Comparison

Audible vs i2Reader Cloud

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

Head to head
About

Audible

Access over a million audiobooks, exclusive podcasts, and original content. Enjoy seamless listening with features like adjustable playback speed, offline downloads, and sleep timers. Discover new stories through AI-powered recommendations and curated collections.

Highlights
  • 1M+ audiobooks and podcasts
  • Exclusive Audible Originals
  • AI-powered discovery with Maven
  • WhisperSync for Voice
  • Immersion Reading
  • Adjustable playback speed
  • Offline listening
Features
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Join millions of Audible users who listen to 1M+ audiobooks, exclusive Audible Originals, and podcasts. We've got what everyone's listening to, from bestsellers and new releases to that story you've been waiting for. Whether you're diving into Harry Potter on your commute, racing through Project Hail Mary at the gym, winding down with a sleep story, or learning something new in 15 minutes — Audible fits how you actually live. WHY AUDIBLE OVER ANYTHING ELSE? • Massive Audio Library — 1M+ audiobooks and podcasts spanning every genre, from global bestsellers to hidden gems • Exclusives You Can't Get Anywhere Else — Audible Originals performed by Hollywood A-listers, award-winning authors, and voices you won't find on any other platform. Award-winning performances. Breakthrough voices. Only on Audible. • Trending & Culturally Relevant — stay in the know with curated collections like Best of #BookTok, Goodreads Members' Picks, celebrity-driven releases, and award-winning titles everyone's talking about. • AI-Powered Discovery with Maven — ask Maven anything: "Find me a thriller under 8 hours", "What's similar to Atomic Habits?", or "Recommend something for a road trip." Get personalized picks in seconds. • Built for Accessibility — Audible makes books available to everyone — including those with visual impairments, dyslexia, or reading difficulties. Because great stories belong to everyone. • Free 30-Day Trial — new members can start listening today with no commitment. Amazon Prime members unlock even more listening benefits. POPULAR CATEGORIES • Fantasy & Sci-Fi • Mystery & Thrillers • Self-Improvement & Wellness • True Crime • Business & Leadership • Romance • History & Memoirs LISTENING YOUR WAY For Deep Dives: • WhisperSync for Voice — switch seamlessly between your Kindle ebook and Audible audiobook • Immersion Reading — follow along as the text highlights in real time while the narrator reads. Better focus, better retention. • Page Sync — jump to any page in the text and your audio will follow automatically For Busy Days: • Adjustable playback speed — perfect for quick learners or leisurely listening • Offline listening — download and listen anywhere, no wifi needed • Sleep timer — for bedtime listening or background relaxation • Hands-free playback — listen with CarPlay, Apple Watch, and Alexa-enabled devices For the Whole Family: • Kids Profile — safe, curated content for children • Share titles directly from your library For Making It Yours: • Organize by theme, feeling, or purpose • Bookmark favorite moments • Browse by narrator, genre, or listening time COMMUNITY & DISCOVERY • Rate and review titles to help fellow listeners discover their next favorite • Share recommendations with friends • Browse curated collections and Editors’ Picks • Join listening challenges to build your habit PERFECT FOR • Commutes, workouts, and runs • Meditation, sleep, and unwinding • Building a daily learning habit • Keeping up with books everyone's reading • Traveling, with offline downloads MEMBERSHIP & PRICING Subscription required after trial. Cancel anytime. Audible is an Amazon company. -- If you subscribe to Audible via iTunes where available, payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase and your membership will automatically renew monthly unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the then current membership period. Your account will be charged for renewal at the rate of your selected plan within 24-hours before the end of each membership period. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal anytime by going to My Account or through iTunes. Terms: https://www.audible.com/legal/conditions-of-use Privacy: https://www.amazon.com/privacy

About

i2Reader Cloud

This app offers a comfortable reading experience with cloud synchronization across devices. Enjoy customizable layouts, interactive features like footnotes and dictionaries, and the ability to download books from various cloud services. It supports multiple formats and allows family sharing of libraries.

Highlights
  • iCloud synchronization for library and reading progress
  • Customizable book layout (fonts, colors, spacing)
  • Download books from Dropbox, Google Drive, Yandex Disk
  • Interactive footnotes and dictionary support
  • Family sharing and user reading statistics
  • Supports FB2, EPUB, MOBI, DOC, PDF formats
  • Auto-scrolling and auto-page turning
Features
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Reading with comfort is a dream of any book lover! It’s more than 10 years already that my i2Reader has been making this dream come true. With each version of the app I add a bunch of new options and always try to keep the pleasure of reading a top priority. When putting books on digital shelves or turning over their 3D pages on any device (Mac, iPhone or iPad), you will always feel “I too Reader”* * - this is not a mistake :) Main features: • iCloud support: your library is synchronized in all your devices. You can start reading a book on iPhone and continue doing it on iPad or Mac! Everything from last the opened page, bookmarksо, highlighters to book metadata, including user's choice of a book cover, titles, genres, keywords, series etc. - is synchronized in each book; • Footnotes are displayed on the bottom of the page – like in real paper books! • Full support of 3D Touch: - in a library: to peek at a book info, press slightly on it; swipe up to bring up a context menu for this book; - when reading, you can assign 3D Touch to one of these options: Wikipedia or dictionaries. Press on a word and the assigned option will run right away, bypassing context menu. • Interactive guide to introduce features of the app; • Support of multitasking Side Over and Split View for iPad Pro, iPad Air or iPad mini; • Support Drag and Drop for iPad under iOS 11; • AutoScrolling – vertical text scrolling with adjustable by horizontal swipe speed; • Auto Turning – automatic page turning according to timer; • download books from Dropbox, Google Drive and Yandex disk as well. Google Drive now supports download of GDOC (Google Docs) files; • User's access: now all members of your family can read the same books not interfering with each other. Besides, the new feature enables you to highlight text fragments and comment on it, thus making up mini-chats in your own mini social/family networks :) • Review of reading statistics for both particular books and individual library users; • adjust brightness of the screen with a two-fingers vertical swipe; • finest configuration of a book layout for the most comfortable reading: everything like fonts, font size, colors, background is adjustable, including paragraph and line spacing; • i2Reader works with FB2 (also fb2.zip or fbz), EPUB (no DRM protection), MOBI, RTF, MS Word DOC/DOCX and PDF book formats; • different ways of page turning (including 3d page turning and vertical scroll); • voice/audio reading with the use of voice synthesizer; • easy selection and sorting of books based on various criteria - you won't get lost in your library and find your book in no time; • you can also create digital shelves which are also synchronized via iCloud; • support of starDict and XDXF dictionaries when reading; • Support of in-built iOS dictionaries; • support of Lingvo dictionaries when reading (if you have installed Lingvo app); • widget for notification center; • you can now share quotes to Facebook, twitter, Evernote or send then via email; • you can also download books from public OPDS libraries. All features in one simple and handy interface - now everything is at your fingertips! You are always welcome to share your opinion and suggestions to support@i2reader.net

Screenshots

Audible4 screens
i2Reader Cloud4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Audible at 4.9 against i2Reader Cloud's 4.1. Audible also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (5.6M vs 75). i2Reader Cloud's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Audible sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and i2Reader Cloud sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Audible holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Audible has 5.6M ratings behind it against 75, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of Audible's written reviews are positive against 48% of i2Reader Cloud's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Audible ships an update weekly, i2Reader Cloud every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Audible versus i2Reader Cloud: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAudiblei2Reader Cloud
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (5.6M ratings) — better4.1 (75 ratings)
Positive reviews68.4% of reviews — better48.4% of reviews
Number of ratings5.6M — better75
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#1 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS26.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size340 MB37 MB
Age rating+1217+
DeveloperAudible, Inc.Yuriy Melyushin

Customer experience

Audible

All ratings5,621,887 ratings
Positive97.3%
Neutral1.6%
Negative1.1%
Written reviews8,268 reviews
Positive68.4%
Neutral7.0%
Negative24.6%

i2Reader Cloud

All ratings74 ratings
Positive78.4%
Neutral4.1%
Negative17.6%
Written reviews64 reviews
Positive48.4%
Neutral7.8%
Negative43.8%

User reviews

Audible

From 5.6M App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Convenient for listening while doing other tasks
  • 👍 Wide selection of books
  • 👍 Narration quality is good
  • 👍 Easy to use app
  • 👍 Helpful customer service

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Buggy app with crashes and sync issues
  • 🔒 Difficult to cancel subscription
  • 💰 Expensive subscription and book prices
  • 🤔 Confusing and cluttered user interface
  • 🤔 Limited functionality in the app (e.g. no in-app purchases)

i2Reader Cloud

From 75 App Store ratings

What we love

  • ✨ Extensive customization options
  • 📚 Wide variety of ebook format support
  • 🎨 Theme designer and customization
  • ☁️ Cloud synchronization
  • 📖 Great ebook reader

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
  • 🐌 Slow performance and lagging
  • 🔋 High battery consumption
  • 💸 Monetization is off-putting
  • 🗑️ Some features feel like bloat

Bugs and requests

Audible

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Books disappearing from library after cancelling subscription
  • Playback issues like skipping, freezing, and losing place
  • Inconsistent behavior when switching between devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to organize books by category
  • Option to purchase books without subscription
  • Improved syncing across devices
  • Better integration with Apple Watch

i2Reader Cloud

Reported bugs

32 issues
  • App freezes during initialization
  • Continuously tries to download from iCloud
  • Crashes after updating to iOS 26
  • App freezes during caching process
  • Crashes and/or hangs on importing themes
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  • Crashes randomly on iOS 17.0.3
  • Page limit makes features worthless
  • App crashes frequently on new iPad M1 chip
  • Bugs and glitches, development seems abandoned
  • App force closes constantly
  • Translator service not working
  • Cannot choose files from local device
  • 3D page turning is broken (page goes off-screen)
  • App freezes and crashes after minimizing
  • Paid version data disappears (books, bookmarks, themes)
  • Settings for reading themes crash the app
  • Progress and some books lost
  • First few pages of EPUBs mangled together
  • App freezes after 2-3 page turns, requires full device reboot
  • Copying text to Notes is slow and causes app to hang/restart
  • App freezes when trying to upload books
  • PDF pages turn back to page 1
  • App doesn't stay on the last page read
  • Syncing with iCloud shows 'book not processed yet'
  • App goes back to the beginning of the book
  • Hyperlinks aren't tapable
  • In-document images not displayed
  • Speech stops reading and requires app restart
  • Loading dictionaries crashes the app
  • Deleted dictionaries reappear after restart
  • Tapping to turn page lags on iPhone 6S
  • Screen dims and becomes unresponsive after a few minutes of reading/translation

Requested features

18 requests
  • Add new chapter functionality
  • Option to move audio reading bar
  • Higher quality text-to-speech with better pronunciation and softer voice
  • Add support for djvu format
  • Improve text-to-speech quality and add more voice engines
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  • Ability to edit annotation of books
  • Combine books of the same author in book list
  • Add OneDrive support
  • Improve PDF handling and page turning
  • Add a manual and links for online dictionaries
  • Improve ePub 3 support
  • Allow font changes
  • Fix issue with PDF progress bar when 'show as is' is off
  • Make hyperlinks tapable
  • Display in-document images
  • Allow deletion of problematic dictionaries
  • Transfer all themes from previous version
  • Adjustable pauses between paragraphs for text-to-speech

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Audible

Subscriptions6
  • US Plus Monthly2 variants$7.991 Month
  • Audible iOS Standard Plan$9.991 Month
  • US Premium Monthly$15.991 Month
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  • US Premium Monthly1 Month trial$15.991 Month
  • US Premium Plus Monthly$15.991 Month
  • US Audible iOS Annual$159.991 Year
One-time3
  • U.S. - 1 Extra Credit$15.99
  • U.S. - 3 Credit Bundle$39.99
  • U.S. - 5 Credit Bundle$59.99
5 purchases

i2Reader Cloud

One-time5
  • Auto-scroll$0.99
  • Seamless textures$0.99
  • Auto turning$0.99
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  • Online translator$1.99
  • Removal of limitations$3.99

Questions

Is Audible free?
Audible is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is i2Reader Cloud free?
i2Reader Cloud is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Audible or i2Reader Cloud?
Audible is rated higher. Audible averages 4.9 out of 5 from 5.6M ratings, while i2Reader Cloud averages 4.1 from 75 ratings.
Do Audible or i2Reader Cloud have ads?
Neither Audible nor i2Reader Cloud shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Audible or i2Reader Cloud?
Audible ships an update weekly, and i2Reader Cloud every 3 months. Most recently, Audible was updated on November 4, 2026 and i2Reader Cloud on November 1, 2026.

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