Book Reader vs Arnage
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Book Reader
This app helps you build reading habits by tracking your progress and personalizing your reading experience. Organize your books, maintain reading streaks, and gain visual insights into your reading time and pages read. Enjoy a distraction-free environment with extensive customization options.
- Personalized digital bookshelf
- Reading streak and daily goal tracking
- Smart reading progress monitor
- Customizable font, text size, and themes
- Dark and low-contrast modes
- Distraction-free reading interface
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Welcome to ReadBLOOM – your smart book reader to build habits, track progress, and personalize your reading journey. Build Your Own Bookshelf Create a personalized digital bookshelf filled with your favorite books. Whether you're into novels, study materials, or timeless classics, organize them your way with ease. Keep Your Reading Streak Alive Stay motivated with reading streaks and daily goals. ReadBLOOM encourages consistent reading habits that help you stay focused and keep growing. Smart Reading Tracker Monitor your reading time, pages read, and progress with a built-in tracker. Visual insights make it easy to stay on track and achieve your reading targets. Fully Customizable Experience Adjust font style, text size, line spacing, and background color. Switch to dark or low-contrast modes for comfortable reading anytime. Why Readers Love ReadBLOOM: Clean and distraction-free design Powerful customization tools Bookshelf organization that fits your style Reading streaks and progress tracking Visual stats with every book you read Perfect for focused and mindful readers Start your reading journey today with ReadBLOOM – where books meet focus and freedom. Subscription Options: Weekly Premium Plan – $5.99 per week Monthly Premium Plan – $14.99 per month 3-Month Premium Plan – $34.99 every 3 months These subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription and auto-renewal settings anytime by going to your Apple ID account settings. All payments will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. For more information, please see: Privacy Policy: https://readbloom.online/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://readbloom.online/terms.html
Arnage
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Arnage is a warm, cinephile player for the media library you already own. Follow a series, and every new episode downloads itself in the background — ready to watch even with no signal. Connect it to your home server and open your films and shows in a calm, photographic interface — on your iPhone and your iPad. — Follow a series, never miss an episode — Follow a show and Arnage downloads each new episode for you, quietly, in the background. Board the plane with the next three already on your iPhone, no Wi-Fi required. — Made for people who curate their own collection — A quiet, photographic interface that treats your library like the collection it is — continue watching, recently added, and a hero that highlights what's worth your evening. Looking for something in particular? The filters in the Library tab get you there fast, with artwork sized right for every screen. — Playback that respects the file — • Every file plays directly by default — never re-encoded — with HDR tone-mapped on the spot so it looks right even on an SDR screen. • On a weak or metered connection, set a quality cap and your server scales the stream down to fit — so you keep watching. • PGS subtitles and TrueHD audio. • Your audio and subtitle track choices are remembered for each film and series. — A player built for watching — Swipe across to seek, slide along the edges to set volume and brightness, double-tap to skip — and scrub with live thumbnail previews to land on the exact moment. Pop the video into Picture-in-Picture to keep an eye on it while you get on with something else. — iPhone and iPad, each its own — Designed for each screen rather than stretched between them. — Compatibility — Arnage works with Jellyfin and Plex today — point it at the server you already run. More are on the way. — A word on privacy — Arnage is not an advertising surface. We collect two things, both anonymous and both optional: crash reports, so we can fix what breaks, and usage analytics, so we know which features matter. You'll find both switches during onboarding — before you connect to anything — and any time in Settings → Privacy. Nothing is ever sold, shared with advertisers, or tied to your identity. Your library, your viewing history, and your credentials are never sent to us — and your watch progress lives on your own media server, never on ours. — Status — Arnage is in active development. Expect rough edges, expect care.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Book Reader at 15.1 against Arnage's 17.0. 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. Book Reader sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Arnage sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Book Reader | Arnage |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 104 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yusuf Saglam | TFDN |
In-app purchases
Book Reader
- ReadBloom Pro Weekly$2.997 Days
- ReadBloom Pro Monthly$11.991 Month
- ReadBloom Pro Three Monthly$25.493 Months
Arnage
- Monthly Pass$0.991 Month
- Annual Pass$8.991 Year
- Lifetime Pass$89.99









