Comparison

My Library vs Calibre 2

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

Head to head
About

My Library

Easily catalog your book collection by scanning barcodes or searching manually. Track your reading progress, organize books into collections, and save favorite passages. Visualize your reading habits with smart statistics.

Highlights
  • Barcode scanning for book entry
  • Manual book entry with photos
  • Reading progress tracking
  • Virtual bookshelf visualization
  • Book collections by author/series
  • Save and extract favorite passages
  • Detailed reading statistics
Features
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Your entire bookshelf in your pocket. My Library makes cataloging your books a pleasure: point the camera at a book's barcode — one beep, and it's in. Title, author, cover and page count are filled in automatically. No barcode? Search by title, or add it by hand with a photo of the cover. TRACK YOUR READING • Start and finish books with one tap, and see how long each one took • Set the page you're on and watch the progress bar move • See what percentage of your library you've read, and how long it'll take to read it all A SHELF THAT FILLS WITH COLOR Your books appear as spines on a virtual shelf. Unread books stay gray; every book you finish adds color. Share your shelf as an image with one tap. COLLECTIONS Group your books by author and series. See what percentage of an author's best-known works you own, and which volumes are still missing from a series. KEEP THE PASSAGES YOU LOVE Photograph a page and the text is extracted automatically. Crop it to the quote you want, add the page number, done. Mark the best ones to memorize and review them in their own tab. SMART STATS Charts of books and pages finished per week, month or year. Average time per book, time per 1,000 pages, reading speed, top authors, books by genre — and an estimate of how long your whole library will take. YOURS, TRULY No account. No cloud. No subscription. Your library lives on your iPhone, and you can export it to a file anytime for backup. The free version holds 50 books — a single one-time purchase unlocks unlimited.

About

Calibre 2

Features
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Calibre 2 is a fast, private ebook manager and reader. LIBRARY • Add EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, PDF, HTML, Markdown and TXT files • Edit metadata: title, authors, series, tags, ratings, covers • Powerful search (title, author:, tag:, series:) and list or cover views • Organise books into libraries READER • Clean, distraction-free reading with adjustable fonts, themes and margins • Table of contents, bookmarks and reading progress • Built-in PDF viewer PRIVACY FIRST • Works entirely on your device — no account required • Optional free account to sync your library and reading position across devices • Share single books or whole libraries with specific people • No ads, no data selling Calibre 2 is the mobile companion of calibre.online.

Screenshots

My Library4 screens
Calibre 21 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Calibre 2 at none against My Library's 1. Calibre 2 also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price 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. My Library sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Calibre 2 asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
My Library versus Calibre 2: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMy LibraryCalibre 2
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMANUEL NOVO LOPESClarence Aubessard

In-app purchases

1 purchases

My Library

One-time1
  • My Library Unlimited$4.99
None

Calibre 2

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is My Library free?
My Library is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Calibre 2 free?
Calibre 2 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do My Library or Calibre 2 have ads?
Neither My Library nor Calibre 2 shows ads.

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