Grim Reader vs Verso

Your books. Your library. Your way. Privacy By Design. Made in the EU. Grim Reader is a modern reader and library manager for e-books, comics and audiobooks. Keep your collection on your device, connect to your own servers, and turn even a simple collection of files into a rich, beautifully organised library. A library that feels alive Browse your collection by books, authors, series and more. See covers, reading progress and detailed information at a glance, continue where you left off, mark favourites and quickly find what you want to read next. Grim Reader is designed for both iPhone and iPad, with an interface that adapts to the device you are using. Enrich your books Missing a cover, description or other information? Grim Reader can help enrich your library using online book and author sources. Depending on the available information, Grim Reader can help you find and add details such as: • Covers and book descriptions • Authors and author information • Series information • Publisher and publication details • ISBN and other identifiers • Genres, categories and tags • Additional book metadata You remain in control and can review and edit your library information. More than e-books Grim Reader brings different types of reading together in one library: • Read e-books • Browse and read comics • Listen to audiobooks • Keep track of reading progress • Continue reading or listening across your library • Organise books by author and series • Mark books and authors as favourites Your files, your servers You don’t need to hand your library over to a commercial book platform. Grim Reader can work with books stored locally and supports personal libraries through WebDAV and OPDS, as well as the optional Grimmory server. This makes Grim Reader equally useful for a small collection on your iPhone or iPad and for a large self-hosted library. Made for readers Grim Reader focuses on your books rather than a store. There are no books to sell you and no ecosystem you need to buy into. Build the library you want, enrich it, organise it and enjoy reading it. Grim Reader — your library belongs to you.

Verso is a quiet, beautiful home for fan fiction — and it reads to you. Paste a link to a public work on Archive of Our Own or Quotev — or tap Share right in Safari — and the whole story lands on your shelf: title, author, tags, and every chapter. Importing is free, always. LISTEN • Narration reads any story aloud, with word-by-word highlighting that follows along • Keeps reading with your phone locked — play, pause, and skip 15 seconds from the lock screen • Choose your voice and speed; a sleep timer stops when you drift off • Your place is saved to the word, in every story READ • Typography that takes long-form fiction seriously — adjustable size, margins, and line height • Scroll or page-turn mode, whichever your thumbs prefer • Light, sepia, dark, and high-contrast modes, free for everyone NEVER MISS AN UPDATE • Verso Premium watches your works-in-progress and badges them the moment new chapters arrive • Premium also unlocks the Hush and Codex themes, in every mode IMPORT • Fan fiction import — works with Archive of Our Own and Quotev links • Import straight from Safari: tap Share, choose Verso • One-tap import when a story link is on your clipboard • Paste any text — chapters are detected automatically • Open .txt and DRM-free EPUB files QUIET BY DESIGN • No ads. No accounts. No tracking. • Your library lives on your device. Verso Premium is $1.99/month, $19.99/year, or $29.99 once. Reading, narration, and importing are free forever. Unofficial — not affiliated with the OTW (Organization for Transformative Works) or Quotev or AO3.