Comparison

Morrow Audiobook Player vs Apricity

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

Head to head
About

Morrow Audiobook Player

This ad-free audiobook player connects to your self-hosted library servers like BookOrbit or Audiobookshelf. Stream or download books for offline listening, and sync your progress across devices. Enjoy features like chapter support, speed control, and a sleep timer.

Highlights
  • Ad-free playback
  • Connects to BookOrbit/Audiobookshelf
  • Stream and download books
  • Cross-device progress sync
  • Chapter support
  • Playback speed control
  • Sleep timer
Features
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Morrow is a beautiful, ad-free audiobook player for BookOrbit, Audiobookshelf and Grimmory (plus Booklore), and for audiobook files you already have. Morrow doesn't include or host any books itself. Connect to a server you have access to, or bring your own files, and your books are just there. Stream them, download them for offline, and pick up exactly where you left off on any device. ON EVERY SCREEN YOU USE iPhone, iPad, CarPlay, Apple TV and Apple Watch. Start a book in the car, keep going on the TV, finish it on a walk with your phone left at home. YOUR OWN FILES, TOO Import or link m4b, mp3 and other audio from Files, iCloud Drive or Google Drive. Multi-part books come together as one, and you can fix their details or look them up in online catalogs. FREE FOREVER Full playback with chapters, adjustable speed, sleep timer and auto-rewind. CarPlay. A Home Screen widget. An Up Next queue that advances on its own. Home shelves you arrange yourself. Read statuses, collections and playlists exactly as your server supports them, added with a long press. Your own audio files on this device. One library source, and up to 3 downloaded books. MORROW UNLOCK One purchase, no subscription: - Unlimited downloads - Auto-download the next book in your queue - Accent colors throughout the app - Connect multiple servers SIGN IN HOWEVER YOUR SERVER WORKS Username and password, Audiobookshelf API keys, or a BookOrbit magic link for shared accounts. Grimmory (Booklore) servers work the same way. Servers behind Cloudflare Access work too. Type your server's address and Morrow recognizes it. Plain http works too, including over a VPN. IN ENGLISH AND GERMAN Morrow follows your device's language. YOUR BOOKS STAY YOURS Morrow connects only to servers you have access to, collects no analytics, and shows no ads. Every story has a Morrow. Morrow™ is a trademark of Liftbridge Labs LLC.

About

Apricity

This app offers a comprehensive reading and note-taking experience, allowing users to import various document types, listen to books with customizable voices, and annotate PDFs. It also includes a digital notebook with handwriting recognition and audio recording features.

Highlights
  • Read aloud with customizable voices
  • Import PDF, EPUB, Word, MOBI, FB2, Markdown, text files
  • Annotate PDFs and documents
  • Digital notebook with handwriting recognition
  • Audio recording synchronized with notes
  • Focus timer with soundscapes
  • iCloud sync for notes and highlights
Features
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Apricity (n.): the warmth of the sun on a winter's day. The best reading happens late, when the house is quiet and a single lamp makes a small warm room inside the dark. Apricity is built around that feeling: a reading room for your books, a voice to read them to you, and a desk for your notes. SOMEONE TO READ TO YOU Read Aloud lights up each sentence as it's read, plays on with the screen locked and in CarPlay, and has a sleep timer. Choose Apple's voices or 54 natural voices in eight languages, made on your device. Character Voice gives a story's characters a voice of their own, and Expressive Reading lets a whispered line sound whispered. Siri knows it: "Read my book in Apricity." YOUR BOOKS, ON REAL SHELVES Add a PDF, EPUB, Word document, MOBI, FB2, Markdown or text file and it stands on a wooden shelf, lit by a lamp at night and daylight by morning. Pick one of four bookcases, stand books by cover or spine, and keep some in a cabinet. Furnish it with 21 themes, 21 wallpapers or your photo, 13 woods, seven lamps and shelf decorations. THE WEB AND THE CLASSICS Paste a link or share a page from Safari, and its story becomes a book, ready to read or hear at once. Or turn the bookcase to thousands of free public-domain classics, shelved by kind like a bookshop's; pick one and it's yours in seconds. TWO WAYS TO READ Original shows the page exactly as published, recoloured for the light you read by. Reflow sets the words like a book, in the face, size and spacing you choose. Scans are read too, and comics and manga open as pages, manga right to left. Highlight, keep notes, look up words and see how much you've read this week. KEEP THE LINES YOU LOVE Save a quote or a word as you read; the Quote of the Day and Word of the Day widgets bring them back each morning. WRITE ON YOUR PDFS Markup puts the notebook's pens on a PDF's own pages: circle a figure, answer a worksheet, and the PDF stays as it was. Split View keeps a notebook open beside the book. NOTEBOOKS THAT FEEL LIKE PAPER Write with Apple Pencil or a finger; pinch in close and the page stays sharp. Neat Writing tidies your hand, and shapes snap clean. Pages come in 81 kinds of paper, from Cornell notes to music staff. Add stickers, photos and sticky notes, choose from 30 covers, and search your handwriting. Notability and GoodNotes notes come in as ink you can keep editing. RECORD THE LECTURE Record as you write, then tap your writing to hear that moment again. Transcripts are made on your device, and with Apple Intelligence, Smart Notes sums up a notebook or quizzes you on it. SOMETHING TO READ BY A fire in the grate, birdsong, rain on the roof, jazz in a busy café: four soundscapes made on the device, and a focus timer to study by. YOUR BOOKS STAY WITH YOU There is no account; your books stay on your device, and iCloud sync carries your highlights, notes, Markup, notebooks and recordings to your other devices. FREE AND PREMIUM Free, for good: every kind of book, pages from the web, the free classics, shelves, both ways of reading, highlights, notes, Markup, every book's notebook, your own notebooks with the seven Classic covers, recording, and iCloud sync. Apricity Premium adds Read Aloud with every voice, transcripts, Smart Notes, exporting notes and notebooks, the Crafted and Illustrated covers, stickers, stamps and washi tape, the soundscapes and focus timer, furnishing the room, and your own fonts. Every new reader gets 14 days of Premium free, with no card asked for. After that, Apricity Premium is an auto-renewing yearly subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and you can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. When Premium ends, nothing you made is deleted. Made by Tesorin. Terms of Use: https://www.trytesorin.com/apricity/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.trytesorin.com/apricity/privacy

Screenshots

Morrow Audiobook Player4 screens
Apricity4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Morrow Audiobook Player at 4.7 against Apricity's 4.3. Morrow Audiobook Player also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). Apricity's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 4 days). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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. Morrow Audiobook Player sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Apricity sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $14.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Morrow Audiobook Player holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 6 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Morrow Audiobook Player ships an update every 4 days, Apricity daily. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Morrow Audiobook Player versus Apricity: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMorrow Audiobook PlayerApricity
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings) — better4.3 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings36 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB212 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLiftbridge Labs LLC16697518 Canada Inc.

Customer experience

Morrow Audiobook Player

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Apricity

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Morrow Audiobook Player

One-time6
  • Small Tip$1.99
  • Morrow Unlock$3.99
  • Upgrade to Family$3.99
Show 3 more
  • Medium Tip$4.99
  • Morrow Unlock - Family$7.99
  • Large Tip$9.99
1 purchases

Apricity

Subscriptions1
  • Apricity Premium$14.991 Year

Questions

Is Morrow Audiobook Player free?
Morrow Audiobook Player is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Apricity free?
Apricity is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Morrow Audiobook Player or Apricity?
Morrow Audiobook Player is rated higher. Morrow Audiobook Player averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Apricity averages 4.3 from 6 ratings.
Do Morrow Audiobook Player or Apricity have ads?
Neither Morrow Audiobook Player nor Apricity shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Morrow Audiobook Player or Apricity?
Morrow Audiobook Player ships an update every 4 days, and Apricity daily. Most recently, Morrow Audiobook Player was updated on October 25, 2026 and Apricity on October 26, 2026.

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