Checks off what I’m looking for
My phone setting ‘read what’s on screen’ will continue the book until I pause. where other E readers I’d have to initiate it every page. Also I can download/delete books locally. No ads, affordable.
Excellent book reading app with more features than the Apple Books app
Edit: a cool feature idea is when highlighting something is to allow you to delete parts of the highlight. Like when you quote parts of a text and it’s denoted by three dots…then picks up to the relevant spot.
The new annotations widget is great! Exactly what I’ve been after to re-encounter my annotations I’ve made in the past. A suggestion to improve the widgets in a future release. Allow customisation of how much time each quote is present for before changing e.g. 5, 10,15, 60 minutes. That and maybe interactive gesture allowing you to move through multiple annotationsby tapping on the right side to progress through a carousel.
The new annotations widget is great! Exactly what I’ve been after to re-encounter my annotations I’ve made in the past. A suggestion to improve the widgets in a future release. Allow customisation of how much time each quote is present for before changing e.g. 5, 10,15, 60 minutes. That and maybe interactive gesture allowing you to move through multiple annotationsby tapping on the right side to progress through a carousel.
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UR MOTHER
GOOD BUT NOT AS GOOD AS UR MUM
Loses formatting
Sadly this app ignores all original formatting by the book designer, so you see plain-vanilla text, not what was the intended experience. For book lovers, it’s an ugly experience. Deleted it.
Really good, just too annoying
The app TOTALLY works. For sure, I’ve got books in here and I’m reading them!
But sometimes a page renders half off-screen. And sometimes, selecting text causes the page to turn. And the constant notifications asking “Have you enabled the widget?” (no, because I don’t want to) or “Did you know you can add tags?” (no, and I don’t care) are absolutely grating.
I’m so sad no-one writes apps that just leave you alone any more.
But sometimes a page renders half off-screen. And sometimes, selecting text causes the page to turn. And the constant notifications asking “Have you enabled the widget?” (no, because I don’t want to) or “Did you know you can add tags?” (no, and I don’t care) are absolutely grating.
I’m so sad no-one writes apps that just leave you alone any more.
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Widgets constantly crashing on macOS
After every system reboot as well as randomly, macOS crash catcher reports the widgets for Yomu have crashed. There doesn’t seem to be any user fix or workaround for this frustratingly disruptive issue. Attempts to edit any desktop widgets at all will crash Yomu if it’s running. Makes it rather difficult to evaluate the app on the whole, which is a shame because it looked quite promising.
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Love it — one small request
Genuinely one of the best independent readers out there — clean, fast, and a pleasure to use daily. My one wish: let us customize the accent color. The current yellow-green is nice, but being able to match it to my own theme like with the page customizability (or just something easier on the eyes at night) would make the app feel truly personal. Even a small set of preset colors would be amazing. Keep up the great work!
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Best I have found
I’ve tried a few book readers for iPad, and this is the best one that I have found
Super decent simple organized e-book reader
Love that I can sync between my laptop and phone. Only issue I have is that I often want to highlight sentences that cross to the next page on my phone and it doesn’t allow me to (or I haven’t figured out how to) That’s a very minor issue though. Love everything else and appreciate it so much I was just in the app and felt so thankful for it I wanted to review it to spread the love ❤️
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Stellar
Best app ever
Simplistic and Perfect
I shied away from another app due to constant redownloading issues while having a large library and reading multiple epubs at once. I came upon this app and there were so many green flags for purchasing the pro version. I love the comfortability of customizing the reader to what I like to be presented and without being overwhelmed by so many different options. I’m able to sort multiple epubs into folders, and add tags as well with a general count which was an absolute necessity for me.
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Excellent, just one issue
I think this is the best book organizer available for ios. It's simple to set up and use, the interface is simple and clean, the book reader works well.
There is just one issue for me. Many pdfs don't allow for note taking, and that's fine. That's not unique to Yomu. But I wish that I could manually take notes connected to bookmarks for pdfs. I don't need the ability to highlight text, just the ability to write a note. You can get around this by writing notes in the book overview section, but I just like to consistently put my notes in the same place if I can.
There is just one issue for me. Many pdfs don't allow for note taking, and that's fine. That's not unique to Yomu. But I wish that I could manually take notes connected to bookmarks for pdfs. I don't need the ability to highlight text, just the ability to write a note. You can get around this by writing notes in the book overview section, but I just like to consistently put my notes in the same place if I can.
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The best you’ll find
I have spent a lot of time testing out different ebook readers. Throughout this time, I have tried maybe over 30+ apps. After switching back-and-forth through these various apps, Yomu is the app that I kept returning to. This app has allowed me to use a lot of features that I love, not to mention it is still being updated. One thing I also like is that there is no subscription model for this app, instead there is a one time fee that is very inexpensive. The pro version of Yomu allows me to have as many books as I would like, not to mention separate them into personalized folders. I have an instance of Kavita running on one of my personal NAS. The OPDS support is amazing in Yomu as it only takes a few seconds for all of my books to be downloaded. I wasn’t the biggest on reading just because I don’t like the physical feel of paper anymore, however, Yomu has assisted me and reading more books than I thought possible at this phase in my life. If you don’t buy the pro version of the app, it still does not hinder your use of the app itself. I would definitely recommend it to anyone looking to increase their ability to read books on an iOS device. I would also strongly recommend the pro version since your books are saved to the cloud with seamless syncing. Not sure if pro is needed for that, however, it is certainly worth it as this will help the developers continue to improve upon this wonderful app. Just like Panels is the best comic reader I’ve ever used on an iOS device Yomu is hands-down the best book reader on an iOS device.
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Grade A, A1
I feel lucky to have discovered Yomu many years ago. It’s one of only a few app purchases I didn’t feel any regret after buying and I’ve never had to look for an alternative reader since.
Оличное приложение
Шикарное приложение, но есть одно НО. Я загрузил первую книгу, настроил вид и параметры чтения, как мне удобно. Дочитал и загрузил вторую книгу, а там все настройки снова на базовом уровне. То есть придется каждый раз настраивать новую книгу или функция сохранения настроек есть в про-версии? Я сейчас в бесплатном режиме.
P. S. Разобрался. Оказывается в настройках первой книги нужно нажать на три точки в верхнем левом углу и выбрать «Save as default»
P. S. Разобрался. Оказывается в настройках первой книги нужно нажать на три точки в верхнем левом углу и выбрать «Save as default»
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Unlimited web browsing hampers this otherwise great reader app
The developer needs to remove web access from the app. This app has the lowest age rating, which presumably makes it a good reader for kids books. But, the built in browser offers unfiltered web access on otherwise locked down iOS devices.
Awesome ebook reader
This is a very well designed e-book reader. I only wish it would automatically sync from a local folder or an OPDS server. Needing to import the apps specific local folder is a bit of a drag. Highly recommend the pro (karma) upgrade though.
So close to perfection
2026 update: still really like this app. I always come back to is as my default ereader.
2 things keeping it from being a perfect 5 stars:
A page curl animation (yeah it’s a small thing but I really miss it from other readers
And bookmark from main reading screen on phone like iPad has. I’d rather be giving the option to move the 3 dots and then search to another menu and just putting bookmark there where 3 dots are.
2 things keeping it from being a perfect 5 stars:
A page curl animation (yeah it’s a small thing but I really miss it from other readers
And bookmark from main reading screen on phone like iPad has. I’d rather be giving the option to move the 3 dots and then search to another menu and just putting bookmark there where 3 dots are.
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Платная
Десять книг закачивает бесплатно, потом требует 700 руб,
Good
Yomu, Eboox, and Readest seem like the best free alternatives to Apple Books (which is obnoxiously pushy with pushing the store on you, and breaks your iCloud storage space etc, and so on).
Personally I think Readest is the most pleasant, but Eboox and Yomu are good.
Yomu charges a reasonable fee (one time purchase, not greedy leech subscription!) to do iCloud storage/syncing beyond the the free version of 10 book limit(?). Readest doesn’t have any limit except by storage space. So although Yomu’s pricing is respectable and non-predatory, the feature lock-out is not likeable in my opinion.
Anyway it’s fine.
Personally I think Readest is the most pleasant, but Eboox and Yomu are good.
Yomu charges a reasonable fee (one time purchase, not greedy leech subscription!) to do iCloud storage/syncing beyond the the free version of 10 book limit(?). Readest doesn’t have any limit except by storage space. So although Yomu’s pricing is respectable and non-predatory, the feature lock-out is not likeable in my opinion.
Anyway it’s fine.
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