Comparison

MapleRead CX vs eBooks Pro

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

MapleRead CX

This app offers a unique audio-visual reading experience for EPUB ebooks. Customize book styles, generate pseudo audiobooks with various voices, and enjoy immersive reading with synchronized audio and text. It also functions as a powerful library management tool with extensive customization options.

Highlights
  • Audio-visual EPUB reader
  • Pseudo audiobook generation
  • Immersion reading (sync audio/text)
  • Customizable book styles and themes
  • Word lookup and translation
  • Library management and organization
  • User-defined fonts and highlight colors
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MapleRead is dedicated to enable unique audio-visual reading experience for everyone. ------------ Our MapleRead app family has 3 members, namely SE, CE and CX. - SE is our flagship product with all features. - CE is SE without PDF reader and built-in Library Server. - CX is CE with some limitation. Free to try. - No recurring subscription fees. No ads. Just buy it once. Gratuity optional. - Moreover, SE and CE can be run side-by-side via split-view multitasking. - Recommend SE for use on multiple devices with easy and fast book sharing via Library Server. - Recommend the SE-CE bundle for the best value. ------------ MapleRead includes a superb audio-visual EPUB e-book reader. - It lets you easily modify publisher's original book style to better suit your aesthetic taste. - It lets you instantly generate pseudo audiobooks with a choice of narrator voices over 40 languages. - It enables immersion reading so that you may read and listen to the same book in sync. - Background listening works well too. Compatible with Lock Screen Music Player and CarPlay. MapleRead UI is friendly to users of all ages. - Books can be read in regular and large print. - A choice of UI text sizes makes reading in non-book views much more comfortable. MapleRead is a great learning tool. - It lets you look up words, translate sentences, search text, highlight text and write notes. - It helps you collect vocabulary and organize notes with various priorities. - It provides hooks to user-defined dictionaries, translators, and other tools. - Immersion reading improves your comprehension, especially of foreign-language books. MapleRead is an effective and fast library management tool. - It is designed for you, a book lover, who may own a huge and/or growing book collection. - It lets you keep all your books in one place and well-organized automatically. - It lets you display your books elegantly in style. - It lets you easily repair individual book metadata. - If supports multiple book sets and multiple tags. - It offers multiple ways to import and export books, and works well with Calibre. MapleRead offers unprecedented user-defined customization options. - They include unlimited user-defined fonts, book themes, cover images and library scenes. - Each book theme includes various types of user-defined highlight colors. - Each book can have its own theme, and each EPUB book can have its own style. [For more technical details, screenshots, FAQ and reviews, please visit our website.]

About

eBooks Pro

This app is a versatile eBook reader supporting numerous file formats including EPUB, PDF, and documents. It offers editing capabilities, cloud integration, customizable reading options, and an AI assistant for summaries and translations. Organize your library with ease and enjoy a personalized reading experience.

Highlights
  • Supports EPUB, PDF, TXT, DOCX, and more
  • Edit documents directly within the app
  • Import/export from cloud services
  • Customizable themes and font sizes
  • AI-powered summaries and translations
  • Interactive annotations and form filling
Features
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Read EPUB books and PDFs, listen with a lifelike voice, and keep the passages that matter to you. eBooks Pro brings your library, notes and AI Assistant together on iPhone and iPad. FIND BOOKS • Browse Free Books: public-domain and openly licensed books, ready to download. • Add the book websites you like; EPUB and PDF links save straight to your library. • Import books from Files or download one from a link. READ YOUR WAY • Turn pages with a realistic page curl, slide them, or scroll. • Choose the font, text size, margins and a light, dark or sepia theme, with dark pages in Dark Mode. • On iPad, read one page in portrait and two side by side in landscape. • Reader Mode hides everything but the page. • See the time left in the chapter and the book, or the printed page numbers when a book has them. • Jump anywhere with Go To, then return to where you were with one tap. • Keep your place on the line with the Reading Ruler. • Tap or pinch a picture to see it full screen. LISTEN • Read Aloud from the toolbar or from any passage you select. • Books in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Japanese and Chinese can use a natural voice that runs on your device. HIGHLIGHT AND ANNOTATE • Highlight in six colors and add a note to any highlight. • Draw and add sticky notes right on the page. • Bookmark a page with one tap. • Share a passage as a quote card. • Look up words and review them later in your Vocabulary list. • Annotate PDFs, fill in forms, and insert text or images. UNDERSTAND THE STORY • Story So Far recaps what you've read, without spoilers. • People & Places lists the characters and places you've met so far. • Ask your AI Assistant about a book: its answers stay within the chapters you've read. • Get summaries and translate passages to read across languages. TRACK YOUR READING • Put books on your Want to Read, Reading and Finished shelves. • Set a daily reading goal, keep your streak going, and count the books you finish this year. • Add the Currently Reading widget to your Home Screen. • Pick up where you left off on your other devices with iCloud. • Up Next opens the next book in a series from your library as you finish one. ORGANIZE YOUR LIBRARY • Arrange books and documents in folders and subfolders. • Sort by author and see each book's series at a glance. • Make your collection easier to browse with custom covers. • Import and export through Files, including iCloud Drive and compatible cloud storage providers. OPEN AND EDIT MORE • Convert EPUB books to PDF. • Edit PDF, plain text, RTF, Markdown, HTML and TeX documents. • View other document formats, including Word, Pages, spreadsheets and presentations. • Open images, audio and video alongside your reading material. Privacy Policy http://www.noteswriter.com/Kairoos_Privacy_Policy.html Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

MapleRead CX4 screens
eBooks Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: MapleRead CX at Free against eBooks Pro's $4.99. MapleRead CX also leads on review sentiment (62% vs 50%) and ratings volume (24 vs 8). eBooks Pro's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 3.4) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 5 weeks). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

MapleRead CX is free to download; eBooks Pro costs $4.99 up front. MapleRead CX sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and eBooks Pro sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

eBooks Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 24 and 8 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 62% of MapleRead CX's written reviews are positive against 50% of eBooks Pro's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MapleRead CX ships an update every 5 weeks, eBooks Pro every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
MapleRead CX versus eBooks Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMapleRead CXeBooks Pro
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating3.4 (24 ratings)4.8 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews61.5% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings24 — better8
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaid — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB461 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaplepop LLCKairoos Solutions SL

Customer experience

MapleRead CX

All ratings24 ratings
Positive58.3%
Neutral8.3%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews39 reviews
Positive61.5%
Neutral10.3%
Negative28.2%

eBooks Pro

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

MapleRead CX

One-time1
  • Pro Upgrade$6.99
3 purchases

eBooks Pro

Subscriptions2
  • eBooks Pro Full AI Assistant3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • eBooks Pro Annual3 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • eBooks Pro Upgrade$3.99

Questions

Is MapleRead CX free?
MapleRead CX is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is eBooks Pro free?
eBooks Pro costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, MapleRead CX or eBooks Pro?
eBooks Pro is rated higher. MapleRead CX averages 3.4 out of 5 from 24 ratings, while eBooks Pro averages 4.8 from 8 ratings.
Do MapleRead CX or eBooks Pro have ads?
Neither MapleRead CX nor eBooks Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MapleRead CX or eBooks Pro?
MapleRead CX ships an update every 5 weeks, and eBooks Pro every 8 days. Most recently, MapleRead CX was updated on November 2, 2026 and eBooks Pro on November 3, 2026.

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