Comparison

Gutenberg | eBook Reader vs Daily Canon

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

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About

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.

Highlights
  • Vast public domain e-book library
  • Extensive audiobook collection
  • Thousands of titles available
  • Multiple languages supported
  • Categorized book selection
  • Top 50 e-books listed
Features
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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/

About

Daily Canon

Discover a new literary masterpiece daily for a year, spanning diverse genres and cultures. Explore curated reading paths, author profiles, and thematic collections. Track your progress and unlock personalized reading statistics.

Highlights
  • Daily literary selection
  • Curated reading paths
  • Thematic collections
  • Author profiles
  • Progress tracking
  • Home and lock screen widgets
  • Dark mode
Features
Currently charting
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One great work of literature, every day, chosen for the day it arrives. Not a reading list you will never finish, and not a feed. One novel, poem, play or essay each morning, with a short piece written about it, and the whole book waiting behind it if it takes. Some days it will not be for you. That is the point: keep your line in the water and one of them bites, and you have found a book that will change your life. Hamlet on Shakespeare's birthday. Ulysses on Bloomsday. Dracula through October. Wuthering Heights on Valentine's Day, because love should always be a little unhinged. Thousands of works, four thousand years of writing, reaching well past the Western shelf to Diwali, Nowruz, Vesak and the lunar new year. TODAY'S WORK The day's work on a background painted by hand for that book alone: a blurb that sets the scene without spoiling it, a line worth keeping, and the gist in plain words for when the blurb leaves you guessing. THE LIBRARY Complete books, properly typeset and read inside the app, with more shelved every week: real page turns, hold a word for the dictionary, your place kept to the word. Download any and read with no signal at all. Many carry their original language beside the translation, switchable mid-chapter: Anna Karenina in Russian, Dante in Italian, the Odyssey in Greek. AMBIENCE Every book gets the weather it was written in. A storm for King Lear, the open sea for Moby-Dick, a fire and rain outside for a Russian winter. Rain, thunder, wind, fire, birds, a reading room after midnight: mix them yourself or leave it to the book. Nothing streams, and it plays on with the screen locked. THE APP BLOCKER Name the apps that eat your evening and The Daily Canon stands at the door. Open one and today's reading is offered first, with an honest fifteen minutes through if you really must. No guilt, no lecture. The feed will keep. BLOOMY A reader who has read the canon and, more usefully, your log. Ask what to read next, or what a passage is doing, or who else wrote like this. It answers in sentences, not links, and will shelve, log and rank things for you once you say yes. WHERE YOU LEFT OFF Put a book down three months ago? Say where you stopped and get back everything up to that point and not one word past it. READING GUIDES Warm, plain-spoken companions to the books that have beaten you before: Ulysses, Moby-Dick, Paradise Lost. READING PATHS Hundreds of curated routes through the canon. The Russian Soul, through Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov. The American Century. Books That Were Banned. Required Reading, every set text the syllabuses share. IMMERSIONS Live inside one book for a while, alongside everyone who signed up. Like a chapter of Dracula a day to Halloween. YOUR GOAL One book, a little each day, logged by holding a button. A streak underneath it, a forecast for the finish, and a shelf of everything you have seen through. MY CANON Your own ranked canon, built by asking which of two books you liked more. Every ranking is a self-portrait. YOUR LIST AND YOUR LOG Shelves for what you intend to read, and a log of what you actually did. We keep both, and are far too polite to compare them. IT WORKS WITHOUT A SIGNAL Today's work, your log, your streak and every downloaded book live on your phone. Tomorrow turns over at midnight whether or not there is a signal to fetch it. ALSO INCLUDES The Commonplace Book, for every line you keep. Thousands of authors with a page of their own. The world's literature, mapped. A literary word a day. What happened in literary history today, and the thought Tolstoy chose for it. Ten reading languages. Home and Lock Screen widgets. A reading timer in the Dynamic Island. Streaks, tiers and laurels. Your reading portrait, drawn from what you read. The Colophon, your year in reading, sealed and dated. Goodreads import. Spotlight search. Share cards. The Antipodes, a dare to the far side of your taste. Midnight and Manuscript themes.

Screenshots

Gutenberg | eBook Reader4 screens
Daily Canon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Daily Canon at none against Gutenberg | eBook Reader's shown. Daily Canon also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 6 weeks) and review sentiment (90% vs 70%). Gutenberg | eBook Reader's advantage is ratings volume (745 vs 222) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.1). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Gutenberg | eBook Reader sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Daily Canon sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Daily Canon holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 745 and 222 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Gutenberg | eBook Reader's written reviews are positive against 90% of Daily Canon's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gutenberg | eBook Reader ships an update every 6 weeks, Daily Canon every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 19, 2026.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Gutenberg | eBook Reader versus Daily Canon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGutenberg | eBook ReaderDaily Canon
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (745 ratings)4.7 (222 ratings) — better
Positive reviews69.7% of reviews89.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings745 — better222
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
Best chart rank—#181 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.1
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB739 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperWebron Software LTDHENRY NICHOLAS WALL

Customer experience

Gutenberg | eBook Reader

All ratings745 ratings
Positive89.1%
Neutral3.0%
Negative7.9%
Written reviews66 reviews
Positive69.7%
Neutral6.1%
Negative24.2%

Daily Canon

All ratings222 ratings
Positive93.2%
Neutral2.3%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews59 reviews
Positive89.8%
Neutral5.1%
Negative5.1%

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

Daily Canon

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Gutenberg | eBook Reader

Subscriptions4
  • 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
One-time2
  • Premium$39.99
  • Lifetime Premium$39.99
6 purchases

Daily Canon

Subscriptions2
  • Daily Canon Premium$6.991 Month
  • Daily Canon Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time4
  • One book from the library$1.99
  • Gift: One Year of Folio$29.99
  • Gift: Folio for Life$119.99
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  • Folio Lifetime$119.99

Questions

Is Gutenberg | eBook Reader free?
Gutenberg | eBook Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Daily Canon free?
Daily Canon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Gutenberg | eBook Reader or Daily Canon?
Daily Canon is rated higher. Gutenberg | eBook Reader averages 4.5 out of 5 from 745 ratings, while Daily Canon averages 4.7 from 222 ratings.
Do Gutenberg | eBook Reader or Daily Canon have ads?
Gutenberg | eBook Reader shows ads; Daily Canon does not.
Which is updated more often, Gutenberg | eBook Reader or Daily Canon?
Gutenberg | eBook Reader ships an update every 6 weeks, and Daily Canon every 4 days. Most recently, Gutenberg | eBook Reader was updated on October 19, 2026 and Daily Canon on October 19, 2026.

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