iPublishCentral Reader vs Epubgle reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Epubgle reader
This app allows you to read EPUB ebooks on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It supports both reflowable and fixed-layout layouts, offering customizable text and page display options. Enjoy features like automatic saving of your last reading position and importing books from various sources.
- EPUB reflowable and fixed-layout support
- Import EPUBs via Share menu or email
- Customizable text size, line height, and margins
- Automatic saving of last reading page
- Audio playback and video support
- Page turning and menu toggle buttons
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About this app - EPUB reflowable layout viewer, EPUB fixed layout viewer on iPhones, iPads and Mac Features - Available on iOS iPhones, iPads. Also Mac. - Open files with .epub extension. - Customized TOC provided additionally. - Reopen to the location of last reading page. - Import .epub eBooks by selecting "Share" context menu which pops up when you long press tap .epub file in Files built-in App. - Import .epub eBooks from the email app's file attachments. - Choose Options that have one page(portrait) or two pages(landscape) with fixed-layout book. - Scroll type(portrait) with reflowable-layout book. - Audio playback and video full screen switch. - Media Overlay SMIL support to fixed-layout ePUB With Read Aloud Feature. - Track the path of moving pages. - To turn pages and toggle menus, use bottom buttons respectively. - Adjust text size, line height, margins. - Scan .epub ePUB files on your device
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: iPublishCentral Reader at none against Epubgle reader's shown. iPublishCentral Reader also leads on review sentiment (19% vs 0%) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iPublishCentral Reader | Epubgle reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (156 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 19.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 156 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 178 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | iPublishCentral | Contents Color CO.,LTD. |
Customer experience
iPublishCentral Reader
Epubgle reader
Bugs and 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
Epubgle reader
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
iPublishCentral Reader
No in-app purchases
Epubgle reader
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is iPublishCentral Reader free?
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