iShook vs Storybase
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iShook
Organize your digital library, save notes and highlights, and read ebooks offline. Sync your progress and annotations across devices with your account. Customize your reading experience with adjustable fonts and page-turn styles.
- Ebook catalog browsing
- Wishlist and organization
- Personal notes and highlights
- Offline reading support
- Customizable reading appearance
- Cross-device sync
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Read, collect and enjoy ebooks with iShook. Browse the catalog, keep a wishlist and organize your books on your Reading Table. Continue from your saved place and add personal notes, highlights and bookmarks. Supported annotations and reading positions sync with your iShook account when online. Download available owned books for offline reading. Adjust fonts, reading appearance and page-turn style, search within a book and use its contents to navigate. Online account verification is required periodically for offline access. Available titles support Apple in-app purchases inside the app. Restore Apple purchases from your account. Availability varies by title and region.
Storybase
This app offers an immersive way to experience audiobooks and ebooks, allowing readers to interact with books and authors. Authors can build deeper connections with their audience and extend the reach of their work.
- Immersive reading and listening experience
- AI assistant for book interaction
- Offline download for books and audiobooks
- Direct author communication and forums
- Author tools for reader engagement
- Shareable book chapters and links
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Storybase helps authors build relationships with their readers, and helps readers engage deeper with books through an immersive and interactive experience. FOR READERS A new way to experience audiobooks and ebooks: immersive, interactive, and connected to the author every step of the way. • Immersive: switch between audiobook and ebook, read and listen in sync, play your own music alongside your audiobook, and keep listening from your lock screen or CarPlay. • Interactive: ask the book questions with its AI assistant, by typing or out loud, and share chapters with the people who need them. • Offline: download audiobooks and ebooks to listen and read anywhere. • Connected: follow the author, join the book's forum, and get messages straight from the author. FOR AUTHORS What if your book was the beginning, not the end? • Reach: get your book into more hands with instant share links. • Engage: see how readers move through your book, and add AI prompts and next steps to the experience. • Activate: turn attention into relationships. Invite readers to stay in touch and show them where to go next. • Multiply: give your team, clients, and readers an easy way to pass the book forward. A book should do more than sit on a shelf. It is the door into everything you do next. Some features require a Reader Premium, Author Plus, or Author Pro subscription. Use of this app is bound by the Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Storybase at 5.0 against iShook's 3.7. Storybase also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. iShook sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Storybase sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $17.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Storybase holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.
iShook ships an update every 2 months, Storybase every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iShook | Storybase |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 135 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | iShook Inc. | Storyline Creative, LLC |
Customer experience
iShook
Storybase
In-app purchases
iShook
- A Dog's TaleFree
- A Boy CrusoeFree
- DraculaFree
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- Taking the BastileFree
- Comic ArithmeticFree
- Keynes, John Maynard, 1883-1946Free
- Stories of Robin HoodFree
- The Senses and The MindFree
- William the ConquerorFree
- IPR Right Magazine issue 8Free
Storybase
- Reader Premium$17.991 Month
- Author Plus$107.991 Month
- Author Pro$214.991 Month
