BookyAI vs Libreto
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
BookyAI
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Fix a typo on an invoice. Change a date on a contract. No computer, no software, no account. EDIT THE TEXT OF A PDF Tap a line, rewrite it. The original font, size and colour are kept โ nothing else on the page moves. Almost no app can do this on a phone. SIGN AND ANNOTATE Your signature drawn with a finger, your stamps, text, drawings. Save your signatures and stamps once and they are waiting for you on the next document. SCAN The camera straightens the page by itself. Several pages in a row, colour, grey or black-and-white filters, and you can adjust the edges by hand. COMPRESS A PDF, some photos or a video, in three plain choices. The final size is written on every choice before you decide, and when a file cannot be made smaller, the app says so instead of making you wait. CONVERT Word to PDF, PDF to images, images to PDF. BLANK PAGE A real Word editor: headings, bold, colours, lists, and templates ready to write in โ letter, note, invoice, report. CV AND COVER LETTER WRITTEN BY AI Answer a few questions and the AI writes. Professional templates, export to PDF or Word. NO SUBSCRIPTION The PDF tools, scanning, compression and signing are free and unlimited. The rest runs on credits: 1 credit = 1 document. You pay once for a document, then you export it as many times as you like, even after correcting it again. Credits never expire. NO ACCOUNT No sign-up. The PDF tools, scanning and compression work on your phone. Only the CV and the cover letter go through our server, for as long as it takes to write them. BookyAI speaks 17 languages.
Libreto
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Libreto is a full drawing studio, digital notebook, planner, and PDF editor for iPad, and a streamlined PDF editor and notes app for iPhone. Private by design, with on-device AI included, and one fair price. LIBRETO INTELLIGENCE, ON YOUR DEVICE Ask questions about any PDF or notebook and get answers with tappable page citations. Summarize a document, a page range, or a selection. Get plain-language explanations of anything you highlight. Turn any document into flashcards and quizzes with spaced-repetition review. Record a lecture, then transcribe and summarize it on-device, tap any line to jump the audio and your handwriting to that moment. Search inside every PDF, note, and transcript in your library, even when you don't remember the exact words. All of it runs with Apple Intelligence, right on your device. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is metered, no AI credits to buy. DRAW & SKETCH (iPad) A full drawing canvas with pressure brushes, layers, blend modes, and a saved color palette. Real symmetry: vertical, horizontal, both axes, or radial. Smudge actual pixels at full resolution. Pro adjustments and filters: hue, curves, gradient map, blurs, halftone, chromatic aberration, and more. Selection and lasso, cut/copy/paste, text, import photos, flip the canvas, export as PNG or PDF. Apple Pencil Pro: squeeze to open your brushes, double-tap to swap brush and eraser. NOTEBOOKS FOR APPLE PENCIL (iPad) Paper styles: lined, dot grid, grid, graph, Cornell, and to-do, or import any photo as your own paper. Choose your page size and orientation. Search your handwriting and convert it to text on-device, in English and Spanish. Write large in the Zoom Writing window and let the ink land small and neat on the page. Add stickers, washi tape, photos, and AI art with Image Playground. On iPhone, take plain handwritten or finger-written notes; iPhone does not support Apple Pencil. TEXT DOCUMENTS Prefer to type? Start a Text Document with markdown, headings, and checklists you can tick right in the preview, alongside your PDFs and notebooks. STUDY SPLIT (iPad) Read a PDF on one side, take notes on the other. Send selected text or a clipped page into your notes, with a link back to the source page. PLANNERS, YOUR WAY (iPad) Six planners, each with its own clean, roomy layout: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Scheduling, Personal, and Pro. Real calendar dates with tappable months. Every planner opens with a tappable table of contents. Grow any planner with extra pages: habits, goals, schedules, dashboards, and journals. Portrait or landscape, Warm or Dark theme, charcoal and gold, or cream and espresso. DESIGN YOUR COVER (iPad) Elegant cover designs, Leather, Minimal, Botanical, Midnight, Floral, Marble, Geometric, and a live animated Aurora. Recolor any cover, import your own photo, or generate cover art with Image Playground. PDF TOOLS (iPad and iPhone) Read and mark up PDFs with highlights and ink, right alongside your notes. Make scans searchable with on-device OCR. Clean up a photographed page with Scan Enhance. Redact sensitive content for real: the hidden text is destroyed, not just covered, with find-and-redact across a whole document at once. Export as PDF, image, plain text, Word (RTF), or Markdown. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads. No tracking. No third-party AI. Your work, and everything Libreto Intelligence reads, stays on your devices, with optional private iCloud sync. MEMBERSHIP Unlock every premium feature, drawing tools, planners, designs, and Libreto Intelligence, for $19.99/year with a 3-day free trial, or $2.99/month. Prefer not to subscribe? Buy Libreto once for $59.99 and keep every feature, including future updates, forever. Terms of Use (Apple standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
BookyAI and Libreto are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters โ price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them โ neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
Both are free to download. BookyAI sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Libreto sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
BookyAI ships an update weekly, Libreto every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BookyAI | Libreto |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 6 days โ better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac โ better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DIGITAL APP | JC Mobile App Studio LLC |
In-app purchases
BookyAI
- 5 Credits Pack$1.99
- 15 Credits Pack$4.99
- 50 Credits Pack$9.99
Libreto
- Libreto Premium (Monthly)$0.991 Month
- Libreto Premium (Annual)3 Days trial$7.991 Year
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