Comparison

Booklip vs Apogee Reader

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

Head to head
About

Booklip

This app offers a clean, distraction-free reading experience for your existing EPUB, PDF, and TXT files. Customize your reading environment with various fonts and themes, and listen to your books hands-free with built-in text-to-speech. Organize your library and track your reading habits.

Highlights
  • Supports EPUB, PDF, TXT, Markdown
  • Customizable fonts, themes, and spacing
  • Built-in text-to-speech with highlighting
  • Cloud integration (Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive)
  • Library organization and management
  • Reading habit tracking
Features
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Booklip is a clean, distraction‑free reader for the books you already own. Import your own files, make every page look exactly how you like, and listen hands‑free with built‑in text‑to‑speech. **Read any format** Open EPUB, PDF, TXT, and Markdown files. EPUB embedded fonts are rendered faithfully, so even specially typeset books display correctly. Covers and images come through, and full Unicode support means Korean, English, and mixed‑language books all read beautifully. **Make it yours** Choose your font, size, line spacing, text color, and background — or pick from ready‑made themes for day and night reading. Includes Korean typefaces. Every book remembers its own look. **Listen, don't just read** Built‑in text‑to‑speech reads your books aloud with natural English and Korean voices. Adjust speed and pitch, follow along with on‑screen highlighting, and set a sleep timer to drift off. Auto‑scroll mode keeps the page moving hands‑free. **Find your place** Jump around with the table of contents, drop bookmarks, and highlight passages in four colors. Your reading position is saved automatically. Tap or swipe to turn pages, with a smooth slide or paper page‑turn animation. **Organize your library** Sort and group your books into folders, switch between grid and list layouts, and select multiple books to move or delete at once. See real EPUB covers at a glance. **Bring books from the cloud** Connect Dropbox, Google Drive, or OneDrive and import files directly — browse your folders, pick what you want, and read offline. Access is read‑only, so nothing in your cloud is ever changed or deleted. You can also paste a direct download link to pull in a single file. **Track your habit** See total time read, your day streak, and how many books you're reading or have finished. Everything stays on your device. No account required. No ads.

About

Apogee Reader

This native iOS reader connects to your self-hosted BookOrbit server, keeping your books private. It supports various ebook, audiobook, comic, and PDF formats, with features like synchronized progress, highlights, and offline access.

Highlights
  • Supports EPUB, MOBI, CBZ, CBR, CB7, and PDF formats
  • Audiobook playback with sleep timer and speed control
  • Comic reading in paged or webtoon mode
  • Synchronized reading progress across devices
  • Highlights and notes with server sync
  • Offline reading capabilities
  • Fanfic updates from Archive of Our Own
Features
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Apogee is a native iOS reader for a BookOrbit server you run yourself. Your books stay on your own machine, and there's no account to make beyond the one on your own server. It reads what your library holds: • Ebooks. EPUB and MOBI, with your choice of font, theme, margins and page flow. You can add your own font files from the Files app. • Audiobooks. Chapters, a sleep timer, playback speed, CarPlay and Lock Screen controls. • Comics. CBZ, CBR and CB7, in paged or webtoon mode. • PDFs, cropped to the text so the margins don't waste your screen. Read & Listen joins a book to its audiobook. Read a chapter on the train, then play the audiobook in the car and it starts where you stopped reading. While it plays, the sentence being read shows on screen. Your place is kept for every book and sent back to your server, so you can put the phone down and pick up on another device. It uses the same progress format as KOReader, so a Kindle running KOReader and this app stay in step. Your reading time goes to your server's reading log too, and on BookOrbit 3.0 and later it's marked as reading, listening or Read Aloud. Download a book and it works with no network at all. Your library, your place, your notes and your highlights are all there offline. It also does: • Highlights and notes, searchable, and synced to your server. • Sign in with your password, or with the sign-in provider your server uses. • Send a book from the Files app to your server's library. • Send books to a CrossPoint e-ink reader on your Wi-Fi. • Reading Stats, from your server's reading log. • Spotlight, so your books turn up in search from the home screen. • A widget for whatever you're part way through. • Read Aloud, using the voices already on your phone. • Series grouping, collections, and a filing rule for right-to-left manga. • Fanfic Updates, if you want it: sign in to Archive of Our Own and Apogee checks the works you follow and brings new chapters into your library. Apogee is an unofficial app, not made or endorsed by AO3 or the Organization for Transformative Works. • iPad layouts, not a stretched phone app. • Guides for every feature at apogeereader.app. Apogee talks to your server. It talks to AO3 only if you sign in to Fanfic Updates, and your audiobook notes sync through your own iCloud account. Nothing comes to me unless you choose to send it. Apogee needs a BookOrbit server to be useful. It isn't a shop. It doesn't sell, supply or recommend books. It reads the library you already have. Apogee is built by one person. It's free, with no ads, no in-app purchases and no tracking.

Screenshots

Booklip4 screens
Apogee Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Booklip at 100% against Apogee Reader's 50%. Booklip also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4). Apogee Reader's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Booklip holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Booklip's written reviews are positive against 50% of Apogee Reader's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Booklip ships an update fortnightly, Apogee Reader weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Booklip versus Apogee Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBooklipApogee Reader
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better4.4 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings57 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB43 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperKevin ParkBrian Banuag

Customer experience

Booklip

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Apogee Reader

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Booklip

No in-app purchases

None

Apogee Reader

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Booklip free?
Booklip is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Apogee Reader free?
Apogee Reader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Booklip or Apogee Reader?
Booklip is rated higher. Booklip averages 5.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Apogee Reader averages 4.4 from 7 ratings.
Do Booklip or Apogee Reader have ads?
Neither Booklip nor Apogee Reader shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Booklip or Apogee Reader?
Booklip ships an update fortnightly, and Apogee Reader weekly. Most recently, Booklip was updated on October 31, 2026 and Apogee Reader on November 5, 2026.

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