Amazon Kindle vs SABA Reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Amazon Kindle
Access a vast library of eBooks, magazines, and comics on your mobile device. Customize your reading experience with adjustable text, brightness, and page-turning options. Look up words, track progress, and sync across devices.
- Read purchased eBooks
- Access Kindle Unlimited
- Customizable text and display
- Built-in dictionary and lookup
- Track reading progress
- Sync reading across devices
- Listen to Audible books
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READ ANYTIME, ANYWHERE On the bus, on your break, in your bed—never be without a book. Kindle books you have purchased on Amazon will automatically appear in your app. Kindle Unlimited and Amazon Prime members can select and download Kindle books directly in the app. FIND YOUR NEXT GREAT READ • Read the books you buy on Amazon in the Kindle app. Choose from over six million Kindle books (including those with Audible narration), magazines, and comics and start reading in seconds. Explore Amazon Charts best sellers and titles across genres like romance, science fiction, children’s books, self-help, religion, nonfiction, and more—and try any book with a free sample straight from the Kindle app. • Kindle Unlimited members can enjoy unlimited reading and listening, with the freedom to explore over 1 million titles, thousands of audiobooks, and current magazines. • Over 1,000 books, magazines, comics, and more included with Amazon Prime. GO BEYOND PAPER Turn your iPhone or iPad into a book with the free Kindle app—so you can read anytime, anywhere. Explore these reading features in the Kindle app: • Read your way. Customize your text size, font type, margins, text alignment, and orientation (portrait or landscape)—and choose whether to turn pages from left to right or continuously scroll. Read comfortably day and night with adjustable brightness and background colors. Go to the Aa menu in your book to get started. • Look up words, people, and places while you read. Breeze through words you don’t know and characters you can’t remember with the built-in dictionary, X-Ray, Wikipedia lookup, instant translations, and search within your book. Simply tap and hold a word to view its definition, or use the Google and Wikipedia links to get more information. • Track your reading progress. See what percent of the book you’ve read, real page numbers (for most top titles), and how much time you have left in the chapter or book based on your actual reading speed. • Bookmark places you want to revisit, and make highlights and take notes throughout your book. Open My Notebook to see all your notes in the same place. • Hop, skim, and jump with Page Flip. Flip between pages or get a bird’s-eye view of your book with Page Flip—don’t worry, we’ll save your place. • Zoom in on high-definition color images in Kindle books, magazines, comics, and manga. • Sync your books across devices. When you’re reading a book, the Kindle app will automatically sync where you left off—along with any bookmarks, highlights, or notes—so you can start reading on one device and pick up where you left off on another. • When you can’t read, listen. Switch seamlessly from reading your Kindle book to listening to the Audible book, all within the Kindle app. • Get notified when authors you love have new releases. By using this app, you agree to Amazon’s Conditions of Use (www.amazon.com/conditionsofuse) and Privacy Notice (www.amazon.com/privacy).
SABA Reader
This app offers a new audio book listening experience with simple tools and a dedicated navigation tab. It also provides a customizable reading experience with various page themes, font adjustments, and note-taking capabilities. Explore a vast collection of books across different categories.
- Audiobook listening experience
- Downloadable chapters for offline listening
- Customizable reading themes and fonts
- Add highlights and notes to text
- Explore book collections by category
- Track reading progress
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About app: We have added new audio book listening experience. It is a new design with new and simple tools to make audio listening as simple as it's supposed to be. • Navigation tab only for audio books • Backward and forward functionality • Download chapters and save them in your local storage • Offline Listening New reading experience: • Choose from five easy-to-read page themes • Add highlights and notes to texts • Change font size, that you like • Change text height and page margins • View table of contents • View saved texts and comments Features: • Subscribed users are able to read books • See book status where you stopped reading • Explore great collection of books in different categories, from best authors and best sellers • Detailed book description page
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SABA Reader at none against Amazon Kindle's 12. SABA Reader also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Amazon Kindle's advantage is ratings volume (5.8M vs 7.4K) and chart position (#4 vs unranked). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Amazon Kindle sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $13.99 per month. SABA Reader asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Amazon Kindle against 4.9 for SABA Reader. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Amazon Kindle has 5.8M ratings behind it against 7.4K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 68% of Amazon Kindle's written reviews are positive against 75% of SABA Reader's.
Amazon Kindle ships an update fortnightly, SABA Reader weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Amazon Kindle | SABA Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (5.8M ratings) | 4.9 (7.4K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 68.1% of reviews | 74.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5.8M — better | 7.4K |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #4 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 198 MB | 104 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AMZN Mobile LLC | LeavingStone |
Customer experience
Amazon Kindle
SABA Reader
User reviews
Amazon Kindle
From 5.8M App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 📚 Huge library of books
- 📱 Portable and convenient
- 🔍 Useful features like dictionary lookup and highlighting
- 🌙 Adjustable reading settings (font, brightness, etc.)
- 🔁 Seamless syncing across devices
Room to improve
- 🛒 Cannot purchase books directly in the app
- 🗂️ Difficulty organizing and managing large book libraries
- 🔍 Inconsistent behavior when highlighting/taking notes
- 🔄 Unreliable syncing between devices
- 🔌 Drains device battery quickly
SABA Reader
From 7.4K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Comfortable and useful app
- 🚀 Smooth and functional
- 💰 Affordable and accessible
- 🎧 High-quality audio books
Room to improve
- 🐛 Audio book chapters missing
- 🔍 Difficulty finding/selecting words or text
- 📱 Small font size on iPad
- 🌐 No option to switch to English
Bugs and requests
Amazon Kindle
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes or freezes when switching between apps
- Incompatibility issues with newer iOS versions
- Dictionary lookup feature not working reliably
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to create and manage collections/folders for books
- Option to easily see which books have been read vs unread
- Improved highlighting and note-taking functionality
- Better syncing between Kindle devices and apps
- Dark mode and other customization options
SABA Reader
Reported bugs
4 issues- Previewing audio book excerpts not working after update
- Books disappearing from library after payment method change
- App crashing on launch for some iOS 11 users
- App not displaying any books for some users
Requested features
4 requests- Add note-taking/bookmarking functionality for audio books
- Implement character/speaker labeling for audio books
- Increase font size options on iPad
- Add support for English language books
In-app purchases
Amazon Kindle
- Kindle Unlimited$13.991 Month
- Kindle Unlimited1 Month trial$13.991 Month
- 140 Tokens - Kindle Vella (US)$1.39
- 100 Tokens - Kindle Vella (US)$1.39
- 140 Tokens - Kindle Vella (US)$1.99
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- 368 Tokens - Kindle Vella (US)$3.49
- 300 Tokens - Kindle Vella (US)$3.99
- 368 Tokens - Kindle Vella (US)$4.99
- 770 Tokens - Kindle Vella (US)$6.99
- 770 Tokens - Kindle Vella (US)$9.99
- 900 Tokens - Kindle Vella (US)$11.49
- 2000 Tokens - Kindle Vella(US)$23.99
SABA Reader
No in-app purchases







