Libraries Almaty vs Dewey
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Libraries Almaty
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Almaty Libraries is an app for readers of the city's libraries. Sign in to search the catalogue, save favourites and read library news. Find library branches and check their addresses and opening hours. After your reader account is verified, use your digital library card with its barcode. View your borrowed books and return dates. Read available digital books in the app and keep your reading progress. Access depends on your reader permissions and the availability of each title. Send support requests to the library and attach relevant files. You can submit documents through the app when applying for account verification. Manage your profile and notifications. Legal documents and consent withdrawal are available in your profile. The app supports Kazakh, Russian and English. Online features require an internet connection. The digital library card is available to verified readers; original digital book files are not provided for download.
Dewey
Engage in deep conversations about any book with AI personas, digitize your notes and highlights from physical pages, and build lasting reading habits. Discover your reading identity and map your literary tastes.
- AI-powered book discussions
- Digitize physical book notes
- Memory retention lessons
- Reading habit tracking
- Reading taste mapping
- Discover reading identity
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Dewey is the reading companion for people who want more from every book: a real conversation, a home to document what mattered, and the tools to actually remember it. TALK THROUGH ANY BOOK Ever finish a book and wish you had someone to think it through with? Choose a persona: a Literary Critic, a Professor, a well-read Friend, or the Editor (The Writing Room) and discuss any book in your library. Ask about themes and characters, push back on an argument, or take a finished book apart to see how it was built. Every conversation is shaped by the exact book you're reading and designed to fo deep on whatever sticks out to you! Beware the virtual author might disagree with you! SNAP A PHOTO-CAPTURE EVERYTHING Photograph a page and Dewey pulls your highlights and handwritten notes into clean, editable text. Save quotes and add reflections chapter by chapter. Your best thinking for all of your books for the first ever lives in one Notebook. Dewey is built to be an additive tool, we still expect you to still highlight and write margin notes in your physical book, we just centralize your ideas so they're accessible at any time. REMEMBER WHAT YOU READ You're not alone- so many times we often find ourselves saying "I can't remember anything of what I read" with most books fading within days of finishing it. Dewey's daily memory lessons teach the science of retention (i.e. the forgetting curve, spaced repetition, active recall etc.) so what you read actually sticks. MAP YOUR TASTE Rate every finished book by craft and impact and watch your whole library arrange itself on your Reading Map. BUILD A READING HABIT Track a daily reading streak, log the days you read on a calendar, and watch your year add up and see how many books you finished, pages read, genres explored etc.. DISCOVER YOUR READING IDENTITY Your habits reveal more than you think. See your Reading DNA, the themes you return to, your reading personality etc. all drawn from the books you read and the notes you take. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Libraries Almaty at none against Dewey's 2. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Dewey sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Libraries Almaty asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Libraries Almaty | Dewey |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | TSENTRALIZOVANNAYA BIBLIOTECHNAYA SISTEMA GORODA ALMATY | Glenn Harris |
In-app purchases
Libraries Almaty
No in-app purchases
Dewey
- Dewey Premium Monthly$5.991 Month
- Dewey Premium Annual$59.991 Year









