Comparison

BooksFeed vs Leaf & Spine

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

Head to head
About

BooksFeed

Features
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Turn your Kindle highlights into a daily feed of wisdom. BooksFeed turns the notes and highlights gathering dust on your Kindle into a beautiful daily feed — so the books you've already read keep teaching you, every day. Smart import • Daily shuffle WHY BOOKSFEED? The Ebbinghaus forgetting curve shows we forget up to 70% of what we read within a week. BooksFeed fights that — by surfacing your own highlights in a fresh, engaging way every day, so the books you've already read keep working for you. Instead of letting your Kindle notes sit forgotten, turn them into a daily source of inspiration and knowledge. KEY FEATURES Smart Import • Import your Kindle notes with a single tap • Supports all Kindle export formats • Automatic parsing and organization Daily Shuffle • Get a fresh feed of your highlights every day • Pull-to-refresh for instant new arrangements • Never see your notes the same way twice Engage with Your Notes • Like your favorite highlights • Bookmark important insights • Filter by liked and saved notes Beautiful Design • Clean, distraction-free reading experience • Unique color themes for each book • Dark mode support • Smooth animations and transitions Rich Metadata • See book title, author, and page numbers • View highlight locations • Distinguish between highlights and personal notes Sync Across Devices • Free account to sync your notes • Access your highlights on iPhone, iPad, and web • Secure cloud backup — your library, always with you PERFECT FOR • Avid readers who want to remember what they read • Students reviewing study materials • Professionals building a knowledge base • Anyone who wants to retain insights from books Download BooksFeed and turn the books you've already read into your daily learning ritual. https://booksnotes.onrender.com/privacy

About

Leaf & Spine

Enhance your reading experience with a distraction-free app that supports various formats like PDFs, EPUBs, audiobooks, and comics. Build daily reading habits with powerful tools, track your progress with detailed analytics, and personalize your digital library.

Highlights
  • Supports PDF, EPUB, CBR, CBZ, and Audiobooks
  • Smart EPUB annotation and note-taking
  • Text-to-Speech for audiobooks
  • Customizable themes and 3D bookshelf
  • Daily reading habit tracking and analytics
  • Immersive focus sessions with ambient environments
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Your library, your shelf, your reading habit. Leaf & Spine is a calm, distraction-free home for your EPUBs, PDFs, comics and audiobooks. Arrange them on a 3D bookshelf, read with highlights, notes and drawings, listen with the screen off, and watch a daily reading habit take shape. Read for free, or upgrade to Premium for stats, focus sessions, backups and your own servers. BRING IN YOUR BOOKS • Read EPUB, PDF, CBZ and CBR, and listen to audiobooks. Audiobooks require Premium. • Add a whole folder at once, or pick files yourself. • Discover free public-domain books and audiobooks from Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks and LibriVox. • Connect your own server (Premium): Calibre, Calibre-Web, Kavita, Komga, Audiobookshelf, or a WebDAV folder such as Nextcloud or a NAS. Browse it, search it as you type, and download books to read offline. READ YOUR WAY • Highlight, take notes, draw with pen, pencil and highlighter, and look words up in the dictionary or translator. • Listen: the page is read aloud with the sentence lit up, using natural voices made on your device, and an EPUB that comes with a recording plays the narrator. • Focus mode for reading a sentence at a time, and a reading ruler. • Presets, typefaces (including Atkinson Hyperlegible and OpenDyslexic), heading styles and page-turn speed. Premium readers can import their own fonts. AUDIOBOOKS THAT KEEP PLAYING • Keep listening with your phone locked or while you use another app, with play, pause and skip on the lock screen. • Chapters, bookmarks, notes, speed and a sleep timer that works with the screen off. ORGANISE YOUR SHELF • A 3D bookshelf with categories, sub-categories, tags and series, sorted and grouped by author or series, with bookends you can fold into a box set. • Spines take their colour from each book's cover, or customise spines, patterns and covers yourself. • A page for every book: progress, the next in its series, description, chapters and your marks. • Fix a book's details, or fill them in from Open Library (Premium). • The Notebook gathers every highlight, note, drawing and looked-up word from your whole library, and one search covers it all. BUILD A HABIT • Goals in minutes a day or days a week, reminders at a time you choose, and streak freezes so one missed day doesn't erase months. • Home follows the series you are reading, and finishing a book offers the next one. • Home screen widgets with your current book and a highlight worth rereading. • Premium stats: time read and listened, pages, chapters, books finished, genres, highlights and words looked up, by week, month, year or all time. FOCUS SESSIONS (Premium) • Set a timer and read inside an immersive environment: a fireplace, a beach, a waterfall or a rainy window, each with its own ambience and music, which keep playing with the screen locked. YOUR PLACE, EVERYWHERE (Premium) • Back up automatically to iCloud or Google Drive, and keep your place across your devices. • Sync your progress with Audiobookshelf, Komga, Kavita and KOReader. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account or sign-up needed to start reading. • Your books, highlights, notes and progress stay on your device. Backups go to your own iCloud or Google Drive, never to our servers. • Six themes, light and dark (two free), and the app in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. PERFECT FOR • Students who highlight, draw and track study time. • Fiction readers who want EPUBs and audiobooks in one place. • Comic and manga readers with CBZ and CBR collections. • Anyone with a Calibre, Kavita, Komga or Audiobookshelf library. CONTENT NOTICE Leaf & Spine does not sell or host books. Discover lists free public-domain titles from Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks and LibriVox; everything else is your own files and your own servers. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

BooksFeed3 screens
Leaf & Spine4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BooksFeed at none against Leaf & Spine's 11. BooksFeed also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). 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. Leaf & Spine sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. BooksFeed asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BooksFeed ships an update every 3 days, Leaf & Spine every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
BooksFeed versus Leaf & Spine: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBooksFeedLeaf & Spine
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.4 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—54.5% of reviews
Number of ratings—8 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.5 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB119 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developeradir ben amiAqeeb Rizwan

In-app purchases

None

BooksFeed

No in-app purchases

11 purchases

Leaf & Spine

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time9
  • Teal Stripes$0.79
  • Teal Labels$0.99
  • Teal Hearts$0.99
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  • Teal Duotone$0.99
  • Teal Diamonds$1.49
  • Teal Stars$1.49
  • Teal Leaves$1.49
  • Teal Spiral$1.99
  • Premium Unlock$14.99

Questions

Is BooksFeed free?
BooksFeed is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Leaf & Spine free?
Leaf & Spine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do BooksFeed or Leaf & Spine have ads?
Neither BooksFeed nor Leaf & Spine shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BooksFeed or Leaf & Spine?
BooksFeed ships an update every 3 days, and Leaf & Spine every 2 weeks. Most recently, BooksFeed was updated on October 28, 2026 and Leaf & Spine on October 31, 2026.

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