eBoox vs Watch Reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
eBoox
This application provides a comfortable and customizable reading experience for a wide variety of e-book formats. It offers features like bookmarks, highlights, dark mode, and offline reading, with seamless online synchronization. Books can be easily uploaded from various sources, including cloud storage and email.
- Supports EPUB, MOBI, FB2, DOC, TXT, and more
- Customizable fonts, text size, and brightness
- Dark mode and offline reading
- Bookmarks, highlights, and notes
- Online auto-sync of books and progress
- AD-FREE reading experience
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eBoox – the most pleasant book reader ever! * *according to my mom :) • Cute, simple and useful UI, • Effective reading tools: bookmarks, 3-colors highlights, interactive links and notes, • Dark mode and offline reading, • Customized settings - Fonts, Fields, Text size, screen Brightness, Page scrolling, ets. • Suppots all your e-books, even in ZIP: EPUB, MOBI, DOC, DOCX, TXT, FB2, PRC, RTF, ODT, HTML, AZW, AZW3 and others text documents, • PDF supported (beta), • !Completely AD-FREE, • !Online auto SYNC of ebooks and reading progress, • !FREE WEB e-reader available! Start reading your e-books right now! Upload books via iTunes, import your files from the email, web browser, cloud storages (iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, Yandex.Disk etc) or share via AirDrop. In the app you will find detailed guide How to add ebooks in different ways. And we've already added three classic welcome books so you can appreciate the e-reader right away! This is a upgraded version of eBoox. The old one is no longer supported. In order not to lose your books, progress, quotes and bookmarks, install this app version. Run it on device and wait for the data transfer to finish. When you make sure that all your books appeared in eBoox 2020, you can safely delete eBoox.old. You can turn on the synchronization for backup.
Watch Reader
This app allows you to view text files on your smartwatch. It supports various customization options for text display and offers TTS playback. A companion phone app is required to import files.
- View TXT and EPUB files
- Customizable font, spacing, and colors
- Text-to-Speech (TTS) playback
- iCloud sync for reading progress
- File management via companion phone app
- Support for external font files
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Watch Reader (Watch Reader) is a watch-only text viewer app. You can view the txt file you have by sending it to the watch. First check if you have a watch. (Supported from devices with WatchOS 9.0 or higher installed) It is possible to run the watch app alone, but The phone app is required to import files to the watch app. The steps to import the file are as follows. 1. The phone app checks some text contents in advance and waits to send the file to the watch app. 2. Launch the watch app and import the file to the watch app through “Import File”. 3. iPhone/iPad and Watch must be in close proximity when transferring files using the watch app. ** Watch App Features ** - Supported from devices with WatchOS 9.0 or higher installed (WatchOS 9.0+) - txt file - ePub: Display only text (not supported: image, audio, style (css), chapter) - Font: Watch default font - External font file: Transfer and apply font files in otf and ttf formats to the watch app - font size - letter spacing - line spacing - indent - Alignment (left, right, center, and justification are not supported) - Text color & recommended text color - Background color & recommended background color - Top information: Select one of non-display, progress, and battery - TTS: Background playback after Bluetooth connection - iCloud sync: sync last read location - App lock: If a password is set for the watch app - Clear all caches - Reset settings - Remove continuous blank lines from original file (automatic) - Remove blank lines - Remove a file from the watch app: Swipe left in the file list - App language: Auto / English / Japanese / Korean - Search (Location: Settings - Search) - Designate long-click operation: Unused/TTS/Search - App brightness - Internal speaker playback (background playback is not possible when the internal speaker is set) ** Phone App Features ** - Send files to the watch app - file management - Webdav, SMB, FTP, Synology NAS - If you experience significant noise or stuttering during TTS playback while using AirPods or Bluetooth headsets/earphones, please disconnect them from any other iPhone, iPad, or Bluetooth device and connect them exclusively to your Apple Watch. ** Search for "Watch Reader" on YouTube for a demonstration video
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: eBoox at Free against Watch Reader's $3.99. eBoox also leads on ratings volume (3.8K vs 3) and review sentiment (88% vs 71%). Watch Reader's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and chart position (#67 vs #202). On update cadence, 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
eBoox is free to download; Watch Reader costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Watch Reader holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: eBoox has 3.8K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 88% of eBoox's written reviews are positive against 71% of Watch Reader's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
eBoox ships an update monthly, Watch Reader every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | eBoox | Watch Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.8K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.3% of reviews — better | 70.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3.8K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #202 | #67 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 177 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | REDIT, OOO | kim juyoung |
Customer experience
eBoox
Watch Reader
Bugs and requests
eBoox
Reported bugs
3 issues- Highlighting and annotations sometimes behave unexpectedly
- Syncing between devices can be unreliable at times
- Occasional crashes or freezes when navigating the app
Requested features
7 requests- Add more font options, including bold and italic
- Implement a built-in dictionary or translation tool
- Allow direct import of books from local device storage
- Improve page numbering and reading progress display
- Add support for PDF files and annotations
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- Introduce a grid-style library view for book covers
- Implement automatic dark mode based on system settings
Watch Reader
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
eBoox
No in-app purchases
Watch Reader
No in-app purchases








