Orbil vs Novely

Orbil is a personal book library, reading tracker, and reading journal designed to keep your reading life organized. Catalog the books you own, follow your reading progress, record reading sessions, and remember more from every book. Whether you read physical books, eBooks, or audiobooks, Orbil gives you one private place for your collection and reading journey. With Orbil, you can: • Organize and search your personal book library • Track pages, progress, and reading sessions • Manage your reading queue and wishlist • Save thoughts, memorable quotes, and new vocabulary • Record book locations and track lent or borrowed books • Review reading habits, streaks, and statistics • Personalize your visual bookshelf, with optional premium styles and decors • Look back on your reading through monthly recaps Orbil focuses on your books—not social activity, public reviews, or popularity. It is a calm and practical reading companion for readers who want to track what they read, remember what they learned, and keep their collection organized. Build a library that feels truly yours with Orbil. Orbil is free to use for up to 50 books. Orbil Plus is an optional one-time in-app purchase that unlocks: unlimited books, cloud sync & backup across devices, advanced reading stats and Reading Personality insights, premium shelf styles and decors, and expanded custom tags. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Your bookshelf as it stands at home. With your real book spines, at their real size, and as a widget on your Home Screen. Novely is in English, or in German when your iPhone is set to German. Novely requires an in-app purchase to start: Novely Club, as a subscription (the yearly plan starts with a 3-day trial) or as a one-time purchase. If a trial or subscription ends, you keep your books and the basic designs; the other walls, lights, decor, reading rooms and sounds, full stats, recommendations and app blocking need Novely Club. YOUR SHELF - Every book stands at its real height and thickness. - Photograph your own book spines. Novely cuts them out and puts them on the shelf. - Photograph your own cover too, or pick one from your photos. - Spine, cover facing out, or lying in a stack: hold a book and drag it where it belongs. - To read, Read, Wishlist: a shelf each. - Walls, light and decor, from fairy lights to a monstera. More walls, lights and decor come only with Novely Club. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN - A widget for every shelf, small, medium or large. Tap it to open exactly that shelf. - The Currently Reading and Cover widgets show where you are in the book. ADDING BOOKS - Scan a barcode or search by title. - English editions from Open Library. German editions from the German National Library (DNB), with publisher and page count. - Saw a book in a video? Share it from TikTok, Instagram or your browser to Novely. - Goodreads import by CSV. Export any time. - StoryGraph import by CSV, and your whole library as a backup file for your next phone. SERIES - German editions know their series: the volumes stand together, in order, and "All Volumes" shows which one is missing. READING - A reading session timer for the book you are reading. With Novely Club, the apps you choose stay blocked until it ends. - A reading room for your session: a moving picture with a cat or a dog, and rain, fireplace or piano sounds. More pictures and the fireplace and piano sounds come only with Novely Club. - Reminders for your reading time, if you like. NOTES & QUOTES - Keep quotes and thoughts for every book, with the page number. - Scan a page, drag your finger along your line, and it becomes a quote. The page is read on your iPhone. - Share a quote as a card. STATS - This month as a calendar of the covers you read, and your reading streak. - With Novely Club: pages per day, past months and your yearly goal. - Your week, month and reading year as a card to share, in story format. FRIENDS With an account, invite friends by link, @username or code. You see each other’s shelves and when someone finishes or rates a book, and you choose what friends see. No direct messages, and you can report or block anyone who bothers you. PRIVACY, HONESTLY No account needed: your books, photos and shelves are stored on your iPhone. An account is optional and makes your purchases follow you to your next phone; Firebase (Google) stores its email address. What you share with friends is stored on our server. For recommendations in Discover, titles, authors, reading statuses and ratings go to our server and Google Gemini. NOVELY CLUB Novely Club is an in-app purchase, and you need it to start. If your trial or subscription ends, Novely stays usable with the basic designs: your books, shelves, widgets and cards stay yours. Novely Club gives you access to Novely, all designs, every reading room and every sound: - yearly subscription, with a 3-day trial - weekly subscription - forever, as a one-time purchase The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your App Store account. You can manage and cancel it at any time in your account settings. Novely is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by TikTok, Instagram, Goodreads or StoryGraph. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://use-less.app/novely/privacy