epuBear Reader vs BookFolder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
epuBear Reader
This application is a dedicated reader for EPUB format books, offering a seamless and ad-free experience. It provides essential reading features like navigation, font customization, and bookmarking, along with advanced options such as text search and highlighting.
- EPUB 2 and EPUB3 compatibility
- Chapter and page navigation
- Night mode
- Adjustable font size
- Text search
- Bookmarks and highlights
- Text-to-speech
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Our epuBear Reader acts as a standalone reader for EPUB format books with no ads and no limitations and the solution is based on epuBear SDK developed by Scand. Core Functionality: - Reading EPUB format files; - Performance indicators display; epuBear Reader Features: - Compatibility with EPUB 2 and EPUB3 format; - Navigation through pages; - Navigation through chapters; - Night mode; - Font size change; - Embedded links support; - Text search; - Text and background color change; - Bookmarks; - Text-to-speach; - Text notes and highlights; - Ad-free; - Fast and smooth; - Clear and simple interface; - Customer support.
BookFolder
Organize your PDF library with custom folders, cover images, and themes. Enjoy a personalized reading experience with features like split-screen multitasking and bookmarks. This free app offers a clean interface and essential reading tools.
- Custom folder organization
- Custom cover images for PDFs
- Split-screen multitasking on iPad
- Multiple theme colors and icons
- Dark Mode support
- Bookmarks and table of contents
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Organize your PDFs, set custom covers, and choose from several theme colors and icons, for a pleasant reading experience just the way you want it. • Create folders and folder groups to keep your PDFs organized however you prefer. Rename and rearrange things as the mood takes you. Name every single book and folder the same thing, if you really want to! (I don’t recommend doing that, but nonetheless, that’s the sort of awesome power that you wield if you use BookFolder.) • Set custom cover images for every book (or stick with a book’s default cover, of course). Your library will look the way that you want it to! (And the underlying files remain pristine, so if you begin to regret choosing a photo of your cat for every book in your collection, you can always restore the originals and no one will know. Except your cat, who is judging you now.) • Get wild on an iPad with split-screen multitasking support. Read two books at once (or the same book twice)! If that’s something that you want to do. • Swap between five theme colors, for an interface that works best for you. (Dark Mode support, too, of course!) • Choose from a dozen icons, from solid colors to subdued platinum to a retro rainbow look, to fit your mood and to ensure a harmonious home screen layout with your other apps. (I’m not the only one who arranges my icons by color and design… am I?) • You can use it to actually read the PDFs, too, of course. Mustn’t forget that part. • Plus bookmarks, searching, and table-of-contents support, as one would expect. • Also, it’s free, no in-app purchases, no tracking… just a nice PDF reader and library manager. I hope that you’ll enjoy it!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: BookFolder at 4.7 against epuBear Reader's 4.2. BookFolder also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (28 vs 6). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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.
BookFolder holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 28 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of epuBear Reader's written reviews are positive against 88% of BookFolder's.
epuBear Reader ships an update every 7 months, BookFolder every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | epuBear Reader | BookFolder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (6 ratings) | 4.7 (28 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | 88.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 28 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SCAND LLC | Molly Black |
Customer experience
epuBear Reader
BookFolder
In-app purchases
epuBear Reader
No in-app purchases
BookFolder
No in-app purchases
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