Origo Reader vs 書房
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Origo Reader
A serene digital library for personal reading and note-taking. Import your EPUB, PDF, and TXT files to enjoy refined typography, smooth navigation, and integrated tools for capturing thoughts and summaries.
- Import EPUB, PDF, TXT
- Refined typography
- Highlights and notes
- Reading progress tracking
- Local library management
- AI-assisted summaries
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Origo Reader is a calm place for books, notes, and the small moments that stay with you after reading. Bring your own library and read in a space designed to feel quiet, focused, and personal. Origo Reader supports EPUB, PDF, and TXT files, with thoughtful typography, smooth page turns, highlights, bookmarks, reading progress, and notes that help your thoughts gather naturally around the text. Whether you are reading a novel before sleep, studying a difficult chapter, or returning to a passage you once loved, Origo Reader keeps the experience simple: your books, your rhythm, your margin of thought. Features: • Import and read EPUB, PDF, and TXT books • Refined reading layouts and typography • Highlights, bookmarks, and personal notes • Reading progress that helps you return gently • Local library management • WebDAV and sync support for your reading world • AI-assisted reading tools for summaries, ideas, and organized notes Origo Reader is built for people who believe reading is not just consumption, but a way of arranging the inner world. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
書房
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書房 is an ad-free reader where you decide the sources: novels, comics and web feeds on one shelf. The app ships with no sites built in. It does not recommend, index, or link to any content source — it understands whatever page you paste, and nothing else. ■ Paste one link and it works the site out Paste the URL of a book page into your Library. If the site has no source yet, 書房 derives the book / contents / chapter URL patterns, creates the source and adds the book; if it cannot, it tells you why. To look before you save, preview the title and the opening of chapter one from Sources instead. Feeds are added by pasting an address too. ■ Download whole books, read offline Take the whole novel, or tick just the arc you are reading; comics store their images episode by episode. Read in flight mode, in dead zones, anywhere. ■ Built for long reading sessions Any Chinese typeface on the device, independent text size, line and paragraph spacing, and a background of your own — a colour, a gradient, or a photograph. A book from a simplified source can be read in traditional, and the other way round. Your position is remembered down to the paragraph. When your eyes are tired, a system voice can read to you, with the screen locked if you like. ■ No ads, and nothing collected No ads, no in-app purchases, no account, no sign-up, no analytics. What you read and where you stopped never goes to any server; bookmarks and progress sync between your devices over your own iCloud. — 書房 does not provide, host, or index any content. Everything comes from URLs you enter yourself, the same way a browser does. Please make sure the sites you visit comply with your local laws and with those sites' own terms of use.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 書房 at none against Origo Reader's 3. On price, update cadence, 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. Origo Reader sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. 書房 asks for nothing beyond the download.
Origo Reader ships an update every 4 days, 書房 every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Origo Reader | 書房 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | 旺涛 谢 | ZEYAN LIN |
In-app purchases
Origo Reader
- Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
- Premium Yearly$9.991 Year
- Origo Founding Member$0.99
書房
No in-app purchases









