Comparison

Storybase vs Scriptorium

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

Head to head
About

Storybase

This app offers an immersive way to experience audiobooks and ebooks, allowing readers to interact with books and authors. Authors can build deeper connections with their audience and extend the reach of their work.

Highlights
  • Immersive reading and listening experience
  • AI assistant for book interaction
  • Offline download for books and audiobooks
  • Direct author communication and forums
  • Author tools for reader engagement
  • Shareable book chapters and links
Features
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Storybase helps authors build relationships with their readers, and helps readers engage deeper with books through an immersive and interactive experience. FOR READERS A new way to experience audiobooks and ebooks: immersive, interactive, and connected to the author every step of the way. • Immersive: switch between audiobook and ebook, read and listen in sync, play your own music alongside your audiobook, and keep listening from your lock screen or CarPlay. • Interactive: ask the book questions with its AI assistant, by typing or out loud, and share chapters with the people who need them. • Offline: download audiobooks and ebooks to listen and read anywhere. • Connected: follow the author, join the book's forum, and get messages straight from the author. FOR AUTHORS What if your book was the beginning, not the end? • Reach: get your book into more hands with instant share links. • Engage: see how readers move through your book, and add AI prompts and next steps to the experience. • Activate: turn attention into relationships. Invite readers to stay in touch and show them where to go next. • Multiply: give your team, clients, and readers an easy way to pass the book forward. A book should do more than sit on a shelf. It is the door into everything you do next. Some features require a Reader Premium, Author Plus, or Author Pro subscription. Use of this app is bound by the Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Scriptorium

Features
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Scriptorium is a living radio station for the world's great books. Tune in to a channel — Hearth (cozy & comic), Shadows (dark & literary), Wonder (sci-fi & adventure), or Nursery (tales for children) — and hear a beautifully narrated classic, always on, in sync with every other listener. It's live radio: there's always something playing. Or browse the Library and listen to any book on demand — from the beginning, or right where you left off. • Read along — a candlelit teleprompter lights each word as it's spoken • Continue where you left off — every book remembers your place • Sleep timer for bedtime listening • CarPlay — take the station on the road • A Home Screen widget showing what's on now • Apple TV — an ambient reading room for the big screen Every book is a public-domain classic, freely narrated. No account, no ads, no clutter — just great literature, read aloud.

Screenshots

Storybase4 screens
Scriptorium4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Scriptorium at none against Storybase's 3. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Storybase sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $17.99 per month. Scriptorium asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Storybase versus Scriptorium: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStorybaseScriptorium
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size135 MB2 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperStoryline Creative, LLCChristopher Sivori

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Storybase

Subscriptions3
  • Reader Premium$17.991 Month
  • Author Plus$107.991 Month
  • Author Pro$214.991 Month
None

Scriptorium

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Storybase free?
Storybase is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Scriptorium free?
Scriptorium is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Storybase or Scriptorium have ads?
Neither Storybase nor Scriptorium shows ads.

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