Kortext vs Barkley eBooks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kortext
Access and read eBooks from various publishers with enhanced multimedia. Tools are included to help learners and academics engage with their content, offering features like note-taking, referencing, and text-to-speech.
- Read PDF and EPUB files
- Access 13,000+ free eTextbooks
- Highlight text and create notes
- Add Harvard/APA references
- Read Aloud functionality
- Adjust text size and background
- Search within books
- 500MB free cloud storage
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Kortext provides access to online eBooks from multiple publishers, with enhanced in-built audio and video content, combined with tools to assist learners and academics to make the most of their content. Features include: - Add and read PDF/EPUB files from your iPhone and iPad - Enjoy free access to a collection of over 13,000 eTextbooks - Easy navigation to content, providing quick access to pages - Highlight text in a range of colours and create notes, enabling quick reference of key sections - Add a reference (Harvard or APA), making creation of bibliographies much easier - Read Aloud sections, providing help with accessing content - Increase text size, change font and background of pages making it easier to view content - Search for keywords and phrases within the books directly from your bookshelf, allowing quicker access to relevant content - 500MB of free cloud file storage. Simply upload your study materials and harness the full potential within
Barkley eBooks
Access your digital textbooks from your phone. Highlight, annotate, and bookmark key content for quick review. This app helps you prepare for your studies and exams.
- Digital textbook access
- Highlighting
- Annotation
- Bookmarking
- Mobile convenience
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Access your Barkley & Associates digital textbook from the convenience of your cell phone. Highlight, annotate, and bookmark your favorite content for easy reference. Barkley & Associates, Preparing You for Boards and Beyond!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Kortext at 3.9 against Barkley eBooks's 1.0. Kortext also leads on ratings volume (1.4K vs 3) and review sentiment (17% vs 0%). Barkley eBooks's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Kortext holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kortext has 1.4K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 17% of Kortext's written reviews are positive against 0% of Barkley eBooks's.
Kortext ships an update every 2 months, Barkley eBooks daily. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kortext | Barkley eBooks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (1.4K ratings) — better | 1.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 17.4% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.4K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #108 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kortext | Barkley, Inc |
Customer experience
Kortext
Barkley eBooks
Bugs and requests
Kortext
Reported bugs
4 issues- Frequent crashes and freezes
- Pages not loading properly
- Highlighting and annotations not saving
- Login issues and inability to access content
Requested features
5 requests- Improved text-to-speech functionality
- Better organization and navigation of content
- Ability to customize text size and layout
- Syncing across multiple devices
- Offline reading mode
Barkley eBooks
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Kortext
No in-app purchases
Barkley eBooks
No in-app purchases
