Now Reading vs Biblio.ink
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Now Reading
Track your current reads, archive finished books, and organize your future reading list. This app offers beautiful book cover displays and allows you to share your reading progress with friends.
- Track current reads
- Archive read books
- Organize to-read list
- Display original book covers
- Share reading progress
- Widget support
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Introducing Now Reading - a simple yet crafted book journal app. You can add what you're reading, archive what you already have read, and books you'd like to read in the future. This app displays the original book cover (direct attachment needed) or with the custom designed beautiful original book covers. Share what you read with your friends by swiping through books you logged or through the widget.
Biblio.ink
Organize your physical and digital book collections in a visually stunning 3D library. Browse your books on shelves, maps, or constellations, and enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Share your curated shelves with others.
- Unified 3D library for physical and digital books
- Multiple viewing modes: Shelf, Cascade, Map, Constellation, List
- Integrated EPUB & PDF reader with markup support
- Add books via barcode scan, photo, or manual entry
- Shareable shelves via web link
- Local-first data storage with iCloud sync option
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Your unified library in 3D, your physical books and ebooks live together. Drop in an EPUB or PDF and watch it become a hardcover you can pick up, browse, and read. Biblio turns a folder of files into a library you actually want to visit. Every book stands on a real 3D shelf, spine, cover, and page edges you can reach in and pick up, turn over, and start reading. A pile of downloads becomes a collection you browse the way you browse a bookshelf at home. One library, every kind of book Your ebooks and your physical books live side by side. Scan a barcode, photograph a whole shelf at once, search by title or author, or add a book by hand. However it arrives, it stands on the same shelf. See your collection, your way • Shelf: your whole library on beautiful 3D shelves; pinch to see every book at once • Cascade: flip through your books like flipping through records • Map: Your library on a world map: books pin to the places they're about, and tapping a place fans out its covers. Pan, zoom, and switch between Map and Constellation in the Graph view. • Constellation: a quiet map of how your books connect to one another • List: search, sort, and organize in a tap A reader that gets out of the way Clean typography, smooth page turns, and a layout built for long reading. PDFs support markup with Apple Pencil. Your place is always saved. Share a shelf with anyone Publish a shelf to your own page at biblio.ink and send the link to a friend — no account required to view. Yours, and private Biblio is local-first: your library lives on your device. Turn on iCloud to keep it in sync across iPhone, iPad, and the web, privately. Biblio is for people who love books — not just reading them, but keeping them, arranging them, and coming back to them. Terms: https://biblio.ink/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Now Reading at none against Biblio.ink's 6. Biblio.ink's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly) and ratings volume (6 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Biblio.ink sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Now Reading asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Now Reading against 5.0 for Biblio.ink. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 6 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Now Reading ships an update weekly, Biblio.ink every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Now Reading | Biblio.ink |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Minsang choi | groov creator limited |
Customer experience
Now Reading
Biblio.ink
In-app purchases
Now Reading
No in-app purchases
Biblio.ink
- Biblio Member Monthly$5.991 Month
- Premium Member Monthly$11.991 Month
- Biblio Member1 Year trial$49.991 Year
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- Biblio Premium Member1 Year trial$99.991 Year
- Library$29.99
- One-Time Purchase$149.00









