scrolly vs Aurelius
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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!
Aurelius
Organize your reading life with a digital bookshelf and personal archive. Track books, save favorite quotes and reflections, and share your literary journey with friends. Rediscover your reading history and the impact of books on your life.
- Digital bookshelf organization
- Track reading progress
- Rate and rank books
- Save quotes and notes
- Share with friends
- Review reading history by year
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Aurelius is a beautiful place to keep your reading life: part digital bookshelf, part personal archive, and part shared space for the books worth talking about. Track the books you’ve read, are reading, and want to remember. Rate them, rank your all-time favorites, and build a library that becomes more meaningful with every finished book. Save the lines that stopped you in your tracks. Aurelius gives your quotes and reflections the space they deserve: an elegant, effortless library you’ll actually want to revisit. With Aurelius, you can: • Keep every book in a personal digital bookshelf • Rate and rank the books that shaped you • Save quotes, notes, and reflections in one beautiful place • Revisit your reading life by year and see it unfold • Add friends and share the books, quotes, and favorites that matter to you Aurelius is built for readers who believe a book is more than a title on a list. It is a home for the stories you loved, the ideas you carried with you, and the reader you are becoming.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Aurelius at 5.0 against scrolly's 4.7. Aurelius also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). scrolly's advantage is ratings volume (20 vs 3). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Aurelius holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: scrolly has 20 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
scrolly ships an update weekly, Aurelius every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | scrolly | Aurelius |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (20 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | totally important LLC | VEDANT SAMIR JOSHI |
Customer experience
scrolly
Aurelius
In-app purchases
scrolly
No in-app purchases
Aurelius
No in-app purchases
