BiblioFuse Reader & Compress vs Fleeting
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
BiblioFuse Reader & Compress
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Read your ebooks, comics and documents on iPhone and iPad. BiblioFuse brings your own books, cloud folders and library servers together, with annotations, Read Aloud and an Apple Watch companion. YOUR BOOKS, YOUR LIBRARY - Read EPUB, PDF, CBZ, CBR, RAR, ZIP and TXT, including comic EPUBs and vertical Japanese novels. - Organize books with folders, search, covers, ratings, tags, bookmarks and reading progress. - Import from Files, iCloud Drive, the document picker or local transfer. Browse local folders; iCloud folder browsing requires BiblioFuse Pro. - Browse and stream from BiblioFuse hosts on Mac, NAS or PC, and connect to OPDS, Kavita, Komga and Calibre catalogs. - Bring supported server Continue Reading lists together in Recent, with an All view, source selection and refresh. Available lists depend on the server. READ YOUR WAY - Choose paged or continuous reading, comic spreads and optional animated page curl. Set library grid columns for portrait and landscape, or let Automatic fit the screen. - Keep your book open and your place when rotating, resizing or folding a supported device. - Read TXT with multilingual chapter recognition and custom heading rules. Show or hide detected chapter rules for each book's contents list without changing its text. - Listen to EPUB and TXT with Read Aloud and a sleep timer. - Navigate books and your library with an optional Bluetooth game controller. HIGHLIGHTS, NOTES AND SYNC - Create highlights and notes in EPUB, TXT and selectable-text PDF, or page and region notes in comics and archives. Annotations are available free, with browsing, filters and export. - Sync supported reading positions, bookmarks and annotations through iCloud, BiblioFuse hosts and compatible server integrations. Capabilities vary by server and format. Books downloaded from Kavita, Komga, Calibre and BiblioFuse hosts for offline reading sync back to the server when it is available again. - BiblioFuse's Calibre Content Server integration is limited to EPUB, PDF, TXT, CBZ and CBR. Progress, bookmarks and text annotations sync only at supported, reliably matched locations. Image-page notes stay local; not every Calibre format or viewer function is supported. APPLE WATCH COMPANION - Browse local and iCloud books, BiblioFuse hosts and configured OPDS, Kavita, Komga and Calibre sources, with covers, folders and source filters in Recent. - Choose an EPUB or TXT book to start Read Aloud on the paired iPhone. Control pause, resume, stop and the sleep timer from your wrist. The iPhone handles book access, downloads and speech playback. - With a comic open on iPhone, turn pages and control auto-scroll from Apple Watch. Remote requests require an active connection to the paired iPhone. TRANSLATE AND MANAGE FILES - Translate supported comic pages on device and export a translated CBZ with BiblioFuse Pro. Availability depends on OS, device and language support. - Compress or merge supported book and image-document formats locally. Some cloud, remote-source and reader features require BiblioFuse Pro, including iCloud folder browsing, animated page curl and comic translation. Remote streaming requires a configured host; access over mobile data may require additional network setup. Books are supplied by you or your configured sources. Privacy Policy: https://mlt-solutions.github.io/app-legal-docs/bibliofuse/PRIVACY Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Fleeting
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Most thoughts don't survive long enough to make it into a note app. Fleeting is built for the ones that almost got away. Tap once. Capture anything โ a passing thought, a voice memo, a photo, a location, a link. Fleeting gets out of your way and lets you think, not type. Every capture is timestamped and kept exactly as it was, a genuine record of the moment. Then comes the part that makes it worth keeping: rediscovery. Fleeting surfaces your thoughts on their anniversaries, nudges you back to ideas you haven't revisited, and quietly builds a picture of your inner life over time. It's not a productivity tool โ it's closer to a personal archive with a memory of its own. Capture fast. Text, photos, video, audio, location and links โ all in one tap. Look back. On This Day, revisit old thoughts, and rediscover what mattered. Stay private. Everything lives on your device. Your thoughts are yours. Fleeting is a one-time purchase. No subscription required for everything that matters.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Fleeting at every 3 days against BiblioFuse Reader & Compress's every 2 weeks. BiblioFuse Reader & Compress's advantage is device support (6 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. BiblioFuse Reader & Compress sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Fleeting sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
BiblioFuse Reader & Compress ships an update every 2 weeks, Fleeting every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BiblioFuse Reader & Compress | Fleeting |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days โ better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Vision Pro โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KIEN WEI CHOO | William Hawken |
In-app purchases
BiblioFuse Reader & Compress
- Monthly Premium7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Annual Premium7 Days trial$4.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$14.99
Fleeting
- Fleeting Forever$4.99
Questions
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