PocketBook Reader Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience54.5% of reviews
Neutral11.7% of reviews
Negative experience33.9% of reviews

~ Based on 1,364 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about PocketBook Reader

Is PocketBook Reader Safe?

PocketBook Reader appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for PocketBook Reader is 90/100.

This assessment is based on 10,222 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.5/5.

Safety Analysis

87.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.9% of ratings suggest some concerns
8.7% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 9,831 App Store ratings for PocketBook Reader.

Is PocketBook Reader Legit?

PocketBook Reader appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for PocketBook Reader is 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Bug: even pages option missing in custom crop settings

Custom page crop settings is missing the “even pages” option. It shows all, odd pages and current page, even when u r on an even page. Fix this thing asap. Thanks

Lacks only renaming

Excellent e-reader which unfortunately does not permit the renaming of titles. Apart from that, every bit as good as BlueFire and, because it allows an overview of library and reading progress, actually a little better. Also load books faster.

Easy to use but infuriating!

It is super easy to navigate but I’m CONSTANTLY. Loosing my place in my audiobooks. It’s so easy to accidentally tap on a different chapter and then loose your place in the one you are listening to. This has happened countless times. I spend so much time trying to figure out where I am in a book because I’ve lost my place. Just now, I opened the app, went I. To adjust my light settings and when I went to the menu my finger also touched a chapter that I wasn’t on. Now I have to figure out where in the book I was AGAIN. This happens daily. My child refuses to use the app on her iPad for this reason too. I absolutely HATE it. Sometimes I don’t even know how it jumped forward in the book. I just realize after listening for 10min that I have no idea what is happening in my book and then realize I’m in a chapter that is an hour from the end of the book and not near the beginning like I thought I was. I’ve been using it for a year because I’ve been too lazy to learn a new app but I can’t take it anymore. It’s making me crazy.
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Never get this app.

I don’t like this app because it makes me pay for the books. This is the only reason I don’t like this app. At least it gave me one free book.

great

Mini-letters as default, no probs. Increase letters, increase spacing. A bit more. A bit more. Ok, about right. Trying to find night mode. Ah, in settings. WhTF are settings? Close the book, back to start. Settings, night mode, greyed out. Manual night mode. Go back to book. Didn't quite work - but hey! - at least it managed to revert to mini-sized-letters! Ah, time to sleep, great fun. Will repeat tomorrow. Dont even need a book with such good fun.
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Magnificent free ebook reader

Successfully opened a mobi file on iPhone

Adobe id page doesn’t exist

You cannot create one, thus making this reader obsolete

Surprisingly good

Honestly great if you want to use for audiobooks

iOS26 nonfunctional—update works good now! But skips chapters :(

Crashes immediately. Every time. Since iOS update. Otherwise prior was a great app! Except sometimes instead of flipping to the next page it would flip to the next chapter. Will re-rate it if it gets fixed. Update 3/2026: back to working great again! Update 10/2026: great except when I start a new chapter and swipe to the next page, it jumps to the following CHAPTER instead of the next page. Must force close it 5-10 times to fix it and after a month of this got too annoyed and have to go back to sad Apple Books.
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Useless

With zero instructions on how to get an audiobook into this app, I’ve just given up on the app altogether. Nothing intuitive here. Appears to be nothing but a waste of time.

A tutorial of the app would be helpful

I’ve just downloaded this today because I wanted the option to highlight and add comments. I don’t like how it’s so difficult to find how to change the font size, text, etc. There’s no options on that interface that shows, you have to kind of play with the screen to figure this out. I hope they make the app more accessible in upcoming updates because it’s making it hard for me to use the app, since my purpose is to use it to annotate. Please fix this ASAP because it does seem look a good app that can use some minor improvements.
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great app

Pls fix the issue where "settings priority" keeps getting unchecked...two of my books keep returning to justified whenever I restart app and it's kind of annoying :s

Awesome app!

I can’t believe this is free. I’ve had almost 0 issues across about a dozen books, both epub and pdf. Imports pretty much anything I throw at it and I love how it automatically inverts the colors to night mode when appropriate. Loading is fast too. Also love the font size and style features for compatible books
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Very nice app.

Pocketbook reader is excellent because it allows you to read pretty much anything-and I also like many of the features it has besides just being able to read things.Sleek design as well.I don’t ever give reviews but if your thinking of downloading it,definitely give it a try.

Better than Kindle app

I have been having an issue with the Kindle app and decided to try something else. This was it and I am impressed!

ЭТО САМОЕ ЛУЧШЕЕ ПРИЛОЖЕНИЕ

просто обалденное приложение, с ним не сравнится ни одно приложение с платными книгами это лучшее, что могло придумать человечество. обожаю просто, всем сердцем🩷🩷🩷✌️✌️

Отличное приложение

Данное приложение - мой спаситель. Разработчикам большое спасибо

It serves it’s purpose well for me

Love it

Just use kybook3

Perfectly fine app, but kybook3 is strictly better so there's no reason to use this.

A great app..

a daily dose of goodness