Books Reader vs BooksToBorrow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Books Reader
This app provides a seamless e-reading experience, managing your ebook collection and offering customizable reading settings. It supports various formats and includes features like bookmarking, note-taking, and a read/unread tracker.
- Supports multiple ebook formats (epub, fb2, mobi, PDF)
- Manages and organizes ebook collections
- Customizable text size, color, theme, and brightness
- Progress tracking and bookmarking
- Note-taking and excerpt selection
- Read/unread book tracker
- Filtering and search functionality
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Books Reader - its a perfect e-reading experience. Overdrive your reading skills everyday. For everyone reader we gift free books and e-reading collections. Books Reader is a laconic pocket library and intuitive tool for a perfect reading experience. Without extra fluff or complexity, it takes care of all the basic needs: managing your ebook collections, getting the text on the screen and letting you interact with it as you go at your prime reading. For a start, the app builds a library for you by rounding up all the book files stored on the device. Books Reader works with most popular ebooks formats (epub, fb2, mobi etc.), including zip archives. If necessary, you can tweak the list manually, by adding or removing specific titles for ibooks. However big your collection gets, browsing will remain easy thanks to a provided set of filters. Besides, the system is keeping track of your history to display the books in order of relevance. Viewing the book, you can adjust the settings for the best effect: change size and color of the text, pick the right theme and brightness level, use various controls options for turning pages. The combination of a progress bar, bookmarking and a search tool help to navigate the text effortlessly. Make sure to select the excerpts that stayed with you and import them to Notes with just a couple of taps. Books Reader offers: - A variety of ebook formats (epub, fb2,PDF, mobi and others); - Auto unpacking of zip archives; - A smart manager of the books stored on your device; - Read/unread books tracker; - Filtering system (by author, by date added or read, etc.); - Adjustable page/text settings (brightness, size, color, theme and more); - Several controls methods (scrolling, tapping or using buttons); - Marking pages and taking notes. Privacy Policy: https://villow.studio/privacy Term Of Use: https://villow.studio/terms
BooksToBorrow
This platform allows users to share and manage their physical book collections online. It facilitates the lending and borrowing of books within a community.
- Share physical books
- Manage book collections
- Online platform
- Lending and borrowing
- Community book sharing
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BooksToBorrow — Share Books With Your Neighborhood Why buy a book you'll read once when someone nearby already owns it? BooksToBorrow connects book lovers in your community so you can borrow, lend and discover great reads without spending a dime. Browse & Discover Explore books by category, see what's trending with Most Popular, find fresh listings in Recently Added or get picks tailored to your taste with Recommended. Search by title or author to find exactly what you're looking for. Borrow With Ease Found a book you want? Send a borrow request directly to the owner and coordinate pickup. No middleman, no shipping. Just neighbors helping neighbors. Share Your Collection List the books sitting on your shelf and let others borrow them. Track what you've lent out, what you've borrowed and manage your own library right from your profile. Stay Connected Manage your account, keep your book listings up to date and reach out with feedback anytime. We're always looking to make BooksToBorrow better. Whether you're a casual reader or a lifelong bookworm, BooksToBorrow makes it easy to read more, spend less and build a real reading community where you live. Download BooksToBorrow today and turn your neighborhood into a library.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BooksToBorrow at none against Books Reader's 9. Books Reader's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 6 months) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.6). 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
Both are free to download. Books Reader sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. BooksToBorrow asks for nothing beyond the download.
Books Reader ships an update every 3 months, BooksToBorrow every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Books Reader | BooksToBorrow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (22 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 37.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 22 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Villow | Veda Info Group LLC |
In-app purchases
Books Reader
- Regular donation$1.991 Month
- Regular donation$3.991 Month
- Regular donation$5.991 Month
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- Regular donation$9.991 Month
- Donation$1.99
- Donation$3.99
- Donation$5.99
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- Donation$9.99
- Custom Fonts & Themes$9.99
BooksToBorrow
No in-app purchases
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