Comparison

Yuuna vs Embertale

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

Head to head
About

Yuuna

This app allows users to create a visually stunning virtual bookshelf to track their reading. Organize your TBR list, log reading sessions, and personalize your digital library with custom spines and decorations. It offers detailed reading statistics and a private journal for notes and reviews.

Highlights
  • Virtual bookshelf customization
  • TBR list management
  • Reading session logging
  • ISBN scanning for book addition
  • Private reading journal
  • Yearly reading statistics
  • Customizable book spine editor
Read full description

Yuuna turns your reading list into a bookshelf you design yourself. Every book gets its own spine, with the color, typeface and material you choose, and your shelf grows with every page you read. YOUR BOOKSHELF - Add books by ISBN scan, title search, or by hand - Print, ebook and audiobook sit side by side on the same shelf - Spine editor: colors, fonts, materials, with live preview - Upload a photo of your real book spine and put it on the shelf - Mix wallpapers, shelves and decorations however you like - Drag to reorder, just like a real shelf TBR, READING, FINISHED - Your TBR, what you're reading now and what you've finished, each on its own shelf - Search, filter and group your library the way you like - Save pages, start and end dates, format, series and price - Set a yearly goal and watch books move from one shelf to the next READING JOURNAL & CALENDAR - Log every session: pages, notes, photos, how the chapter left you - Your calendar fills with covers instead of empty squares - Save quotes and annotations for every book - "Best moments" gathers what moved you most each month - Rate across four dimensions: spice, fluff, tears and humor YOUR STATS - Book Tower: every book you finished, stacked into one tower you can share - Year in review: books, pages, streaks, goal progress - Heatmaps and rhythm charts that show when you actually read - All private. No feed, no likes, no comments, nobody watching Yuuna is a reading journal, not a reader: you keep reading your books wherever you like. Yuuna is where they stay. YUUNA PREMIUM Premium unlocks advanced statistics, all personalization options and additional features. - Plans: monthly, yearly, or one-time (lifetime) - Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period - Manage or cancel any time from your App Store account settings LEGAL Terms of Use: https://www.iubenda.com/terms-and-conditions/70838787 Privacy Policy: https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/70838787

About

Embertale

This reading app learns your preferences to provide personalized book recommendations. Manage your reading list, discover new titles, and visualize your reading habits with insightful statistics. It offers an AI assistant for book-related queries and a private community feature.

Highlights
  • Personalized book recommendations
  • AI reading assistant (Spark)
  • Natural language book search
  • TBR management and smart collections
  • Reading statistics and visualizations
  • Private or public community features
  • Deep book insights and 10-dimensional reviews
Features
Read full description

Embertale is the reading app that knows your taste. Track what you read, tame your TBR, and get recommendations that actually fit you. Free, no ads, and your data is never sold. BUILT AROUND YOUR TASTE Every book you log sharpens your reading profile. Embertale learns the genres, moods, and pacing you love, then recommends books with a clear reason for every pick. MEET SPARK, YOUR READING ASSISTANT Find personalized recommendations, sort out your TBR, or chat about any book without spoilers. Ask for "a cozy mystery under 300 pages", tell it to add all Harry Potter books to your shelf or the top 10 hottest romantasy, talk through an ending of a philosophical book, tell it how to organize your shelves or ask it to suggest an organization. Anything you can do manually in the app, Spark can do in a sentence. (Don't like AI? It's also easy to opt out!) SEARCH LIKE YOU TALK, OR BY VIBE "Astronaut stranded on Mars." "Fantasy about an epic heist." "Easy reads under 250 pages." "Cozy winter reads". Describe the book you want and Embertale finds it. Turn any search into a smart collection that keeps itself up to date as your library grows. A TBR YOU CAN ACTUALLY MANAGE Beautiful shelves and collections, smart collections that fill themselves from rules you describe in simple language, and series tracking that knows every volume, even the ones not released yet. Want to select your own cover or edition for a book? No problem! Audiobooks supported, of course. DISCOVER YOUR TBR Our discovery features allow you to find new and trending releases, or just browsing by genre (filtered by era if wanted), but we also allow you to uncover what's already there in your TBR. "If you are in the mood for more existential Sci-Fi, try this book from your TBR", "If you loved the plot twists at the end of X, try Y", 10 complete personalized recommendations from the depths of your TBR, based on what you already finished, refreshed daily. YOUR READING LIFE VISUALIZED Reading heatmaps, genre mix, pages per day, complexity breakdowns, a timeline of every book you've read, a calendar month breakdown of your reads. These are just some of the graphs we have. Set goals at your own pace and earn tiered achievements from bronze to platinum. We work on a reward basis, not punishment basis. Lost your streak? If you want, you can log a day in the past and restore it, we won't judge! LOVELY COMMUNITY, PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No leaderboards, and no public profile unless you turn one on. Follow friends if you like, or keep your reading life entirely to yourself. If you do follow your friends, you can track their reading activity in a beautiful feed. Want to highlight some shelves you are proud of? Let's do it. Want to showcase your full library, or hide anything? Also possible! Embertale lets you take full control over what you share. DEEP BOOK INSIGHTS Moods, accolades, reviews, a 10-dimensional review (worldbuilding, prose, emotional depth, narration, character growth, plot twists, pacing, and 2 tailored dimensions per book!), how familiar you are with this genre, a "feel & match" panel that lets you know whether this book would suit your known tastes or not and what to look out for, thematic and linguistic complexity, how long we expect you will need for this book based on your average velocity, books similar to this one, the list goes on. You can tag books with your own custom made tags as well. SWITCHING IS EASY Take a picture of your bookshelf or import your Goodreads or StoryGraph library in minutes, and export everything back whenever you want. We don't lock in your data, if you want to move somewhere else, that's fine. SO MUCH MORE There is so much more going on at Embertale that is too much to describe. We're crazy feature complete and deliver new features daily. Embertale is made by an indie team for the love of it. No ads, no data selling, no catch. We are not for profit. Don't like AI? It's easy to opt out.

Screenshots

Yuuna4 screens
Embertale4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Embertale at none against Yuuna's 7. Embertale also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). Yuuna's advantage is ratings volume (132 vs 10). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Yuuna sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Embertale asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Embertale holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Yuuna has 132 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Yuuna's written reviews are positive against 100% of Embertale's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Yuuna ships an update every 10 days, Embertale every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Yuuna versus Embertale: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYuunaEmbertale
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (132 ratings)5.0 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings132 — better10
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size119 MB3 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperVALUE CREATION DI LIVERANI ANDREAHorjus IT Solutions BV

Customer experience

Yuuna

All ratings125 ratings
Positive92.8%
Neutral4.8%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%

Embertale

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Yuuna

Subscriptions4
  • Yuuna Pro (monthly plan)$6.991 Month
  • Yuuna Pro (monthly plan)$9.991 Month
  • Yuuna Pro (annually)$19.991 Year
Show 1 more
  • Yuuna Pro (annually)$39.991 Year
One-time3
  • Yuuna Pro (lifetime)$19.99
  • Yuuna Pro (lifetime)$29.99
  • Yuuna Pro (lifetime)$99.99
None

Embertale

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Yuuna free?
Yuuna is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Embertale free?
Embertale is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Yuuna or Embertale?
Embertale is rated higher. Yuuna averages 4.6 out of 5 from 132 ratings, while Embertale averages 5.0 from 10 ratings.
Do Yuuna or Embertale have ads?
Neither Yuuna nor Embertale shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Yuuna or Embertale?
Yuuna ships an update every 10 days, and Embertale every 3 days. Most recently, Yuuna was updated on October 31, 2026 and Embertale on October 31, 2026.

Other comparisons