Bram's Reading App vs Librosy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bram's Reading App
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Bram's Reading App is a toolkit for becoming a serious reader. Build a personal library, ask better questions, and turn notes into a connected system of ideas. **Core ideas** • Questions before completion • Annotations that deepen understanding • Parallel reading to make connections faster **What you can do** • Add books and track progress at a glance • Capture annotations quickly (including from the Share Sheet) • Link notes to questions and revisit what matters • Add characters, events, and settings to your book, along with their relationships • Find similar annotations across different books • Run timed reading sessions with a Live Activity timer • See your reading streaks with an annotation heatmap • Search books and annotations in one place • Explore a methodology for reading as a system • Add widgets for quick capture and selected books • Visually traverse your library with Quiz and Explore Whether you’re reading one great book or five at once, Bram’s Reading App helps you stay curious, intentional, and consistent.
Librosy
A beautifully designed reader for iOS that supports multiple book formats. It allows users to highlight text, save quotes, and organize notes. Track progress on both digital and physical books with integrated tools.
- Supports EPUB, FB2, PDF, TXT, Markdown, HTML, RTF
- Highlighting with color-coded quotes
- Centralized saving of quotes, words, and highlights
- Paper book tracking with timer and page counter
- Smart library with auto-shelving and search
- iCloud sync for progress and notes
- Native iOS gestures and dark mode support
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Librosy is a calm, beautifully made iOS reader for people who read closely, not fast — and want to keep what their books leave behind. Any format EPUB, FB2, PDF, TXT, Markdown, HTML, RTF — one beautiful reader for everything you read. Highlights with color Long-press, drag, pick a color. Your quote is saved — and you can share it as a designed card on Threads, Instagram, or Telegram. Memory Everything you save from a book — quotes, words, highlights, bookmarks — lives in one place. Add a thought, or tag how it made you feel. Librosy brings it back to you later. Paper books Add a paper book: snap the cover, run a session timer and page tracker, follow progress in a Live Activity. Camera and photos are used only for the cover. Smart library Auto-shelves by folder. Search across books, quotes, and notes. Multi-select for batch actions. iCloud Sync Reading progress, highlights, notes, bookmarks, and saved words follow you between devices through your own iCloud. Book files stay where you put them — we never see your data. Native iOS Gestures, haptics, smooth motion, dark mode, OLED — done right. Ukrainian-first Interface in Ukrainian, with hyphenation and local typography. English included. Completely free. Every feature, for everyone — no subscriptions, no ads, no limits. Made in Ukraine by one designer-developer. Not a social network. Not a store. Not a page counter. Just a calm home for everything you read — and everything it gave you. Terms of Use (EULA): https://librosy.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://librosy.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bram's Reading App at none against Librosy's 2. Bram's Reading App also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly). Librosy's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Librosy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $17.99 per year. Bram's Reading App asks for nothing beyond the download.
Bram's Reading App ships an update every 4 days, Librosy monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bram's Reading App | Librosy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bram Adams | Vitalii Trus |
In-app purchases
Bram's Reading App
No in-app purchases
Librosy
- Librosy Pro · Yearly7 Days trial$17.991 Year
- Librosy Pro · Lifetime$39.99









