Comparison

Now Reading vs Koham

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Now Reading

Log books you are currently reading, have finished, or want to read. Display original or custom book covers and share your reading progress with friends through widgets or by swiping through your logged books.

Highlights
  • Track current reads
  • Archive finished books
  • Manage wishlist
  • Display book covers
  • Share reading progress
  • Widget support
Features
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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.

About

Koham

Engage in deep conversations with your books using AI. Import your EPUBs and explore their content through interactive dialogue, fostering self-understanding. The app also features a calm EPUB reader and remembers your discussion history.

Highlights
  • AI-powered book conversations
  • Import personal EPUB collections
  • Real-time voice interaction
  • EPUB reader with customization
  • Discussion memory and editing
  • API key configuration for AI
Features
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After you finish a book, how much of it actually stays with you? Koham offers a different path: talk to your books instead of merely reading them. Import a book. Start a conversation. Back and forth, unhurried, like a late-night walk or an intimate chat in a quiet study. Koham will not help you speed-read, nor will it help you memorize more. It does one thing: it lets you converse with your books through AI, so that in the exchange, you come to know yourself. When true understanding arrives, you never forget. What you seek, you already are. --- Core Experience • Talk to Books: Ask any book what truly matters to you. Every response is grounded in the text. • Realtime Voice: Like calling an old friend. Speak, listen, interrupt, or simply pause in silence. • Your Bookshelf: Import your personal collection. Every book feels like an old friend. • Calm Reading: A quiet EPUB reader. Customize fonts, themes, and brightness as you like. • Thought Continuity: It remembers past discussions so you can pick up next time. View, edit, or delete memories anytime. --- Please Note • Koham does not include books. Please import your own EPUB files. • AI conversations require configuring your own API key in Settings, with step-by-step guidance in the app.

Screenshots

Now Reading4 screens
Koham4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Now Reading at none against Koham's 1. Koham's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Koham sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Now Reading asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Now Reading against 5.0 for Koham. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Now Reading ships an update fortnightly, Koham weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Now Reading versus Koham: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNow ReadingKoham
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.0 — better27.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMinsang choi统伟 陈

Customer experience

Now Reading

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Koham

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Now Reading

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Koham

One-time1
  • Koham Supporter$6.99

Questions

Is Now Reading free?
Now Reading is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Koham free?
Koham is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Now Reading or Koham?
Now Reading and Koham are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Now Reading or Koham have ads?
Neither Now Reading nor Koham shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Now Reading or Koham?
Now Reading ships an update fortnightly, and Koham weekly. Most recently, Now Reading was updated on October 27, 2026 and Koham on October 24, 2026.

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