# Ebook Reader — user reviews > 1,152 indexed App Store user reviews of Ebook Reader by EBOOKS.COM PTY LIMITED, rated 3.40/5 from 583 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ebook-reader/id381260755/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ebook-reader/id381260755.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 227 · 4★ 110 · 3★ 54 · 2★ 49 · 1★ 143 ## What do users think of Ebook Reader? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Convenient app - 📚 Variety of books - 👍 Simple interface - 💡 Customizable reading experience **Cons** - 🐛 Buggy and unstable - 📏 Poor formatting and layout - 🔍 Limited search and navigation - 🔧 Lack of basic features **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes and freezes - Losing page position - Incorrect chapter/page display - Incompatibility with newer devices **Most requested features** - Ability to adjust font size and spacing - Improved page navigation and bookmarking - Sync across devices - Dictionary and annotation tools ## Newest reviews (17 of 1,152) ### 2/5 — Almost there *2026-06-23, version 4.1.8* I would use this app with one more feature. I have come to much prefer reading in portrait mode with 2 columns on the page. Can’t do that here. ### 2/5 — Repeatedly won’t open *2026-05-12, version 4.1.8* My downloaded pamphlets are routinely failing. ### 2/5 — Support the website, not the app *2026-03-16, version 4.1.8* I like supporting ebooks.com to try to keep the ebook market competitive but the app leaves a lot to be desired. The biggest issues are bad hyphenation, lack of alternative fonts, klutzy interface. I wish they’d pay attention to it. In the meantime Bluefire is far better. ### 2/5 — Abandoned all *2026-03-15, version 4.1.8* It performs the basic functions but is lacking in many modern features and has seemingly been abandoned with no updates in years. Most annoyingly it doesn't keep my phone from going to sleep while trying to read and no search function. ### 2/5 — ayuda *2026-02-20, version 4.1.8* no se como poner libros, aunque traduzca no se donde hay que apretar, alguien me ayuda? !! ### 2/5 — Ebooks.com = great; Reader app = garbage *2026-01-23, version 4.1.8* I love what ebooks.com stands for and does as a business. Trying to read on this app, however, is a nightmare if you want to do anything outside of the default settings. Enlarging the font doesn’t work. Split screen with another app doesn’t work. Resizing the app changes the window size, but since you can’t change the font size and the font size stays constant with the window size, when you make the window smaller the font gets smaller and thus impossible to read. It’s an app that feels like they wrote it when the iPhone came out in 2008 and they never updated it with anything remotely modern. As such, I won’t buy books from them with the intent of reading on my iPad since it’s an exercise in futility. ### 2/5 — Search broken *2025-12-26, version 4.1.8* Opened this reader for the first time and was immediately disappointed: the search function is broken. It’ll find the results, but when I tap on them, I end up in some arbitrary part of the book, and the highlighted word isn’t the one I searched for at all. ### 1/5 — Nonfunctional *2025-09-27, version 4.1.8* Couldn’t get my books to download onto the app. Contacted customer support and they admitted they can’t get some books onto the app. Told me to read it online. ### 2/5 — Unbrauchbar *2025-09-25, version 4.1.8* Ich bereue den Kauf eines Fachbuches bei ebooks.com aufgrund dieser Software. ### 2/5 — What year is this!? *2025-09-23, version 4.1.8* I was forced to download this app because I thought I was getting an epub, but apparently not really. The user interface looks like it hasn’t seen an update since 2012. Font changing and resizing is clunky at best, or just not working. No way to export highlights. Having to use this app makes me irrationally angry lol. ### 1/5 — Terrible *2025-09-05, version 4.1.8* You had one job. To put words on a screen in a legible way. One job, and you completely messed it up. ### 1/5 — Absolutely disgusting *2025-07-28, version 4.1.8* Like in ‘90. ### 1/5 — Very bad *2025-06-29, version 4.1.8* The app has an interface of a web page from the 90’s, you set the font and background then turn the page to find your settings gone. It is frustrating to read using this app, you turn the page then you find that you need to scroll down to continue reading, the fonts and background settings only works on the first chapter of the book 😄, I couldn’t read the book I bought because of this. 👎🏼 ### 1/5 — 2010ware *2025-06-27, version 4.1.8* It’s like the developers preserved this app in a time capsule from 2010 — untouched by progress ### 1/5 — Useless *2025-06-15, version 4.1.8* Font does not enlarge. Developers should be ashamed of themselves. ### 3/5 — Not for highlighting or notes *2025-06-01, version 4.1.8* the highlighting feature only works once and then you have to close the app and reopen it to use it again. you can’t change the background colour of the pages. in order to page you have to scroll downwards ### 2/5 — Missing fonctions *2025-05-21, version 4.1.8* There are fonctions that do not work properly. I cannot change the size of the font and they are way too small. Some font will make the lines overlap and be difficult to read. Sometimes it’s only italic that will overlap. The app does not reopen at the page I was when I left. It will restart at the first page of a chapter. That can be annoying. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Questions *2026-07-22, version 4.1.8* Does this app not have a text-to-speech feature? Also, why isn’t it updating? Have you completely stopped providing maintenance updates? ### 1/5 — Terrible UX *2026-05-04, version 4.1.8* The interface is constantly getting over the text, making it impossible to read first and last lines. Font size at 100% is annoyingly small, and next step is 125% which is too large ### 1/5 — Zero (0) stars at all *2026-04-04, version 4.1.8* The app is such an artefact from a "Once upon a time": ugly, no reading comfort, not intuitive in use … at least an argument to buy e-books *not* on ebooks.com ### 1/5 — simply horrible : is this even updated ? *2026-03-14, version 4.1.8* what an horrible app : GUI, navigation, content display. I so regret buying from ebooks.com such a terrible experience ### 1/5 — READ THIS BEFORE YOU PURCHASE FROM EBOOKS.COM *2026-03-06, version 4.1.8* This app is so god awful and janky the only reason anyone would use it is because the books are locked into the app. The default Books app from Apple is leagues better than this spaghetti code mess from the early 2000s internet. ### 1/5 — Hopelessly broken *2026-02-11, version 4.1.8* Forced to use this for my course textbook and the contents page does not work. I can’t navigate or study effectively. Total waste of money. ### 1/5 — Unusable *2026-02-11, version 4.1.8* With no way to enlarge the print or adjust word spacing this is just as difficult to read as printed books. The whole reason I use digital format is to aid with visibility. I wanted an alternative to Kindle/Amazon but this isn’t it. I now have a book I paid for and can’t read. ### 1/5 — Worst ereader I’ve been forced to use *2026-01-18, version 4.1.8* Format options are limited to font and size. No margins. No columns. No white space. And you have to swipe to advance the page. No tap on the margin. And not a little swipe, either. I can’t tell you how much I hate the DRM liars at ebooks.com right now for forcing this reader on me. ### 1/5 — Funktioniert nicht *2025-12-27, version 4.1.8* Bücher lassen sich nicht öffnen obwohl man sie im entsprechenden Store gekauft hat. Damit kann die App das einzige was sie wirklich können muss leider nicht. ### 1/5 — What happened to this app? *2025-11-12, version 4.1.8* Pagination never completes. I buy the books and it is never on it. They direct me to read them on another application. I can’t see my book all in one place. So difficult to use. It was not like this before! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Fabulous *2026-07-13, version 4.1.8* i looove this reader. it has a simple interface. very user- friendly. just a few bugs and glitches in functionality. please fix these. your product will be amaaazing!! ### 5/5 — Ebook Reader *2026-05-28, version 4.1.8* Excellent app. Love it. But do have one question. How do you permanently remove an ebook from your library. Everytime I try to remove an ebook. If I have to close out the app, or restart my phone. The ebook reappears when I open the app again. ### 5/5 — Lo amo *2026-01-14, version 4.1.8* Me encanta es súper cómodo, me encanta que tenga varias funciones es de lo mejor ### 5/5 — Simple, easy to use reader *2024-05-05, version 4.1.8* …and it looks nice, too. Have had it for a year or so and I like it. The only thing I wish it did was to scroll down for next pages, rather than sideways. Not a big deal to me, and there may be a way to do this that I haven’t figured out, yet. You will like it. ### 5/5 — Great app *2024-04-02, version 4.1.8* I still love this app! After all these years. ### 5/5 — Супер *2023-10-23, version 4.1.8* Не понимаю как люди не могут разобраться как добавлять книжку в шкаф… я нахожу книги в пдф или другом формате в интернете, и скачиваю их сразу в это приложение, и мгновенно они отображаются на полке уже с обложкой. ### 5/5 — Convenient *2023-09-27, version 4.1.8* I recommend it, convenient app ### 5/5 — Very good! *2023-09-20, version 4.1.8* This app has everything I wanted to read, wow! ### 5/5 — Cool! *2023-09-13, version 4.1.8* I find interesting books every day ### 5/5 — Cool *2023-09-07, version 4.1.8* We use the app with our whole family --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-31.*