Gutenberg | eBook Reader vs Micro Reading
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/
Micro Reading
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Micro Reading OS turns the spare minutes in your day into real reading progress. Paste an article, import a book, or scan a page, then read it one word at a time with RSVP (Rapid Serial Visual Presentation) — a focused format designed to cut down on wasted eye movement and help you stay with the text, whether you have two minutes or twenty. This isn't a speed-reading gimmick. It's built around realistic, comprehension-first pace (roughly 300–500 words per minute), so you make steady progress without losing the thread. FOCUSED RSVP READING • One word at a time, with ORP (Optimal Recognition Point) highlighting to guide your eye • Adjustable reading speed • Customizable text size and reader themes • Simple gestures: tap to pause, double-tap to resume, swipe to rewind, long-press to bookmark • Prefer pages? Switch to page view and turn pages with a swipe • Progress tracking for every document KEEP READING IN OTHER APPS On iPhone, pop your reading into a floating Picture-in-Picture window and keep going while you check a message or switch apps. BRING YOUR OWN CONTENT • Paste text straight from your clipboard • Import EPUB, PDF, and plain text files • Search your library and jump back into anything you've saved • Bookmark key passages and return to them later • Organize your library into custom Reading Lists • Everything you import is available offline MADE FOR IPHONE AND IPAD Every screen adapts to iPad, with a comfortable reading width in portrait and landscape. READ ON APPLE WATCH Continue an RSVP session right on your wrist — your place stays in step between iPhone and Apple Watch, even for long books. Control playback with simple gestures or the Digital Crown and feel haptic feedback as you read. Your reader colors and theme carry over automatically from iPhone. A HOME SCREEN WIDGET THAT KEEPS YOU MOVING See your current book at a glance and control playback — pause, resume, skip, adjust speed — without unlocking your phone. ALSO ON MAC Read and manage your library on Mac, with a menu bar companion for quick playback control. UNDERSTAND YOUR READING • Daily reading goal • Reading streaks • Stats on time read, words read, and sessions completed BUILT FOR REAL-LIFE READING Micro Reading OS isn't about turning every session into a race. It's about making use of the small moments already in your day — a few minutes in line, a chapter on the commute, a paragraph before bed. One spare moment at a time. MICRO READING OS PREMIUM (OPTIONAL) The core reading experience — RSVP and page view, clipboard paste, EPUB/PDF/text import, bookmarks, Reading Lists, search, Picture-in-Picture, the Watch app, widget, and reading stats — is free, with your library capped at 20 documents. Premium removes the cap and adds: • Unlimited library • Save web articles by pasting a link • Scan printed pages or photos into text with on-device text recognition • Import more file types, including documents, ebooks, and subtitles • Discover free public-domain books and encyclopedia articles • Every reader theme, plus fine-tuned custom colors Premium is available as a monthly or annual subscription, or as a one-time Lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at purchase confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID account settings. Prices may vary by region. Privacy Policy: https://funpixel.ca/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Micro Reading OS — your reading, wherever you are.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Micro Reading at none against Gutenberg | eBook Reader's shown. Micro Reading also leads on device support (5 vs 3). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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 Micro Reading sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Gutenberg | eBook Reader ships an update every 6 weeks, Micro Reading monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gutenberg | eBook Reader | Micro Reading |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Monthly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Webron Software LTD | Fun Pixel Inc. |
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
Micro Reading
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
Micro Reading
- Micro Reading Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
- Micro Reading Premium Annual$19.991 Year
Questions
Is Gutenberg | eBook Reader free?
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Which is updated more often, Gutenberg | eBook Reader or Micro Reading?
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