Gutenberg | eBook Reader vs Epub Reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gutenberg | eBook Reader
Access a vast library of public domain e-books and audiobooks from around the world. Explore tens of thousands of titles across numerous languages and categories, including classics and popular works.
- Vast public domain e-book library
- Extensive audiobook collection
- Thousands of titles available
- Multiple languages supported
- Categorized book selection
- Top 50 e-books listed
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This app contains the largest public domain e-book and audio book platforms in the world. This application brings a large collection of e-books and audio books to your phone and makes more than 50.000 e-books, 10.000 audio books available for you. Thousands of books from different categories and languages. Languages with more than 50 e-books, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog. Top 50 e-books: 1- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 2- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 3- The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 4- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 5- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 6- Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 7 -The Bayeux Tapestry Elucidated by John Collingwood Bruce 8- Why Men Fight by Bertrand Russell 9- Dracula by Bram Stoker 10- The Young Train Dispatcher by Burton Egbert Stevenson 11- Il Principe. English by Niccolò Machiavelli 12- Et dukkehjem. English by Henrik Ibsen 13- Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem 14- Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 15- Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary 16- Rowlandson by Mary White Rowlandson 17- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 18- Grimms' Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm 19- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 20- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 21- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American 22- Slave by Frederick Douglass 23- Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie 24- Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin 25- The Iliad by Homer 26- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare 27- Red Wagon Stories by Wells Hawks 28- War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy 29- The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana 30- The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for 31- Serious People by Oscar Wilde 32- Common Sense by Thomas Paine 33- Histories of two hundred and fifty-one divisions of the 34- German army which participated in the war 35- The Romance of Lust: A Classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous 36- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 37- Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville 38- The War in the East by Trumbull White 39- Ulysses by James Joyce 40- Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë 41- The Key to Theosophy by H. P. Blavatsky 42- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 43- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 44- The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 3 (of 4) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 45- The Theory of Environment by Armin Hajman Koller 46- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 47- The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin 48- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving 49- Webster & Tourneur by Cyril Tourneur and John Webster 50- Prestuplenie i nakazanie. English by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Top Audio Books: 1- Pride and Prejudice 2- Jane Eyre 3- Persuasion 4- Anne of Green Gables 5- Emma 6- Little Women 7- The Count of Monte Cristo 8- Mansfield Park 9- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 10- Wuthering Heights 11- The Woman in White 12- Frankenstein: The 1818 Text 13- A Little Princess 14- Moby-Dick 15- Sense and Sensibility 16- North and South 17- Dracula 18- The Scarlet PimpernelThe Scarlet Pimpernel 19- The 39 Steps 20- The Picture of Dorian Gray 21- Tess of the D'Urbervilles 22- David Copperfield 23- My Man Jeeves 24- The Invisible Man 25- A Christmas Carol 26- The Secret Garden 27- Northanger Abbey 28- Uncle Tom's Cabin 29- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 30- The Return of Sherlock Holmes 31- Middlemarch 32- A Room with a View 33- Agnes Grey 34- Wives and Daughters 35- Around the World in Eighty Days 36- The Metamorphosis 37- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 38- Don QuixoteDon Quixote 39- The Importance of Being Earnest 40- A Tale of Two Cities Terms of Use(EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Epub Reader
This app offers a seamless reading experience for various ebook formats including EPUB, PDF, and CHM. It supports multiple compression formats and provides features like table of contents, note-taking, and bookmarking. Customize your reading with adjustable font sizes.
- Supports EPUB, PDF, CHM, RTF formats
- Opens compressed files (ZIP, RAR, 7Zip)
- Table of Contents navigation
- Note-taking functionality
- Bookmark management
- Customizable font size
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Epub Reader: Ultimate Ebook & Comic Viewer Experience seamless reading with a powerful, all-in-one document viewer designed for iOS. Now fully compatible with Kindle and Amazon ebook formats! All-in-One Format Support • Kindle Formats: MOBI, AZW, AZW3, AZW4, PRC • Ebooks & Docs: EPUB, PDF, CHM, RTF • Comics & Archives: CBZ, CBR, ZIP, RAR, 7Z, GZIP, TAR Key Features: • Smart Navigation: Effortlessly browse and skip chapters with the interactive Table of Contents. • Personalized Reading: Highlight text, take inline notes, and save your favorite pages with bookmarks. • Fully Customizable: Adjust font sizes and layouts to read comfortably, day or night. • Easy File Transfer: Instantly import books via Wi-Fi (desktop browser) or iTunes File Sharing. #Permanent professional version: * Make a one-time purchase and resume purchases anytime, anywhere. #Annual professional version: * Annual auto-renewable subscription, automatic renewal upon expiration. * Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's iTunes Account Settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://junjie-5cfc2.web.app/epubreader/privacypolicy.html Terms of Use: https://junjie-5cfc2.web.app/epubreader/terms.html Contact us: marryapps@163.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Epub Reader at every 11 days against Gutenberg | eBook Reader's every 6 weeks. Epub Reader also leads on ratings volume (11K vs 713) and chart position (#132 vs unranked). Gutenberg | eBook Reader's advantage is review sentiment (69% vs 55%). 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. Gutenberg | eBook Reader sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Epub Reader sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Gutenberg | eBook Reader against 4.5 for Epub Reader. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Epub Reader has 11K ratings behind it against 713, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 69% of Gutenberg | eBook Reader's written reviews are positive against 55% of Epub Reader's.
Gutenberg | eBook Reader ships an update every 6 weeks, Epub Reader every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gutenberg | eBook Reader | Epub Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (713 ratings) | 4.5 (11K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 69.2% of reviews — better | 55.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 713 | 11K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #132 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Webron Software LTD | 俐 马 |
Customer experience
Gutenberg | eBook Reader
Epub Reader
User reviews
Gutenberg | eBook Reader
From 713 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 📚 Extensive collection of classic literature
- 💰 Free access to thousands of books
- 👍 Easy to use interface
- 📖 Page-turning feature mimics physical books
- 🌙 Night mode for comfortable reading
Room to improve
- 🔍 Search function is unreliable and confusing
- 📱 Poor book organization and browsing
- 💔 Missing many books found on Project Gutenberg website
- 📺 Excessive and intrusive advertisements
- ⚙️ Limited customization options for book format
Epub Reader
From 11K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 Fast and responsive
- 💡 Convenient file transfer via WiFi
- 🤩 Great for casual reading
Room to improve
- 🐛 Loses bookmarks and reading progress
- 🔍 Lacks search functionality
- 🌗 No dark mode option
- 📏 Limited customization options
- 💤 Doesn't remember last read position
Bugs and requests
Gutenberg | eBook Reader
Reported bugs
7 issues- Search returns no results or irrelevant results
- Books listed on Project Gutenberg not appearing in app
- App fails to download certain books
- Reading progress not saved between sessions
- Continuous scroll instead of page-by-page display
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- Search function completely non-functional for some users
- App crashes or becomes unresponsive
Requested features
10 requests- Improved search functionality with better filtering
- Better book organization and categorization system
- Dictionary/word definition feature
- Improved paragraph spacing and text formatting
- Page-by-page navigation instead of chapter-based
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- Ability to delete books from library
- Bookmark and reading progress saving
- More non-fiction and contemporary book titles
- Author search by first and last name
- Reduced or optional advertisements
Epub Reader
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes when opening certain files
- Distorts images in some ebooks
- Fails to open ePub files consistently
Requested features
5 requests- Add dark mode
- Improve bookmark and progress tracking
- Implement search feature
- Increase customization options
- Allow variable screen timeout
In-app purchases
Gutenberg | eBook Reader
- Monthly Subscription$1.991 Month
- Weekly Subscription$4.997 Days
- Weekly Subscription3 Days trial$4.997 Days
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- Yearly Subscription$24.991 Year
- Premium$39.99
- Lifetime Premium$39.99
Epub Reader
- Annual professional version$3.991 Year
- Remove Ads$0.99
- Passcode Lock$0.99
- Pro Version$5.99
Questions
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