Читанка vs Hedgehog reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Читанка
Explore a vast collection of Ukrainian literature, from classics to contemporary works and children's books. Organize your reading with personal shelves, bookmarks, and highlights, allowing you to enjoy books anywhere, anytime.
- Extensive Ukrainian literature collection
- Personalized reading shelves
- Bookmark and quote highlighting
- Offline reading capability
- Supports multiple books simultaneously
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Запрошуємо до світу українських книжок! У нашому додатку ви зможете обрати для себе будь-яку літературу українською мовою. Від української класики до сучасних авторів, від оригіналів до перекладів, від дитячих книжок для дошкільнят до наукових! Додавайте вподобані книжки собі на полицю, аби вони не загубилися, читайте кілька водночас, робіть закладки та виділяйте цікаві цитати. Та найголовніше — читайте всюди, де б ви не були.
Hedgehog reader
This app allows you to read a wide variety of e-book and audiobook formats, organize your personal library, and even translate text offline. It offers features like full-text search, typo correction, and text-to-speech functionality.
- Supports multiple e-book and audiobook formats
- Organize library with shelves, search, and filtering
- Offline text translation
- Full-text search and notes
- Typo correction
- Text-to-speech with adjustable speed
- Import from local devices and cloud storage
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An app for reading books and organizing a personal library. The supported formats are FB2, MOBI, EPUB, DOCX, CBZ, CHM, RTF, HTML, MHTML, WebArchive, PDF, MD, TXT, and MP3, M4A, M4B for audiobooks. Import from local devices, iCloud, and Dropbox, as a single book and as a batch. An ability to create an internal shelves structure with search and filtering by genre, keywords, languages, series, and ratings. An ability to translate (even when there is no Internet connection) selected words and phrases to the chosen language, by presetting the list of languages to translate from. An ability to perform a full-text search throughout the entire library and the notes added to books. An ability to quickly correct typos in a book. Reading the text aloud (even when there is no Internet connection) with different variants of speed and operating from the music control. Bookmarks and notes with the ability to upload the latter as a file. An ability to directly download books from servers that support OPDS. Automatic synchronization of library content (and reading progress) across multiple devices.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Читанка at none against Hedgehog reader's shown. Читанка also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and review sentiment (76% vs 67%). Hedgehog reader's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly) and ratings volume (17 vs 3). On price, rating, 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. Читанка sells 14 one-off in-app purchases and Hedgehog reader sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Читанка against 4.9 for Hedgehog reader. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hedgehog reader has 17 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 76% of Читанка's written reviews are positive against 67% of Hedgehog reader's.
Читанка ships an update monthly, Hedgehog reader fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Читанка | Hedgehog reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.9 (17 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 76.5% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 17 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.7 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 91 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Rostyslav Zvarych | Anna Diubina |
Customer experience
Читанка
Hedgehog reader
In-app purchases
Читанка
- 1 USD Book$0.99
- 2 USD Book$1.99
- 3 USD Book$2.99
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- 4 USD Book$3.99
- 5 USD Book$4.99
- 6 USD Book$5.99
- 7 USD Book$6.99
- 8 USD Book$7.99
- 9 USD Book$8.99
- 10 USD Book$9.99
- 11 USD Book$12.99
- 14 USD Book$13.99
- 12 USD Book$14.99
- 13 USD Book$17.99
Hedgehog reader
- Advertisement free mode$5.99
- Book export$14.99
