Comparison

LibraryThing vs Precy

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

Precy

Features
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Precy is a reading companion for keeping track of what you read and what you want to remember. Stop reading? Drop a bookmark. Precy remembers where you left off and gives you a quick recap when you return, so you spend less time figuring out what happened and more time reading. ONE SHELF FOR EVERYTHING Keep your print books, ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines together. Add a book by searching for the title, scanning its barcode, or taking a photo of the cover. You can even photograph your own copy, including its cover and spine, so your digital shelf feels like yours. REMEMBER MORE THAN THE PAGE Save where you stopped with a page number, photo, or bookmark. Found something worth remembering? Save the quote. Add a thought by typing or using your voice. Everything stays connected to the book you were reading. KEEP WHAT YOU LEARN Save new words, idioms, sentences, lyrics, and thoughts as you read. Keep each one connected to its book and page, and look up unfamiliar words without leaving Precy. LOOK BACK AT WHAT YOU’VE READ See the books you’ve finished, your ratings, your reflections, and the books you’ve returned to more than once. Search across your books, notes, saved words, and dictionary from one place. Share a favorite quote or your current read with friends. FREE TO START Precy is free for up to three books on one device. Precy Premium gives you unlimited books and keeps your library, notes, bookmarks, and recaps backed up and synced across your iPhone and iPad with iCloud. Precy Premium is available as a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account when you confirm your purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. You can manage or cancel your subscription from your Apple ID account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial, if offered, ends when you purchase a subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

LibraryThing4 screens
Precy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LibraryThing at none against Precy's 2. LibraryThing also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 26.5). On price, ads 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. Precy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. LibraryThing asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
LibraryThing versus Precy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLibraryThingPrecy
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (288 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews47.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings288 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLibraryThing.comErnesto Pacheco

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

Precy

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

LibraryThing

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Precy

Subscriptions2
  • Precy Premium, monthly$1.991 Month
  • Precy Premium, yearly$12.991 Year

Questions

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

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