Readest User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience84.1% of reviews
Neutral5.8% of reviews
Negative experience10.2% of reviews

~ Based on 226 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Readest Safe?

Readest - eBook Reader appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Readest is 88/100.

This assessment is based on 158 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.5/5.

Safety Analysis

86.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
6.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
7.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 158 App Store ratings for Readest.

Is Readest Legit?

Readest - eBook Reader appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Readest is 60/100.

Based on 60 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

rly good features, basics can be improved.

ipad pro swaps volume buttons to whichever orientation ipad is in, so needs ability when using volume keys (to swap volume up/down to go prev/next page)

and desperately need scroll to go next/prev chapter in scrolled mode when reading. using tapping is unintuitive and often results in misclicks.

definitions above words is amazing. it does mess up the ruler line width though and is a bit buggy when moving it up and down in scrolled mode esp towards end of the page. maybe zen mode in vim would be great feature here? i know there’s focus mode but forcing centered text with ruler line?
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Update Woes (Fixed)

EDIT (Jul 24 2026): Looks like an update fixed the issue I was having with multiple app instances launching. Excellent work to the dev(s) making this app!


After the latest update, opening anything now launches two separate instances of the app (it happens when opening an ebook via finder or even just launching the app directly). It used to be my go-to for just quickly opening an ebook without messing with libraries but this just makes it a pain to use.
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好用好用

很好用的一个读书软件,清爽且功能强大!赞!

文字转语音

这次更新之后文字转语音的段落速度过快了,每句话中间几乎没有停顿。请问怎么才能调整回去。

Response from developer

下个版本可以设置停顿

可否支持iPad老版本

当前手头老iPad系统版本为12.5.7。想让老设备发挥余热 用来看电子书。

翻译

有时候翻译会卡顿,翻译不出来

Response from developer

可以把打不开的文件发送到readestapp@gmail.com 我看看能不能修复

无法使用

手机下载打开后黑屏,无法正常使用

Response from developer

iOS版本是多少?

Paywall

Colocou paywall na conexão com WebDav, coisa que não existia antes e o valor é caro. BookFusion oferece 5gb de armazenamento por 9,90. Deixou a desejar.

Keep up the good work and updates!

Auto scroll is awesome

Not As Advertised

Up front, this app seems to have everything. I can tell a lot of work went into this. However, what they don’t tell you is in order to use it truly, you have to sign up. Nor does it tell you about any of the cloud services that they want you to use. Yeah you can add books to try it out, but then a pop-up pops up and asks you to sign in.

In fact, the only place you’ll know that there is cloud services, is if you check the in-app purchases here, or on the android version. They do not say this in on their website.

Not only that, they tout themselves as an open source software. No offense, but they are giving open source a bad name by not being clear here what that actually means for them. It’s not that they aren’t open source, they are, (from what I can tell, I’m not a programmer) it’s that they aren’t being open with their communication.

This is very misleading. I would not use this app or support this developer in any way shape or form.
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Are you serious?

In the recent update they made WebDAV sync a premium feature…on an Open Source app???

Just wow… I’ve been using this for quite a while now—happily using WebDAV—and now I have to pay?

I understand the project needs to be supported, but making a self-host feature “premium” is utterly unacceptable…

Géniale

Veuillez m'excuser pour mon erreur, effectivement je n'avais pas vu les offres "à vie" dans l'application 🙏🏻
Je remonte la note 😉
Ce que j'ai écrit sur l'option WebDAV retirée de l'offre gratuite reste valable.
Dommage de ne pas proposer une offre sans hébergement avec juste l'achat de l'application, même si la première offre reste peu chère.

Dans la version gratuite, vous avez enlevé la possibilité d’utiliser notre hébergement personnel en Webdav, et on doit payer maintenant pour cette option. Donc on doit payer tous les mois pour utiliser notre propre espace de stockage … Merci, bel esprit.

Avec cette application, je pense avoir trouvé la perle rare. Super pour gérer une bibliothèque de documents, de livres, de PDF, etc.
Mais elle ne fait pas que ça ! 👍🏻
En plus, esthétiquement, elle est très agréable.
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Response from developer

Certainly it’s not true. The premium feature for WebDAV and Google Drive is also available for the one-time lifetime purchase.

Good, but…

Great app, however it would be cool if it cached my configurations locally and stopped showing me the login page every time I open the application, while also resetting my options.

Excellent reader

Toutes les fonctions dont le lecteur peut avoir besoin. Très belle interface. J'adore.

Highly functional

Minimal bloat this is one of the readers you can just download and immediately use no bloat great app love it

Useless for free

Not for android and ios sync support, premium

Best Reader App

Love this reader app, I use the text to speech function while driving and it’s pretty good if you can find a voice you like. It’s also nice that your library will sync across devices so it will save your reading progress and bookmarks. Really great app!

The best

This is almost app for reading, a few things to consider

1. Welcome page aesthetics
2. Fix word vise

Excellent!

A brilliant reading app. It’s constantly evolving and improving!

好用

很好用