Macmillan Learning eBook vs MyLynx
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Macmillan Learning eBook
Access and study digital textbooks on your iPad or iPhone with a comprehensive, digital-first experience. Download books for offline reading, customize your study tools with notes and flashcards, and personalize the reading environment for easier learning.
- Offline reading
- Note-taking and highlighting
- Flashcard creation
- Customizable reading settings
- Read Aloud feature
- Cross-device syncing
- Accessibility features
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Use Macmillan® Learning eBook to enjoy a digital-first, comprehensive study experience from the convenience of your iPad or iPhone. Download and access digital textbooks to study anytime, anywhere. Features: • Download books to your iOS device for 100% offline reading. • Customize highlighters and add notes for a rich study experience. • Create flashcards with text and images to learn concepts faster. • Personalize font, font size, and background colors to make reading easier. • Listen to your books and learn on the go with Read Aloud. • Sync your current reading position and all your work across devices so you can easily pick up where you left off. • Built with accessibility in mind.
MyLynx
Discover campus events and ways to get involved. Filter events by host organization or activity type, and add them to your personal calendar to ensure you don't miss out on any opportunities.
- Discover campus events
- Filter by host organization
- Filter by activity tags
- Add events to calendar
- Increase student engagement
- Digitize involvement processes
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Use the McPherson College Events app to find out what events are happening and find out how you can get involved on campus! • Sort by campus organizations hosting events • Find events tagged with your favorite activities • Add events to your calendar so you don’t miss out! Powered by Presence. Presence provides a web and mobile platform to universities and colleges to help increase student engagement, assess involvement, allocate funding efficiently, and improve retention through simplifying and digitizing processes, collecting, structuring, and analyzing involvement data, and provides tools to help reach and engage more students.
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Verdict
Macmillan Learning eBook and MyLynx both sit at 4.3 stars, but that hides the real split: 50% of MyLynx's written reviews are positive against 11% of Macmillan Learning eBook's. MyLynx also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.6). Macmillan Learning eBook's advantage is ratings volume (2.3K vs 3) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 9 months). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Macmillan Learning eBook against 4.3 for MyLynx. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Macmillan Learning eBook has 2.3K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 11% of Macmillan Learning eBook's written reviews are positive against 50% of MyLynx's.
Macmillan Learning eBook ships an update every 3 months, MyLynx every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Macmillan Learning eBook | MyLynx |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (2.3K ratings) | 4.3 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 11.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.3K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 183 MB | 122 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HPHLP | Check I'm Here, LLC |
Customer experience
Macmillan Learning eBook
MyLynx
Bugs and requests
Macmillan Learning eBook
Reported bugs
3 issues- Login credentials not recognized
- Frequent app crashes
- Textbooks disappearing from library
Requested features
3 requests- Integrate with popular reading apps
- Improve annotation and note-taking tools
- Provide a universal e-reader option
MyLynx
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Macmillan Learning eBook
No in-app purchases
MyLynx
No in-app purchases
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