My Books vs kindphone
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My Books
This app offers a free collection of classic books and helps users build a consistent reading habit with a virtual companion. Track your progress, earn rewards, and discover new titles based on your preferences. It also allows you to log physical books and organize your entire library.
- Free classic books library
- Daily reading streak tracking
- Personalized book recommendations
- Physical book tracking
- Customizable bookshelves
- Virtual reading companion
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Meet Teddy — your reading companion who won't let you quit. Free classic books, personalized recommendations, daily streaks, and a bear with opinions about your habits. FREE CLASSIC BOOKS Over 100 classic books to read right inside the app — from Alice in Wonderland to Sherlock Holmes. Organized by difficulty so you can start easy. No purchase, no subscription needed. Open a book and start reading in seconds. YOUR DAILY READING TRAIL Watch your journey grow day by day on a visual reading path. Set a 5-minute daily goal, build your streak, and see every day you showed up. Teddy's there the whole way. BUILD A HABIT & HAVE FUN Earn XP for every minute you read. Level up, track your progress, and watch Teddy react to your growth. Pages read, minutes tracked, streak count, ebook progress — all in one place. SAVE & TRACK ANY BOOK Save books you own, books you want, even books you haven't bought yet. View on Amazon when you're ready. Every book shows genre, vibe, pace, period, and tags so you know exactly what you're getting into. PERSONALIZED MATCHING Browse books by vibe — cozy, intense, romantic, adventurous, and more. Every recommendation is matched to your reading personality. Find your Perfect Match. PICK YOUR TEDDY Choose your bear's personality. Chill gives you gentle nudges. Cheerful celebrates every page. Challenger calls you out when you've been scrolling too long. Your choice changes everything Teddy says. TRACK YOUR STATS See your weekly reading breakdown — pages, time, and ebook progress charted day by day. Watch your habits take shape in real data. TEDDY ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Widgets that remind you to read — with personality. "Still waiting" hits different when it's coming from a bear who knows your streak. TRACK PHYSICAL BOOKS Reading a paperback? Start the timer and track every session. Same streaks, same XP, same awards as ebooks. Tap pause, Teddy has something to say about it. ORGANIZE YOUR LIBRARY Custom bookshelves — Reading Now, Want to Read, Finished, and any shelf you create. Switch between bookshelf and author view. Edit layouts to match how you think about your collection. Free to use. Premium removes ads and adds iCloud sync. 5 minutes. One free book. Teddy handles the rest. ---------- Privacy: https://mybooks.world/app-privacy-policy/ Terms of service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
kindphone
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Kindphone turns your iPhone or iPad into a calm, paper-inspired reading space. Import your own documents and read with flexible typography, warm themes, and precise progress restoration. READ SCANNED PDFS COMFORTABLY Kindphone detects when a PDF contains selectable text and uses it directly. For scanned pages and images, on-device OCR extracts readable text without uploading your documents to external servers. OCR results are cached on your device so completed books do not need to be processed again. MULTIPLE FORMATS Open PDF, EPUB, TXT, RTF, JPG, PNG, HEIC and TIFF files. EPUB structure, paragraphs and available cover artwork are preserved whenever possible. A READER THAT ADAPTS TO YOU Choose font size, line spacing, typeface, margins, paper white, sepia or dark themes. Read with continuous vertical scrolling or a native page-curl experience. The interface supports iPhone, iPad, portrait and landscape layouts. ACCESSIBLE READING Use read-aloud with visual text tracking and playback controls. Kindphone includes descriptive VoiceOver labels, Dynamic Type support in controls, adjustable text size and spacing, high-contrast reading themes, and reduced-motion support. Highlights can be saved in different colors, titled, annotated, edited, and reviewed together with bookmarks. FIND YOUR PLACE AGAIN Kindphone saves your exact reading position, recent books, bookmarks and reading preferences locally. Switch between scrolling and page-turning modes while keeping your place. NAVIGATION TOOLS Search within a book, use bookmarks, browse detected contents and follow transcription progress for scanned documents. YOUR DOCUMENTS STAY YOURS Document extraction and OCR happen on the Device. Kindphone does not require an account to read. FREE WITH AN OPTIONAL AD-FREE UPGRADE The free version includes banner and interstitial advertising. A one-time in-app purchase removes ads permanently. No subscription is required. Kindphone: the warmth of paper with the flexibility of your phone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: My Books at every 5 days against kindphone's every 2 weeks. kindphone's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. My Books sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $14.99 per year and kindphone sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
My Books ships an update every 5 days, kindphone every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | My Books | kindphone |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 208 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jenya Lebid | agustin armando carreras |
In-app purchases
My Books
- Book Club Member Yearly1 Year trial$14.991 Year
kindphone
- Ad-free version$4.99









