Comparison

Booked Up vs Delphi

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

Head to head
About

Booked Up

Features
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Booked Up – Your Smart Reading Scheduler Stay on track with your reading goals! Booked Up helps you schedule, manage, and complete multiple books with ease. Add your books, set a target end date, and let the app create a personalized daily reading plan adjustable for your pace and priorities. Features: - Smart scheduling based on your books, progress, and custom reading weights - Easy tracking: Mark daily reading as complete or update progress anytime - Book management: Add, reorder, and remove books - Pace adjustment: set the amount of reading per day to fit your schedule Perfect for book lovers, students, and anyone building a reading habit. Download Booked Up and make every page count!

About

Delphi

This app provides a synchronized reading and listening experience for classic literature. As the audio plays, the text is highlighted, and you can tap any sentence to resume narration from that exact point. Enjoy offline access to a curated library of timeless works.

Highlights
  • Synchronized text and audio narration
  • Tap to play sentence feature
  • Offline reading and listening
  • Automatic resume functionality
  • Bookmark saving
  • Background playback
Features
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Delphi is a reader for the great books — with narration that stays in sync with the text. As the audio plays, the current sentence is highlighted and the page scrolls with it. Tap any sentence to hear it from exactly that point. Close the app mid-chapter and Delphi brings you back to the same spot, ready to continue. THE LIBRARY • Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War • Augustine — Confessions • Plato — Dialogues (Apology, Phaedo, Symposium, Republic and more) • Goethe — Faust • Aristotle — Nicomachean Ethics and Politics • The Bible (KJV) — Old Testament • Hamilton, Madison, Jay — The Federalist Papers • Machiavelli — The Prince • Dostoevsky — Crime and Punishment MADE FOR LISTENING • Word-for-word sync: the sentence being read is always highlighted • Tap to play: touch any line to jump the narration there • Background playback with full lock screen and Control Center controls • Skip back and forward 15 seconds, scrub anywhere MADE FOR READING • The complete text of every work is built in — no connection needed to read • Download any work's audio once and listen fully offline • Bookmarks for every book: save a passage, jump back to it anytime • Automatic resume: pick up exactly where you stopped, even after restarting No account. No subscription. No ads. Just the classics, read to you.

Screenshots

Booked Up3 screens
Delphi1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Delphi at every 4 days against Booked Up's every 10 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Booked Up ships an update every 10 months, Delphi every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Booked Up versus Delphi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBooked UpDelphi
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCOLIN TOFTChenyu Li

In-app purchases

None

Booked Up

No in-app purchases

None

Delphi

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Booked Up free?
Booked Up is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Delphi free?
Delphi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Booked Up or Delphi have ads?
Neither Booked Up nor Delphi shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Booked Up or Delphi?
Booked Up ships an update every 10 months, and Delphi every 4 days. Most recently, Booked Up was updated on November 8, 2026 and Delphi on October 31, 2026.

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