Comparison

Linea Reader vs Mong Reader

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

Head to head
About

Linea Reader

Features
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Linea is a calm reading workspace for difficult material. Import PDFs, EPUBs, MOBI files, DOCX documents, Markdown, images, scans, and web pages. Read with thoughtful typography, highlight and annotate passages, listen from your current position, and ask questions without losing your place. Your library stays organized around the work in front of you. Resume where you stopped, move between chapters, and keep your reading progress together. Features: • Import documents and URLs • Read PDFs, ebooks, Markdown, and more • Highlight passages and add notes • Listen from your current reading position • Ask document-aware questions while reading or listening • Keep reading progress and annotations together • Choose from four reading palettes AI and your data: Linea uses AI only when you ask it to. It does not run your documents through AI in the background. Eligible signed-in Linea accounts can use Linea's rate-limited managed Ask without a personal API key: the question and relevant document context are processed by Linea, which may call an upstream model. For a user-owned cloud provider, Linea sends your question and relevant document context directly from your device to that provider using the API key you supplied; Linea's developer does not receive those direct-to-provider requests. When available and selected, on-device Apple Intelligence requests stay on your device. Linea is built for sustained attention: fewer distractions, better context, and a clear path back to the thread.

About

Mong Reader

Features
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Mong Reader is an offline reader for TXT novels and documents. • No ads, no account, no internet — files stay on your device and are never sent anywhere • Paper-style page turns, slide, or scroll; two-page spread on iPad • Automatic table of contents, bookmarks, in-text search, auto-saved position • Read aloud (TTS) with speed and voice choice and automatic page turning • Auto page-turn timer • Fonts, size, line spacing, margins; light, sepia, dark and black themes • Auto-detects UTF-8, EUC-KR, Shift-JIS and UTF-16 • Import TXT files inside ZIPs, automatic series grouping, favorites and sorting • Korean, Japanese, English and Chinese interface Read quietly in your own little library.

Screenshots

Linea Reader3 screens
Mong Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Mong Reader at daily against Linea Reader's every 3 weeks. Mong Reader also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Linea Reader ships an update every 3 weeks, Mong Reader daily. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Linea Reader versus Mong Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLinea ReaderMong Reader
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB44 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperArach TchoupaniMinjung Yoo

In-app purchases

None

Linea Reader

No in-app purchases

None

Mong Reader

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Linea Reader free?
Linea Reader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mong Reader free?
Mong Reader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Linea Reader or Mong Reader have ads?
Neither Linea Reader nor Mong Reader shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Linea Reader or Mong Reader?
Linea Reader ships an update every 3 weeks, and Mong Reader daily. Most recently, Linea Reader was updated on November 13, 2026 and Mong Reader on November 10, 2026.

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