Comparison

Palex Library vs Crown Book

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

Head to head
About

Palex Library

Features
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Palex is a physical social library that helps you catalog the books you own, connect with friends, and discover what to read next. Add the books on your shelves to your digital library, organize what you have read or want to read, and explore the personal libraries of friends and other readers. Palex makes book discovery feel human again by focusing on real collections instead of trends or algorithms. Whether you are building a home library or looking for your next great read, Palex turns personal bookshelves into a shared experience. Features: Create a digital library from the books you physically own Track reading status and organize your collection Find friends and explore their personal libraries Discover books through people you trust Simple, distraction free design built for readers Your bookshelf tells a story. Palex helps you share it.

About

Crown Book

Features
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A full-screen reader for large text files on your watch. One book at a time: a .txt file sent from Crown Book for iOS. Sending another book to your watch replaces the previous one. Font size matches system settings โ€“ you can change it while reading in the watchOS control center. Large files (>10 KB) are divided into pages and remember the last page you were reading. You can scroll through text with your finger, the crown, or the "double tap" gesture. Tapping the system clock takes you to the top of the page. At the beginning of each page there is a button with the page number, which, when pressed, takes you to any page (selection with a preview of the first line of text). At the end of each page (except the last) there is a button that takes you to the next page. At the end of the book, there's a "CLOSE" button to close the book. A closed book can be deleted ("Delete" button) or started over ("BOOK" button). You can set a widget on the watch face displaying the page number of the currently read page and several lines of text (modular). ! The program comes with instruction (in the form of a mini-book: "Help" button) for two of my apps (Crown Book and Equatch) in two languages โ€‹โ€‹(English and Polish). Sending a file from iPhone to Apple Watch: UTF-8 encoded .txt format (you can use TextEdit in macOS to change the encoding). .txt compatibility with Apple Pages: File - Export to - Plain Text... - Save. Compatibility with free gutenberg.org ebooks (PlainText UTF-8). The loaded .txt file can be viewed in the iOS app (button with the file name). The .txt file remains in the iOS app until it is replaced by another file. ! When sending a file from iPhone, the Apple Watch must be unlocked with the app running. ! If the text doesn't appear on your watch after uploading, try again until it succeeds. Minimum system requirements: watchOS 10 and iOS 17 ("double tap" scrolling requires Apple Watch 9 or later).

Screenshots

Palex Library4 screens
Crown Book4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Palex Library at 15.1 against Crown Book's 17.6. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Palex Library versus Crown Book: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPalex LibraryCrown Book
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better17.6
Further details โ€” not scored
Size32 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDavid SohnArtur Janowicz

In-app purchases

None

Palex Library

No in-app purchases

None

Crown Book

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Palex Library free?
Palex Library is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Crown Book free?
Crown Book is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Palex Library or Crown Book have ads?
Neither Palex Library nor Crown Book shows ads.

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