Comparison

Loreum vs Inkbranch

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Inkbranch

Create and read interactive branching stories directly on your device. Design your own narratives with characters, scenes, and choices, then visualize your story's structure with a node map. Share your creations easily with others.

Highlights
  • Read branching stories with choices
  • Write stories with script
  • Place characters in scenes
  • Visualize story as node map
  • Export and import projects
  • Tap-to-advance and backlog
Features
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Inkbranch is a visual novel maker and reader for branching visual novels, right on your device. Read a branching story where your choices matter, then become your own story creator with named characters, scenes, and forks in the path. - Read a branching story with tap-to-advance, a backlog, and story saves that never expire or corrupt - Write your own with a simple, readable script for scenes, dialogue, choices, and flags - Place characters into hand-drawn scenes and branch the story on the reader's decisions - See your whole branching story as a node map so every path is easy to follow - Export any project as a single shareable file and import it back No AI and no bundled outside stories. What you write stays exactly as you wrote it, on your device, and it is yours. Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTDX9pxPOlUJl_skVUHPi99mAw0y2B2BYd_v1mJkoF3xW3rlOcW5KlYd4t93MMbbGhctSTnBTy7d_l6/pub Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Loreum4 screens
Inkbranch4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Loreum at 100% against Inkbranch's 0%. Loreum also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Loreum sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days and Inkbranch sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Loreum holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Loreum has 19 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Loreum's written reviews are positive against 0% of Inkbranch's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Loreum ships an update weekly, Inkbranch every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Loreum versus Inkbranch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLoreumInkbranch
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (19 ratings) — better3.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings19 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB21 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperPooki, Inc.Andrii Bashta

Customer experience

Loreum

All ratings18 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Inkbranch

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Loreum

Subscriptions4
  • Loreum Unlimited3 Days trial$5.997 Days
  • Loreum Unlimited$12.991 Month
  • Loreum Unlimited$49.991 Year
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  • Loreum Unlimited3 Days trial$59.991 Year
One-time2
  • One Chapter$0.99
  • 7-Day Story Boost$19.99
1 purchases

Inkbranch

One-time1
  • Inkbranch Lifetime$9.99

Questions

Is Loreum free?
Loreum is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Inkbranch free?
Inkbranch is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Loreum or Inkbranch?
Loreum is rated higher. Loreum averages 5.0 out of 5 from 19 ratings, while Inkbranch averages 3.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Loreum or Inkbranch have ads?
Neither Loreum nor Inkbranch shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Loreum or Inkbranch?
Loreum ships an update weekly, and Inkbranch every 3 weeks. Most recently, Loreum was updated on October 28, 2026 and Inkbranch on October 28, 2026.

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