BooksFeed vs Leaf & Spine
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BooksFeed
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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
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.
- 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/
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
| Parameter | BooksFeed | Leaf & Spine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.4 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 54.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 119 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | adir ben ami | Aqeeb Rizwan |
In-app purchases
BooksFeed
No in-app purchases
Leaf & Spine
- Premium Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Premium Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- 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









