ShortBook vs Переплет
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ShortBook
This application offers a comfortable reading experience for fb2 format books on your iPhone. It features a handy interface, night reading mode, quick bookmarking, and customizable font settings. It also supports XDXF dictionaries for instant word definitions.
- FB2 ebook reading
- Night reading mode
- Quick bookmarking
- Customizable font and size
- XDXF dictionary support
- Wi-Fi book downloading
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ShortBook is an electronic book reader using unique capabilities of your iPhone. It has everything that is necessary for comfortable reading of books in fb2 format: contents, figures, footnotes and unique text makeup. Handy interface allows finding books quickly and reading them with comfort. Night reading mode will reduce discomfort for those who suffer from sleeplessness and Quick Bookmark function will ensure free browsing through a book. Book downloading is available via Wi-Fi being handily implemented through the web browser. For your further comfort there are options of choosing font, its size and other settings. The program supports dictionaries in XDXF format. Detaining a finger on a word and activating the button of searching through dictionaries, you'll virtually in a matter of seconds learn the meaning of the tricky word. Reading can be quickly restarted after a break with one touch of the screen. Don’t seek for compromises, use ShortBook. With ShortBook even a big book will become short.
Переплет
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Библиотека книг независимых русскоязычных издательств. Новинки и бестселлеры со всего мира по цене одной электронной книги в месяц. – 60+ книг независимых издательств: Vidim Books, ISIA, Бабель, Fresh Verlag и др. – доступ ко всему каталогу без ограничений по времени и количеству книг по цене одной электронной книги – книги разных жанров: художественная литература (проза, поэзия, автофикшн) и нон-фикшн (публицистика, мемуары, биографии, научно-популярная литература) – главные книжные события в одном приложении: анонсы встреч с авторами, ярмарки, акции и новости издательств, анонсы новинок – рекомендации на основе понравившихся книг – удобная читалка, которую можно настроить под себя: меняйте шрифт, выбирайте дневной или ночной режим, сохраняйте цитаты и делайте закладки Пользовательское соглашение: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Переплет at Free against ShortBook's $4.99. Переплет also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 3 days vs monthly). ShortBook's advantage is rating (3.9 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (14 vs 1). On review sentiment and ads 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
Переплет is free to download; ShortBook costs $4.99 up front. ShortBook sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Переплет asks for nothing beyond the download.
ShortBook holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ShortBook has 14 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of ShortBook's written reviews are positive against 50% of Переплет's.
ShortBook ships an update monthly, Переплет every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ShortBook | Переплет |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.9 (14 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 57.4% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | #155 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Jury Shortki | Pereplet |
Customer experience
ShortBook
Переплет
In-app purchases
ShortBook
- "Sub rosa dictum" style$0.99
- "Para bellum"$0.99
Переплет
No in-app purchases
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