Folio Reader vs Books Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Folio Reader
Organize your reading life by tracking books, saving quotes, and writing personalized reviews. This app provides a private space for your literary journey, syncing your library securely via iCloud.
- Organize books by reading status
- Scan barcodes to add titles
- Extract text from book pages using camera
- Customizable book ratings and reviews
- Share book recommendations
- Private, iCloud-synced library
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A home for the books you read. Folio keeps the books you've read, the passages you saved, and the reviews you wrote. All in one place, and all your own. Your library Every book has its place: Reading, On the Shelf, Finished, or Set Aside. Add a title by searching for it or scanning the barcode, and it shows up with its cover. Open Folio and pick up right where you left off. Quotes and notes Found a line worth keeping? Point your camera at the page and Folio pulls the words off it. Note the page, mark who said it, and the passage joins the rest of what you've collected. Snap the line and keep reading. More than stars Rate the prose, the characters, the pacing, or make up your own categories. Write the kind of review that actually sounds like you, not a row of stars and a shrug. Pass a good book Turn a book into a card worth sending, or share a link that drops it straight into a friend's Folio with one tap. The good ones are meant to travel. Privacy first No social feed, no social anxiety. Your books, quotes, notes, and reviews live on your devices and in your own iCloud, synced privately between them. There's no Folio account, and nothing we can see. You decide what to share, if anything at all. Always yours, always safe Your library syncs through your own iCloud, so it's safe even when your phone isn't. Get a new iPhone or reinstall Folio, and everything's right where you left it. Nothing to set up, nothing to remember. Folio is for readers who'd rather keep their reading close and private.
Books Pro
This app provides a fast and elegant offline reading experience for your books. Keep your entire library on your device for reliable access anytime, anywhere, without needing an internet connection. Organize your reading space, save quotes, and track your progress with ease.
- Reliable offline reading
- One Click access
- Clean personal library
- Book collections
- Reading progress saving
- Quote saving and sharing
- iCloud sync
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Books Pro is a fast, elegant offline reader built around a simple One Click system. Books Pro keeps your books on your device, so they stay available even when there is no internet connection. No surprise downloads, no missing books when you are offline. Your library is ready whenever you want to read. Import your books, open your library, continue reading, save quotes, share progress, and organize your reading space with fewer steps. Books Pró is designed to feel quick, clean, and natural every time you read. Features: - Books stay on your device for reliable offline reading - One Click access to your books and reading tools - Fast offline book reading - Clean personal library - Book collections with custom reading order - Manual book sorting - Reading progress saving - Quote saving and sharing - Tap a quote to jump back to its place in the book - iCloud sync between your devices - Reading time statistics for day, week, and year - Reading streaks and challenges - Custom reading reminders - Beautiful share cards for reading progress - Dark and light mode support - Localized for many languages Books Pro is your personal books space: simple, private, and ready whenever you want to read.
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Verdict
Folio Reader and Books Pro are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Folio Reader against 5.0 for Books Pro. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Folio Reader ships an update every 6 days, Books Pro every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Folio Reader | Books Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vinner Escobar | Ecologicalm UAB |
Customer experience
Folio Reader
Books Pro
In-app purchases
Folio Reader
No in-app purchases
Books Pro
No in-app purchases









