Story Lantern vs Delphi
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Story Lantern
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Story Lantern turns your ideas into original stories, interactive adventures, and readable fiction you can enjoy anywhere. Create a story from a prompt, build characters and worlds, or step into branching adventures where your choices shape what happens next. CREATE STORIES WITH AI Start with a genre, mood, language, character, world, or simple idea. Story Lantern helps generate story drafts you can read, edit, continue, save, and publish. Whether you want fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, romance, horror, comedy, action, mythology, kids stories, or Indian stories, the app helps you shape a fresh story in seconds. CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE Become the hero of interactive fiction. Pick your character, make choices, collect items, unlock achievements, and explore different story branches. Every decision can lead to a new path, surprise, or ending. READ AND DISCOVER Browse a growing story library with featured stories, trending stories, daily stories, community creations, ratings, reviews, and saved favorites. Find short reads for a quick break or longer fiction when you want to get lost in another world. FEATURES • AI story generator for original fiction, bedtime stories, and creative writing • Interactive adventures with choices, characters, inventory, maps, and endings • Story creator tools for prompts, genres, moods, characters, and worlds • Collaborative writing mode where you guide the story and AI continues it • Clean story reader with reading preferences, themes, and saved progress • Daily story discovery, search, bookmarks, and personal library • Community feed with creators, comments, reviews, contests, and leaderboards • Audio narration and PDF export available with premium access • Kid Safe settings, content reporting, and family-friendly reading controls • Supports many story styles including fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, romance, kids, horror, comedy, action, mythology, and more PERFECT FOR Story Lantern is made for readers, writers, parents, young storytellers, roleplay fans, interactive fiction players, and anyone who wants a creative story companion. Use it for bedtime stories, writing practice, game-like adventures, classroom inspiration, family reading, or a spark for your next novel idea. AI CONTENT NOTICE Stories and adventures may be generated with AI based on your prompts and choices. Community content can be reported in the app, and Kid Safe controls help families tune the reading experience. Download Story Lantern and start creating, reading, and choosing your next adventure today! Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Delphi
This app provides a synchronized reading and listening experience for classic literature. As the audio plays, the text is highlighted, and you can tap any sentence to resume narration from that exact point. Enjoy offline access to a curated library of timeless works.
- Synchronized text and audio narration
- Tap to play sentence feature
- Offline reading and listening
- Automatic resume functionality
- Bookmark saving
- Background playback
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Delphi is a reader for the great books — with narration that stays in sync with the text. As the audio plays, the current sentence is highlighted and the page scrolls with it. Tap any sentence to hear it from exactly that point. Close the app mid-chapter and Delphi brings you back to the same spot, ready to continue. THE LIBRARY • Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War • Augustine — Confessions • Plato — Dialogues (Apology, Phaedo, Symposium, Republic and more) • Goethe — Faust • Aristotle — Nicomachean Ethics and Politics • The Bible (KJV) — Old Testament • Hamilton, Madison, Jay — The Federalist Papers • Machiavelli — The Prince • Dostoevsky — Crime and Punishment MADE FOR LISTENING • Word-for-word sync: the sentence being read is always highlighted • Tap to play: touch any line to jump the narration there • Background playback with full lock screen and Control Center controls • Skip back and forward 15 seconds, scrub anywhere MADE FOR READING • The complete text of every work is built in — no connection needed to read • Download any work's audio once and listen fully offline • Bookmarks for every book: save a passage, jump back to it anytime • Automatic resume: pick up exactly where you stopped, even after restarting No account. No subscription. No ads. Just the classics, read to you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Delphi at none against Story Lantern's 2. Delphi also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months). On price, 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. Story Lantern sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Delphi asks for nothing beyond the download.
Story Lantern ships an update every 2 months, Delphi every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Story Lantern | Delphi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 209 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Somendra Shah | Chenyu Li |
In-app purchases
Story Lantern
- TaleForge Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- TaleForge Premium Yearly$39.991 Year
Delphi
No in-app purchases









