BookFunnel vs Research Bites
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BookFunnel
Access and read your digital books and audiobooks from a single library. Organize your collection, customize reading settings, and enjoy a built-in reader and audiobook player. Sync your progress across devices for a seamless reading experience.
- Manage digital book library
- Send books to favorite reading apps
- Built-in reader
- Customizable reading settings
- Audiobook player
- Sync reading progress across devices
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MANAGE YOUR BOOKS Your BookFunnel library is at your fingertips! Search and sort through all of your BookFunnel books and send them right to your favorite reading app. Or, save time and space, and read right in our all new reader! HOW DOES IT WORK Most books you receive from a BookFunnel author are added to your library automatically. Or, you can enter the book’s download code into the app and add it manually. Tapping any book cover in the app will open it instantly You can also get instructions on downloading the book to a different device entirely. READ COMFORTABLY Read in our app or cloud reader and customize the settings for your comfort. Choose your ideal font type and text size, line spacing, and margins. Tap any book cover in your library to open it in our reader and get started. START LISTENING NOW Our brand-new audiobook player has the features you expect— bookmarks, download quality, and a beautiful, easy-to-navigate player. The BookFunnel app also gives you the ability to fine-tune the settings you really care about, including playback speed, custom skip-back and skip-forward buttons, and a sleep timer. READ WHERE YOU LIKE Sync your books across devices and never lose your place. When you’re reading a book in our app, BookFunnel will automatically mark your last page read and zing you back to it the next time you open the book, so switch freely between your phone and tablet and back again.
Research Bites
Access and manage academic articles. Stay informed on your areas of interest with this tool designed for researchers and students.
- Discover research papers
- Organize articles
- Read research
- Stay updated on topics
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Discover, organize, and read research papers. Stay updated with your topics.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Research Bites at 5.0 against BookFunnel's 3.7. Research Bites also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). BookFunnel's advantage is ratings volume (428 vs 1) and chart position (#70 vs unranked). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Research Bites holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BookFunnel has 428 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
BookFunnel ships an update every 3 weeks, Research Bites every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BookFunnel | Research Bites |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (428 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 45.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 428 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #70 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BookFunnel | Mach Fitness Lab |
Customer experience
BookFunnel
Research Bites
Bugs and requests
BookFunnel
Reported bugs
5 issues- Inability to swipe pages on iPad
- Books disappearing from library
- Inconsistent behavior when pausing/resuming audiobooks
- Corrupted book downloads
- Unreliable 'send to Kindle' functionality
Requested features
5 requests- Continuous scroll option
- Ability to add notes to bookmarks
- Integration with other reading apps (e.g., Audible, Apple Books)
- Support for CarPlay and other in-car integrations
- Improved book organization tools (e.g., series, collections)
Research Bites
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
BookFunnel
No in-app purchases
Research Bites
No in-app purchases
