BookThoughts vs scrolly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BookThoughts
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An easy-to-use ebook reader that supports popular file formats such as "epub," "mobi," "azw3," and "txt." Enjoy features like marking specific text portions and adding notes. Customize the font size of your books , translate text using openAI . Best of all, all these features are completely free.
scrolly
Transform your PDF reading with a delightful experience. Customize text size and themes, save your progress with bookmarks, and enjoy a unique vertical scrolling mode. Perfect for books, papers, articles, and textbooks.
- Customizable text size
- Theme selection
- Bookmark saving
- Vertical snap-to-scroll
- Read books, papers, articles, textbooks
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replace your scrolling addiction with reading! this app displays PDFs in a beautiful reading experience where you can change the text size, choose a theme, and save bookmarks scroll through your book with a vertical snap-to-scroll use it to read books, scientific papers, articles, and textbooks easily!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: scrolly at weekly against BookThoughts's every 6 weeks. BookThoughts's advantage is iOS requirement (13.4 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BookThoughts ships an update every 6 weeks, scrolly weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and July 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BookThoughts | scrolly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 85.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 婷雅 李 | totally important LLC |
In-app purchases
BookThoughts
No in-app purchases
scrolly
No in-app purchases
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