bREADER vs Booklover
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
bREADER
This app is an optimized e-book reader for iPhones, supporting various formats like Aozora Bunko, EPUB, and PDF. It offers customizable reading styles, including vertical/horizontal text, auto-scrolling, and adjustable fonts, for a beautiful and user-friendly experience.
- Supports Aozora Bunko, EPUB, PDF, TEXT, JPEG/PNG-ZIP
- Customizable text size, line spacing, and fonts
- Vertical/horizontal and auto-scrolling display modes
- Bookmark, brightness, day/night mode, screen rotation
- Dictionary integration
- Create books from clipboard text or URLs
- Organize books into groups
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bREADERはiPhoneに最適化された電子書籍リーダーです。 青空文庫やEPUB、PDF等の電子書籍を、縦書き、横書き、オートスクロール表示など自由なスタイルで読むことができます。 ※ iOS 10.1 以上の iPhone が必要です EPUB3形式のファイルにも対応しました。iOS5では、ヒラギノ明朝体での表示も行えます。 【bREADERの特長】 ■多様な電子書籍フォーマットに対応 bREADERは、「青空文庫」の10,000点以上の作品を全て無料で読むことができるのはもちろん、 EPUB形式の電子書籍、PDF、TEXT、JPEG/PNG-ZIPファイル等も閲覧可能 ■iPhoneに最適化されたユーザーインターフェース bREADERは、タッチパネル操作を前提として、素早く、簡単に操作できるように設計されています。 ・ピンチイン/アウトで瞬時に文字サイズや行間の変更が可能 ・画面をしたから上にめくるようにするだけで、簡単にしおりを挟めます。その他輝度調整、昼/夜モード切替、画面回転制御などもワンタッチ ・iOSと同じような操作で文字選択や辞書連携(大辞林、大辞泉、Dict+等)が可能 ・縦書き/横書きに加えて、縦画面/横画面、巻物風に連続して自動スクロールさせて読む機能など、多様な表示モードに対応 ・本棚もピンチイン/アウト操作で拡大縮小が可能(リスト表示モードもあり) ■キレイな版面表示 bREADERは、iPhoneでも極力美しい版面表示ができるように心がけています。 ・「太字」「挿絵」「絵文字」「傍点」「傍線」「縦中横」「割り注」「横組み」など多くの青空文庫注記にも対応し、これまで不可能だった版面表示が可能 ・ぶら下げ、追い出しの禁則処理だけでなく、行末揃えや引用符の自動整形などにも対応し綺麗な版面表示が可能(青空文庫) ・iTunesからお手持ちのフォントを追加可能(TrueType, OpenType Font) ■独自の自炊小説閲覧支援技術「brc」 bREADERは、自分でスキャンした小説を快適に読むための独自技術「brc」を提供しています。 ・小説などをスキャンした画像ファイルを「brc」にドロップするだけで、通暁のテキストのようにピンチ操作でフォントサイズの拡大/縮小できるようにすることが可能 ■本を読み込む、本を作る機能を搭載 bREADERは、Web上にある小説を読み込んだり、クリップボードにコピーしたテキストやURLから簡単に「本」を作ることができます。 ・Open in機能に対応し、本のファイルのURLリンクやDropBox等の他のアプリから連携してインポートすることが可能(ZIP, PDF, EPUB, TXTファイル) ・クリップボードにコピーされたWebサイトのURLや文字列から新しい「本」を作成することが可能 【その他の機能】 ・本棚やリスト表示画面では、自由に選んだ複数の「本」を、1つのグループとしてまとめることができます ・背景色/文字色のテーマ選択や画面の白黒反転ができます ・閲覧画面に時計を表示することができます(ワンタッチでON/OFF可能) ・タッチ位置のガイド表示やタッチ領域の左右反転、本体をひっくり返すだけで反転するよう設定することもできます。
Booklover
Organize and read a vast collection of eBooks, including PDFs, manga, and scanned books. Seamlessly sync with iCloud Drive and customize your reading experience with advanced reader settings and library management tools.
- Manage and view eBooks (PDF, ZIP/CBZ, RAR/CBR)
- iCloud Drive syncing
- Organize books by genre and bibliographic details
- Powerful search and Library Navigator
- Customizable reader settings
- Bookmarks and PDF annotations
- Support for archived image files
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Booklover is a highly responsive and robust eBook reader. It excels at handling PDFs, manga, and scanned books. The metadata-driven library management system makes it easy to organize and enjoy a large collection of books in PDF, ZIP/CBZ, and RAR/CBR formats. Seamlessly integrated with iCloud Drive, books in the iCloud Drive/Booklover folder automatically appear in the app’s library and can be downloaded on demand. In the library, you can organize books by genres and arrange them using various bibliographic details such as title, author, publisher, and more. With the search field and powerful Library Navigator, you can quickly locate a book among thousands in your collection. Customize your reading experience with settings for each book, including page layout, transition axis and style, cropping, filters, progress direction, background, and more. Booklover supports bookmarks with titles and notes, as well as PDF text annotations (highlights), text search, and a table of contents. Main Features: # General • Manage and view eBooks (PDF, ZIP/CBZ, RAR/CBR) • Support for archived image files in JPG, PNG, GIF, HEIF, WEBP, AVIF, and JPEG XL formats • Automatic syncing of book files placed in iCloud Drive/Booklover. On-demand caching (download) of the remote files • Import files via iTunes (Windows), Finder (Mac), AirDrop, Drag & Drop, "Open with..." etc. • Import files via apps from various cloud storage services, such as Dropbox and OneDrive, as well as other services accessible through the iOS Files app. • Slide Over / Split View (iPad) • Hardware keyboard support (mainly in the reader) # Library • Section books by genre (ON/OFF) • The Library Navigator (ON/OFF) • Histories of added and opened books • Context Menu for individual books (long-press a book cover) • Change sort order: By Title, Author, Publisher, Filename, Added Date, etc. • Alphanumeric Index Labels (ON/OFF) • Toggle display of cover accessories • Adjust cover grid size • Responsive Shadow (shows page volume with shadow) • Filter books by Status, Genre, Tags, etc. • Search books by various bibliographic details, file name, and tags # Reader • PDF text annotations (highlights) with notes, text search, and a table of contents • Bookmarks with titles and notes • Lists of bookmarks and PDF annotations • Page transition settings: Axis (Horizontal, Vertical), Style (Scroll, Continuous Scroll, Stack, Crossfade, Zoom fade, Instant) • Progress direction setting: Left to Right, Right to Left (for vertical text, manga, Arabic, etc.) • Page layout setting: Automatic, Single-Page, Two-Pages (spread) • Separate page layout settings for view orientation (Portrait / Landscape) • Page trimming (for images only) • Page sizing: Show All, Width-Fit, Height-Fit • Page thumbnail view (overview, bookmarks) • Image correction filters • Dynamic background (When the "Background Color" option for a book is set to "Dynamic") • Adjust page spread position (Insert adjuster page at the beginning of the book body) • Text recognition within images (with compatible devices only) • Export (share) the currently displayed page # Book Management • Edit metadata: Title, Author, Genre, Publisher, Published Date, ISBN, etc. • Edit Tags (Can be used as filter criteria in the side menu) • Extract metadata (title/author) from PDFs • Extract various metadata from file names with configurable extraction rules • Automatic/Manual cropping of book covers • Batch modification of book settings and metadata • Transfer book files: "Open with...", AirDrop, Drag & Drop, etc. • Can manage the content files and data separately ("Ghost Book") ——————————————— # Acknowledgments [Books used in the screenshots] • "Give My Regards to Black Jack" by SHUHO SATO (Manga on Web: http://mangaonweb.com) • Public domain books from Feedbooks (http://www.feedbooks.com) • Public domain comics from digitalcomicmuseum.com (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Booklover at 4.6 against bREADER's 4.0. Booklover also leads on ratings volume (57 vs 1) and chart position (#109 vs unranked). bREADER's advantage is review sentiment (95% vs 87%) and iOS requirement (10.1 vs 18.6). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
bREADER costs $3.99 and Booklover $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Booklover holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Booklover has 57 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 95% of bREADER's written reviews are positive against 87% of Booklover's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
bREADER ships an update every 3 weeks, Booklover fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | bREADER | Booklover |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 4.6 (57 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 95.2% of reviews — better | 87.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 57 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #109 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.1 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | INFOCITY, Inc. | Plastic Software, Inc. |
Customer experience
bREADER
Booklover
In-app purchases
bREADER
No in-app purchases
Booklover
No in-app purchases









