MapleRead CX vs iRead
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.]
iRead
A minimalist PDF reader offering a distraction-free reading experience with customizable fonts and themes. Easily import and navigate documents for study, work, or leisure.
- Distraction-free reading
- Customizable font size
- Light and dark modes
- Intuitive page navigation
- Effortless PDF import
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iRead is a minimalist PDF reader built for focused, comfortable reading. Whether you study, review documents, or read long PDFs at night, iRead gives your files a cleaner and calmer reading experience so you can stay with the content. Why readers choose iRead: - Import PDF files directly from your iPhone or iPad - Read in a clean, distraction-free interface - Adjust font size for better comfort - Switch between light and dark mode - Move between pages quickly and keep your place - Open documents fast and continue where you left off iRead is made for people who want a lightweight PDF reader instead of a cluttered editor. If you need a simple document reader for study sessions, work files, or personal reading, iRead keeps the experience clean and focused. Terms of Use: https://oguzdoruk.com/iread-tou/ Privacy Policy: https://oguzdoruk.com/iread-privacy-policy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: MapleRead CX at 3.4 against iRead's 3.0. MapleRead CX also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (24 vs 2). iRead's advantage is monetization model (freemium vs paid) and review sentiment (70% vs 62%). On price, 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
Both are free to download. MapleRead CX sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and iRead sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
MapleRead CX holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MapleRead CX has 24 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 62% of MapleRead CX's written reviews are positive against 70% of iRead's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
MapleRead CX ships an update every 5 weeks, iRead every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MapleRead CX | iRead |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (24 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 61.5% of reviews | 70.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Maplepop LLC | Oguz Doruk |
Customer experience
MapleRead CX
iRead
In-app purchases
MapleRead CX
- Pro Upgrade$6.99
iRead
- iRead Premium (Monthly)$1.991 Month
- iRead Premium (Annual)$9.991 Year








