Anyview vs Librune
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Anyview
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Comics and books in one app. Free, with no ads. Open archives without unzipping, and read books on a server without downloading. Start on your iPhone and pick up where you left off on your iPad or Mac. ■ FREE, ALWAYS · Every feature is free. Nothing is locked · No ads, no subscription, no trial period · No in-app purchases of any kind ■ FORMATS · Archives — zip, cbz, rar, cbr, 7z, cb7, tar, cbt · Images — png, jpg, gif, webp, heic and more · E-books — epub, mobi, azw3, fb2 · Text — txt, html · Documents — pdf, hwp, hwpx ■ READING COMICS · Page turn — Page Curl, Slide, Instant, or Continuous Scroll · Left-to-right or right-to-left reading · Two pages, split wide pages, trim edges · Invert colors · Auto-Turn at an interval you choose · Carry on into the next volume when one ends ■ READING TEXT · Three themes (White, Ivory, Night) with Light, Dark or Match Screen Mode · Adjust typeface, text size, line, letter and word spacing, and side margins · Add your own font files · Auto-format paragraphs in text with broken line breaks · Contents, bookmarks, and search within the book (with recent searches) · Jump back with ↶ after moving by contents or search ■ READ ALOUD (TTS) · Text is read aloud · Speed from 0.5x to 2x · Sleep timer — 15, 30 or 60 minutes · Keeps reading with the screen off or in another app, with Lock Screen controls ■ ADDING FILES · Wi-Fi Transfer — open the address shown on screen in your computer's browser and drop files in. No cable needed · Files app, share sheet from other apps, or paste · Drag and drop on iPad ■ BOOK SERVERS · Connect to OPDS, SMB and WebDAV servers — a NAS, a shared folder on your PC, or an OPDS catalog such as Komga or Calibre · Tap a book to read it right away, without downloading · Save books to your library, or a whole folder at once ■ HIDDEN FOLDER · Hide books and folders you would rather not show, and bring them back with Face ID ■ WHERE YOU LEFT OFF · Every book reopens at the page you stopped on · Syncs your place across your iPhone, iPad and Mac through your own iCloud ■ NO ACCOUNT, NOTHING COLLECTED · No sign-up · Your books stay on your device. Nothing is collected · Works without an internet connection (Wi-Fi Transfer stays within your own network, and book servers are only the ones you add)
Librune
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Librune is a private, ad-free reader for EPUB, PDF, comics, and more. Build your personal digital library and read offline—no account required. A focused EPUB & PDF reading experience Focus on your book, not the interface. Librune keeps controls out of the way while making your reading position easy to follow. Personalize EPUB books with customizable fonts, text size, themes, brightness, line spacing, margins, and page layouts. Choose the settings that make reading most comfortable for you. Customize PDF page layouts to fit the way you prefer to read. Open EPUB footnotes where they are referenced without losing your place. Download language packs to translate selected text offline while reading books in another language. Highlights, quotes, and reading notes • Highlight passages across multiple pages • Choose from multiple highlight colors • Add personal notes to your highlights • Review quotes from an individual book or your entire library • Revisit saved quotes together with the date they were captured • Export your notes and highlights for backup • Transfer your annotations to another device Your personal ebook library • Organize books using categories and custom shelves • Edit covers, genres, languages, and descriptions • Quickly find books, even in large collections • Import individual books or select only the folders you want to access • Build your library without granting access to all your files Ebooks, documents, and comics in one reader Keep EPUB and FB2 ebooks, PDF and DOCX documents, Markdown and HTML files, and comic or manga archives together in one personal library. Read your files offline and continue exactly where you left off. Librune remembers your reading position, library organization, notes, highlights, and preferences. Your notes stay yours Your library data, reading positions, notes, highlights, and preferences are stored on your device. Librune requires no account, contains no ads, and lets you back up or export your annotations when you choose. Supported formats Ebooks: EPUB, FB2, FB2.ZIP Documents: PDF, TXT, HTML, Markdown, DOCX, ODT Comics: CBZ, CBR, CB7, CBT
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Verdict
Anyview and Librune are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Anyview | Librune |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jaehyun Shin | Cihan ERDEN |
In-app purchases
Anyview
No in-app purchases
Librune
No in-app purchases









