Comparison

LibraryThing vs EagleSpeaker Books

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

Head to head
About

LibraryThing

Catalog your personal book, DVD, and CD collections. Easily add items by searching or scanning barcodes. Enhance your catalog with high-resolution cover photos and browse your collection visually.

Highlights
  • Catalog books, DVDs, and CDs
  • Search for media items
  • Scan ISBN barcodes
  • Add high-resolution cover photos
  • Browse collection by cover type
Features
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The LibraryThing app allows LibraryThing members to catalog and browse their collections. LibraryThing is focused on books, but you can add most media, including books, DVDs and CDs. LibraryThing relies on data from Amazon, and over 65 million library records. Add books by searching for them or scanning their ISBN barcode with the camera. Add high-resolution cover photos of your books with the cover editor and browse your books by cover type to find copies that need better covers.

About

EagleSpeaker Books

Features
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EagleSpeaker Books is the reading app for the EagleSpeaker library — First Nations stories, memoir, poetry, and student voices from an Indigenous-owned press, on your iPhone and iPad. Buy your books on the web at library.eaglespeaker.com, then read them here. Everything you own is in one place, ready to open. WHAT YOU CAN READ Picture books that teach belonging. Memoirs of survival and sobriety. Poetry, novels, and anthologies written by new authors from more than 400 First Nation communities across North America. And Student Voices — real books written by kids, free to read. FEATURES • Your whole library in one place — everything you own, ready to read. • Pick up where you left off — your reading place syncs across your devices. • Read a free sample of select titles before you buy. • Free Student Voices — the student-author collection, free to read. WHY EAGLESPEAKER EagleSpeaker is an Indigenous-owned publisher that creates every book it publishes. These are stories the big houses overlook, told by the people who lived them. Buy on the web, read in the app. Thank you for reading with us.

Screenshots

LibraryThing4 screens
EagleSpeaker Books4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: LibraryThing at 11.0 against EagleSpeaker Books's 13.4. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
LibraryThing versus EagleSpeaker Books: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLibraryThingEagleSpeaker Books
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (278 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews47.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings278 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS11.0 — better13.4
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB26 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperLibraryThing.comJASON TRAVIS EAGLESPEAKER

Bugs and requests

LibraryThing

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Barcode scanner not working
  • Books disappearing from catalog
  • Editing and saving issues

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to create custom collections
  • Offline access to library
  • Integration with other book apps
  • Lending/loan tracking feature

EagleSpeaker Books

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

LibraryThing

No in-app purchases

None

EagleSpeaker Books

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LibraryThing free?
LibraryThing is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is EagleSpeaker Books free?
EagleSpeaker Books is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do LibraryThing or EagleSpeaker Books have ads?
Neither LibraryThing nor EagleSpeaker Books shows ads.

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