ScrollWizard vs Libra reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
ScrollWizard
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Your books deserve a better home. ScrollWizard is a full EPUB and PDF reader for people who care how they read -- not just what. Tune the type to taste -- font, size, line height, spacing, reading width, margins, alignment, hyphenation -- and override any of it per book. Speed-read with a built-in focus engine. No subscription, ever. Pay once, own it forever. READING, YOUR WAY -- 12 fonts including OpenDyslexic, with size, line height, and letter and word spacing -- Text alignment, paragraph indent and spacing, hyphenation -- Reading Width control sets your line length and centres the column on wide screens, plus top and bottom margins -- 5 built-in themes (Light, Dark, Sepia, Solarized Dark, Nord) plus unlimited custom themes -- Page-turn animations: slide, fade, or none -- Per-book overrides -- some books just read better in a different font -- A Lock Screen Live Activity shows your reading progress at a glance FOCUS READING (RSVP SPEED READER) -- Words appear one at a time at the pace you set, from 100 to 1500 WPM -- A focus mode: fewer distractions, one word at a time, your pace -- Adjustable word highlighting and a tunable pause curve -- Sentence navigation: swipe back or forward with full context -- Eases back up to speed after a pause, so you never lose the thread SPLIT READER (iPad) -- Two books side by side with a draggable divider -- Paragraph-proportional sync keeps both sides aligned -- Reference pane: open footnotes or an appendix beside the text without losing your place VOCABULARY & ANNOTATIONS -- Select any word for an instant dictionary definition -- Save words with their sentence and book attached, then export them to a flashcard file (Anki, TSV, or JSON) -- Highlight in 5 colors, with optional notes -- Export every annotation to Markdown, Obsidian, Notion, Logseq, or JSON -- no caps, no publisher limits -- Full-text search within any book YOUR LIBRARY -- Smart collections that sort themselves by your rules -- Browse free books from Project Gutenberg, ManyBooks, and Feedbooks, plus Standard Ebooks for Patrons Circle members -- Connect your own Calibre server -- iCloud sync for books and reading position, in a folder you can actually see -- Cover grid with sorting, filtering, metadata editing, and batch actions READING STATISTICS -- Daily reading charts with 7- and 30-day views, goals, pages, and time -- See how far you have come -- not how far you have to go No ads. No analytics. No feed pulling you somewhere else. No account to make. Just you and the book. The base reader is completely free. Advanced Wizard Mode -- the RSVP Speed Reader, the iPad Split Reader, and custom font import -- is a one-time purchase. No subscription. No recurring charges. One wizard, one price, forever. Reflowable EPUB and PDF. App available in 12 languages.
Libra reader
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Libra is a modern ebook reader and library manager for iPhone and iPad. Read the books you already own ā from your device, your cloud storage, or any OPDS catalog ā and keep your reading progress, highlights and notes in sync across all your devices. Key features ⢠All major ebook formats ⢠Read from device, cloud storage and OPDS catalogs ⢠Comfortable, fully customizable reading ⢠Highlights, notes and bookmarks ⢠On-device translation ⢠Reading sync across your devices Ebook formats ⢠EPUB ⢠PDF ⢠FictionBook (fb2, fb2.zip) ⢠MobiPocket and Kindle (mobi, azw3) ⢠Comic Book (cbz) ⢠Word (docx) ⢠Markdown, HTML and plain text (md, html, txt) Your books, your storage ⢠Locally on the device ⢠In cloud storage: iCloud Drive, Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Yandex Disk ⢠From OPDS catalogs and online libraries you choose ⢠Add your own catalog, for example a Calibre content server over OPDS Comfortable reading ⢠Light, Sepia and Dark themes ⢠Paginated (swipe) or continuous scroll ⢠Serif, sans-serif and monospace fonts ⢠Adjustable font size, line height, paragraph spacing, margins, letter spacing and text alignment ⢠Device-independent reading position that transfers correctly across screens and devices ⢠Table of contents navigation Highlights, notes and bookmarks ⢠Highlight passages in four colors ⢠Attach notes to your highlights ⢠Bookmark any page ⢠Share and export your notes and highlights as text Library management ⢠Organize books into custom collections ⢠Browse by folders across all your sources ⢠Search your library ⢠Automatic cover and metadata extraction ⢠Track reading status and progress, and mark books finished ⢠Rate and review your books ⢠Back up and restore your library Translation ⢠Translate selected text right in the reader ⢠Translation runs on your device ā nothing leaves it Sync across your devices (Pro) ⢠Sync your library, reading position, progress, highlights, notes, bookmarks, reviews and collections ⢠Syncs privately through your own iCloud account ā we run no server and never hold your data āāā Support: support@libra-reader.com Privacy Policy: https://libra-reader.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://libra-reader.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: ScrollWizard at 16.2 against Libra reader's 18.2. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. ScrollWizard sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Libra reader sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ScrollWizard ships an update every 2 weeks, Libra reader every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 6, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ScrollWizard | Libra reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks ā better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.2 ā better | 18.2 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Merijn Douwes | Sergei Mikhailov |
In-app purchases
ScrollWizard
- Advanced Wizard Mode$4.99
Libra reader
- Libra Pro ā Monthly$1.991 Month
- Libra Pro ā Yearly$19.991 Year









