Comparison

Orbil vs Tibby

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

Head to head
About

Orbil

Features
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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/

About

Tibby

Organize your physical book collection by scanning your shelves or individual books. Track your reading progress, set goals, and customize your virtual bookshelf with various themes and decorations. Share your progress and shelf photos with friends.

Highlights
  • Scan physical bookshelf for automatic book entry
  • Manual arrangement of books on virtual shelves
  • Track reading time, pages, and goals
  • Customizable bookshelf themes and decorations
  • Import libraries from other apps or spreadsheets
  • Home screen widgets for quick access
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A book tracker built around your own bookshelf, with a ginger tabby called Tibby. Scan your shelf, check the matches, and your books land in the order they stand. Then arrange them by hand: lean one, stack a few, leave a gap. Tibby welcomes you and helps you set up your shelf. Add books your way: Scan Your Shelf for a whole row at once, Scan Barcode for one book after another, Search by title, author or ISBN and pick the edition, Say Titles to read out a list, or Type a Book. After a shelf scan you check the matches against your own spines, cut from the photo in the order they stand, then they go straight onto the shelf. Coming from another app? Bring your library over from an export file or a spreadsheet, or share a book's link to Tibby. Pick a scene, or choose the wall, the shelves and the decorations yourself, including your own photos. Keep more than one bookcase, and see your books as a shelf, a list or a grid. Keep track of your reading. Time a reading session in a calm scene made from your shelf's look, with your book under a warm lamp. When you finish, your streak catches, your pages count up and your book fills in on your goal. Or update your page, or tap I Read Today. Set a goal for the next 12 months and keep a streak: one missed day won't break it. A daily reminder comes at the time you choose. In Tibby's Picks, swipe through books Tibby picks for you and save the ones you want to read. The You tab shows your reading by week, month, year and all time: time, pages, books finished, and the books you own against the ones you've read. Each month is a calendar of covers, one for every day you read. Share a picture of your shelf in story, square or wallpaper size, and keep a bookcase on your Home Screen with the widget, in small, medium or large. Tibby works on iPhone and iPad. There's no account to make: your library is saved on your device, and you can export it or save a backup. When you scan a shelf or say titles, an AI service reads the titles from your photo or recording, only if you agree. Your first books go on your shelf before you choose a plan. Full access needs Tibby Pro, a weekly, monthly or yearly subscription. It covers adding more books, arranging the shelf, every look and decoration, more bookcases, importing a library, logging your reading, your goal and saving books from Tibby's Picks. The price and renewal terms show before you buy, and you can cancel any time in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://tibbyreads.com/privacy Terms of Use (Apple's standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Questions or feedback: hello@tibbyreads.com

Screenshots

Orbil4 screens
Tibby4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Tibby at every 2 days against Orbil's every 10 days. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Orbil sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Tibby sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Orbil ships an update every 10 days, Tibby every 2 days. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Orbil versus Tibby: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOrbilTibby
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.6 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings—5 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB132 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperPrometeuzAppthalmology Inc.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Orbil

One-time1
  • Orbil Plus$59.99
5 purchases

Tibby

Subscriptions5
  • Tibby Pro Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Tibby Pro Weekly$7.997 Days
  • Tibby Pro Yearly$19.991 Year
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  • Tibby Pro Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Tibby Pro Yearly$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Orbil free?
Orbil is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tibby free?
Tibby is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Orbil or Tibby have ads?
Neither Orbil nor Tibby shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Orbil or Tibby?
Orbil ships an update every 10 days, and Tibby every 2 days. Most recently, Orbil was updated on November 10, 2026 and Tibby on November 10, 2026.

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