Origo Reader vs Foliomere
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/
Foliomere
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Ready for iPhone Duo at launch. Optimized for iPad. Foliomere is a private, local-first study reader for the documents and ebooks you already have. Read EPUB, PDF, TXT and Markdown, then turn important ideas into notes you can keep as ordinary Markdown. A workspace that adapts - Unfold iPhone Duo to keep reading and book-scoped notes side by side - Use one focused workspace in partial-fold and compact layouts - Keep your reading position, active workspace and Markdown drafts as the screen changes - Enjoy the same spacious reading and writing workflow on iPad Markdown, inside your reading flow - Read, edit and preview Markdown without switching apps - Use source and preview side by side when space allows - Navigate outlines, find and replace, and apply formatting - Scroll wide code and table blocks within Preview on iOS 18 or later - Keep native source editing, undo, redo and explicit local save Read and keep what matters - Import EPUB, PDF, TXT and Markdown files from Files - Tap or swipe to turn EPUB and TXT pages, or use continuous reading - Adjust text size, line spacing and reading theme - Keep bookmarks and highlights inside each book - Organize only the notes you actively wrote in Study - Save or share active notes as Markdown, including an Obsidian-compatible workflow Foliomere is free to download. Core reading, bookmarks, highlights, written notes and Markdown note export remain free. The one-time, non-consumable Foliomere Pro purchase permanently unlocks advanced Markdown editing, Recall and tags, Study Files and continuous read-aloud. There is no subscription. Readers who originally acquired Foliomere before version 1.1.0 receive Pro automatically. Removing a book deletes its local copy, bookmarks and highlights. Notes you actively wrote remain in Study with source metadata, but can no longer open the removed book. No accounts, ads, behavioral analytics or third-party tracking. Your library stays in the app sandbox by default. External Markdown copies go only to a folder you choose. Study Files is not automatic library or note cloud sync; nothing is uploaded to developer-operated servers. iPhone Duo adaptation requires iOS 27.1. Foliomere continues to support iOS 17 or later; iOS 17 uses the native Markdown preview.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Origo Reader at every 4 days against Foliomere's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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 and Foliomere sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Origo Reader ships an update every 4 days, Foliomere every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Origo Reader | Foliomere |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 旺涛 谢 | 建锐 赵 |
In-app purchases
Origo Reader
- Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
- Premium Yearly$9.991 Year
- Origo Founding Member$0.99
Foliomere
- Foliomere Pro Lifetime$9.99









