Comparison

MyPDFBooks vs EPUB Reader

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

Head to head
About

MyPDFBooks

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Designed to make it easy and enjoyable to read your favorite books on your iPhone and iPad. Enjoy reading your PDF-files with MyPDFBooks' clean reading view, optimised for books and long files. To support your reading, the app also organizes your books in a library, which provides numerous features, such as remembering the page you were on, bookmarks, and more. Keeping track of your reading has never been easier! Enjoy an immersive reading experience on your phone or tablet. Download now and start reading!

About

EPUB Reader

This app offers a versatile reading experience for various digital formats, including EPUB, PDF, comics, and audiobooks. It provides extensive customization options for typography, color themes, and reader controls, ensuring a personalized and comfortable reading environment. The app also supports seamless library management and synchronization across devices.

Highlights
  • Supports EPUB, PDF, CBZ, CBR, and audiobooks
  • Customizable typography and color themes
  • Read aloud functionality with offline neural voices
  • Syncs reading position with e-readers
  • Organized library with instant search and metadata detection
  • Highlighting, note-taking, and export options
  • Reading statistics and progress tracking
Features
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EPUB, PDF, comics, and audiobooks in one native iOS reader. Fast, deeply customizable, and built to disappear so you can simply read. FOUR FORMATS, ONE SHELF Read EPUB 3 and PDF. Read CBZ and CBR comics and manga, with two-page spreads, double-tap zoom, and a reading direction you set per book. Listen to audiobooks with chapters, a sleep timer, Car Mode, and CarPlay. Or follow along with EPUB 3 narration, where the text highlights in time with the voice. READ ALOUD Any book can be read to you, by any Apple voice on your device or by natural neural voices in 31 languages that you download once and then run offline. The sentence highlights as it is spoken and the pages turn on their own, with speed presets, sentence skips, a sleep timer, and Lock Screen controls. Prepare a book in advance and keep listening with the screen off. TYPOGRAPHY YOU CONTROL 200+ fonts, or import your own. Tune size, weight, line and paragraph spacing, alignment, hyphenation, and separate margins for portrait and landscape. Save settings per book so a novel, a textbook, and poetry each look right. Build your own color themes and let them switch at sunset. Choose which buttons the reader toolbar shows and where a tap opens it, and give links their own color and style. Smart dark mode keeps images natural, and in-reader brightness, Line Focus, and eye-care break reminders protect your eyes. NO LOCK-IN, EVER Your books stay ordinary files in an ordinary folder, never a proprietary database. Point JustRead at any folder: on device, iCloud Drive, or one your cloud app syncs through Files. Import from a Calibre server or any OPDS catalog. Email a book to your Kindle or PocketBook. IN SYNC WITH YOUR E-READER Your reading position follows you to any e-reader running KOReader, a Kobo included, in both directions. Connect a self-hosted Grimmory server to browse and download its books, send books to it, and keep status, ratings, highlights, notes, and bookmarks in step both ways. A LIBRARY THAT SCALES Thousands of books with no lag, and a book opens in about a second. Instant search by title, author, or series. Automatic metadata and series detection, 11 sort modes, saved filters, collections, and tags. Edit any book's details by hand, description included. Spotlight opens any book from your home screen. HIGHLIGHTS, NOTES, BOOKMARKS Highlight, underline, and attach a note. Browse every highlight across your whole library in one place, share a quote as a card, or export to Markdown, PDF, or Readwise. YOUR READING, IN NUMBERS Daily goals, a yearly books goal, streaks, and milestone badges. An hourly heatmap shows when you read best. Monthly and yearly recaps, plus a story-style Reading Wrap that turns your year into cards worth sharing. AND THE REST Home screen and lock screen widgets. Dictionary and translation. Full-text search and a nested table of contents. iCloud sync, so you resume on the exact line on any device. Right-to-left and Japanese vertical text. A page curl, if you want one. Free for 14 days, then a subscription or a lifetime purchase, both with Family Sharing. Available in 21 languages. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://justread.app/en/privacy_policy

Screenshots

MyPDFBooks3 screens
EPUB Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MyPDFBooks at none against EPUB Reader's 3. MyPDFBooks also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 5 days) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.1). On price 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. EPUB Reader sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. MyPDFBooks asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MyPDFBooks ships an update daily, EPUB Reader every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
MyPDFBooks versus EPUB Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMyPDFBooksEPUB Reader
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.6 (55 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—82.2% of reviews
Number of ratings—55 — better
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 5 days
Ads—No
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better18.1
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB213 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMiika HarmaPETR JAHODA

In-app purchases

None

MyPDFBooks

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

EPUB Reader

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium$4.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$79.99

Questions

Is MyPDFBooks free?
MyPDFBooks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is EPUB Reader free?
EPUB Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which is updated more often, MyPDFBooks or EPUB Reader?
MyPDFBooks ships an update daily, and EPUB Reader every 5 days. Most recently, MyPDFBooks was updated on October 25, 2026 and EPUB Reader on October 31, 2026.

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