Leanpub vs Syncfusion Succinctly Series
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Leanpub
Access your entire ebook library on your mobile device. Discover new titles, take notes, and switch between reading modes. Authors can also write and publish their own books directly through the platform.
- Read Leanpub ebooks
- Discover new ebooks
- Sync notes across devices
- Dark and Light Mode reading
- Write and publish books
- Read ebook samples
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Leanpub is the world's best platform for reading and writing ebooks. Download the app to read and listen to all the ebooks in your Leanpub library on your iPhone and iPad. Discover new authors and ebooks in the Leanpub store. Take Leanpub courses right in the app, with lessons, videos, and quizzes. Write and publish your own books using powerful features for authors — now including real-time collaborative writing. With the Leanpub app you can: Read all your Leanpub ebooks, including PDF books, with full offline support Listen to your books with Read Aloud: background playback with follow-along highlighting Take courses with video lessons and quizzes with instant feedback Discover new Leanpub ebooks, courses, and bundles Take notes and highlights within books and sync them across devices Share favorite passages as beautiful quote cards Keep reading from your Home Screen with widgets like Continue Reading, The Shelf, and Passage of the Day Join the conversation in your books' community forums Write on the go: draft chapters, edit visually, and preview and publish new versions Write together with your co-authors in real time Manage co-authors, browse your royalties, and organize collections in the Author studio Choose between Dark Mode and Light Mode for comfortable reading Read samples of ebooks, where available Use credits to add new books to your library Write and publish reviews of books right from your library By using this app, you agree to the Leanpub Terms of Service (https://leanpub.com/terms), Privacy Policy (https://leanpub.com/privacy), Copyright Policy (https://leanpub.com/takedown) and Refund Policy (https://leanpub.com/refunds).
Syncfusion Succinctly Series
Access a free, extensive library of over 150 technical e-books. These concise guides, averaging 100 pages, are written by experts and available in PDF, MOBI, and EPUB formats.
- Extensive library of technical e-books
- Over 150 titles available
- Concise content (approx. 100 pages)
- Written by expert authors
- Multiple formats: PDF, MOBI, EPUB
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In the Succinctly series, Syncfusion created a robust, free library of more than 150 technical e-books formatted for PDF, MOBI, and EPUB. The Succinctly series was born in 2012 out of a desire to provide concise technical e-books for software developers. Each title in the Succinctly series is written by a carefully chosen expert and provides essential content in about 100 pages.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Syncfusion Succinctly Series at 67% against Leanpub's 13%. Syncfusion Succinctly Series also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly) and ratings volume (8 vs 1). Leanpub's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Leanpub holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Syncfusion Succinctly Series has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 13% of Leanpub's written reviews are positive against 67% of Syncfusion Succinctly Series's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Leanpub ships an update monthly, Syncfusion Succinctly Series fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Leanpub | Syncfusion Succinctly Series |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.0 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 12.5% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 176 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Leanpub | Syncfusion Inc. |
Customer experience
Leanpub
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In-app purchases
Leanpub
No in-app purchases
Syncfusion Succinctly Series
No in-app purchases
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