, set reading goals, and discover new books through social features and book clubs.
- Track reading progress
- Multiple goal formats
- Half-star review scale
- Keyword labeling
- Prioritize want-to-read list
- Book club feeds
- Spoiler-protected posts
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Book tracking: Track your book progress, multiple formats of goals, half star review scale, label books with keywords, prioritize want to read list with priority. Social: Suggest or request books, generic posts, spoiler protected posters, book clubs with their own feeds and tracking Profiles: Create an about me, favorite genres, profile photos, top 10 of all time, recent favorites, and see your LiterAllies lists and goals Privacy Policy: https://www.literallyforbooks.com/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LiterallyForBooks at none against Royal Road's 4. LiterallyForBooks also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 days). Royal Road's advantage is ratings volume (5.4K vs 2) and chart position (#122 vs unranked). On price 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. Royal Road sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.49 per month. LiterallyForBooks asks for nothing beyond the download.
LiterallyForBooks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Royal Road has 5.4K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Royal Road ships an update every 6 days, LiterallyForBooks every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Royal Road | LiterallyForBooks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (5.4K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5.4K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #122 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 185 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Not Yet Media LTD | Matthew Dornbos |
Customer experience
Royal Road
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Bugs and requests
Royal Road
Reported bugs
3 issues- Inconsistent dark mode behavior
- Downloaded stories not available offline
- Navigational issues with chapter buttons
Requested features
5 requests- Add text-to-speech functionality
- Improve sorting/filtering of reading history
- Allow more control over ad placement
- Implement screen rotation support
- Provide in-app support/feedback options
LiterallyForBooks
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Royal Road
- Premium (Monthly)$3.491 Month
- Author Premium (Monthly)$5.991 Month
- Premium (Annual)$34.991 Year
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- Author Premium (annual)$59.991 Year
LiterallyForBooks
No in-app purchases
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