Tachiyomi vs Boundless Reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tachiyomi
Discover and manage your favorite novels with this reading app. It offers personalized reading experiences with adjustable fonts and themes, and allows you to track your progress and library updates.
- Discover novels by genre
- Add series to personal library
- Track reading progress
- Adjustable text size and fonts
- Light and dark themes
- Intuitive interface
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Tachiyomi is your all-in-one reading companion for novels and manga. Discover new stories, follow the latest updates, and manage your entire library — novels and manga together — with ease. Enjoy smooth, distraction-free reading with adjustable fonts for text, a dedicated full-screen viewer for manga artwork, and light or dark themes for a personalized experience. Features: Discover novels and manga by genre Switch instantly between novel and manga libraries with one tap Add series to your personal library and track progress across both Unified reading history and chapter updates for novels and manga Adjustable text size, font, and line height for novels Smooth, swipe-friendly page viewer built for manga Dark and light themes for comfortable reading, day or night Clean, modern, and intuitive interface Whether you're lost in a fantasy novel, catching up on a slice-of-life manga, or following the newest chapter drop, Tachiyomi brings every story to life — your library, your way.
Boundless Reader
This app allows you to read manga, comics, and novels from your own files or connected servers. Customize your reading experience with various fonts, themes, and reading modes. It offers optional account syncing and robust family controls for content management.
- Browse, track, and read across your library
- Supports CBZ, PDF, text, and Markdown files
- Connect to self-hosted Komga servers
- Customizable reading modes (paged, vertical, webtoon)
- Font and spacing controls, including dyslexia-friendly options
- Family controls to blur or hide content
- Optional account sync for cross-device progress
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Boundless is a manga, manhwa, comic, and novel reader built to browse, track, and read across your own library, all in one continuous interface. Bring in your own files (CBZ, PDF, text, Markdown) or connect a self-hosted Komga server, and plug in user-built sources to extend your library further. Everything can be read as; paged, vertical, or webtoon, with automatic chapter loading and prefetch so the next one is ready before you get there. An account is optional. Sign in to sync your library, history, and progress across devices, or skip it and read fully offline with local files. READING, YOUR WAY • System, Serif, Rounded, Monospaced, or a dyslexia-friendly font, with full spacing control • Auto-scroll, custom tap zones, and tap cooldowns • Nine accent colors, a true black Void theme for AMOLED, and animated backgrounds BUILT FOR APPLE Genuinely native on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Silicon Mac, not one layout stretched across all three. FAMILY CONTROLS Blur or hide covers by rating or genre, and lock restricted content behind a PIN. Full backup and restore, offline downloads, and reading history grouped by day. Boundless doesn't host or supply content itself: what you read comes from your own files, your own server, or the sources you choose to plug in.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Tachiyomi at 2.0 against Boundless Reader's 1.0. Tachiyomi also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Boundless Reader's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tachiyomi holds the better App Store score, 2.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 0% and 0% positive.
Tachiyomi ships an update every 2 months, Boundless Reader every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tachiyomi | Boundless Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (4 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Ahmed Yakoubi | Muhammad Sarfraz |
Customer experience
Tachiyomi
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In-app purchases
Tachiyomi
No in-app purchases
Boundless Reader
No in-app purchases
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