# ZenReader - Read ebooks easily — user reviews

> 72 indexed App Store user reviews of ZenReader by LexyTech Ltd., rated 4.70/5 from 358 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/zenreader-read-ebooks-easily/id1660751056/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/zenreader-read-ebooks-easily/id1660751056.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 299 · 4★ 33 · 3★ 11 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 14

## What do users think of ZenReader?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 👍 Simple and intuitive user interface
- 📚 Excellent TXT file reading capabilities
- 🔄 Seamless synchronization across Apple devices
- ⚡ Smooth and responsive performance
- 🎨 Beautiful and minimalist design
- 🔧 Powerful text replacement function
- 📖 Comprehensive reading features without premium
- 🎧 Audiobook/text-to-speech functionality
- 📊 Reading statistics and tracking
- 💰 Reasonable pricing with lifetime option

**Cons**

- 🐛 Text replacement fails intermittently
- 🐛 Chapter segmentation issues and duplicates
- 🐛 File parsing errors on some formats
- 🐛 Screen lock stops audiobook playback
- 🐛 Voice narration changed to Cantonese after iOS 18 update
- 🐛 Import failure notifications persist
- ⚠️ Ads added in recent updates
- ⚠️ Limited UI language support (primarily Chinese)
- ⚠️ Audiobook playback controls too complex
- ⚠️ Annotation/highlighting features limited

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Text replacement shows success but reverts after reopening
- Duplicate chapters in segmentation
- File parsing errors on valid documents
- Audiobook stops when screen locks
- Voice narration language changed to Cantonese after iOS 18
- Import failure notifications appear repeatedly
- Deleting one file with same name deletes both (EPUB and AZW3)
- Cannot select text across multiple HTML sections
- Settings arrows not clickable, only text is
- QQ file import broken in recent versions

**Most requested features**

- Simplified audiobook playback controls
- Flexible audiobook starting point selection
- Include audiobook listening time in statistics
- English language UI support
- Direct TXT file editing capability
- Footnote/link navigation support
- Faster audiobook speed options beyond 3x
- Better quality AI voice narration
- Vertical text layout option
- Auto-page turning feature
- Customizable note colors
- Cross-file text selection and highlighting
- Annotation page navigation
- Instant translation feature for English books
- Customizable tap zones for left-handed users
- Document sorting options
- File management through Files app
- Smarter chapter segmentation
- Compatibility with book formatting standards

## Newest reviews (13 of 72)

### 4/5 — Need an editing function

*2025-06-07*

It serves my need quite well. But I really hope that there would be an editing function so I could adjust the typesetting of a txt file for better readability. The current replace function is not enough as it handles space or new line poorly.

### 5/5 — English

*2025-04-05*

Please how do I set it to English

### 4/5 — Great app for ebooks but !

*2025-02-21*

Please add English for the UI & the option to sync file edits to the Apple Files App ,I’ve been searching for an hour and I can’t find any free app that let’s me view and edit an epub book and sync changes to the Files app !! 

I loved the scroll reader feature, it’s Magnificent!

**Developer response:** English UI will be released in version 1.8.3

### 5/5 — 设置选项

*2025-01-26*

追评，阅读设置里的选项已经优化了，但是应用设置界面的箭头还是点不了，但还是点赞一下开发者的效率
已购pro，目前用起来没啥问题很丝滑，但是设置（阅读设置和app设置）里点击选项只能点文字，不能点箭头，有点反习惯……强迫症不能忍，希望开发者可以优化下

**Developer response:** 好的👌

### 5/5 — 设置选项

*2025-01-20*

已购pro，目前用起来没啥问题很丝滑，但是设置（阅读设置和app设置）里点击选项只能点文字，不能点箭头，有点反习惯……强迫症不能忍，希望开发者可以优化下

### 4/5 — 希望脚注链接的正常跳转

*2025-01-09*

有些书正文会有脚注调转，点击可跳转文末注释。目前我还不支持。希望改善

**Developer response:** 1.7.9已开始内测

### 5/5 — 软件棒极了

*2025-01-02*

软件棒极了

### 5/5 — 终于找到全苹果设备同步的txt阅读器了！！！

*2024-12-29*

现在购买终生版有折扣！立即买了。可惜自己没有早点知道这个软件。中文的txt苹果原生经常识别不了，是乱码。奇怪的是，我用其他可以阅读txt的软件编辑一下再保存就可以识别了。虽然这个软件的替换功能真的好棒，但唯一的不足就是，还无法直接编辑txt。

### 5/5 — 非常棒的讀書器

*2024-12-04*

加油 同為獨立開發者的我給妳點讚

### 4/5 — 挺好

*2024-11-18*

付费用户求你别停更🙏

### 5/5 — Very powerful reader

*2024-10-31*

Very powerful reader

### 5/5 — 建议：听书速度太慢

*2024-10-25*

虽然是3倍速，但是对我而言太慢了，希望能自动调节

### 5/5 — 好用！

*2024-09-25*

想用的功能都丝滑的满足了😌
好用爱用！

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Unable to log out

*2026-04-10, version 2.0.8*

I don’t know how to log out

### 1/5 — 戈门，你卖 100？镶金了吗

*2025-09-14*

戈门，你卖 100？镶金了吗

### 1/5 — 666反向优化

*2025-08-27*

更新之后功能没优化，反倒是加上了广告是吧，牛逼，真牛逼

### 1/5 — 反编译易读？

*2024-06-09*

不能说一样，只能说差不多。日历热力图，设置，阅读设置，pro主题界面两者基本一致，我就说眼熟？改了点样式，加点小玩意。看了push记录，今年2月份才开的

### 1/5 — 该阅读软件不支持自动翻页

*2024-03-26, version 1.4.7*

该阅读软件不支持自动翻页这一基本功能，同时其语音朗读的人声选择太少，差评，不建议下载使用。

### 1/5 — 不能导入书源

*2023-02-27, version 1.1.0*

辣鸡

### 2/5 — 刷评价长点心吧

*2025-01-26*

小红书清一色都是营销评价，长点心吧，使用体感如何心里有点数可以吗

### 3/5 — 希望做个一键跳转上次阅读的文档功能

*2025-12-28*

希望做个一键跳转上次阅读的文档功能，我每次打开app想接着上次看的地方还要点文件夹进去选择上次看的文档，如果一天只有一次也就算了，现在我明明没有后台关闭app只是跳出去看了下其他app，再点进来又要重新选择有点烦

### 3/5 — TXT替换文字一直失败！

*2025-04-16, version 1.8.5*

会弹替换成功的提示，当时看没问题，退出再打开也没问题，已重新分章就回去了！三次都这样！

### 3/5 — 一堆bug

*2024-09-19*

1. 分章节有问题，同一个章节重复两次。有些问题打不开，提示解析出错，我在电脑上用打开这些文件都是正常的。 2. wifi导入文件名一样后缀分别是epub和azw3，只删除其中一本，两本书都不见了。对于同文件名，分章节缓存估计也有问题。 3. 选中内容划线时，如果是两段，就不能一次选中，也可能是两个不同html文件，没法跨文件选中划线。

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — 是我用过最好的阅读app…

*2026-08-22*

看帖子来下载的的，没有想到真的完全超出我的预期.txt和pdf导入都超级方便 不需要自己设置很多东西 而且重要的是界面！真的！
没有广告！非常简洁 有的时候看书看了一半退出到后台隔了半天继续点进去也非常非常流畅不会卡顿 界面什么的都可以自己设置….是我截止目前用过最简洁快捷无广的阅读app了.....🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻很喜欢！

### 5/5 — ？

*2026-07-26*

作者你怎么回事啊 更新最新版本后 以前可以切换多个章节目录。怎么没有了啊 导入进来的书一个章节几百页 刚刚去看了一下有的书可以重新分章节 有的不行。能不能改回来。以前不管导入多少小说都可以分章节

### 5/5 — 简约，方便

*2026-07-15*

简约，方便

### 5/5 — 功能全 查字典和网页很方便

*2026-03-05*

再接再厉，再创辉煌

### 5/5 — Very good reading app, with a small suggestion.

*2026-01-12*

Very easy to use, meets most of my needs. Only two minor areas for improvement.(1) For audiobook playback, you need to tap the audiobook button first, then tap a small play button. Pausing and stopping also require similar steps. Suggestion: Simplify the operation—start playback immediately upon tapping the audiobook button, and streamline pause/stop actions as well.(2) During audiobook playback, allow selecting the starting point by dragging on the page; otherwise, it always starts from the first word of the current page. Suggestion: Modify the audiobook caching mode to enable flexible adjustment of the starting playback time.

### 5/5 — 功能建议

*2025-12-09*

整体非常好，希望能在统计中加上听书时间，或者把听书时间也算作阅读时间

### 5/5 — good App

*2025-12-06*

This App is very simple I like it

**Developer response:** thank you!

### 5/5 — nice

*2025-11-20*

不用开通高级功能就已经够用了，以前在安卓上用的是阅读，换到iOS用这个，反正对于我这种直接从网上下载导入进去的来说非常好用

### 5/5 — Good

*2025-10-16*

Fav reading app

### 5/5 — 好用到付費購買Pro

*2025-04-26, version 1.8.5*

之前用的閱讀器都停更了，試了好幾款最後覺得極簡很好用，希望作者加油點不要停更！

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*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 2026-09-08.*