Folio Reader vs Librune
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.
Librune
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Librune is a private, ad-free reader for EPUB, PDF, comics, and more. Build your personal digital library and read offline—no account required. A focused EPUB & PDF reading experience Focus on your book, not the interface. Librune keeps controls out of the way while making your reading position easy to follow. Personalize EPUB books with customizable fonts, text size, themes, brightness, line spacing, margins, and page layouts. Choose the settings that make reading most comfortable for you. Customize PDF page layouts to fit the way you prefer to read. Open EPUB footnotes where they are referenced without losing your place. Download language packs to translate selected text offline while reading books in another language. Highlights, quotes, and reading notes • Highlight passages across multiple pages • Choose from multiple highlight colors • Add personal notes to your highlights • Review quotes from an individual book or your entire library • Revisit saved quotes together with the date they were captured • Export your notes and highlights for backup • Transfer your annotations to another device Your personal ebook library • Organize books using categories and custom shelves • Edit covers, genres, languages, and descriptions • Quickly find books, even in large collections • Import individual books or select only the folders you want to access • Build your library without granting access to all your files Ebooks, documents, and comics in one reader Keep EPUB and FB2 ebooks, PDF and DOCX documents, Markdown and HTML files, and comic or manga archives together in one personal library. Read your files offline and continue exactly where you left off. Librune remembers your reading position, library organization, notes, highlights, and preferences. Your notes stay yours Your library data, reading positions, notes, highlights, and preferences are stored on your device. Librune requires no account, contains no ads, and lets you back up or export your annotations when you choose. Supported formats Ebooks: EPUB, FB2, FB2.ZIP Documents: PDF, TXT, HTML, Markdown, DOCX, ODT Comics: CBZ, CBR, CB7, CBT
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Verdict
Folio Reader and Librune are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Folio Reader ships an update every 6 days, Librune every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Folio Reader | Librune |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vinner Escobar | Cihan ERDEN |
In-app purchases
Folio Reader
No in-app purchases
Librune
No in-app purchases









