Comparison

ESMOD ebook vs Sutra

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

Head to head

EPUB, CBZ, Manga & OPDS Sync

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★ 4.318 ratingsView app →

About

ESMOD ebook

Features

Read full description

Bienvenue sur l'application ESMOD ! Cette application de lecture dédiée aux ebooks ESMOD Editions permet d’accéder au savoir-faire d’ESMOD, la première école de création de mode, fondée en 1841. Retrouvez toutes les méthodes de modélisme, de stylisme mais également de culture mode ou de business, en format ebooks, sur tous vos outils numériques préférés ! - Lisez où vous voulez, quand vous voulez. Tous vos titres sont consultables hors connexion pour vous accompagner dans vos déplacements. - Reprenez votre lecture sans interruption. Vos livres sont synchronisés entre vos différents appareils. Basculez facilement de votre smartphone à votre ordinateur sans perdre votre page. - Personnalisez votre expérience de lecture. Ajouter des signets, modifier la taille du texte et la police (dont une police spéciale dyslexique) et passer facilement du mode jour au mode nuit pour un meilleur confort de lecture.

About

Sutra

Organize and read all your eBooks and comics in one beautiful, calm reader. Connect to self-hosted libraries, explore online catalogs, and customize your reading experience with various display options. Enjoy seamless progress syncing across devices.

Highlights

Unified reader for EPUB, PDF, CBZ, MOBI, comics, and manga
Connect to Kavita, Komga, Calibre, and OPDS servers
Customizable reading experience (fonts, themes, layout)
Organized library with Series and Collection views
Progress and finished-book sync across devices
Offline reading support for comics

Features

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Sutra is a warm, thoughtful home for every book and comic you love. Bring together your self-hosted library, your manga, your classic EPUBs, and those “just one more chapter” reads in one beautifully calm reader. Connect Kavita, Komga, or Calibre; explore any OPDS catalogue; or discover a new favourite from Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks. READ YOUR WAY • Enjoy EPUB, PDF, CBZ, MOBI, fixed-layout comics, and manga in one place • Move through comics panel by panel, or take in the whole page • Read right-to-left manga and beautiful iPad two-page spreads • Make the page yours with fonts, text size, spacing, themes, auto-scroll, page turns, and Sutra-only brightness control A LIBRARY THAT FEELS LIKE HOME • Browse dedicated Series and Collection views, with Favorites always close by • Sort by Recently Read, Title, Author, or Date Added while staying in a familiar cover grid • Let Sutra recover missing Calibre series details and keep your library beautifully organised • Pick up where you left off with dependable progress and finished-book sync for Kavita and Komga BUILT FOR SELF-HOSTERS • Connect Kavita, Komga, Calibre, Grimmory, or another OPDS server • Stream comic pages from Kavita and Komga when available, or download for offline reading • Keep your highlights and reading progress with you across your Apple devices Sutra is free to enjoy for EPUB and PDF reading, with no ads and no subscription. Unlock unlimited CBZ, MOBI, and Komga reading once, and keep it forever.

Screenshots

ESMOD ebook4 screens

Sutra4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ESMOD ebook at none against Sutra's 4. Sutra's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Sutra sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. ESMOD ebook asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ESMOD ebook ships an update every 3 months, Sutra every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level

ESMOD ebook versus Sutra: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter	ESMOD ebook	Sutra
Price	Free	Free
Rating	—	4.3 (18 ratings) — better
Positive reviews	—	73.3% of reviews
Number of ratings	—	18 — better
Update frequency	Every 3 months	Every 8 days — better
Ads	No	No
In-app purchases	No — better	Yes
Monetization	—	Free with in-app purchases
Devices	iPhone, iPad	iPhone, iPad
Requires iOS	16.4 — better	17.0
Further details — not scored
Size	164 MB	42 MB
Age rating	4+	4+
Developer	Vivlio	Koustav Dasgupta

In-app purchases

None

ESMOD ebook

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Sutra

One-time4

Small Tip$1.99
Medium Tip$2.99
Large Tip$4.99

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Sutra Pro$6.99

Questions

Is ESMOD ebook free?

ESMOD ebook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

Is Sutra free?

Sutra is free to download, with in-app purchases available.

Do ESMOD ebook or Sutra have ads?

Neither ESMOD ebook nor Sutra shows ads.

Which is updated more often, ESMOD ebook or Sutra?

ESMOD ebook ships an update every 3 months, and Sutra every 8 days. Most recently, ESMOD ebook was updated on November 7, 2026 and Sutra on November 5, 2026.