Comparison

Margina vs Léelo

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

Head to head
About

Margina

This app provides a private, distraction-free reading environment for various document types. Organize, highlight, and annotate your readings, with options to export your notes. It prioritizes user privacy by keeping all data on the device.

Highlights
  • Supports PDF, EPUB, Word, Markdown, and text
  • Distraction-free reading experience
  • Highlight and annotate with notes
  • Organize library with folders
  • Search across documents and annotations
  • Export highlights and notes
  • Offline reading
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Margina is a calm, private home for everything you read. Send yourself a PDF, EPUB, Word doc, Markdown file, or plain text. Margina opens them all in one distraction-free reader that remembers exactly where you left off. No account, no cloud requirement, no clutter: just you and the page. A LIBRARY THAT LOOKS LIKE ONE Your documents live on a clean shelf of covers, each showing its format and how far you have read. Prefer rows? Switch to list view with one tap. Filter by what you are reading now, what is new, and what you have finished, and pin the book you keep coming back to. HIGHLIGHT AND ANNOTATE Mark passages in five colors, attach a note in the margin, and drop bookmarks anywhere. Drag across a PDF page to select and highlight in one motion. Every annotation is gathered in one place, ready to browse, filter, and revisit. Tap any highlight to jump straight back to its page. FIND ANYTHING, FAST Search across titles, authors, highlights, and notes at once. Matches light up inside the results exactly like highlights on a page, grouped by document so you always know where a passage came from. STAY ORGANIZED Sort your library into color-coded folders for work, study, research, or that stack of essays you have been meaning to get to. Jump back into any book at the exact spot, or the exact highlight, you were last at. MADE FOR LONG READING A reading experience designed like a well-set book: quiet paper tones, generous margins, and your progress drawn as a thin rule in the margin itself. Choose paper, sepia, or dark. Tune font, size, line spacing, and margins right in the reader. Includes a dyslexia-friendly typeface option and respects your system accessibility settings, from Dynamic Type to VoiceOver, Reduce Motion, and Reduce Transparency. EVERY FORMAT YOU ACTUALLY USE PDF reader, EPUB reader, Word document viewer, Markdown reader, and plain text, all in one app. Import from the share sheet, the Files app, email attachments, or anywhere else you can tap Share. Everything works offline, on the train, on a plane, or at the cabin with no signal. EXPORT AND SHARE Turn your highlights and notes into a clean Markdown file or a formatted PDF and send them to your notes app, your research workflow, or a friend. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your library lives on your device. No account, no sign-up, no tracking, nothing to set up. Margina hosts nothing about you. Reading is personal; your reading data should be too. MARGINA PRO Upgrade to back up your library to your OWN iCloud, unlock the sepia reading theme, export your annotations, and add unlimited documents. Available monthly, annually, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Your backup stays in your iCloud, never on our servers, so even Pro keeps your data yours. WHO MARGINA IS FOR Students annotating readings and lecture notes. Researchers working through papers. Book club readers who argue in the margins. Writers collecting passages. Anyone who sends themselves things to read later and actually wants to read them, without ads, feeds, or noise. Read anything. Mark it up. Keep it yours. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://margina.app/privacy Margina Pro is offered as a monthly or annual auto-renewable subscription or a one-time Lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings.

About

Léelo

Features
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Léelo turns your own books into a faster read. Léelo reads your library - import any EPUB and start reading in seconds. TWO WAYS TO READ, ONE APP - Speed-read one word at a time, with a focus point that keeps your eyes still - Or read normally, scrolling through the full book like a classic reader MADE TO FIT HOW YOU READ - Move the focus point to match your eyes - Choose from reading-optimized fonts for every style - Adjust speed from a gentle start and build up over time - Light and dark themes BUY ONCE. YOURS FOREVER. No subscription. No account. No noise. Just your books, read faster. Start with 3 free imports. Unlock unlimited imports with a single one-time purchase.

Screenshots

Margina4 screens
Léelo3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Léelo at every 3 days against Margina's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Margina sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Léelo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Margina ships an update every 3 weeks, Léelo every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Margina versus Léelo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMarginaLéelo
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEcho Persona LLCPavel Khan

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Margina

Subscriptions2
  • Margina Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Margina Pro Annual$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Margina Lifetime$39.99
1 purchases

Léelo

One-time1
  • Unlimited Library$4.99

Questions

Is Margina free?
Margina is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Léelo free?
Léelo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Margina or Léelo have ads?
Neither Margina nor Léelo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Margina or Léelo?
Margina ships an update every 3 weeks, and Léelo every 3 days. Most recently, Margina was updated on November 10, 2026 and Léelo on October 28, 2026.

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