Comparison

Joysa vs Bookshare

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

Head to head
About

Joysa

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Joysa is a personal book library for iPhone. Keep track of your books, your reading, and the impressions you want to remember. Explore your library Browse your books on a spatial canvas. Pan, zoom, and focus on a cover. Search your library by title, author, ISBN, or words from your reviews. Add books your way Enter a title and author, scan an ISBN barcode, or import your Goodreads library from a CSV file. Find covers through Open Library or choose your own image from Photos. Remember what you read Mark books you want to read, are currently reading, or have finished. Add ratings and reviews, organize books into series, and save related article links. Keep your library with you Your library is stored on your device. Save and restore backups, export a copy to Files, or choose a folder for automatic backups, including a folder in iCloud Drive. Keep a backup outside the app so it survives deleting Joysa. Internet access is used to look up book information and covers. No account required. No ads or tracking. Collections Find books in selections from curators. Browse collections and add individual books, or a whole selection, to your library. Joysa helps you organize books. It is not an ebook reader.

About

Bookshare

Features
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BookShare — кітап оқуды әдетке айналдыратын қосымша. Pomodoro таймері, жеке кітапхана, оқу статистикасы, достармен бірге оқитын виртуалды бөлме және оқырмандар қауымдастығы — бәрі бір жерде. • Таймер: 6 әдемі дизайн, дыбыс пен діріл, интернетсіз де жұмыс істейді • Кітапхана: сөрелер, оқу барысы, бағалау, инсайттар • Бөлме: достарыңмен бірге 3D бөлмеде оқыңыз, чат және музыка • Қауымдастық: достар, топтар, апталық рейтинг, стрик пен жетістіктер

Screenshots

Joysa4 screens
Bookshare4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Bookshare at daily against Joysa's weekly. Bookshare also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Joysa ships an update weekly, Bookshare daily. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Joysa versus Bookshare: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJoysaBookshare
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size83 MB52 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexander KuznetsovShyngys Hairolla

In-app purchases

None

Joysa

No in-app purchases

None

Bookshare

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Joysa free?
Joysa is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bookshare free?
Bookshare is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Joysa or Bookshare have ads?
Neither Joysa nor Bookshare shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Joysa or Bookshare?
Joysa ships an update weekly, and Bookshare daily. Most recently, Joysa was updated on October 9, 2026 and Bookshare on October 29, 2026.

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