Minkly vs Loreum
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Minkly
Discover and read serialized web novels across various genres, or publish your own stories. Automatically converts written chapters to audio upon release, allowing seamless switching between reading and listening.
- Read web novels
- Publish your own stories
- Automatic audio chapter generation
- Switch between reading and listening
- Multiple genres available
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Minkly is a home for web novels and serialized fiction. Read stories across fantasy, sci-fi, romance, horror, mystery, thriller, and slice-of-life, or publish your own work and reach readers worldwide. Every chapter is automatically turned into audio the moment it goes live, so you can switch between reading and listening whenever it suits you, and authors reach audio-first readers without a separate production.
Loreum
Explore and create interactive stories with multimedia elements. Engage with a community of readers and writers across various genres. Offers a unique reading experience with choices and immersive content.
- Discover original fiction across genres
- Experience stories with multimedia
- Create interactive stories with choices
- Publish stories chapter by chapter
- Build and engage with an audience
- Save favorite stories and collections
- Follow creators and get notifications
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Read, play, create, and share stories made for the digital age. Loreum is a social storytelling app for short drama, romance, mystery, true crime, horror, fantasy, fanfiction-inspired stories, investigations, escape games, and interactive fiction. Stories can have text, images, videos, sounds, messages, clues, codes, secrets, questions, choices, and multiple endings. Read and watch, send stories to friends, react together, follow creators, and discover what’s going viral. FOR READERS: • Read short, addictive stories and serialized novels • Make choices that change what happens next • Solve mysteries, investigations, codes, clues, and escape-game-style stories • Discover romance, drama, thriller, horror, fantasy, true crime, and more • Experience sounds, images, videos, messages, and interactive moments • Send stories to friends and talk about what you’re reading • Follow writers and get notified about new chapters • Find trending, viral, and editor-picked stories • Filter stories by trope, genre, or mood, and choose whether to include AI generated content FOR WRITERS & CREATORS • Write and publish stories directly from your phone • Create short chapters, interactive fiction, branching stories, and multiple endings • Add choices, questions, sounds, images, videos, clues, and secrets • Build an audience and grow your community • Share your stories on social media • Monetize eligible stories in one click • Earn money from completed chapter reads every month • Experiment with new formats without needing to code Write a romance where readers choose who to kiss. Create a true crime investigation with clues and suspects. Build a horror story with sounds triggered at the perfect moment. Make an escape game full of codes, secrets, and wrong turns... Or just write. Human-made stories. No AI. No Ads. Loreum is where stories become something you can read, play, share, and create. ---- Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://loreum.co/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Minkly at none against Loreum's 3. Loreum's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly) and ratings volume (16 vs 4). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Loreum sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days. Minkly asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Minkly against 5.0 for Loreum. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 16 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Minkly ships an update fortnightly, Loreum weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Minkly | Loreum |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (16 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 16 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | MINKLY LLC | Pooki, Inc. |
Customer experience
Minkly
Loreum
In-app purchases
Minkly
No in-app purchases
Loreum
- Loreum Unlimited$5.997 Days
- Loreum Unlimited$12.991 Month
- Loreum Unlimited7 Days trial$59.991 Year









