Comparison

Ai Ebook vs Bookhand

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

Head to head
About

Ai Ebook

Features
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AiBook lets you create complete eBooks using AI from a single idea. Simply enter a topic, choose a genre, and generate a full eBook with a cover and chapters in minutes. Read books directly inside the app or save them to your personal library for later. What you can do: Enter any topic or story idea and select a genre (technology, mystery, historical, romance, thriller, and more) Generate a complete eBook including cover and chapters Read books in-app using a built-in PDF reader with zoom and text search Save generated books to “My Library” and browse by genre or search by title Explore included inspirational eBooks How it works: Open the app and enter your idea Select a genre and Select No. of Chapters tap “Generate Book” Wait for the book to generate (internet required) Read the book in the app or access it anytime from My Library Internet access is required to generate new books. Saved and bundled books can be read offline. AiBook is designed for readers, learners, and creators who want to turn ideas into full eBooks using AI.

About

Bookhand

Create and customize digital notebooks that mimic the feel of physical paper. Write, edit, and design unique books with various typefaces, colors, and cover options. Export your work in multiple formats or share it directly.

Highlights
  • Typeset text onto realistic paper pages
  • Customizable paper size, typefaces, and colors
  • Design unique notebook covers
  • Distraction-free writing editor
  • Export to PDF, EPUB, Markdown, and plain text
  • Import various text formats
  • PIN protection for notebooks
Features
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Bookhand is a free app for writing little books: journals, notes, ideas, short stories, poetry, philosophical treatises or anything else you feel like writing. The idea is that your words live on something like actual paper. Your text is typeset onto real pages with proper margins and page numbers, the pages curl as you turn them, and every notebook gets its own paper size, typefaces, colors and a cover you design yourself. READING A notebook opens in Page Mode, laid out the way it would be set on printed paper, from pocket A6 up to A4. There's also a full-screen e-reader mode with the same page-turning, an outline for jumping to a chapter or section, in-book search, and a page grid for finding your place visually. WRITING Edit Mode is a full-screen, distraction-free editor for your award-winning novel, thrilling memoir or truly revolutionary shopping list, whichever the case may be. Paragraphs can be headings, body text or block quotes; add images and control how they sit on the page. A rearrange mode lets you move, copy and cut whole paragraphs at once. MAKE IT YOURS Choose from seventeen carefully picked typefaces, set your paper size and margins, pick paper and ink colors, style the page numbers, then design the cover: board color, patterns, foil stamping, frames, flourishes and your own lettering. YOUR WORDS ARE YOURS Notebooks are stored on your device. There are no accounts, no servers and no database, and your text goes nowhere unless you want it to. Export to PDF, EPUB, Markdown or plain text, or as a .bookhand file for handing a notebook to someone else (or storing a backup for yourself). Import works too: bring in Markdown, plain text or EPUB. Notebooks can also be locked or hidden behind a PIN. FREE, REALLY Bookhand is made by one person as a personal project, so it's free, with no ads, no in-app purchases, no subscriptions and no upsell pop-ups. I just wanted an app where it's fun to sit down and write little books. I imagine you do too, so here we are.

Screenshots

Ai Ebook4 screens
Bookhand4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Bookhand at weekly against Ai Ebook's every 5 weeks. Ai Ebook's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.5). 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

Ai Ebook ships an update every 5 weeks, Bookhand weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Ai Ebook versus Bookhand: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAi EbookBookhand
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMoodusicBruno Takahashi Carvalhas de Oliveira

In-app purchases

None

Ai Ebook

No in-app purchases

None

Bookhand

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ai Ebook free?
Ai Ebook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bookhand free?
Bookhand is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Ai Ebook or Bookhand have ads?
Neither Ai Ebook nor Bookhand shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ai Ebook or Bookhand?
Ai Ebook ships an update every 5 weeks, and Bookhand weekly. Most recently, Ai Ebook was updated on October 28, 2026 and Bookhand on October 31, 2026.

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