Bartleby vs Harold.
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bartleby
This app helps writers format their books for publication. Import your manuscript and let it handle the professional formatting, creating EPUB files ready for online stores. It supports various import methods, including direct text input and Markdown.
- Book formatting for publication
- EPUB creation
- Import from other writing apps
- Markdown support
- Professional layout
- Direct export to online stores
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Bartleby is a book formatting app for writers to publish their own books. Write your book using your favorite app, import the book into Bartleby, and let Bartleby handle the formatting details. Do you use Scrivener? If you do, you can quickly publish books by compiling your project to MutliMarkdown and importing it into Bartleby. For most books that’s 99 percent of the work. Click the Publish button, and Bartleby gives you a professional looking EPUB book you can sell at Amazon and other online book stores. If you don’t use Scrivener, you can copy your book text into Bartleby and mark the parts of the book that aren't body text, such as chapter titles, section headings, and italicized text. For a novel the main work you have to do is tag chapter titles. Bartleby has a menu to tag parts of your text, but you can also use Markdown formatting. Learn more at: https://www.checksimsoftware.com/bartleby/
Harold.
This app allows writers to share drafts and receive precise, inline feedback from friends. Its distraction-free editor helps focus on content, and shared drafts enable collaborators to comment directly on specific text passages.
- Distraction-free writing editor
- Inline commenting on text
- Share drafts directly from app
- Collaborative feedback tool
- Supports various written content
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Harold is for writers who want real feedback before they publish. Write a draft, share it with a friend, and let them leave inline comments to the exact words they're responding to. HOW IT WORKS Write your draft in Harold's distraction-free editor. When it's ready, share it with friends directly from the app. They'll see your draft on their phone, highlight any passage, and leave a comment tied to that exact moment in the text. Harold is for essays, short stories, cover letters, speeches, newsletters, or anything else you've written that needs a second pair of eyes before it goes out into the world.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Harold. at 100% against Bartleby's 0%. Harold. also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). Bartleby's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Harold. holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Harold. has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Bartleby's written reviews are positive against 100% of Harold.'s.
| Parameter | Bartleby | Harold. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Mark Szymczyk | SAI SIDDHI VINAYAK KARNATI |
Customer experience
Bartleby
Harold.
In-app purchases
Bartleby
No in-app purchases
Harold.
No in-app purchases









