Comparison

Sutra vs Foliomere

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

Foliomere

Features
Read full description

Ready for iPhone Duo at launch. Optimized for iPad. Foliomere is a private, local-first study reader for the documents and ebooks you already have. Read EPUB, PDF, TXT and Markdown, then turn important ideas into notes you can keep as ordinary Markdown. A workspace that adapts - Unfold iPhone Duo to keep reading and book-scoped notes side by side - Use one focused workspace in partial-fold and compact layouts - Keep your reading position, active workspace and Markdown drafts as the screen changes - Enjoy the same spacious reading and writing workflow on iPad Markdown, inside your reading flow - Read, edit and preview Markdown without switching apps - Use source and preview side by side when space allows - Navigate outlines, find and replace, and apply formatting - Scroll wide code and table blocks within Preview on iOS 18 or later - Keep native source editing, undo, redo and explicit local save Read and keep what matters - Import EPUB, PDF, TXT and Markdown files from Files - Tap or swipe to turn EPUB and TXT pages, or use continuous reading - Adjust text size, line spacing and reading theme - Keep bookmarks and highlights inside each book - Organize only the notes you actively wrote in Study - Save or share active notes as Markdown, including an Obsidian-compatible workflow Foliomere is free to download. Core reading, bookmarks, highlights, written notes and Markdown note export remain free. The one-time, non-consumable Foliomere Pro purchase permanently unlocks advanced Markdown editing, Recall and tags, Study Files and continuous read-aloud. There is no subscription. Readers who originally acquired Foliomere before version 1.1.0 receive Pro automatically. Removing a book deletes its local copy, bookmarks and highlights. Notes you actively wrote remain in Study with source metadata, but can no longer open the removed book. No accounts, ads, behavioral analytics or third-party tracking. Your library stays in the app sandbox by default. External Markdown copies go only to a folder you choose. Study Files is not automatic library or note cloud sync; nothing is uploaded to developer-operated servers. iPhone Duo adaptation requires iOS 27.1. Foliomere continues to support iOS 17 or later; iOS 17 uses the native Markdown preview.

Screenshots

Sutra4 screens
Foliomere4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Sutra at weekly against Foliomere'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. Sutra sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Foliomere sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sutra ships an update weekly, Foliomere every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Sutra versus Foliomere: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSutraFoliomere
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (17 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings17 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKoustav Dasgupta建锐 赵

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
1 purchases

Foliomere

One-time1
  • Foliomere Pro Lifetime$9.99

Questions

Is Sutra free?
Sutra is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Foliomere free?
Foliomere is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sutra or Foliomere have ads?
Neither Sutra nor Foliomere shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sutra or Foliomere?
Sutra ships an update weekly, and Foliomere every 3 weeks. Most recently, Sutra was updated on October 25, 2026 and Foliomere on October 25, 2026.

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