Loreum vs Inkbranch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
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.
- 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
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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/
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
Loreum ships an update weekly, Inkbranch every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.
| Parameter | Loreum | Inkbranch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (19 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 77 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pooki, Inc. | Andrii Bashta |
Customer experience
Loreum
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In-app purchases
Loreum
- 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 Chapter$0.99
- 7-Day Story Boost$19.99
Inkbranch
- Inkbranch Lifetime$9.99









