Comparison

Booklip vs Dexxicon 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

Dexxicon Reader

Access and read your self-hosted digital library on your devices. Enjoy EPUBs, PDFs, comics, and audiobooks with synced progress, bookmarks, and highlights. Download content for offline access.

Highlights
  • EPUB, PDF, CBZ/CBR, and audiobook support
  • Adjustable fonts, themes, and page layout
  • Sync reading position, bookmarks, and highlights
  • Offline reading with downloaded books
  • Two-page spread view for comics on iPad
  • Adaptive layout for phone and tablet
Features
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Dexxicon Reader is a client for your own BookOrbit or Grimmory (BookLore) library server — not an app store or bookstore. Point it at your server, sign in, and your whole library is with you. READ EVERYTHING • EPUB novels with adjustable fonts, themes, and page layout • PDFs and comics (CBZ/CBR), including a two-page spread view on iPad • Audiobooks with lock-screen and Control Center playback controls YOUR LIBRARY, EVERYWHERE • Reading position, bookmarks, and highlights sync automatically with your server — pick up an EPUB on your phone exactly where you left off on your tablet • Reading status (Reading, On Hold, Read, and more) stays in sync with your server's own web app WORKS OFFLINE • Download books for offline reading — no connection needed once they're on your device SIGN IN YOUR WAY • Native username/password login, or single sign-on (OIDC/SSO) if your server has it configured BUILT FOR PHONE AND TABLET • A real adaptive layout, not a stretched phone screen — Library and Book Detail use the extra space on iPad, and the comic reader supports a genuine two-page spread on wider screens Dexxicon Reader supports both major self-hosted library platforms: • BookOrbit • Grimmory (BookLore) You'll need your own server running one of these — Dexxicon Reader is the reading app, not the library itself.

Screenshots

Booklip4 screens
Dexxicon Reader2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Dexxicon Reader at every 2 days against Booklip's fortnightly. Booklip's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Booklip against 5.0 for Dexxicon Reader. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Booklip has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Booklip ships an update fortnightly, Dexxicon Reader every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Booklip versus Dexxicon Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBooklipDexxicon Reader
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKevin ParkDamien Ball

Customer experience

Booklip

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

Dexxicon Reader

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Booklip

No in-app purchases

None

Dexxicon Reader

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Booklip free?
Booklip is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dexxicon Reader free?
Dexxicon Reader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Booklip or Dexxicon Reader?
Booklip and Dexxicon Reader are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Booklip or Dexxicon Reader have ads?
Neither Booklip nor Dexxicon Reader shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Booklip or Dexxicon Reader?
Booklip ships an update fortnightly, and Dexxicon Reader every 2 days. Most recently, Booklip was updated on October 20, 2026 and Dexxicon Reader on October 10, 2026.

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