Glassboxx vs Dear Jane
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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!
Dear Jane
Engage with Jane Austen's world through AITA-style confessions, personality quizzes, and novel knowledge tests. Progress through Meryton society by earning Society Honours for your wit and judgment. This app is crafted for dedicated fans of Jane Austen's literature.
- AITA-style confessions from Austen's world
- Personality quizzes
- Novel knowledge tests
- Progress tracking for scandals and quizzes
- Society Honours system
- Debate participation
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For those who know Jane Austen by heart. Read AITA-style confessions from Austen's world, pass judgement, then name the culprit. Discover who you'd be with personality quizzes, test your knowledge of the novels, and weigh in on the debates. As you play, rise from a new arrival in Meryton to an Austen aficionado, tracking your completed scandals, finished quizzes, and Society Honours earned for your judgement, wit, and thorough reading. Made independently by a lifelong Jane Austen fan, for everyone who never quite left Meryton. The assembly awaits!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Dear Jane at 100% against Glassboxx's 28%. Dear Jane also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.1) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks). Glassboxx's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (74 vs 2). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Dear Jane holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Glassboxx has 74 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 28% of Glassboxx's written reviews are positive against 100% of Dear Jane's.
Glassboxx ships an update every 6 weeks, Dear Jane every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Glassboxx | Dear Jane |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (74 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 27.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 74 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Glassboxx Limited | Frances Maxwell |
Customer experience
Glassboxx
Dear Jane
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)
Dear Jane
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Glassboxx
No in-app purchases
Dear Jane
No in-app purchases









