When comparing Bibisco vs Affinity Publisher, the Slant community recommends Affinity Publisher for most people. In the question“What are the best tools for creating EPUB books?” Affinity Publisher is ranked 2nd while Bibisco is ranked 13th.
Specs
Ranked in these QuestionsQuestion Ranking
Pros
Pro Works on Windows, Linux and Mac
This program is available on multiple operating systems, which allows more flexibility down the road.
Pro Free and Open Source
Pro One-off reasonable price, with no upgrades or monthly subs
Pro Very comprehensive set of features
Pro Has become sufficiently popular over the past year that there is an excellent knowledge base
You can quickly find solutions, tutorials, etc. online when you need help. Contrast this to Scribus, which despite its rich feature set, is often unintuitive and awkward to use, and help from other users sometimes difficult to find.
Pro Lots of Resources to Learn
Serif's forums, videos and other sites offer good resources to learn this tool, which has a very intuitive interface.
Pro Most intuitive interface
Cons
Con Large file size
Compared to the other options, Bibisco has a very large file size. If you are running low on storage, this can be an issue.
Con No EPub options (yet?)
Con No Linux version available
Unfortunately, there is no Linux version available in 2021, despite of numerous requests of the users.