Folio vs Endleaf
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Folio
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Folio is a fast, beautiful reader for DRM-free EPUB books. Bring your own library - open books from the Files app, or share them to Folio from any app. Covers, reading progress, and your place in every book are always kept. READING • Paged or continuous scrolled reading - chapters flow together with no breaks • Four themes: Paper, Sepia, Dusk, and Ink, with a match-system option • Seven typefaces, adjustable size, line spacing, margins, and alignment • Pinch to change text size • Footnotes open in place; images open full screen YOUR LIBRARY • Grid or list layout, four sort orders, search • Shelves to group books your way • Reading progress and finished-book tracking NOTES AND NAVIGATION • Five highlight colors, with notes • Bookmarks and a full table of contents • Search across the whole book • Share quotes with title and author • Export highlights and notes as HTML or text Folio reads DRM-free EPUB files.
Endleaf
Track your reading habits privately on your device. Log books, rate them with detailed sub-ratings, time your reading sessions, and analyze your reading year. Import data from other services and export your library anytime.
- Private reading tracker
- Log and rate books
- Reading session timer
- Import from Goodreads/StoryGraph
- Export to JSON/CSV
- Barcode scanning for books
- Quote saving
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Endleaf is a reading tracker that keeps everything on your phone. Log what you read, rate in half and quarter stars, time your sessions, and find out where your reading year actually went. There is no account to make and no feed to scroll. PRIVACY Your library lives on your device and syncs only through your own iCloud. We never see it. No ads, no trackers, no analytics, nothing to sell. FREE, WITH NO CAPS - Unlimited books and unlimited reading sessions. - Half and quarter stars, plus optional sub-ratings for enjoyment, quality, characters, and plot. - Six statuses: Want to Read, Reading, Read, Did Not Finish, Paused, and Re-reading. - Approximate dates, for the book you finished "sometime in 2019". - A timer that counts pages or minutes, with a Live Activity on the Lock Screen. - Import from Goodreads and StoryGraph, covers included, and export to JSON or CSV whenever you want. - Core stats, a share card, Dark Mode, and everything works offline. - Add a book by scanning its barcode, searching for it, or typing it in. - Save quotes by typing them or by scanning the passage with the camera. - Rain, a fireplace, or plain noise under the timer, made on your phone. - Mark books as owned, borrowed, from the library, or wanted, and browse every series on your shelf in one place. - After an import, fill in missing page counts from the catalog in one tap. PREMIUM ADDS - A finish date for the book in hand, from your own pace: how long is left, and the day you'll close it if you keep reading like you have been. - A reading calendar: every day you read, with the cover of the book that took it. - Rewind: your year as a short story, made into a video for Stories. - Your Kindle and Apple Books highlights, imported into your quotes library. The file never leaves your phone. - Advanced stats: reading speed, genre and format breakdowns, and how your ratings shift over time. - Your Year in Review, built to share. - Extra share card themes. - Unlimited shelves and tags. - Your full quotes library. - The cover edition picker and the whole widget set, streak and Lock Screen included. Also in the app: yearly goals, reading streaks with a weekly grace bookmark, reminders that respect quiet hours, monthly wrap-ups, session logging on Apple Watch, and Siri ("log 30 minutes of reading"). Endleaf Premium is $3.99 per month or $24.99 per year with a 7-day free trial, or $69.99 once for lifetime access. The App Store shows the price in your local currency before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel in Settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://getendleaf.com/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Folio at none against Endleaf's 3. Endleaf's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Endleaf sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Folio asks for nothing beyond the download.
Folio ships an update every 2 months, Endleaf every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Folio | Endleaf |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | K Srinivas Rao | Handler Labs LLC |
In-app purchases
Folio
No in-app purchases
Endleaf
- Endleaf Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
- Endleaf Premium Annual7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Endleaf Premium Lifetime$69.99





