Comparison

Reader by Bookmark vs My Folio Voice

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

Head to head
About

Reader by Bookmark

Features
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Bookmark is a personal reading library. Save articles, books, and PDFs into a clean reader. Keep highlights and notes together. Search your library. Discover what to read next. โ€ข Save from Safari with Share โ†’ Save to Bookmark, or add books and files in the app. โ€ข Read in a quiet view with highlights, notes, and listen-along audio. โ€ข Search items and highlights by meaning, not just keywords. โ€ข Organize catalogs and get recommendations based on what you actually read. BOOKMARK PRO Bookmark Pro unlocks the full library, search, and discovery features. It is an auto-renewable subscription: โ€ข Reader Pro Monthly โ€” one month. The price is shown in the app before you buy. โ€ข Reader Pro Annual โ€” one year. The price is shown in the app before you buy. Prices appear in US dollars or Canadian dollars depending on your App Store country. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions in Settings โ†’ Apple ID โ†’ Subscriptions after purchase. A 14-day account trial may be available when you create a Bookmark account. That trial is not an App Store introductory offer unless one is listed on the purchase sheet. Terms of Use: https://joinbookmark.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://joinbookmark.com/privacy Support: https://joinbookmark.com/support

About

My Folio Voice

Features
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My Folio Voice is the microphone you already carry. Hold record and talk, and the note lands in the day it happened, gets transcribed, takes a title and a short summary, and files itself into one of your own folders. It is also the phone half of My Folio, the handwriting notebook for tablets. Pair the two with a six-digit code and they are the same book: something you talk into on the street is sitting on today's page by the time you sit down. NO FOLDERS, NO ACCOUNT There is no sign-up, no email and no password. My Folio Voice makes a notebook for the device you are on and starts working. Each note lands in its day, and the months you have written fill in down the rail beside it. There is no folder tree to build, and none to keep up. TALK, OR TYPE Hold record and speak, or type a note on the same page. The recording attaches to the note, is transcribed, and the transcript is searchable with everything else you have written. IT FILES ITSELF A note takes a title, a short summary and one of your own folders, chosen to match what you said. You named nothing and filed nothing. THE PLAN SITS BESIDE THE PAGE Morning, midday, afternoon and evening, with to-dos you can add yourself or have your notebook add for you. SEARCH, THEN ASK Search looks through what you typed and what you were transcribed saying. Search is free and never counts against your AI actions. Ask Folio goes further: ask a question of everything in your book and the answer comes back from your own notes, with the dates it drew from. TWO APPS, ONE NOTEBOOK My Folio on your tablet is the notebook, with handwriting, PDF import and export. My Folio Voice on your phone is the microphone. Pair them once with a six-digit code. One subscription covers both, and if the joining device already had notes of its own they move across into the shared book rather than being replaced. Unpair a device and it starts a fresh notebook; every note stays on the devices you kept. YOUR NOTES STAY YOURS Connect Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive for a nightly one-way backup that saves each note as a PDF in a My Folio folder. One row in Settings erases every note and recording from our servers. Your notes are never used to train models, never sold, and never used for advertising. PRICING Writing, the planner and search are free and stay free. The free plan includes 25 AI actions a month. Folio Pro is 6.99 USD a month or 49.99 USD a year for unlimited AI actions. Fair use: after 500 AI actions in a month, AI keeps working on a faster, lighter model. A subscription that lapses only puts you back on the free plan's 25 AI actions a month; no note turns read-only. WHAT COUNTS AS AN AI ACTION Transcribing a recording, and asking your notebook a question. Typing, planning and searching never count, and the title, summary and folder a note gets afterwards are free. BEFORE YOU START Your notebook lives on our servers and the app holds a live connection to it, so My Folio Voice is not built for long stretches offline. There is no version history yet: if you delete a note, it is deleted. Handwriting and PDF export live in My Folio on the tablet, not here. Privacy: https://folio.arghanstudios.com/privacy Terms: https://folio.arghanstudios.com/terms

Screenshots

Reader by Bookmark4 screens
My Folio Voice4 screens

Verdict

The call

Reader by Bookmark and My Folio Voice are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Reader by Bookmark sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and My Folio Voice sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Reader by Bookmark versus My Folio Voice: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReader by BookmarkMy Folio Voice
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightlyโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.415.1 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size68 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGrant ThompsonArghan Studios LLC

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Reader by Bookmark

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Yearly$99.001 Year
4 purchases

My Folio Voice

Subscriptions4
  • Folio Starter Monthly14 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Folio Pro Monthly14 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Folio Starter Yearly1 Month trial$49.991 Year
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  • Folio Pro Yearly1 Month trial$79.001 Year

Questions

Is Reader by Bookmark free?
Reader by Bookmark is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is My Folio Voice free?
My Folio Voice is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Reader by Bookmark or My Folio Voice have ads?
Neither Reader by Bookmark nor My Folio Voice shows ads.

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