Karda! vs Librosy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Karda!
This app transforms books into an engaging digital reading experience for children. It features beautifully illustrated stories, progress tracking, and personalized collections to foster a love for reading.
- Beautifully illustrated stories
- Gentle, distraction-free reading
- Growing digital library
- Progress tracking
- Personalized book collections
- Save and share favorite quotes
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Karda! Helping screen-native children fall in love with reading again. Karda! transforms books into a calm, engaging digital reading experience designed for how children consume content today. Discover beautifully illustrated stories, explore books, track reading progress, and build lasting reading habits - one story at a time. Features Beautifully Illustrated Stories: Every book is enhanced with rich artwork that makes reading more immersive and enjoyable. Gentle Reading Experience: Designed specifically for young readers with distraction-free pages and a comfortable reading flow. Growing Digital Library: Discover world classics, and original Karda! stories. Continue Reading Anytime: Pick up exactly where you left off. Track Your Progress: Follow pages read, books completed, and reading milestones. Create Your Own Collections: Organize books into personalized collections based on interests and reading goals. Save & Share Favorite Quotes: Highlight memorable passages and share inspiring quotes from the stories you love. Perfect For • Children aged 7–14 • Families looking for meaningful screen time • Young readers building lifelong reading habits New stories and features are added regularly. Start your next reading adventure with Karda!
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: Karda! at none against Librosy's 2. Karda! also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Karda! asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Karda! against 5.0 for Librosy. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Karda! ships an update every 2 weeks, Librosy monthly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Karda! | Librosy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hasmik Pirumova | Vitalii Trus |
Customer experience
Karda!
Librosy
In-app purchases
Karda!
No in-app purchases
Librosy
- Librosy Pro · Yearly7 Days trial$17.991 Year
- Librosy Pro · Lifetime$39.99
