Comparison

The Mediums' Book vs iPublishCentral Reader

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Record audio notes
  • Email chapters
  • Favorite chapters
  • Add text notes
  • Keyword search
  • Adjust font size
  • Offline access
Features
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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;

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

The Mediums' Book1 screens
iPublishCentral Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

The Mediums' Book ships an update every 4 months, iPublishCentral Reader every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and August 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
The Mediums' Book versus iPublishCentral Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Mediums' BookiPublishCentral Reader
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating2.0 (1 ratings)3.7 (156 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better19.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1156 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS159.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB178 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperF&E System AppsiPublishCentral

Customer experience

The Mediums' Book

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

iPublishCentral Reader

All ratings156 ratings
Positive65.4%
Neutral6.4%
Negative28.2%
Written reviews42 reviews
Positive19.0%
Neutral11.9%
Negative69.0%

In-app purchases

None

The Mediums' Book

No in-app purchases

None

iPublishCentral Reader

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is The Mediums' Book free?
The Mediums' Book costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is iPublishCentral Reader free?
iPublishCentral Reader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, The Mediums' Book or iPublishCentral Reader?
iPublishCentral Reader is rated higher. The Mediums' Book averages 2.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while iPublishCentral Reader averages 3.7 from 156 ratings.
Do The Mediums' Book or iPublishCentral Reader have ads?
Neither The Mediums' Book nor iPublishCentral Reader shows ads.
Which is updated more often, The Mediums' Book or iPublishCentral Reader?
The Mediums' Book ships an update every 4 months, and iPublishCentral Reader every 2 months. Most recently, The Mediums' Book was updated on September 18, 2026 and iPublishCentral Reader on August 20, 2026.

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