Karakeep App vs Bibliocapsa
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Karakeep App
Effortlessly save links, notes, and images with automatic AI-powered tagging for quick retrieval. Search through all your saved content, including link contents, at blazing fast speeds. Organize your saved items into custom lists and share content from any app.
- Automatic AI tagging
- Full-text search
- Custom lists
- Sharing extension
- Save links, notes, and images
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Quickly save links, notes, and images and karakeep will automatically tag them for you using AI for faster retrieval. Content (including link contents) are indexed for blazing fast full text search. Organize you items into custom lists. Sharing extension to hoard items from any other apps.
Bibliocapsa
Organize your physical and digital book collection with this private library app. Easily catalog books by scanning covers or barcodes, track reading progress, and manage your collection with custom shelves and stats. Enjoy a clean interface with customizable themes and icons.
- Catalog books via barcode scan or cover snap
- Track physical and digital copies
- Organize with custom shelves
- Search entire library
- View reading statistics
- Optional server connection for advanced users
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Bibliocapsa is a beautiful, private home for your books, both the ones on your shelves and the ones on your devices. CATALOG EVERYTHING • Scan a barcode or snap a cover to add a book in seconds. Bibliocapsa identifies it and fills in the details. • Track physical and digital copies, and mark the same book as both. • Organize with shelves, search your whole library, and follow your reading stats. • A clean cover grid, multiple app icons, and themes. YOURS AND PRIVATE • Your library lives on your device, optionally synced across your devices through your own private iCloud. • No accounts. No ads. No tracking. Ever. CONNECT YOUR SERVER (optional, for power users) • Pair Bibliocapsa with your own self-hosted Bibliocapsa/Calibre library to read EPUBs in the app, sync your digital catalog, and keep KOReader reading progress in step. Whether you just want to remember what's on your shelf or you run a full self-hosted library, Bibliocapsa keeps your books organized and entirely yours.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bibliocapsa at 100% against Karakeep App's 71%. Bibliocapsa also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). Karakeep App's advantage is ratings volume (43 vs 1). 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.
Bibliocapsa holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Karakeep App has 43 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Karakeep App's written reviews are positive against 100% of Bibliocapsa's.
Karakeep App ships an update every 6 weeks, Bibliocapsa fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Karakeep App | Bibliocapsa |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (43 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 43 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mohamed Bassem | John Worthington |
Customer experience
Karakeep App
Bibliocapsa
In-app purchases
Karakeep App
No in-app purchases
Bibliocapsa
No in-app purchases
