Delphi vs Folire
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Delphi
This app provides a synchronized reading and listening experience for classic literature. As the audio plays, the text is highlighted, and you can tap any sentence to resume narration from that exact point. Enjoy offline access to a curated library of timeless works.
- Synchronized text and audio narration
- Tap to play sentence feature
- Offline reading and listening
- Automatic resume functionality
- Bookmark saving
- Background playback
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Delphi is a reader for the great books — with narration that stays in sync with the text. As the audio plays, the current sentence is highlighted and the page scrolls with it. Tap any sentence to hear it from exactly that point. Close the app mid-chapter and Delphi brings you back to the same spot, ready to continue. THE LIBRARY • Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War • Augustine — Confessions • Plato — Dialogues (Apology, Phaedo, Symposium, Republic and more) • Goethe — Faust • Aristotle — Nicomachean Ethics and Politics • The Bible (KJV) — Old Testament • Hamilton, Madison, Jay — The Federalist Papers • Machiavelli — The Prince • Dostoevsky — Crime and Punishment MADE FOR LISTENING • Word-for-word sync: the sentence being read is always highlighted • Tap to play: touch any line to jump the narration there • Background playback with full lock screen and Control Center controls • Skip back and forward 15 seconds, scrub anywhere MADE FOR READING • The complete text of every work is built in — no connection needed to read • Download any work's audio once and listen fully offline • Bookmarks for every book: save a passage, jump back to it anytime • Automatic resume: pick up exactly where you stopped, even after restarting No account. No subscription. No ads. Just the classics, read to you.
Folire
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Your books should feel at home on your phone. Folire brings the ebooks, PDFs, comics, and audiobooks you already own into one tidy library on iPhone and iPad. Add a file from Files, iCloud Drive, AirDrop, or the share sheet. Folire opens DRM-free EPUB, PDF, TXT, FB2, MOBI, AZW3, CBZ, and CBR books, plus MP3, M4A, and M4B audiobooks. Once imported, they're available offline. Settle in with a page that fits you. Adjust the type, spacing, margins, and colors, and choose page turns or continuous scrolling. Highlight a line, write a note, bookmark a passage, and pick up where you left off. Audiobooks remember your place too. Any book can be read aloud with the built-in system voices. On a compatible iPad, mark up PDFs with Apple Pencil. The free library holds up to five of your own books. Folire Pro is a one-time purchase for a larger library and the tools that help you go further: natural on-device neural narration for every book, auto-scroll, custom fonts and reading presets, full-library search, questions and recaps that stop at your current page, annotation export, detailed reading history, direct downloads, connections to your own OPDS, Calibre, or WebDAV library, and optional iCloud sync. Reading Assistant uses only text you've already read and processes it on your device. No account, ads, tracking, or developer-operated server. Your library stays on your device unless you choose to sync it to your private iCloud storage or connect to a server you supply. Export a complete backup whenever you need one. Folire includes four public-domain classics to start reading, but no book catalog. It can't open DRM-protected files. Optional tips support development but don't change what the app unlocks.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Delphi at none against Folire's 4. On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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
Both are free to download. Folire sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Delphi asks for nothing beyond the download.
Delphi ships an update every 4 days, Folire every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Delphi | Folire |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chenyu Li | JARED P KACZYNSKI |
In-app purchases
Delphi
No in-app purchases
Folire
- Coffee$2.99
- Supporter$9.99
- Folire Pro Lifetime$14.99
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- Patron$24.99









