Comparison

Elsevier eBooks on VitalSource vs Euma

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

Head to head
About

Elsevier eBooks on VitalSource

Access and read Elsevier textbooks on your iOS device. Download books for offline study, search your entire library, and add notes and highlights. Sync your progress across devices for a seamless learning experience.

Highlights
  • Download books for offline reading
  • Search entire library
  • Create notes and highlights
  • Sync across devices
  • Pinch to zoom figures
Features
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Use Elsevier® eBooks to download and access Elsevier textbooks on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. Read your books online or offline, search across your full library, and create notes and highlights to help you study. Elsevier eBooks Features: • Download books to your iOS device for easy online or offline reading. • Simple, user-friendly navigation and a clean reading experience. • Search inside your current book or across your full library. • Select text to create notes or highlights from your mobile device. • Tap to open figures, view captions and pinch to zoom. • Sync your bookmarks, last page read and all of your notes and highlights between your iOS device and our desktop or web-based Elsevier eBooks apps. Requirements: • Elsevier eBooks account • Access to one or more Elsevier textbooks • iOS 17+

About

Euma

Features
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Euma is a tutor for your own textbook, and it talks. Open a PDF or EPUB, a textbook or your professor’s syllabus. Euma reads it aloud, explains the page, asks you a question and checks your answer, so you can study on a walk or on the train. Made for medical students, and for anyone with a thick book and an exam date. Your book, tutored out loud Switch the listening mode to Tutor and press play. Euma explains the page out loud, asks you a question and waits for your answer. Say it or type it. The Tutor works out the right answer first, then tells you what you got right and what is missing. Weak spots come back Between pages, tap Refresh. The Tutor asks again about ideas from earlier pages that are due for review, and says which pages they come from. Your book, read aloud Press play and Euma reads your book aloud in its own language: a Dutch syllabus is read in Dutch. Scanned pages are read too. Ask about the page Stuck on a passage? Ask Euma. Answers come from your book and show the page they came from, so you can read it there yourself. They teach the intuition, the mechanism and the book’s own detail, with a question to test yourself. Some answers include a picture: a figure from your book or a licensed image. On iPad, write on PDF pages with Apple Pencil and circle a passage to ask Euma about it. On Mac, the chat sits beside the book. A plan to your exam Pick a finish date, such as the day of your exam, and Euma works out how many pages to read a day. Progress follows what you have actually read. Start reading right away Reading, highlights and progress need no account and cost nothing. Euma AI and Euma Plus The voice, the Tutor and answers about the page come with Euma AI, a monthly subscription that starts with a 7-day free trial. Euma Plus has a larger monthly allowance. In euro countries Euma AI is €4.99 a month and Euma Plus €9.99 a month; elsewhere the App Store shows your local price before you subscribe. A meter in the app shows how much of your monthly allowance you have used. The app is in English. The voice and the answers follow the language of your book. Euma runs on iPhone and iPad with iOS 26 or later. Euma for Mac (macOS 26 or later) is a download from euma.app. Terms of use: https://euma.app/terms Privacy policy: https://euma.app/privacy

Screenshots

Elsevier eBooks on VitalSource4 screens
Euma4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Elsevier eBooks on VitalSource at none against Euma's 2. Elsevier eBooks on VitalSource also leads on iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). Euma's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 months). On price, ads 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

Both are free to download. Euma sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Elsevier eBooks on VitalSource asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Elsevier eBooks on VitalSource ships an update every 3 months, Euma every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Elsevier eBooks on VitalSource versus Euma: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterElsevier eBooks on VitalSourceEuma
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (9.4K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews16.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings9.4K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size188 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperElsevier Inc.Lucas Van Houtven

Bugs and requests

Elsevier eBooks on VitalSource

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Repeated sentence/paragraph playback
  • Highlighted text disappearing across devices
  • Inability to download or access purchased books

Requested features

5 requests
  • Allow handwritten notes and annotations
  • Improve page-turning and scrolling functionality
  • Enhance diagram and image viewing experience
  • Integrate seamless cross-device synchronization
  • Provide more customization options (e.g., font, layout)

Euma

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Elsevier eBooks on VitalSource

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Euma

Subscriptions2
  • Euma AI7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Euma Plus7 Days trial$8.991 Month

Questions

Is Elsevier eBooks on VitalSource free?
Elsevier eBooks on VitalSource is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Euma free?
Euma is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Elsevier eBooks on VitalSource or Euma have ads?
Neither Elsevier eBooks on VitalSource nor Euma shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Elsevier eBooks on VitalSource or Euma?
Elsevier eBooks on VitalSource ships an update every 3 months, and Euma every 3 days. Most recently, Elsevier eBooks on VitalSource was updated on November 9, 2026 and Euma on October 31, 2026.

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