Vellum Reader vs Librune
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vellum Reader
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Vellum is a minimalistic and elegant book reader designed for readers who appreciate a classy, distraction-free reading experience on iPhone and iPad. Your Personal Library Import your favorite books and documents with ease. Vellum supports PDF, EPUB, TXT, and RTF files. Smart metadata extraction automatically pulls titles, authors, and cover images from your PDFs. Organize Your Way • Create custom collections to group your reading • Mark favorites for quick access • Search and sort your library effortlessly • Track your reading progress across all documents A Beautiful Reading Experience • Choose from 8 elegant fonts including Georgia, Palatino, and Baskerville • 4 page themes: Light, Sepia, Dark, and Black (OLED) • Adjustable font size, line spacing, margins, and text alignment • Tap edges to turn pages or swipe naturally Thoughtful Features • Search Public Domains like "Project Gutenberg" and "StandardEbooks" for thousands of classics to import to your library • Automatic progress saving — pick up right where you left off • Bookmarks to mark important pages • Keep Screen Awake mode for uninterrupted reading • Visual progress bar and page numbers • Continue Reading section for quick access to current books • Utilize the AI recommendation feature to get book suggestions based on the current works in your library Five Beautiful App Themes Personalize Vellum with Sepia, Midnight, Ocean, Forest, or Lavender accent themes. Privacy First Vellum respects your privacy completely. All your books and reading data stay on your device. No accounts required. No data collection. Just you and your books. Download Vellum and rediscover the joy of reading.
Librune
A private, ad-free reader for EPUB, PDF, comics, and more. Organize your digital library, customize your reading experience with adjustable fonts and themes, and take notes and highlights. Read offline without an account.
- Ad-free reading experience
- Customizable fonts, themes, and brightness
- Highlighting and note-taking
- Organize books with categories and shelves
- Supports EPUB, PDF, comics, and documents
- Offline reading
- No account required
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Librune is a private, ad-free reader for EPUB, PDF, comics, and more. Build your personal digital library and read offline—no account required. A focused EPUB & PDF reading experience Focus on your book, not the interface. Librune keeps controls out of the way while making your reading position easy to follow. Personalize EPUB books with customizable fonts, text size, themes, brightness, line spacing, margins, and page layouts. Choose the settings that make reading most comfortable for you. Customize PDF page layouts to fit the way you prefer to read. Open EPUB footnotes where they are referenced without losing your place. Download language packs to translate selected text offline while reading books in another language. Highlights, quotes, and reading notes • Highlight passages across multiple pages • Choose from multiple highlight colors • Add personal notes to your highlights • Review quotes from an individual book or your entire library • Revisit saved quotes together with the date they were captured • Export your notes and highlights for backup • Transfer your annotations to another device Your personal ebook library • Organize books using categories and custom shelves • Edit covers, genres, languages, and descriptions • Quickly find books, even in large collections • Import individual books or select only the folders you want to access • Build your library without granting access to all your files Ebooks, documents, and comics in one reader Keep EPUB and FB2 ebooks, PDF and DOCX documents, Markdown and HTML files, and comic or manga archives together in one personal library. Read your files offline and continue exactly where you left off. Librune remembers your reading position, library organization, notes, highlights, and preferences. Your notes stay yours Your library data, reading positions, notes, highlights, and preferences are stored on your device. Librune requires no account, contains no ads, and lets you back up or export your annotations when you choose. Supported formats Ebooks: EPUB, FB2, FB2.ZIP Documents: PDF, TXT, HTML, Markdown, DOCX, ODT Comics: CBZ, CBR, CB7, CBT
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Verdict
Vellum Reader and Librune are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
| Parameter | Vellum Reader | Librune |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SUZETTE RENEE COPLEY DE SCHRYVER | Cihan ERDEN |
In-app purchases
Vellum Reader
No in-app purchases
Librune
No in-app purchases









