Gutenberg | eBook Reader vs Bound and Borrowed
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/
Bound and Borrowed
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Bound and Borrowed is the calm, private way to catalog every book you own, remember what you've read, and never lose track of the ones you've lent out. Scan a barcode and your book is added in seconds! Title, author, cover, and publisher filled in automatically. Prefer to add books by hand, import a list, or even snap a screenshot of your audiobook library. Bound and Borrowed catalogs those too. Catalog your collection • Scan barcodes to add books instantly • Automatic details and cover art from the ISBN • Physical books, e-books, and audiobooks all on one shelf • Track multiple copies, condition, and where each one lives • Import your existing library from a CSV Track your reading • Mark books read or unread, copy by copy • See how many you've read this year and all-time • Sort and filter by title, author, format, or read status • A Home Screen widget keeps your stats a glance away Never lose a loaned book again • Record who borrowed which book, and when • Set due dates and spot overdue books at a glance • Send a friendly reminder by Messages in one tap Made for Audiobook listeners • Mark any book as an audiobook and filter to just those • Import your Audible or other audiobook library straight from screenshots read on your device, no uploads and no account needed Private by design Your library lives on your device. There's no account to create and nothing to sign in to. The only thing ever sent to the internet is an ISBN or a title, used to look up book details, never your personal data. Free to Start Catalog up to 50 books, track your reading, lend a couple at a time, and export your list — all free. Upgrade to Bound and Borrowed Pro with a single one-time purchase (no subscription) to unlock unlimited books and loans, CSV and audiobook import, the Home Screen widget, filtered exports, attachments, and bulk detail refresh. Whether you're a lifelong collector, a casual reader, or the friend who always lends books and never gets them back, Bound and Borrowed keeps your whole library — and everyone who's borrowed from it — beautifully in order. Reader's Companion is offered as an auto-renewable subscription (monthly or yearly). Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current period. Manage or cancel subscriptions in your App Store account settings after purchase. Prices are shown in the app and may vary by region. Privacy Policy: https://gadgetheads.biz/apps/bound-and-borrowed/privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://gadgetheads.biz/apps/bound-and-borrowed/terms/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Bound and Borrowed at none against Gutenberg | eBook Reader's shown. Bound and Borrowed also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). Gutenberg | eBook Reader's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). 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
Both are free to download. Gutenberg | eBook Reader sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Bound and Borrowed sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Gutenberg | eBook Reader ships an update every 6 weeks, Bound and Borrowed fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gutenberg | eBook Reader | Bound and Borrowed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (745 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 69.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 745 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Webron Software LTD | GadgetHeads LLC |
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
Bound and Borrowed
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
Bound and Borrowed
- Bound and Borrowed Pro$4.99
Questions
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