Comparison

Gutenberg Reader + Many Books vs Project Gutenberg eBook Reader

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

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About

Gutenberg Reader + Many Books

Access over 100,000 free public domain eBooks from Project Gutenberg. Enjoy a customizable reading experience with features like text-to-speech, auto-scrolling, and note-taking. Download books for offline reading on any device.

Highlights
  • Unlimited eBook downloads
  • Customizable reading experience
  • Text-to-Speech (TTS) mode
  • Auto-scrolling mode
  • Bookmark, highlight, and notes
  • Offline reading
Features
Read full description

Gutenberg Reader – The Ultimate Free eBook & Classic Book Reader Discover 100,000+ Free eBooks with Project Gutenberg If you love books, novels, and classic literature, this is the perfect eBook reader for you! With Gutenberg Reader, you can access over 100,000 free eBooks from Project Gutenberg, including timeless classics, historical texts, philosophy, poetry, and more. Enjoy reading legendary works from Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Victor Hugo, Emily Brontë, and many others—all legally available in the public domain. What is Project Gutenberg? Project Gutenberg is the largest digital library of free public domain eBooks, offering a vast collection of literature, philosophy, history, and poetry—completely free and legally accessible. Whether you're interested in classic novels, educational texts, famous speeches, or timeless stories, you'll find endless reading material at your fingertips. Top Features of Gutenberg Reader ・ Unlimited eBook Downloads – Download books for offline reading anytime. ・ Customizable Reading Experience – Adjust fonts, themes, colors, margins, and more. ・ AUDIO: Text-to-Speech (TTS) Mode – Listen to your favorite books while reading along. ・ Auto-Scrolling Mode – Hands-free reading without flipping pages. ・ Full-Screen Mode – Distraction-free reading with an immersive experience. ・ Bookmark, Highlight & Notes – Save quotes, mark passages, and take notes. ・ Big & Bold Fonts – Ideal for easy readability and accessibility. ・ Smart Resume Feature – Pick up reading right where you left off. ・ Optimized for All Devices – Works smoothly on both phones and tablets. Popular Free Books Available in Gutenberg Reader Discover a vast collection of classic literature, novels, and timeless books, including: ・ Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen ・ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll ・ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain ・ A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens ・ The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People – Oscar Wilde ・ The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman ・ Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ・ Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain ・ A Doll's House – Henrik Ibsen ・ Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka ・ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle ・ Moby-Dick – Herman Melville ・ Dracula – Bram Stoker ・ Grimms' Fairy Tales – Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm ・ The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde ・ Great Expectations – Charles Dickens ・ Ulysses – James Joyce ・ Emma – Jane Austen ・ Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad ・ Jane Eyre: An Autobiography – Charlotte Brontë ・ The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas ・ Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse ・ Dubliners – James Joyce ・ Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson ・ Les Misérables – Victor Hugo ・ Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes ・ Peter Pan – J.M. Barrie ・ Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen ・ The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky ・ Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman ・ The Souls of Black Folk – W.E.B. Du Bois ・ Beyond Good and Evil – Friedrich Nietzsche ・ Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë ・ A Study in Scarlet – Arthur Conan Doyle ・ Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky …and thousands more free eBooks! Why Choose Gutenberg Reader? With Gutenberg Reader, you can carry a massive digital library of classic books, novels, and free eBooks wherever you go. Whether you love fiction, history, philosophy, poetry, or educational texts, this app gives you unlimited access to some of the greatest literary works of all time—without ads and completely free! Start Reading Today! Download Gutenberg Reader now and explore the world’s greatest free eBook library. Whether you're a book lover, student, researcher, or casual reader, this app is your gateway to endless knowledge and literary adventures—all from the palm of your hand. Happy Reading!

About

Project Gutenberg eBook Reader

Access a vast library of over 75,000 public domain classic books. Read them offline, search by title or author, and enjoy features like adjustable text, themes, and bookmarks. Listen to audiobooks with synchronized text highlighting.

Highlights
  • 75,000+ classic books
  • Offline reading
  • Read-along audiobooks
  • Customizable reader themes
  • Search and browse library
  • Bookmarks and highlights
Features
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Gutenberg puts one of the largest libraries ever assembled in your pocket. Over 75,000 public-domain classics — every novel, essay, play and poem that time has released — ready to read, to search, and to carry with you offline. And the ones you love most, you can hear read aloud, with the words lighting up on the page as the narrator speaks. No account. No clutter. Just the whole library, beautifully made. READ EVERYTHING • 75,000+ complete books from Project Gutenberg — fiction, history, philosophy, poetry, drama and more. • A clean, typeset reader that feels like paper, with a real page-curl turn or smooth vertical scrolling — your choice. • Light, sepia and dark themes; adjustable typeface, text size and margins. • Highlight passages, keep bookmarks, and jump anywhere with a full table of contents. • Every book downloads for offline reading — on a plane, on the subway, anywhere. LISTEN, IN SYNC • A growing collection of read-along audiobooks: classics narrated aloud, aligned to the page. • Words highlight as they're read, so you can read and listen at the same time — or just close your eyes and listen. • Background playback, lock-screen controls, adjustable speed, and skip-forward / skip-back. • Pick up exactly where you left off, whether you were reading or listening. FIND ANYTHING • Search 75,000+ titles by book or by author in an instant. • Browse by subject — Literature, History, Science, Poetry and dozens more — each thousands of books deep. • Sort by most downloaded, recently added, title, or reading ease. • Explore curated shelves, popular authors, and picks based on what you're reading. BUILT FOR READERS • Warm, considered design that gets out of the way of the words. • Set the app to Light, Dark, or follow your system. • Fast, offline-first, and respectful of your attention. GUTENBERG PREMIUM Gutenberg Premium removes ads and lifts all limits so you can open every book and every audiobook without interruption. • Premium is offered as a Weekly or Yearly auto-renewable subscription, or a one-time Lifetime unlock. • Prices are shown in the app and may vary by region. • Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. • A subscription automatically renews 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 before the period ends. • You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your App Store account settings. • Any unused portion of a trial period, where offered, is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. All books are sourced from Project Gutenberg and are in the public domain. Gutenberg is an independent reader and is not affiliated with the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Privacy Policy: https://burakkose.me/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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Gutenberg Reader + Many Books4 screens
Project Gutenberg eBook Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Gutenberg Reader + Many Books at 45% against Project Gutenberg eBook Reader's 0%. Gutenberg Reader + Many Books also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (119 vs 1). Project Gutenberg eBook Reader's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.6) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, monetization model 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. Project Gutenberg eBook Reader sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Gutenberg Reader + Many Books asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Project Gutenberg eBook Reader holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gutenberg Reader + Many Books has 119 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 45% of Gutenberg Reader + Many Books's written reviews are positive against 0% of Project Gutenberg eBook Reader's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gutenberg Reader + Many Books ships an update every 3 weeks, Project Gutenberg eBook Reader every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Gutenberg Reader + Many Books versus Project Gutenberg eBook Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGutenberg Reader + Many BooksProject Gutenberg eBook Reader
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (119 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews44.7% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings119 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB24 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperHaven TranBurak Kose

Customer experience

Gutenberg Reader + Many Books

All ratings116 ratings
Positive62.1%
Neutral7.8%
Negative30.2%
Written reviews38 reviews
Positive44.7%
Neutral2.6%
Negative52.6%

Project Gutenberg eBook Reader

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Gutenberg Reader + Many Books

Reported bugs

16 issues
  • App hangs often
  • Speed of moving text uncontrollable
  • Illustrations do not show up
  • Does not sync between separate devices
  • Search function is not working correctly
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  • Ads are intrusive
  • App support link is broken
  • Books keep getting deleted
  • Takes ages to load, still doesn't load
  • No download functionality
  • Does not display Umlauts
  • Words are split at random
  • Search button renders incorrectly
  • Reports 404 on book downloads
  • Many bugs, unable to read books
  • Too many ads

Requested features

9 requests
  • Fix app hanging issues
  • Improve search functionality
  • Allow users to rate & review books
  • Add book summaries before download
  • Fix illustrations not showing
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  • Sync between separate devices
  • Improve paragraph formatting for dyslexia
  • Fix books deleting overnight
  • Make UI more modern and intuitive

Project Gutenberg eBook Reader

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Gutenberg Reader + Many Books

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Project Gutenberg eBook Reader

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly Subscription$4.997 Days
  • Yearly Subscription$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$29.99

Questions

Is Gutenberg Reader + Many Books free?
Gutenberg Reader + Many Books is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Project Gutenberg eBook Reader free?
Project Gutenberg eBook Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Gutenberg Reader + Many Books or Project Gutenberg eBook Reader?
Project Gutenberg eBook Reader is rated higher. Gutenberg Reader + Many Books averages 3.6 out of 5 from 119 ratings, while Project Gutenberg eBook Reader averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Gutenberg Reader + Many Books or Project Gutenberg eBook Reader have ads?
Both Gutenberg Reader + Many Books and Project Gutenberg eBook Reader show ads.
Which is updated more often, Gutenberg Reader + Many Books or Project Gutenberg eBook Reader?
Gutenberg Reader + Many Books ships an update every 3 weeks, and Project Gutenberg eBook Reader every 4 days. Most recently, Gutenberg Reader + Many Books was updated on October 26, 2026 and Project Gutenberg eBook Reader on October 25, 2026.

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