Google Play Books & Audiobooks vs i2Reader Cloud
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Google Play Books & Audiobooks
Access millions of ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga in one app. Organize your library, enjoy customizable reading and listening experiences, and take your stories anywhere, even offline. Features include smart notes, kid-friendly tools, and voice control for audiobooks.
- Millions of ebooks, audiobooks, comics, manga
- Offline reading and listening
- Customizable library shelves
- Adjustable audiobook playback speed
- Smart notes synced to Google Drive
- Kid-friendly reading tools
- Voice control for audiobooks
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All the books you love. On the page or out loud. Anywhere you are. Dive into a world of stories with Google Play Books! Explore millions of ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga — all in one app. Key Features: • Your library, anywhere: Enjoy books on your phone, tablet, computer, or even in your car with CarPlay. Plus, you can download books to read offline. • Organize with shelves: Personalize your digital library with custom shelves to categorize your books by genre, author, or any theme you’d like. • Audio immersion: Enjoy a vast library of audiobooks with customizable playback speed, sleep timers, and bookmarking to enhance your listening experience. • Smart notes: Jot down notes while you read that sync with your Google Drive and can be shared for easy collaboration. • Kid–friendly reading tools: Let kids explore word definitions or listen to books aloud. Note: Reading tools are available in English only. • Immersive comics: Experience Bubble Zoom for a specialized comic and manga reading experience. • Hands–free reading: Control your audiobook with your voice using Siri. • Read your way: Customize your reading experience by adjusting the font, text size, brightness, and more. Millions of stories await on Google Play Books! Download now and start reading.
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.
- 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
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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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Google Play Books & Audiobooks at none against i2Reader Cloud's 5. Google Play Books & Audiobooks also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (9.6K vs 74). i2Reader Cloud's advantage is review sentiment (48% vs 30%) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). On price, ads, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. i2Reader Cloud sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Google Play Books & Audiobooks asks for nothing beyond the download.
Google Play Books & Audiobooks holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Google Play Books & Audiobooks has 9.6K ratings behind it against 74, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 30% of Google Play Books & Audiobooks's written reviews are positive against 48% of i2Reader Cloud's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Google Play Books & Audiobooks ships an update every 2 weeks, i2Reader Cloud every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Google Play Books & Audiobooks | i2Reader Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (9.6K ratings) — better | 4.1 (74 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 30.4% of reviews | 48.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9.6K — better | 74 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #32 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Yuriy Melyushin | |
Customer experience
Google Play Books & Audiobooks
i2Reader Cloud
Bugs and requests
Google Play Books & Audiobooks
Reported bugs
5 issues- Books disappearing from library
- Highlighting and notes not syncing properly
- Inability to download or open certain books
- Page numbers and content not aligning correctly
- App freezing or crashing on launch
Requested features
5 requests- Add vertical scrolling option
- Improve table of contents navigation
- Allow users to sort books by series
- Implement read-aloud functionality on iOS
- Provide more customization options for fonts and themes
i2Reader Cloud
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Google Play Books & Audiobooks
No in-app purchases
i2Reader Cloud
- 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
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