TomoTomo vs Fleuron
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TomoTomo
Seamlessly switch between reading ebooks and listening to audiobooks. Your progress is automatically synced across both formats, ensuring you never lose your place. Enjoy a clean, distraction-free experience with support for standard epub and audiobook files.
- Sync position between epub and audiobook
- Switch between reading and listening
- Automatic position carry-over
- Distraction-free reading
- Supports standard epub and audiobook formats
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I read fast and listen slow. Some days it’s the other way around. What never changed was how annoying it felt to lose my place every time I switched between the ebook and audiobook of the same story. So I built TomoTomo. The idea is simple: **your ebook and audiobook should feel like one book**, even if you bought them separately. Bring the files you already own, pair them once, and move between reading and listening without starting your search for the right chapter all over again. You don’t need to buy into another library to make your books work together. The hard part is that a place in text and a time in audio are completely different things. TomoTomo connects them in both directions. Read ahead, then press play from your page. Listen on a walk, then open the ebook near the passage you’re hearing. It keeps track through pauses, chapter changes, switching back and forth, and reopening the app. When reliable narration timing is available, Follow Along can highlight the spoken word or passage. When it isn’t, TomoTomo uses the best available match and lets you adjust it. It won’t pretend an estimate is exact. You can also search for a line you remember and use **Play from here** to get back to that part of the story. What it does: - Reads your EPUB and PDF files in a quiet, adjustable reader - Plays your M4B and MP3 folder audiobooks, with lock screen controls, speed settings, and a sleep timer - Pairs matching books and audiobooks automatically, with manual pairing when needed - Carries your place between reading and listening - Follows narration in real time when you want it to - Saves highlights and notes - Keeps imported books available offline There’s an optional companion for talking through a book, and an optional account if you want your place across devices. Neither is needed to read or listen to the files you already have. No streaks. No badges. No login wall between you and your books. Just the freedom to read when you want to read, listen when you want to listen, and keep going.
Fleuron
Enhance your reading experience with integrated tools for understanding complex texts. Look up meanings, track characters and places, and take notes without leaving the page. Supports English, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese EPUBs.
- In-line word definitions
- Character and place index
- Markdown note-taking
- Spaced repetition for vocabulary
- Multi-language support (EN, JP, KR, CN)
- Offline functionality
- Read aloud with device voices
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Read real books in English, Japanese, Korean or Chinese, and understand them. Fleuron is an EPUB reader for reading above your level. It puts short meanings above the hard words, readings over Japanese and Chinese, and a spoiler-free guide to who's who beside the page, so you can stay inside the story. LENS Short hints sit above the words you may not know. Tap any word for its full entry: the sense that fits this sentence, its reading and an example. Mark a word as known and its hint goes away. READINGS Furigana over Japanese, in horizontal or vertical text. Pinyin over Chinese, with each character broken down. Korean words traced back to their dictionary form. COMPASS A guide to the people, places and terms in your book, built only from the pages you have read. Nothing from later in the book. NOTEBOOK AND STUDY Highlight with a marker stroke, write notes in the margin, and find them all again in a Notebook written by hand. The words you save come back in Study on a spaced-repetition schedule. DICTIONARY Every word you look up is filed as an index card, with the book and the sentence you found it in. All the dictionaries are inside the app and work offline. YOUR READING LIFE A bookshelf for every book you own, on paper or on screen. Reading time, pages, streaks and goals. Import from Goodreads. Read to Unlock keeps the apps you choose locked until you have read for the day. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Eight widgets for the Home Screen, the Lock Screen and StandBy, and buttons for Control Center. MADE FOR THE PAGE Pages turn with a slide, a curl or a fade. Two pages at once on a wide iPad and on iPhone Duo. Read aloud with the voices on your iPhone. PRIVATE No account, no ads, no tracking, no analytics. Your books and notes stay on your device. PRICE Free to download, with one book of your own and sample books in Japanese, Korean and Chinese. One payment unlocks unlimited books. No subscription.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TomoTomo at none against Fleuron's 1. TomoTomo also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks) and ratings volume (9 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Fleuron sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. TomoTomo asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for TomoTomo against 5.0 for Fleuron. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
TomoTomo ships an update every 5 days, Fleuron every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TomoTomo | Fleuron |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 216 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tyler Mulvey | Adib Ashraf |
Customer experience
TomoTomo
Fleuron
In-app purchases
TomoTomo
No in-app purchases
Fleuron
- Fleuron$24.99









