Comparison

hdict vs Folio Reader

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

Head to head
About

hdict

Features
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The Dictionary Reader app for Stardict, Dictd, Mdict and Slob format dictionaries. Also provides Flash Card facility to enhance your vocabulary.

About

Folio Reader

Organize your reading life by tracking books, saving quotes, and writing personalized reviews. This app provides a private space for your literary journey, syncing your library securely via iCloud.

Highlights
  • Organize books by reading status
  • Scan barcodes to add titles
  • Extract text from book pages using camera
  • Customizable book ratings and reviews
  • Share book recommendations
  • Private, iCloud-synced library
Features
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A home for the books you read. Folio keeps the books you've read, the passages you saved, and the reviews you wrote. All in one place, and all your own. Your library Every book has its place: Reading, On the Shelf, Finished, or Set Aside. Add a title by searching for it or scanning the barcode, and it shows up with its cover. Open Folio and pick up right where you left off. Quotes and notes Found a line worth keeping? Point your camera at the page and Folio pulls the words off it. Note the page, mark who said it, and the passage joins the rest of what you've collected. Snap the line and keep reading. More than stars Rate the prose, the characters, the pacing, or make up your own categories. Write the kind of review that actually sounds like you, not a row of stars and a shrug. Pass a good book Turn a book into a card worth sending, or share a link that drops it straight into a friend's Folio with one tap. The good ones are meant to travel. Privacy first No social feed, no social anxiety. Your books, quotes, notes, and reviews live on your devices and in your own iCloud, synced privately between them. There's no Folio account, and nothing we can see. You decide what to share, if anything at all. Always yours, always safe Your library syncs through your own iCloud, so it's safe even when your phone isn't. Get a new iPhone or reinstall Folio, and everything's right where you left it. Nothing to set up, nothing to remember. Folio is for readers who'd rather keep their reading close and private.

Screenshots

hdict4 screens
Folio Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: hdict at 4 against Folio Reader's 1. hdict also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

hdict ships an update every 4 days, Folio Reader every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
hdict versus Folio Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterhdictFolio Reader
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDhavalkumar PatelVinner Escobar

In-app purchases

None

hdict

No in-app purchases

None

Folio Reader

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is hdict free?
hdict is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Folio Reader free?
Folio Reader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do hdict or Folio Reader have ads?
Neither hdict nor Folio Reader shows ads.
Which is updated more often, hdict or Folio Reader?
hdict ships an update every 4 days, and Folio Reader every 6 days. Most recently, hdict was updated on October 10, 2026 and Folio Reader on October 17, 2026.

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