Comparison

Fleuron vs Book Memo

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

Head to head
About

Fleuron

Enhance your reading experience with integrated tools for understanding complex texts. Look up meanings, track characters and places, and take notes without leaving the page. Supports English, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese EPUBs.

Highlights
  • In-line word definitions
  • Character and place index
  • Markdown note-taking
  • Spaced repetition for vocabulary
  • Multi-language support (EN, JP, KR, CN)
  • Offline functionality
  • Read aloud with device voices
Features
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The best reading tools don't pull you out of a book. They meet you inside it. Fleuron is an EPUB reader for people reading above their level — in English, or in Japanese, Korean and Chinese. It puts meaning, memory and study into the page itself, so you stay in the story instead of leaving it to look things up. LENS — MEANING, WITHOUT LEAVING THE LINE Short hints appear above the words likely to slow you down, set in the space between lines so nothing reflows and nothing moves. Tap any word for the full entry: readings, senses chosen for this sentence, examples, and the alternatives kept honest and available. Turn the density up when a book is hard and down when it isn't. COMPASS — A MEMORY FOR EVERY WORLD YOU ENTER Fleuron builds an index of the people, places and terms in your book as you read. It is spoiler-safe by construction: a character is described only from what you have already read, never from what is ahead. Come back after a day or a year and know exactly where you are. THE NOTEBOOK — YOUR THINKING, KEPT WITH THE BOOK Write notes in Markdown. Link a word, a character, a passage or another note, and follow the thread in either direction. Highlights, notes and saved words live together, per book, and searchable across all of them. WORDS THAT FIND THEIR WAY BACK Saving a word starts a quiet spaced-repetition schedule that decides when it should return, and in which direction — meaning, reading, or writing the word back from its sound. No decks to manage. No streak shouting at you. FOUR LANGUAGES, THOUGHT THROUGH Not one engine with the labels swapped. Japanese gets real morphological analysis and furigana over the kanji that need it. Chinese gets pinyin and character breakdowns — radicals, strokes, components. Korean gets its own grammar handling. English gets sense disambiguation from the sentence it's in. Vertical Japanese text is supported, set the way the book intends. EVERYTHING ON THE DEVICE Every dictionary ships inside the app — English, Japanese, Chinese and Korean. Nothing is fetched when you look a word up, nothing is queued for later, and the whole reader works on a plane. READ ALOUD Narration works immediately with the voices already on your iPhone, and keeps your place while you listen. An optional on-device neural voice is available if you want a more natural one. NO ACCOUNT. NO TRACKING. NO SERVER. There is nothing to sign up for. Your books, notes, highlights and saved words stay on your device. Fleuron has no analytics, no advertising and nowhere to send your reading — because it has no server at all. HOW IT'S SOLD Fleuron is a free download with one book of your own — the whole reader, both intelligence features, the Notebook and every dictionary, not a trial. One payment unlocks unlimited books, forever. There is no subscription. Bring your own EPUBs, or start with the sample books in Japanese, Korean and Chinese that ship with the app.

About

Book Memo

Features
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Book Memo is a Japanese-language app. Every screen is in Japanese, and automatic cover lookup is designed for books published in Japan. Keep the books you have read on a wooden shelf, cover out, together with what you thought while reading them. - Type a title and the cover, author and publisher are filled in for you - Four views: shelf, spines, list and cards - Three kinds of notes (thoughts, summaries and quotes), each with a page number - Full-text search across every note, title, author and publisher - To-read, reading and finished, with 5-star ratings - When you finish a book, see other books by the same author on Rakuten Books (ad links) - Reading stats: books finished this year and the authors you read most - Export to Markdown (one file per book, handy for Obsidian) or CSV (for Notion), and restore from a backup file - No account and no email address needed. Your notes stay on your device Please note - Covers and book data come from Rakuten Books (Supported by Rakuten Developers). Lookup may be temporarily unavailable when busy, and books published outside Japan are often not found. You can always set a cover from your own photo, and your books and notes are never lost

Screenshots

Fleuron4 screens
Book Memo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Book Memo at none against Fleuron's 1. Book Memo also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Fleuron sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Book Memo asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Fleuron versus Book Memo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFleuronBook Memo
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size158 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAdib AshrafYuki Tagami

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Fleuron

One-time1
  • Fleuron$24.99
None

Book Memo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fleuron free?
Fleuron is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Book Memo free?
Book Memo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Fleuron or Book Memo have ads?
Neither Fleuron nor Book Memo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fleuron or Book Memo?
Fleuron ships an update every 9 days, and Book Memo every 9 days. Most recently, Fleuron was updated on September 30, 2026 and Book Memo on October 12, 2026.

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