Comparison

Sutra vs LiBook

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

Head to head
About

Sutra

Access your entire book collection from various sources in one beautiful app. Enjoy a customizable reading experience with synced progress, bookmarks, and highlights across devices. Organize your library with series info, search, and collections.

Highlights
  • Connect Kavita, Calibre, and OPDS servers
  • EPUB and PDF reading with page-curl effect
  • Rich typography and reading themes
  • iCloud sync for progress, bookmarks, and highlights
  • Offline downloads
  • Highlighting and search functionality
  • Series grouping and collections
Features
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Sutra is a warm, thoughtful home for every book and comic you love. Bring together your self-hosted library, your manga, your classic EPUBs, and those “just one more chapter” reads in one beautifully calm reader. Connect Kavita, Komga, or Calibre; explore any OPDS catalogue; or discover a new favourite from Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks. READ YOUR WAY • Enjoy EPUB, PDF, CBZ, MOBI, fixed-layout comics, and manga in one place • Move through comics panel by panel, or take in the whole page • Read right-to-left manga and beautiful iPad two-page spreads • Make the page yours with fonts, text size, spacing, themes, auto-scroll, page turns, and Sutra-only brightness control A LIBRARY THAT FEELS LIKE HOME • Browse dedicated Series and Collection views, with Favorites always close by • Sort by Recently Read, Title, Author, or Date Added while staying in a familiar cover grid • Let Sutra recover missing Calibre series details and keep your library beautifully organised • Pick up where you left off with dependable progress and finished-book sync for Kavita and Komga BUILT FOR SELF-HOSTERS • Connect Kavita, Komga, Calibre, Grimmory, or another OPDS server • Stream comic pages from Kavita and Komga when available, or download for offline reading • Keep your highlights and reading progress with you across your Apple devices Sutra is free to enjoy for EPUB and PDF reading, with no ads and no subscription. Unlock unlimited CBZ, MOBI, and Komga reading once, and keep it forever.

About

LiBook

Organize and read all your digital books in one app. Supports EPUB, PDF, and TXT files with features like character tracking, customizable reading settings, and text-to-speech. Easily navigate, bookmark, and search your library.

Highlights
  • Import EPUB, PDF, TXT
  • Library and collection management
  • Character tracking
  • Customizable reading experience
  • Text-to-speech playback
  • Bookmarks and highlights
Features
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LiBook is a personal reading app that brings all your ebooks together in one place. Import your EPUB, PDF, and TXT files, organize them into your library and collections, and pick up right where you left off. With support for table of contents, search, bookmarks, and highlights, you can easily find what you need—even in long books—and come back to it whenever you want. With iCloud, your reading experience continues seamlessly across your devices. Your books, highlights, and reading positions are stored in your own iCloud and stay in sync across devices using the same Apple Account. If a book isn't currently stored on your device, a download indicator appears on its cover, allowing you to download it whenever you need it. You can also download an entire collection in advance for offline reading. When you need to free up storage space, you can remove books from your device while keeping them safely stored in iCloud. Keep track of characters while reading novels and long-form books. In EPUB and TXT books, you can select a character's name and save it as a character card with your own notes and descriptions. You can also see where a registered character appears throughout the book, making it easier to keep track of characters in stories with large casts. Customize your reading experience to suit each book and your preferences. For EPUB books, you can adjust font size, line spacing, paragraph spacing, margins, themes, and more. For PDFs, you can configure screen fitting, scrolling direction, and page-turning behavior. When reading isn't convenient, listen to your books with TTS. LiBook supports play, pause, previous and next navigation, adjustable speech speed, and a sleep timer, so you can listen comfortably whenever you want. ### Key Features * Import EPUB, PDF, and TXT files * Organize your library and collections * Manage book covers * Sort collections by recently modified, newest, name, or number of books * Save reading position and progress * iCloud sync for books, highlights, and reading positions * Download entire collections for offline reading * Remove books from your device while keeping them in iCloud * Table of contents, search, bookmarks, and highlights * Character registration and character cards for EPUB/TXT * View character appearances throughout a book * EPUB reading customization * PDF viewing settings * TTS playback and sleep timer * Multilingual UI support LiBook focuses on the reading experience rather than complicated features. Import your books, organize them your way, pick up where you left off, and quickly find what you need when you need it. LiBook keeps the essentials of personal reading simple, clean, and comfortable. Partnerships & Inquiries [miriworksdev@gmail.com](mailto:miriworksdev@gmail.com)

Screenshots

Sutra4 screens
LiBook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: LiBook at 5.0 against Sutra's 4.3. LiBook also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4). Sutra's advantage is ratings volume (12 vs 3). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sutra sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. LiBook asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

LiBook holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of Sutra's written reviews are positive against 90% of LiBook's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Sutra versus LiBook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSutraLiBook
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (12 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews84.6% of reviews90.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings12 — better3
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKoustav DasguptaJOOYOUNG MAENG

Customer experience

Sutra

All ratings12 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral8.3%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive84.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative15.4%

LiBook

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Sutra

One-time4
  • Small Tip$1.99
  • Medium Tip$2.99
  • Large Tip$4.99
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  • Sutra Pro$6.99
None

LiBook

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sutra free?
Sutra is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is LiBook free?
LiBook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sutra or LiBook?
LiBook is rated higher. Sutra averages 4.3 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while LiBook averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Sutra or LiBook have ads?
Neither Sutra nor LiBook shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sutra or LiBook?
Sutra ships an update weekly, and LiBook weekly. Most recently, Sutra was updated on September 29, 2026 and LiBook on September 21, 2026.

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