Comparison

Fantasy Read vs Duri

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Fantasy Read

Features
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Fantasy Read helps you enjoy complex fiction without losing track of characters, places, and story details. Import your EPUB book, let Fantasy Read prepare spoiler-free reading context, and continue reading with helpful notes available whenever you need them. After a book is processed once, enhanced notes can appear instantly as you read. Tap a character, place, or concept to get a short explanation based only on what you have already read, so you can refresh your memory without spoiling what comes next. Fantasy Read is designed especially for English-language fantasy, sci-fi, classics, and other complex fiction where characters, places, timelines, and lore can be hard to remember. Features: • Read EPUB books in a clean reading interface • Generate spoiler-free AI context for supported EPUB books • Tap for character, place, and concept reminders • Continue reading with notes available instantly after processing • Read enhanced books offline after they are prepared • Keep your library and reading progress synced across devices • Access enhanced reading through Fantasy Read Pro Fantasy Read does not provide books for download or resale. Users upload EPUB files that they have the right to use. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://fantasyread.ai/privacy

About

Duri

Features
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Duri is a reader for the books and documents you already have: EPUBs, PDFs and the scans of them, comics, plain text and Markdown, and articles saved from the web. It turns their pages like a book, remembers where you stopped, and keeps your highlights and notes where you can find them. PAGES THAT TURN LIKE PAPER A real page curl that follows your finger, the back of the leaf showing through, on every kind of file. On an iPad on its side the book lies open as a two-page spread, with the spine down the middle and a double-page comic panel across both. MADE TO BE READ FOR HOURS Four themes free and ten more with Pro, among them an E-ink theme that stops every animation. Five reading faces, and your own fonts with Pro. Line spacing and margins, a page you can pinch. Footnotes open where you are. READS ALOUD Any book, any document, even a scanned PDF, whose words Duri recognises on your phone. Press Listen and the voice begins within a second or two, from the page you are on or from any sentence you choose, and follows you when you turn the page. A listening view like lyrics, lit word by word, in a voice of Duri's own that runs on your phone: four to choose from, and nothing you read leaves the device. Ten minutes a day are free. YOUR NOTES STAY YOURS Highlight in five colours, write notes (typed or by hand), copy with a citation, make a quote card (Pro). Draw on a PDF with a pen, a highlighter and an eraser, and share the PDF with your marks in it. Export everything as Markdown or plain text, always, for free. AWAY FROM THE APP Widgets for the book you're reading, what's playing and your daily reading goal. A listening remote on your Apple Watch. Save a page from Safari's share sheet and it's an article in your library. Follow a site and new pieces arrive by themselves. On an iPad, read a book beside its translation. ON IPHONE DUO Open, a book lies across both screens with its spine on the fold, and the library and contents use both pages. Half folded, the page stands above the fold with the controls below, so it reads on a table by itself. HONEST ABOUT WHAT IT CAN'T DO Books locked to another store (Kindle, Apple Books) can't be opened here, and Duri says so rather than pretending. NOTHING ABOUT YOU LEAVES YOUR DEVICE No servers of ours. A book from a catalogue or a page you save comes straight from where it lives, and sync, if you want it, goes through your own iCloud and nowhere else. DURI PRO One purchase, once, shared with your family: unlimited listening, iCloud sync, ten more themes and five accents, your own fonts, quote cards and PDF export of your notes. It costs US$9.99 (the App Store shows the price in your country), is paid once and never renews: it is not a subscription. Everything else is free, and stays free. Terms of use: https://duri.neeraj.ca/terms.html Privacy policy: https://duri.neeraj.ca/privacy.html

Screenshots

Fantasy Read3 screens
Duri4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Duri at daily against Fantasy Read's every 2 months. Fantasy Read's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Fantasy Read sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $8.99 per month and Duri sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fantasy Read ships an update every 2 months, Duri daily. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
Fantasy Read versus Duri: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFantasy ReadDuri
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB247 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperNO2VNEERAJ SHARMA

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Fantasy Read

Subscriptions1
  • Fantasy Read Pro1 Month trial$8.991 Month
1 purchases

Duri

One-time1
  • Duri Pro$9.99

Questions

Is Fantasy Read free?
Fantasy Read is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Duri free?
Duri is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Fantasy Read or Duri have ads?
Neither Fantasy Read nor Duri shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fantasy Read or Duri?
Fantasy Read ships an update every 2 months, and Duri daily. Most recently, Fantasy Read was updated on October 31, 2026 and Duri on October 31, 2026.

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