Creative Book Reader vs FlipByBlink
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Creative Book Reader
This application allows users to read HTML5 books and widgets offline. It provides tools to manage, search, and sort your digital library for easy access to content.
- Read HTML5 books and widgets offline
- Manage a list of books and widgets
- Search for books and widgets
- Sort by title or modified date
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Creative Book Reader is a new way to read HTML5 books generated by Creative Book Builder and book widgets generated by Creative Widget Builder. Features * Manage a list of HTML5 books and widgets * Read HTML5 books and widgets offline * Search HTML5 books and widgets * Sort HTML5 books and widgets by title or modified date
FlipByBlink
This app offers a unique hands-free page-turning experience using eye-blink detection. Beyond this innovative feature, it functions as a standard ebook reader supporting PDF and ZIP imports, ideal for hands-occupied scenarios.
- Eye-blink page turning
- Hands-free operation
- Tap and swipe page turning
- PDF and ZIP import
- Fixed layout ebook support
- Camera and sensor-based detection
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There is one special feature. Blink your eyes slightly longer than you would normally close them, and you can turn the page. Other than that, it is a simple and common e-book reader application. If you perform a slightly prolonged eyelid close, you will advance one page. When you open your eyes, you have already transitioned to the next page. Blinking your eyes normally will not turn the page. The blinking of the eyes is detected by the device's built-in camera and sensors. Like general e-book applications, you can also turn pages by tapping or swiping the screen. E-book format - Only "Fixed Layout" books. For example, "directly converted from a paper book" or "comic book". - Support for importing PDF and ZIP files Use-Cases - General reading - Playing an instrument while looking at sheet music - Cooking while checking a recipe book - Reading on trains and buses - Reading for people with physical disabilities * * * Supported Devices The ARKit/FaceTrackingAPI, Apple framework, is used to detect eye blinks. This requires TrueDepth camera or A12Bionic (or later chips). https://developer.apple.com/documentation/arkit/arfacetrackingconfiguration
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: FlipByBlink at every 2 months against Creative Book Reader's every 11 months. Creative Book Reader's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (14.5 vs 18.6). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Creative Book Reader against 5.0 for FlipByBlink. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Creative Book Reader ships an update every 11 months, FlipByBlink every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Creative Book Reader | FlipByBlink |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.5 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tiger Ng | Ryo Yamashita |
Customer experience
Creative Book Reader
FlipByBlink
In-app purchases
Creative Book Reader
No in-app purchases
FlipByBlink
No in-app purchases
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