Yuzu eReader User Reviews

Yuzu eReader
Yuzu eReader
Barnes & Noble College Booksellers LLC

Customer Experience

Positive experience22.3% of reviews
Neutral10.8% of reviews
Negative experience66.9% of reviews

~ Based on 130 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Yuzu eReader Safe?

Yuzu eReader appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Yuzu eReader is 90/100.

This assessment is based on 14,666 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.5/5.

Safety Analysis

87.3% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.9% of ratings suggest some concerns
9.8% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 13,381 App Store ratings for Yuzu eReader.

Is Yuzu eReader Legit?

Yuzu eReader appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Yuzu eReader is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Absolute trash

Absolutely a trash product and should be removed front the store

Terrible UI and coding failures

Every chapter has a series of definitions that you need to click on in order to read the definitions. the pop ups work on the website(though the layout is terrible); but on the app, the definition pop-ups are translucent meaning both layers of text are visible, making them completely unreadable. For an app that is required for my textbook it is infuriating.
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Reader needs work

The reader on this app is very choppy. It is hard to understand and listen to. I downloaded the ebook because I thought I would be able to listen to the reading while completing other tasks

Voice Reader sucks

It’s 2026, get a decent AI to do the reading. Audio is stilted and sounds like an old Macintosh computer trying to do voice overs. All other functionality is great but this is just awful.

UPDATE THE APP

last update was seven months ago, the voiceover sounds incredibly robotic, which makes people like me who read and listen at the same time have a harder time getting through the text. Please work on that so I can actually progress in my classes instead of struggling.

Worthless

Just a waste of time. Won't allow me to access what's in my library and sends me on corcles.

Serviceable

I would probably rank this as a 2.5 if I could. It’s a perfectly serviceable app but not widely enough used to apply to more than a single class in my course schedule. That’s not entirely Yuzu’s fault, just an annoyance. It’s nice to make notes on my iPad and be able to find them from my computer as I work on papers.
I would appreciate if I could access my materials more easily without being kicked out of my login. Credentials don’t work to log back in to the same window and I end up having to close mid-read and re-open the textbook through the LMS all over again. This is probably due to Okta integration, is my guess? This is difficult when I am in a particularly involved study session or I’m in the process of writing a paper. So just be warned that this may be an issue.
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Terrible

The highlighting feature is absolutely terrible for an app designed for iPad. You cannot use your Apple Pencil to write notes in the margins.
You can’t even highlight with native features, you have to use iOS’s highlight function, and then select the option to highlight from the menu that appears. This completely removes any advantage offered by hosting an app on iPad as opposed to desktop.
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Voice reader doesn’t even work

Voice reader doesn’t work, it just skips pages all fast and doesn’t read anything. I’m on iPad OS 26 and iPad 9th gen

E-reader is lacking

The e-reader read aloud feature is horrible for a time where AI is leading compared to other read aloud platforms.

Terrible for Note Taking

I purchased this book through my school’s bookstore and I wish I hadn’t. This is terrible for note taking. All you can do is highlights and attached notecards. No underlining. No freehand. No symbols. And the voice it reads to you with is robotic and not smooth. This is a terrible option for graduate schools to use. I wish I had purchased a hard copy or from another seller that didn’t use this app.
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Flaming Hot Garbage

Need this app for my graduate class and the textbook is unavailable in print format. Cannot download PDF chapters to use with Goodnotes or any kind of screen reader/accessibility app. Their “reader” is an unbearable, garbled AI voice. Note taking is nearly impossible. Reading a book should not be made so difficult for a company that is literally a bookstore. Save your money and try to get your textbook in any other way if you can.
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Okay

It would be better if I don’t have to log in so much. I wish I could just open the app and ready my textbook.

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Takes forever to load/

I want my money back

Horrible formatting. Highlighting selects wrong thing or too much. No Apple pencil support. Margin coach is not visible on iPad. Almost impossible to do my work. Would much rather have a plain PDF scan than this nightmare App.

Features don’t work

Annotation features don’t work for some titles.

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Overall good, but UX needs work.

The app is very convenient, especially when I use my tablet on the go. My only complaint is that the highlight function could use some work. 1. Sometimes I have to drag the cursor over the text multiple times, or from right to left in order for the highlight options to appear. 2. In the app, once text is highlighted, the bottom portion of the text is cut off by the highlighted margins of the text from the line below. I have to take an educated guess as to what the text says. I have tried both enlarging and reducing the font size, but that overlap still occurs.
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Voices

They have 20 different voice options and none are acceptable. I have to rewind constantly to understand what they're saying. Also, the voices on my computer are different from the ones on my phone. It's doesn't make sense.

Can’t scan QR code to login

Useless to me, can’t login with QR code, and doesn’t recognize my bookstore account.