Comparison

Glassboxx vs Specialist Courseware Reader

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

Head to head
About

Glassboxx

Access your purchased eBooks and audiobooks from affiliated stores in one secure app. No passwords needed, just your email and a verification code. Enjoy offline reading and listening with advanced playback and reading features.

Highlights
  • Unified eBook and audiobook library
  • No password login
  • Offline reading and listening
  • Auto-save reading/listening position
  • Customizable reader (font, background)
  • Audio playback controls (sleep timer, skip)
  • Full text search
Features
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Welcome to Glassboxx: hassle-free eBook and audiobook access, all in one place. Glassboxx cuts through all digital content ‘authentication’ issues, consolidating your eBook AND audiobook purchases made through affiliated stores, within an eminently user-friendly, secure environment. No password required – simply log in with the email address used to buy the book and enter the verification code sent to your email – and your content awaits in the ‘My Books’ area of the app, with formats clearly labelled. With the content in the cloud, downloading requires an initial internet connection, but once downloaded, your books can be enjoyed to your heart’s content in the remotest, furthest-flung corners of the earth, where internet penetration is a mere pipe-dream… THE AUDIO-PLAYER WILL: • Auto-save your current position in the book – so that you can pick up right where you left off, even if listening on different devices • Allow for skip forward/backward to recap where relevant • Offer sleep timer option • Play on lock-screen, enabling easy access to playback controls • Play in background whilst browsing other apps • Play immediately, and download in the background (provided internet access is available) THE EREADER ALLOWS FOR: • Page book-marking, opening the title at the right place when you pick up, even across multiple devices • Font-size and font face changes, as well as dyslexic-friendly font • Background colour changes • Full text search Welcome to the Glassboxx community!

About

Specialist Courseware Reader

Features
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Specialist Courseware Reader is an interactive eBook Reader App. The App comes in a stunning new design, refreshing eBook Interface, book download capabilities and a host of features to enhance your learning. It seamlessly integrates eBooks with videos, synched audios, image banks and interactivities for an engaging eBook reading experience.

Screenshots

Glassboxx4 screens
Specialist Courseware Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Specialist Courseware Reader at 11.0 against Glassboxx's 16.0. On price, ads, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Glassboxx versus Specialist Courseware Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGlassboxxSpecialist Courseware Reader
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.1 (74 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews27.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings74 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB111 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperGlassboxx LimitedSpecialist Courseware Ltd

Bugs and requests

Glassboxx

Reported bugs

36 issues
  • App crashes on startup
  • App crashes when loading downloaded book
  • App crashes between chapters
  • App freezes
  • App won't open
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  • App shows blank pages
  • App does not rotate
  • App shuts itself off
  • App is slow
  • App has huge margins
  • App has no landscape mode
  • App has no annotation
  • App has no dictionary
  • App has unresponsive buttons
  • App freezes regularly
  • App cannot flick through chapters
  • App touch response is slow
  • App target areas are small
  • App opens to empty screen
  • App settings cannot be closed
  • App has only one font
  • App text is too faint
  • App has visibility/alignment/color jankiness
  • Playback speed resets to 1x when app is minimized
  • Verification codes not sent or expired
  • Books not downloading
  • Purchased books not displaying
  • Login issues
  • Table of contents unresponsive
  • Cannot zoom
  • Cannot navigate easily
  • Screen color resets
  • App not working on iPad
  • Download issues
  • App is unusable
  • Progress bar cannot disappear

Requested features

8 requests
  • Bookmark feature
  • See time remaining in entire audiobook
  • Pagination via cursor keys on iPad Magic Keyboard
  • Dark mode option
  • Advanced analytics dashboard
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  • More titles available
  • Ability to highlight and look up words
  • More standard format (e.g., PDF)

Specialist Courseware Reader

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Glassboxx

No in-app purchases

None

Specialist Courseware Reader

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Glassboxx free?
Glassboxx is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Specialist Courseware Reader free?
Specialist Courseware Reader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Glassboxx or Specialist Courseware Reader have ads?
Neither Glassboxx nor Specialist Courseware Reader shows ads.

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