Comparison

Rhymia vs Qelivon

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

Head to head
About

Rhymia

Features
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Rhymia is a home for poetry: for the people who read it, and for the people who write it. WRITE AND PUBLISH YOUR OWN POEMS Rhymia is not just a reading app. If you write, you get a stage: a poet page of your own, in front of readers who came here to read poems. • Publish as many poems as you like, for free. • Open your poet page in one tap: pen name, bio, country, and links to your website and social profiles. • Write in the editor, or upload a PDF, TXT or Markdown file. Save drafts, or schedule a poem to appear later. • Give each poem a picture: your own, or one from a free photo library. • Tag each poem with a mood, so it shows up where readers look, next to Keats, Rilke and Petőfi. • Every poem you publish gets an audio version automatically, read in the language you wrote it in. • Collect your poems into books. Readers can follow you, save your poems and put them on their own shelves. POET PREMIUM • Upload your own recording of a poem, so readers hear your voice instead of the machine voice • Statistics: reads and listens for every poem • Links on your poet page: social media, your website, and where to get your book • Title and mood suggestions for your poems: 30 a day (3 on the free account) • Spell check as you write: misspelled words are underlined, tap for the correct form • Turn up to eight lines of a poem into a quote card and share it • Read without limits, save poems, make shelves and listen to any poem READ THE CLASSICS Hundreds of classic poems by poets from around the world: Goethe, Keats, Baudelaire, Rilke, Emily Dickinson, Pushkin, Petőfi and many more, each in the language it was written in. Every text comes from Wikisource, and every poem names its source. MADE FOR READING, NOT SCROLLING One poem at a time, with the line breaks the poet wrote. No endless feed, no autoplay. Browse by mood (love, friendship, grief, hope, philosophy, night and many more) or by the country the poet came from, and let any poem be read aloud in its own language. READER PREMIUM A free account reads up to three poems a day. Reader Premium removes the limit and adds saved poems, shelves, listening to any poem and offline downloads. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically for the same period and price unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before it ends. Manage or cancel it in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Deleting the app does not cancel it. Terms of Use: https://rhymia.eu/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://rhymia.eu/privacy/

About

Qelivon

This e-book reader offers a paper-like reading experience with customizable shelves and support for a wide range of formats. It includes features like read-aloud, iCloud sync, and OPDS catalog integration. A free version supports up to 30 books, with an optional one-time purchase for unlimited access and advanced stats.

Highlights
  • Customizable book shelves
  • Support for FB2, EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, TXT, RTF, HTML, DOCX, ODT, DjVu, CHM, DOC, PDF
  • Read aloud functionality
  • iCloud sync for shelf and reading progress
  • OPDS catalog integration
  • Page curl and tap-to-turn options
  • Search, bookmarks, and highlights
Features
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Qelivon is an e-book reader for iPhone and iPad. Your books stand on a wooden shelf, open right from it and turn with a page curl, just like paper books. No account, no ads, no subscription. SHELF • Covers on a wooden bookcase, in light and dark appearance • Sort by title, author, date added, or arrange books yourself • NEW and FINISHED ribbons FORMATS • FB2, EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, TXT, RTF, HTML, DOCX, ODT • DjVu, CHM and DOC — the formats other readers won’t open • PDF and DjVu turn pages just like the other books • Old Cyrillic text encodings open without garbled characters READING • Turn pages with a curl or a tap on the edge • Only the text on screen; the controls appear with a tap in the center • Contents with a scrubber to jump through the book • Read aloud: the book is spoken sentence by sentence, the page turns by itself • Search, bookmarks and highlights • Footnotes open in a card over the page • Hyphenation in the language of each book • Rotation lock and “when to dim the screen” WHERE BOOKS COME FROM • The Files app • Other apps — “Open in Qelivon” • OPDS catalogs: add your own or an open library, search and download straight to the shelf ICLOUD • Shelf, reading position, bookmarks, highlights and stats on all your devices • A book added on another device shows up right away and downloads with a tap • Your data stays in your personal iCloud FREE AND FULL VERSION Qelivon is a complete reader for free, with up to 30 books on the shelf: all formats, OPDS, search, bookmarks, highlights, translation, iCloud sync, read-aloud with a choice of voice, page turning with the volume buttons, all fonts, bold text, line spacing, paragraph indent, page margins, all six papers, mark as finished, start over and share the book. The Full Version is a one-time in-app purchase, yours forever: • Unlimited shelf • Export quotes to a Markdown file • Reading stats: yearly goal, books finished by year, library summary The interface is available in 21 languages.

Screenshots

Rhymia4 screens
Qelivon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Rhymia at 16.4 against Qelivon's 18.6. On price, update cadence, 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. Rhymia sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Qelivon sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rhymia ships an update daily, Qelivon every 2 days. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Rhymia versus Qelivon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRhymiaQelivon
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB38 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperROBERT NAGYValerii Kotolevskii

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Rhymia

Subscriptions4
  • Rhymia Premium7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Rhymia Poet Premium7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Rhymia Premium7 Days trial$24.991 Year
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  • Rhymia Poet Premium7 Days trial$34.991 Year
1 purchases

Qelivon

One-time1
  • Full Version$3.99

Questions

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

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