Crisol vs Lomo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Crisol
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Es la app oficial de Crisol eBooks para leer tus libros digitales y escuchar tus audiobooks comprados en la web, donde quieras y sin necesidad de conexión a internet.
Lomo
Track your reading with a private, offline journal. Log books, record reading sessions, and analyze your habits with detailed statistics. Set goals, save reviews, and share your reading journey.
- Add books with detailed information
- Scan ISBN to auto-fill book details
- Import libraries from Goodreads/StoryGraph
- Reading session timer and history
- Detailed reading statistics and recaps
- Save reviews, quotes, and ratings
- Set reading goals and reminders
- Create shareable reading images
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Lomo is your reading journal: track what you read, see your progress and build the library you always wanted, with every book on shelves you decorate. No accounts and no ads: everything lives on your phone. MY SHELF • All your books on shelves, like your real library • Drag them between shelves, stack them, lean them or show them face-out • Decorations, boards and backgrounds to make it yours • What you remove stays in the Trunk, ready to come back • Put it on your home screen with the shelf widget YOUR LIBRARY • Scan the ISBN and Lomo fills in the details and cover; add a photo of the spine • Paper, ebook or audiobook, each with its own unit • Create your own categories and filter with them • Import your library from Goodreads, StoryGraph or Bookmory • Reading by parts for anthologies, short stories and ongoing books • Rereads, pauses and abandoned books, each with its story READING SESSIONS • A timer that keeps going even if you close the app, with a Live Activity on your lock screen • Or log your sessions by hand STATS • Time, pages, speed, streaks and a reading calendar • Filter by genre, author or your categories • Your monthly and yearly reader recap EVERY BOOK'S SUMMARY • Build it with 20 blocks and 10 headers: journey, your time, versus your average and more • Share it as an image REVIEWS, QUOTES AND RANKING • Quarter or exact ratings, plus your own raters • Save quotes and impressions with their page • Your personal ranking, with a section per rating GOALS AND REMINDERS • Yearly, daily and per-book goals • Reminders so you don't break your streak YOUR STYLE • 14 light and dark themes, alternate icons and home screen widgets YOUR DATA IS YOURS • No account, no ads, no tracking • Sync and back up to iCloud, or to a file • Works offline Lomo is free with no limits. If it helps you, you can leave an optional tip; it never unlocks anything, because you already have it all. Made with love for people who love reading.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Crisol at none against Lomo's 3. Lomo's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months). 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. Lomo sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Crisol asks for nothing beyond the download.
Crisol ships an update every 2 months, Lomo every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crisol | Lomo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | QueryLoop Inc. | SEBASTIAN CASTANEDA |
In-app purchases
Crisol
No in-app purchases
Lomo
- support$1.99
- big support$4.99
- super support$9.99









