VerseDB vs Tomelet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
VerseDB
Manage your comic book pull list, track your entire collection, and discover new series. Organize issues, monitor reading progress, and find local comic shops. Join a community of fans to share reviews and recommendations.
- Pull list management
- Collection tracking
- Reading progress tracker
- Custom list creation
- Comic discovery
- Comic shop locator
- Community reviews
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Scan a comic, know what you are holding, and keep track of every issue you own. VerseDB is free to use, with no limit on how many comics you track. Scan the barcode Point your camera at a comic and it is in your collection in seconds. VerseDB reads the extra digits printed beside the barcode, which are what tell issue 3 of a run from issue 30, so a scan lands on the exact issue rather than the series. Scan a stack in one go and confirm each book before it is added. No barcode? Scan or upload the cover and Pro's cover recognition finds the issue. Scan also tells you when a comic is already in your collection. Your last 12 scans stay a tap away under Recent scans. Photograph a CGC, CBCS, PGX or PSA slab and Pro fills in the grader, grade and cert number for a graded copy. Know what is worth something First appearances, deaths and origins are flagged on the issue itself, so a long box stops hiding its best books. See what your whole collection is worth, free. With Pro, see estimated values low, mid and high, prices by grade, values by variant cover, and graded census data. Pro also charts your collection's market value over time and suggests a value for each copy at its grade. Stop buying it twice Check what you already own while you are standing at the back issue bins, and see which issues are still missing from the runs you collect. If you have been keeping your collection in a spreadsheet, this replaces it. Widgets, Apple Watch and Siri Your pull list on your wrist, with a complication for the watch face. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for iPhone and iPad. Ask Siri what your next release is, whether you own an issue, or to add a series to your pull list. Your series turn up in Spotlight too. Never miss new comic day Browse upcoming releases week by week, filter by publisher or format, and add a series to your pull list with one tap. Live crowdfunding campaigns show up on the series, issues and publishers they belong to, with a screen of every campaign that's live, and once a campaign ends its series still shows whether it funded. The whole catalog Over 1 million issues, 154,000 series, 168,000 characters and 87,000 creators from 9,800 publishers, major and independent. Western comics, manga, manhwa, manhua and bande dessinée, from single issues to omnibuses. Series pages show manga serialization and every series a magazine ran. Track your reading Mark an issue read with one tap, work through a run or a crossover, and set a reading goal for the year. Each series you read gets its own stats, and Pro adds your year in review. Lists, reviews and collectors Build your own lists, keep a wishlist of what you are hunting with its order cutoffs and release dates, and browse reading orders from other collectors. Rate any issue from half a star to five and see what people thought before starting a new series. Like and discuss what other collectors are up to in the community feed. Find a comic shop 5,000 shops across 31 countries on a map, with hours, directions and the ones you save. Plus comic cons near you, and podcasts worth following. What Pro adds Market values by issue and grade, collection and reading statistics, smart lists that build themselves, cover recognition, and the VerseAI assistant. Everything above is free. Built by collectors, because the details matter: the variant cover, the first appearance, the issue you still need. Privacy Policy: https://versedb.com/policy/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Tomelet
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Read the book the way it was printed. Tomelet starts from what the publisher made — the fonts, spacing and images — and lets you work on top of it. It is a private reader for EPUB, PDF and many more formats, with its own typesetting engine. THE PAGE COMES FIRST • Publisher fonts, styles and images are kept by default. • Change the type size and the text reflows without losing the design. • Bright, sepia, dark and black themes; margins, line spacing, alignment and hyphenation are yours to set. WRITE ON THE PAGE • Highlight, underline, add notes and bookmarks in EPUBs and in PDFs with selectable text. • Draw with Apple Pencil — pressure changes the line — or switch on finger drawing. • Export a book's notes as Markdown or JSON. THE FORMATS YOU OWN EPUB, PDF, MOBI, AZW3, FB2, DjVu, CBZ comics, DOCX, TXT, Markdown and HTML, plus older formats such as CHM, LIT and Palm eReader — all DRM-free. Books locked with DRM are recognised and explained; Tomelet doesn't remove protection. EVERY LANGUAGE ON THE PAGE Right-to-left text such as Arabic and Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese and Korean with ruby annotations, and hyphenation come from one rendering engine. Tomelet itself speaks 28 languages. A LIBRARY THAT TIDIES ITSELF Titles, authors, series and covers come from the file and, unless you turn it off in Settings, from Open Library. Automatic tags, collections and series keep things in order, and search finds books in your library and words inside a book. FREE TO READ. PAY FOR SYNC. The free app is the whole reader, not a trial: every format and reading feature, notes, export and local backup, offline and with no account. It is supported by one ad before a book opens — never while you read, and never on your first day. TOMELET SYNC Tomelet Sync keeps your books, reading positions, highlights, notes and ink in step across your iPhone, iPad and computer, removes ads, and includes 10 GB of encrypted storage. Everything is encrypted on your device before it is uploaded; our servers never hold a key that can read your library. A new device is approved from one you already trust, or with your Recovery Key. Tomelet Sync is an auto-renewable subscription, billed monthly or yearly, with a free trial for eligible new subscribers. Payment is charged to your Apple Account; the subscription renews unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the period, and you can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://tomelet.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://tomelet.app/privacy/
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Verdict
VerseDB and Tomelet are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. VerseDB sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.00 per month and Tomelet sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
VerseDB ships an update every 6 days, Tomelet every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | VerseDB | Tomelet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 126 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Reggio Digital LLC | TOMELET PTE. LTD. |
In-app purchases
VerseDB
- VerseDB Pro Monthly$6.001 Month
- VerseDB Pro Yearly7 Days trial$60.001 Year
Tomelet
- Tomelet Sync Monthly14 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Tomelet Sync Yearly14 Days trial$99.991 Year









