Comparison

Mibrary vs Readerly

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

Head to head
About

Mibrary

Digitize your personal book collection with this app. Catalog books by searching, scanning, or manual entry, and organize them with custom shelves. Track your reading progress and connect with a community of book lovers.

Highlights
  • Catalog books by search, scan, or manual entry
  • Organize with custom shelves
  • Track reading progress
  • Scan book spines for virtual shelf
  • Create wishlists
  • Connect with readers
  • Import from Goodreads
Features
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Mibrary, the home for your reading tracking, book collection, wishlist, TBR, and more! BUILD YOUR LIBRARY Search for a book, scan its ISBN, or add it manually. Keep track of the details that make each copy yours, including its format, condition, rating, spice level, and personal notes. ORGANIZE YOUR SHELVES Sort your books with built-in shelves like To Read, Currently Reading, Read, and Favorites. You can also create custom shelves for anything you like—genres, moods, series, special editions, or whatever makes sense to you. BRING YOUR PHYSICAL SHELVES TO LIFE Use the spine scanner to photograph your books and create a virtual shelf inspired by the one in your home. Capture the details collectors care about, from beautiful spines to sprayed edges. TRACK YOUR READING See what you’re currently reading, log your progress by page, and move finished books to your Read shelf. Everything stays connected to the copy in your collection. KEEP A WISHLIST Save the books and editions you’re looking for. When one finally comes home with you, move it straight into your library. IMPORT FROM GOODREADS Already have years of reading history somewhere else? Import your Goodreads collection and continue from there. CONNECT WITH OTHER READERS Follow friends and fellow book lovers, see what they’re adding and reading, and join the conversation through likes and comments. RATE, REVIEW, AND REMEMBER Give books a star rating and spice level, then add private notes about the moments, characters, and feelings you don’t want to forget. Your library is personal. Mibrary gives it a place to live wherever you go. Terms of Use: https://mibrary.app/terms

About

Readerly

Track your reading habits with detailed statistics and insights. Log books, notes, and quotes, and visualize your reading life over time. Offers advanced analytics for a deeper understanding of your reading patterns.

Highlights
  • Detailed reading statistics
  • Log books, notes, and quotes
  • Visualize reading pace and trends
  • Private data storage on device
  • Barcode scanning for books
  • Import reading data from files
  • Shareable reading insights
Features
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You know roughly how much you read. Readerly tells you exactly. Readerly turns your reading history into a clear picture of your reading life: how your pace changes through the year, what you reach for, which authors you return to, when you read most, and how this year compares with every year before it. Save Private Notes & Quotes, too, so the parts of a book you want to remember stay with your reading life. No account. No sign-in. Your library stays on your iPhone. WHY THE NUMBERS HOLD UP A chart is only useful if the number under it is right. Audiobooks are counted in hours. Insight cards show the evidence behind what they say: how many sessions contributed, what window was measured, and whether there is enough data to support the result. If there is not, Readerly says so instead of inventing an average. Your reading data also outranks the catalog. If you are on page 628 of a book a database says has 623 pages, Readerly accepts 628 and offers to correct the book length. Reopen any reading session and change the date, pages or minutes. Start and finish dates are yours to set. Correcting your own reading history is never behind Readerly Pro. WITHOUT A SUBSCRIPTION • Three free Library choices: Plain, The Book Dragon and A Distant Kingdom • Unlimited books and reading sessions, stored on your device • Private Notes & Quotes • Haptic quarter-star ratings, so a book can be 4¼ instead of being forced to 4 or 4½ • Searchable genres and custom cover images • Log the page you are actually on, not pages-read arithmetic • Live reading pace and projected finish date for every active book • Barcode scanning • Bookstore Mode: continuously scan shelves and instantly see whether a book is already yours or already read • Import from CSV, TSV, XLSX or ZIP • Preview every addition, update and conflict before anything is saved • Readerly reconstructs your reading history from dates in your file, marks estimated dates, and lets you undo the entire import with one tap • Optional AI Import Assistant for messy or unfamiliar exports • Cover and description lookup for books missing metadata • Books Finished, Day Streak, Pages Read and Minutes Read • Two charts on your real numbers: Books Finished by Month and print, digital and audio mix • Explore your reading by year • Share cards as square images or silent 9:16 videos READERLY PRO Readerly Pro turns your log into a deeper view of how you actually read. It also includes thirteen additional Library wallpapers. Unlock deeper charts and insights, including reading momentum, daily rhythm, the hours and weekdays you read, genre currents, per-book reading journeys, genre mix, rating shape, author affinity, completion patterns, length versus rating, a six-axis taste profile, and a deck of the strongest insights your history can support. Choose any month and tap pages or listening bars to see the books behind your totals. Tap a rating, author or genre to see the books behind the number. Share your reading highlights. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your books, sessions, ratings, notes, quotes, dates and progress live in a private database on your iPhone. Book lookup sends only what identifies the book, such as an ISBN or title and author. No ads. No third-party analytics. No tracking. AI IS OPTIONAL Readerly includes two optional AI tools on the import screen, and neither runs unless you ask. It can send titles and authors of uncategorized books to Anthropic's Claude to suggest a genre from Readerly's fixed list, or send your file's column names and limited samples to suggest how they map. Readerly asks first and tells you what will be sent. Readerly Pro is an auto-renewing monthly or yearly subscription at the price shown before purchase. Cancel any time in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://thereaderlyapp.com/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://thereaderlyapp.com/terms/

Screenshots

Mibrary4 screens
Readerly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Mibrary at free against Readerly's freemium. Mibrary also leads on ratings volume (193 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). Readerly's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Mibrary sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month and Readerly sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Readerly holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mibrary has 193 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mibrary ships an update every 9 days, Readerly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Mibrary versus Readerly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMibraryReaderly
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (193 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews87.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings193 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size95 MB35 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperKory BuckJovanne Villarino

Customer experience

Mibrary

All ratings193 ratings
Positive96.4%
Neutral3.1%
Negative0.5%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive87.0%
Neutral8.7%
Negative4.3%

Readerly

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Mibrary

Subscriptions1
  • Mibrary Pro7 Days trial$2.991 Month
2 purchases

Readerly

Subscriptions2
  • Readerly Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Readerly Pro Yearly$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Mibrary free?
Mibrary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Readerly free?
Readerly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Mibrary or Readerly?
Readerly is rated higher. Mibrary averages 4.8 out of 5 from 193 ratings, while Readerly averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Mibrary or Readerly have ads?
Neither Mibrary nor Readerly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mibrary or Readerly?
Mibrary ships an update every 9 days, and Readerly weekly. Most recently, Mibrary was updated on October 28, 2026 and Readerly on October 24, 2026.

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