Now Reading vs Vertically Verse
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.
Vertically Verse
Experience the Bible in a unique vertical, right-to-left format, mirroring traditional East Asian text. Choose from Korean, Japanese, or Chinese translations with customizable fonts and themes for an immersive reading journey.
- Vertical CJK typesetting
- Right-to-left reading
- Korean, Japanese, Chinese translations
- Adjustable font size and spacing
- Multiple reading themes
- Verse highlighting
- Two reading layouts
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Vertically Verse is a scripture reader built the traditional way — fully vertical, with characters stacking top to bottom and columns reading right to left, exactly as CJK text was meant to be set. Read the Bible in Korean, Japanese, or Chinese, each in a classic translation, with a single tap to switch languages. Every control, gesture, and transition is designed around the vertical, right-to-left axis — not a horizontal app with rotated text, but a reading experience rethought from the ground up. • Fully vertical, right-to-left typesetting with proper CJK glyph orientation • Three translations: Korean 한글 킹제임스, Japanese 口語訳, Chinese 和合本 • Serif (명조) or sans (고딕) typefaces • Adjustable font size and line spacing • Dark, sepia, and light reading themes • Highlight verses and navigate the full 66-book canon • Two reading layouts: continuous flow and structured page Designed for anyone who wants to read scripture the way vertical CJK text is meant to be read.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Vertically Verse at 18.0 against Now Reading's 26.0. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Now Reading against 5.0 for Vertically Verse. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Now Reading ships an update weekly, Vertically Verse every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Now Reading | Vertically Verse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Minsang choi | Jihoon Suh |
Customer experience
Now Reading
Vertically Verse
In-app purchases
Now Reading
No in-app purchases
Vertically Verse
No in-app purchases
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