The Mediums' Book vs iPublishCentral Reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Mediums' Book
Explore the foundational text of Spiritism, a spiritualist philosophy. This app allows you to record audio notes, send chapters via email, bookmark favorites, and search for keywords. It offers a user-friendly interface for an offline study experience.
- Record audio notes
- Email chapters
- Favorite chapters
- Add text notes
- Keyword search
- Adjust font size
- Offline access
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Spreading the Spirit ... The Book on Mediums or Mediums and Evokers' Handbook (a.k.a. The Mediums' Book —Le Livre des Médiums, in French), is a book by Allan Kardec published in 1861, second of the five Fundamental Works of Spiritism — the spiritualist philosophy Kardec had been publishing — being the tome in which the experimental and investigative features of the doctrine were presented, explained and taught. This application is considered not only a book but an environmental study of Spiritualism. Application roles: - Use the microphone to record notes about the studies; - Send email with the chapters; - Add chapters to your favorites; - Adds text notes; - Add audio notes; - Search by keywords; - Controls the font size; - Nice interface; - Easy to use and locate chapters; - No internet;
iPublishCentral Reader
Read and manage your digital library with this app. It supports PDF and EPUB formats, allowing you to organize books, customize your reading experience with notes and highlights, and sync progress across devices. Download content from various sources, including cloud storage and email.
- Read PDF and EPUB ebooks
- Organize books into shelves
- Add notes and highlights
- Bookmark pages
- Sync reading progress across devices
- Download content from Dropbox and email
- Customize font, margins, and background
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With the iPublishCentral Reader App you can read ebooks and content in PDF and EPUB format on your iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. You can organize books in to shelves, customize your reading experience, add notes or highlights to specific passages, bookmark a page, and download content from your Dropbox account and e-mails. Your last read page, notes, highlights, and bookmarks are synchronized across devices when network connectivity is available. This synchronizations enables you to pick a book from where you left off on another device. Download ebooks: · From various ebookstores hosted on the iPublishCentral platform · Non-DRM PDF and EPUB content from your e-mails, and Dropbox Customize your reading experience: · Add notes or highlights to specific passages, bookmark pages/locations · Select among four typefaces and adjust font size, set margins · Set background color of the Reader · Switch between horizontal swipe and vertical scroll · Set brightness level Organize: · Organize your ebooks/content by creating shelves Navigation: · Search for specific keywords and navigate to a specific passage by picking a search result · Swipe or scroll to go to previous or next page · Use the page slider to quickly navigate across · Go to specific passages from the table listing the personalizations · Table of contents Formats supported: · Ebooks in PDF format hosted on the iPublishCentral platform · Ebooks in EPUB2 and EPUB3 format hosted on the iPublishCentral platform · Interactive ebooks and audio (read aloud) ebooks hosted on the iPublishCentral platform · Non-DRM PDFs · Non-DRM EPUBs Hope you enjoy reading your ebooks on the iPublishCentral Reader App iPublishCentral Team
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: The Mediums' Book at 100% against iPublishCentral Reader's 19%. iPublishCentral Reader's advantage is price (Free vs $1.99) and rating (3.7 vs 2.0). On ads, in-app purchases 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
iPublishCentral Reader is free to download; The Mediums' Book costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
iPublishCentral Reader holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iPublishCentral Reader has 156 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of The Mediums' Book's written reviews are positive against 19% of iPublishCentral Reader's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
The Mediums' Book ships an update every 4 months, iPublishCentral Reader every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Mediums' Book | iPublishCentral Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) | 3.7 (156 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 19.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 156 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 178 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | F&E System Apps | iPublishCentral |
Customer experience
The Mediums' Book
iPublishCentral Reader
Bugs and requests
The Mediums' Book
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
iPublishCentral Reader
Reported bugs
19 issues- App constantly crashes
- Notes/highlights not synced between devices
- Highlighting and note-taking disappears after closing books
- Vertical scrolling resets to default every time the book is left
- App crashes every second after last update
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- Speech to text only works if the app is open
- Tables in BCSC do not display correctly
- Highlighting does not work
- Apple pen support is scarce
- App consistently fails to 'see' new books
- App crashes every time a book is attempted to be added
- App crashes every time the textbook is opened
- App fails to work more often than not
- iPad does not recognize password
- App crashes after highlighting or noting
- App takes user out to bookshelf upon closing
- Image quality of radiological pictures is poor
- Update has made the app worse, does not open
- Cannot open any downloaded books
Requested features
7 requests- Direct link to Bible scripture
- More colors for underlining
- Set vertical scrolling preference permanently
- Support split screen on iPad
- Improve highlighting function to avoid squares
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- Allow search and TOC selection
- Improve image quality for radiological pictures
In-app purchases
The Mediums' Book
No in-app purchases
iPublishCentral Reader
No in-app purchases
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