Leafmark vs diple.
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Leafmark
A fast, calm EPUB reader that lets you highlight and take notes on your books. Export your annotations in Markdown format to use with other apps. Enjoy a private reading experience with no accounts or cloud lock-in.
- Reflowable EPUB rendering
- Adjustable font and themes
- Highlighting with notes
- Markdown export
- Reading statistics
- Privacy-focused design
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• Export all your highlights and notes to Markdown, ready for Obsidian. Your first export is free; Pro makes it unlimited, every book at once included. • Highlights, bookmarks and reading positions sync through your own iCloud. No account, no sign-in. • Buy once. No subscription. Leafmark is a calm, fast EPUB reader for people who read closely and take their notes with them. Your library stays plain EPUB files under your control. READ THE WAY YOU LIKE • Reflowable EPUB rendering with light, sepia and dark themes • Vertical Japanese text (tategaki) renders as the book declares it • Adjustable font, size, line height and margins • One or two columns, plus a scrolling mode — great on iPad in landscape • Full-text search, table of contents and a built-in dictionary lookup • Your reading position is remembered per book ANNOTATE AND KEEP YOUR NOTES • Highlight in four colors and attach notes • Export every highlight and note to Markdown — drop them straight into Obsidian, Notion or any plain-text vault • Reading statistics: time today, this week and all time, your streak, and time per book PRIVACY BY DESIGN • No Leafmark account and no sign-in • No tracking and no ads. App usage and the steps to purchase are measured anonymously; book titles and text are never sent • Highlights, bookmarks, and reading positions sync through your personal iCloud account, not a Leafmark server LEAFMARK PRO Reading is always free. Import your library, render any book and try the feel before you decide. You also get one free Markdown export, so you can see exactly what lands in your notes before paying. A single one-time purchase, Leafmark Pro, unlocks the full annotation workflow: unlimited highlights (the free tier keeps up to three per book), unlimited Markdown export, and reading statistics. Restore your purchase any time. GOOD TO KNOW • Import EPUBs straight from Files — iCloud Drive, Google Drive, Dropbox, or right off your device. • Works with DRM-free EPUB files. DRM-protected books and PDF are not supported. • Public-domain EPUBs are available from Public Domain Library and Standard Ebooks.
diple.
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diple is a reading room, not a feed. Open a book and start reading. No recommendations, streaks, social features, or anything else competing for your attention. The reader is deliberately quiet. Adjust the type size, margins, line spacing, paper tone and accent color until the page feels right. EPUBs, PDFs and saved articles all live in the same library, and diple always remembers exactly where you stopped. READ • Open EPUB and PDF files from Files, iCloud Drive, or the share sheet • Paste a link to turn an article into a clean reading view • Adjust type size, margins and line spacing • Choose from four paper tones, including true black • Read with Atkinson Hyperlegible or OpenDyslexic, included with the app • Pick from five accent themes, each with its own Home Screen icon MARK • Highlight any passage in one tap • Add a note directly beside the text that prompted it • Keep bookmarks for pages you want to return to • Jump through the chapter outline • Search the full text of a book REMEMBER Highlights in diple aren't a dead archive. Browse them by book or across your whole library. Turn a passage into a proper note with Markdown, links, tags, tasks and math. Search books, highlights and notes from one place. Second Read gives you a way back into what you've already read: the passages you marked, the notes you made, and the ideas worth seeing again. If you want, diple can also resurface one old highlight each day. YOURS Your library belongs to you. • No account and no sign-up • No developer-operated server • No ads • No tracking • No analytics SDKs • No reading history sent anywhere iCloud sync is optional and disabled by default. If you enable it, your library is stored only in your private iCloud account. The developer cannot access it. You can export your entire library — books, highlights and notes — as a single JSON file at any time. diple is completely free. No subscription, paid tier, or in-app purchases. It's also open source, so you don't have to take the privacy claims on trust. diple. Read. Mark. Remember.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: diple. at none against Leafmark's 1. On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Leafmark sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. diple. asks for nothing beyond the download.
Leafmark ships an update every 5 days, diple. weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Leafmark | diple. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Akira Taniwaki | Aliaksei Krauchanka |
In-app purchases
Leafmark
- Leafmark Pro$9.99
diple.
No in-app purchases









