# Readest - eBook Reader — user reviews > 238 indexed App Store user reviews of Readest by Bilingify LLC, rated 4.50/5 from 160 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/readest-ebook-reader/id6738622779/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/readest-ebook-reader/id6738622779.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 130 · 4★ 9 · 3★ 10 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 11 ## Newest reviews (17 of 238) ### 4/5 — Text to speech is buggy *2026-08-15, version 0.12.1* Nice app but it’s always a hit or miss if the text to speech is gonna work ### 2/5 — TTS Skipping Lines *2026-08-13, version 0.12.1* 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. ### 4/5 — 好像出bug了… *2026-07-29* 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 ### 5/5 — 好用好用 *2026-07-24, version 0.11.20* 很好用的一个读书软件，清爽且功能强大！赞！ ### 5/5 — 文字转语音 *2026-07-21* 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。 **Developer response:** 下个版本可以设置停顿 ### 5/5 — 可否支持iPad老版本 *2026-07-19* 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。 ### 5/5 — 翻译 *2026-07-18* 有时候翻译会卡顿，翻译不出来 **Developer response:** 可以把打不开的文件发送到readestapp@gmail.com 我看看能不能修复 ### 3/5 — 无法使用 *2026-07-17* 手机下载打开后黑屏，无法正常使用 **Developer response:** iOS版本是多少？ ### 2/5 — Paywall *2026-07-16* 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. ### 5/5 — Keep up the good work and updates! *2026-07-15, version 0.11.18* Auto scroll is awesome ### 4/5 — Géniale *2026-07-14* 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. **Developer response:** Certainly it’s not true. The premium feature for WebDAV and Google Drive is also available for the one-time lifetime purchase. ### 4/5 — Good, but… *2026-07-13* 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. ### 5/5 — Excellent reader *2026-07-13* Toutes les fonctions dont le lecteur peut avoir besoin. Très belle interface. J'adore. ### 5/5 — Highly functional *2026-07-12, version 0.11.18* Minimal bloat this is one of the readers you can just download and immediately use no bloat great app love it ### 5/5 — Best Reader App *2026-07-09, version 0.11.18* 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! ### 4/5 — The best *2026-07-09, version 0.11.18* This is almost app for reading, a few things to consider 1. Welcome page aesthetics 2. Fix word vise ### 5/5 — Excellent! *2026-07-08* A brilliant reading app. It’s constantly evolving and improving! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Not As Advertised *2026-07-15, version 0.11.18* 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. ### 1/5 — Are you serious? *2026-07-14, version 0.11.18* 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… ### 1/5 — Useless for free *2026-07-10* Not for android and ios sync support, premium ### 1/5 — バグだらけだ。 *2026-06-24* このソフトは本当に最悪だ。頻繁にクラッシュしたり画面がちらついたりする。フォントの読み込み時、書籍を閉じた後、図書をインポートする時、途中で終了してから再度起動したタイミングなど、様々な場面で不具合が発生する。もうこのソフトに対して忍耐の限界だ、クソソフトだ。👎 最悪！ ### 1/5 — ipad: new update old bugs *2026-05-31* To work with Readest on an ipad is a daily pain. Now new update: the notes before were nicely recalled on last position, now you have again to scroll down systematically. Great work! Positioning the cursor to select with keyboard a block of text: impossible. With the mouse when you have to change page, no way. The menu above does not appear anymore. Try to close the book or program by clicking on the cross: you have to be faster than Lucky Luke! Well, a big mess. And still no division of the document possible, to see the text and its references at the same time for instance (two windows placed next: bugs with the scrolling). **Developer response:** Thank you for the detailed feedback. We will fix the text selection with keyboard in the next few updates. And there is a parallel read mode in the book view menu in the left sidebar with which you can display the same book or different books side by side. ### 1/5 — Speech doesn’t work with PDFs and it failed with Epub *2026-04-13, version 0.10.4* This app failed to read vocally every book I threw at it. This app sucks, it just does. Or else it is too flipping complicated to figure out. Anyway, I’m deleting this app. Developer, thank you for your reply. I don't leave non-working apps sitting on any of my devices as they are vectors for bad actors. Since you're at failed I deleted it, and gave you a one star rating. I mean who in the world leaves nonworking apps on their phone or tablet? ### 1/5 — What a POS *2026-03-28, version 0.10.1* Nothing will import, just freezes and does nothing. ### 1/5 — Frozen eternally un importing *2026-02-21, version 0.9.100* Just stays on importing forever. Would be nice to actually use the damn app. ### 1/5 — 书籍丢失 *2026-01-11, version 0.9.96* 为什么我在小米手机上登陆Google账号后下载的书籍，在iPad上不显示，pad甚至于都无法登陆google账号！！！ ### 1/5 — 导入漫画后黑屏 *2026-01-07, version 0.9.96* 导入约40本100mb的漫画后，启动app界面黑屏，无法看到目录，但如果导入新书，因为会自动打开所以能正常阅读，关掉再开又黑屏，应该就是目录界面崩溃了 ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Incredible *2026-08-14, version 0.12.1* Best ebook reader app on the market, AND it’s free & open-source!!! ### 5/5 — WOW *2026-08-10, version 0.11.20* 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. ### 5/5 — мечты сбываются *2026-08-09* я нашла тебя!❤️ читалка-комбайн, Аква настроек внешнего вида, TTS годный. ### 5/5 — 屏幕左侧滑动亮度调节问题 *2026-08-06* 滑动翻页很容易触发亮度调节 是不是考虑优化一下呢 **Developer response:** 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 ### 5/5 — 好用的，但是不知道为什么今天一直灰屏 *2026-08-04* 好用的，但是不知道为什么今天一直灰屏 **Developer response:** 重启一下手机试试 ### 5/5 — 增加阅读时长功能 *2026-07-30* 能不能增加一个阅读时长的功能 ### 5/5 — Top *2026-07-29* 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. ### 5/5 — 超级好用 *2026-07-28* 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！ ### 5/5 — rly good features, basics can be improved. *2026-07-25, version 0.11.20* 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? ### 5/5 — Update Woes (Fixed) *2026-07-24, version 0.11.20* 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. --- *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 2026-08-28.*