Comparison

Passage vs Librune

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Passage

Features
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Passage helps people who read physical books capture, organize, and quickly find their highlights—so the words that move them don’t get lost. Build a personal library of your favorite quotes, highlights, and notes. FEATURES 1. Capture book pages with your camera or photo library 2. Automatic text recognition extracts quotes from photos 3. Save & revisit your collection (organized by book, searchable, ready to share/export) 4. Share your favorite quotes

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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

Screenshots

Passage4 screens
Librune4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Librune at every 8 days against Passage's monthly. On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Passage ships an update monthly, Librune every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Passage versus Librune: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPassageLibrune
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB64 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJamil Del RosarioCihan ERDEN

In-app purchases

None

Passage

No in-app purchases

None

Librune

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Passage free?
Passage is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Librune free?
Librune is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Passage or Librune have ads?
Neither Passage nor Librune shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Passage or Librune?
Passage ships an update monthly, and Librune every 8 days. Most recently, Passage was updated on October 25, 2026 and Librune on October 26, 2026.

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