Comparison

LiBook vs Unfold

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

Head to head
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)

About

Unfold

Features
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A viewer for your own TXT, comic and PDF files — without garbled text. NO MORE GIBBERISH Older TXT files are often saved in legacy encodings such as Korean CP949 or Japanese Shift_JIS, and many apps show them as random symbols. Unfold detects the encoding and opens the file correctly. If something still looks wrong, preview the text in each encoding and pick the right one. CHAPTERS, AUTOMATICALLY Unfold finds headings like "Chapter 1", "Prologue", "第1章" or "제1장" and builds a table of contents. Long texts without headings are split into sensible parts. Your position and bookmarks are saved automatically. COMICS, COMFORTABLY ZIP, CBZ and folders of images are sorted naturally (1, 2, 10), and file names zipped on Windows are repaired. Reading direction is remembered per book; turn the phone sideways for a two-page spread; margins can be trimmed automatically. EPUB, PDF AND IMAGES TOO ADDING FILES Put files in Files > On My iPhone > Unfold, or use Share > Unfold from another app. Whole folders work. A VIEWER FOR YOUR OWN FILES Unfold opens files you already have. It has no feature for finding or downloading books or comics online. Samples included: public-domain Korean short stories and a comic we drew ourselves. PRIVACY No sign-up and no server. Your files and reading positions stay on this device. No ads or analytics. UNFOLD PRO (ONE-TIME PURCHASE, NOT A SUBSCRIPTION) Read aloud with the built-in voice, auto-scroll, three extra backgrounds, and backup/restore of your reading data. All reading features are free. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://inphilchoi.github.io/unfold-privacy/

Screenshots

LiBook4 screens
Unfold4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LiBook at none against Unfold's 1. Unfold's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Unfold sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. LiBook asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
LiBook versus Unfold: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLiBookUnfold
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews94.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJOOYOUNG MAENGINPHIL CHOI

In-app purchases

None

LiBook

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Unfold

One-time1
  • Unfold Pro$2.99

Questions

Is LiBook free?
LiBook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Unfold free?
Unfold is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do LiBook or Unfold have ads?
Neither LiBook nor Unfold shows ads.

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