bREADER Cloud vs Yom! Aozora Bunko
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
bREADER Cloud
This cloud-based e-book reader allows you to store and access your EPUB and PDF files from any device. It offers full-text search within your cloud-stored books and integrates with academic digital library services.
- Cloud storage for e-books
- Full-text search
- Access from any device
- Integration with KinoDen academic library
- 100GB free cloud storage
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bREADER Cloudはクラウド型の電子書籍リーダーです。 EPUBやPDF等の電子書籍ファイルをクラウドストレージに保存し、場所を選ばずに「いつでも」「どこでも」読書できる環境を提供します。 ●クラウドストレージ連携ならではの機能 クラウドストレージ上に保存した電子書籍を全文検索することができます。対象書籍をダウンロードしていない端末でも素早く中身を検索することができます。 ●外部サービスとの連携 紀伊國屋書店が提供する学術電子図書館サービス「KinoDen(キノデン) Kinokuniya Digital Library」と連携しています。KinoDen電子図書館の利用者の皆様はコンテンツをbREADER Cloudに登録すれば、本棚から簡単に閲覧できるようになります。 KinoDenはWebブラウザでご利用ください。また、ご利用するには図書館へのアクセス権が別途必要です。 ●クラウドストレージの無料枠100GB ストレージ100GByte、月間転送量5GByteが無料で利用可能です。 当面は課金サービス及び広告提示はありません。 以下は今後のアップデートで実装予定の機能です。 ・画像アーカイブ形式のコンテンツへの対応
Yom! Aozora Bunko
Access and read a vast collection of Japanese literature from the Aozora Bunko digital library. Enjoy a seamless reading experience with this dedicated reader app.
- Aozora Bunko library access
- Dedicated reader interface
- Japanese literature collection
- Offline reading (implied)
- Customizable reading experience (implied)
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'Yom! Aozora Bunko' is an app that lets you easily read literary classics anytime, anywhere. You can read works from Aozora Bunko for free and enjoy more than 17,000 works by over 900 authors, including Soseki Natsume, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, and Osamu Dazai. This app includes a variety of features designed to make reading more comfortable. - Customize the display to your liking with vertical or horizontal text, adjustable font size, line spacing, and margins - Use bookmarks and favorites to quickly reopen works you are reading or works you love - Find what you want quickly through work search, author search, and category browsing - See page counts so you can tell at a glance how far you have read Users also highly appreciate how easy the app is to use. "Probably the most user-friendly Aozora Bunko viewer I have ever used." "Being able to switch to horizontal reading is really convenient!" "Thank you for providing such a wonderful app." With the Premium plan, you can enjoy reading without ads. ■ Premium Plan (1 month) - No ads - Access to premium features for 1 month ■ About auto-renewable subscriptions Your subscription will renew automatically unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. ■ How to cancel Open Settings > iTunes Store & App Store > Apple ID > View Apple ID > Subscriptions > Yom! Aozora Bunko, then cancel the subscription. ■ Restore purchases If you already have an active subscription, you can restore it from "Restore Purchases." ■ About cancellations Subscriptions cannot be canceled by any method other than the one above. We also cannot accept cancellations for the current month. ■ Terms of Use and Privacy Policy https://blog.seiichirou.jp/apps/aozora/privacypolicy/ ■ EULA https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Latest app news is available from the official accounts below. - Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/yomaozora - Official Blog: https://blog.seiichirou.jp/apps/aozora/ Download 'Yom! Aozora Bunko' and bring literary classics closer to your everyday life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: bREADER Cloud at none against Yom! Aozora Bunko's 1. bREADER Cloud also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Yom! Aozora Bunko's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (70% vs 57%). On price 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. Yom! Aozora Bunko sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. bREADER Cloud asks for nothing beyond the download.
bREADER Cloud ships an update every 3 months, Yom! Aozora Bunko every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | bREADER Cloud | Yom! Aozora Bunko |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | 69.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | INFOCITY, Inc. | Seiichirou Tanaka |
Customer experience
bREADER Cloud
Yom! Aozora Bunko
In-app purchases
bREADER Cloud
No in-app purchases
Yom! Aozora Bunko
- Premium Plan14 Days trial$0.991 Month








