Comparison

eBoox vs Simple Book Recommendations

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Currently charting
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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.

About

Simple Book Recommendations

Features
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This app allows simple book recommendations to be entered, shared with other users, and reviewed by other users. It provides an ISBN Scanner to scan images for ISBN numbers. The App uses an ISBN number to look up information about a book. A book can have multiple recommendations from different users. It attempts to focus on recent recommendations by providing lists that show recommendations recently, but the user can off course opt to view all recommendations. Users can choose to keep their recommendations and books private if they so desire, but that is not really why the App exists. Shared Data is stored in the iCloud, and users need a iCloud account to access it, you can elect to keep the data to your device, but again that is not really the point of the App.

Screenshots

eBoox4 screens
Simple Book Recommendations4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: eBoox at none against Simple Book Recommendations's 2. eBoox also leads on chart position (#209 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.6). Simple Book Recommendations's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly). On price, ads 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. Simple Book Recommendations sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 6 months. eBoox asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

eBoox ships an update monthly, Simple Book Recommendations every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
eBoox versus Simple Book Recommendations: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametereBooxSimple Book Recommendations
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (3.5K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews88.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.5K — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
Best chart rank#209 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS9.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size177 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperREDIT, OOOPeter Shevill

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

Simple Book Recommendations

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

eBoox

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Simple Book Recommendations

Subscriptions2
  • 6 Month Editing Subscription$0.996 Months
  • 1 Year Editing Subscription$1.991 Year

Questions

Is eBoox free?
eBoox is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Simple Book Recommendations free?
Simple Book Recommendations is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do eBoox or Simple Book Recommendations have ads?
Neither eBoox nor Simple Book Recommendations shows ads.
Which is updated more often, eBoox or Simple Book Recommendations?
eBoox ships an update monthly, and Simple Book Recommendations every 4 days. Most recently, eBoox was updated on October 17, 2026 and Simple Book Recommendations on October 1, 2026.

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