Readest User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience84.5% of reviews
Neutral5.5% of reviews
Negative experience10.1% of reviews

~ Based on 238 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 160 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.5/5.

Safety Analysis

86.9% of ratings point to a safe experience
6.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
6.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 160 App Store ratings for Readest.

Is Readest Legit?

Readest - eBook Reader appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Readest is 70/100.

Based on 70 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Text to speech is buggy

Nice app but it’s always a hit or miss if the text to speech is gonna work

Incredible

Best ebook reader app on the market, AND it’s free & open-source!!!

TTS Skipping Lines

Been mainly using this for the TTS function. However, I have noticed that I can go about half a page before TTS will skip over dialogue on pdf files. Sometimes it’s very short. Skipping over a sentence or two. Other times it will skip a paragraph or half a page. It’s infuriatingly annoying that I have to basically stop and restart the TTS. At first, I thought I was hearing things until I read along with it and saw it happened. If the TTS wasn’t skipping, I’d give this a higher rating.

Seems like I don’t have this problem if I am using TTS on an e-book file. Seems to only not work properly if I am using it on a pdf article or something.
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WOW

This is the app I've been looking for years. I have tried every single e-reader app out there and none of them did what I wanted conpletely. Finally I got Readest due to getting a Kobo/Koreader.

I genuinely wish I would have found it sooner because WOW. Just wow. It's literally the perfect program and I always skipped over it because low reviews. So here I am, giving it my 5 stars. It deserves 10.

That speed reading mode? Bro....amazing. When I get this job I will buy buying the app outright in support.
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мечты сбываются

я нашла тебя!❤️ читалка-комбайн, Аква настроек внешнего вида, TTS годный.

屏幕左侧滑动亮度调节问题

滑动翻页很容易触发亮度调节 是不是考虑优化一下呢

Response from developer

翻页一般是左右滑动吧,为什么会上下滑动触发亮度调节呢

好用的,但是不知道为什么今天一直灰屏

好用的,但是不知道为什么今天一直灰屏

Response from developer

重启一下手机试试

增加阅读时长功能

能不能增加一个阅读时长的功能

好像出bug了…

总体使用体验是相当不错的,但是前几天更新后好像无法正常使用了,点开后显示完logo 后续就是灰屏了

Top

One of the most free e-reader. Just a little bug: in the very nice multi book viewer, when we put the app in background and we come back all books are closed.

超级好用

这年头很难找到这么纯粹的软件了,三端同步,GitHub开源,还自带云同步,还在积极维护!
一定要做下去啊!我愿称之为阅读器软件唯一真神!

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