Comparison

iPublishCentral Reader vs Books Reader

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

Head to head
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

About

Books Reader

This app provides a seamless e-reading experience, managing your ebook collection and offering customizable reading settings. It supports various formats and includes features like bookmarking, note-taking, and a read/unread tracker.

Highlights
  • Supports multiple ebook formats (epub, fb2, mobi, PDF)
  • Manages and organizes ebook collections
  • Customizable text size, color, theme, and brightness
  • Progress tracking and bookmarking
  • Note-taking and excerpt selection
  • Read/unread book tracker
  • Filtering and search functionality
Features
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Books Reader - its a perfect e-reading experience. Overdrive your reading skills everyday. For everyone reader we gift free books and e-reading collections. Books Reader is a laconic pocket library and intuitive tool for a perfect reading experience. Without extra fluff or complexity, it takes care of all the basic needs: managing your ebook collections, getting the text on the screen and letting you interact with it as you go at your prime reading. For a start, the app builds a library for you by rounding up all the book files stored on the device. Books Reader works with most popular ebooks formats (epub, fb2, mobi etc.), including zip archives. If necessary, you can tweak the list manually, by adding or removing specific titles for ibooks. However big your collection gets, browsing will remain easy thanks to a provided set of filters. Besides, the system is keeping track of your history to display the books in order of relevance. Viewing the book, you can adjust the settings for the best effect: change size and color of the text, pick the right theme and brightness level, use various controls options for turning pages. The combination of a progress bar, bookmarking and a search tool help to navigate the text effortlessly. Make sure to select the excerpts that stayed with you and import them to Notes with just a couple of taps. Books Reader offers: - A variety of ebook formats (epub, fb2,PDF, mobi and others); - Auto unpacking of zip archives; - A smart manager of the books stored on your device; - Read/unread books tracker; - Filtering system (by author, by date added or read, etc.); - Adjustable page/text settings (brightness, size, color, theme and more); - Several controls methods (scrolling, tapping or using buttons); - Marking pages and taking notes. Privacy Policy: https://villow.studio/privacy Term Of Use: https://villow.studio/terms

Screenshots

iPublishCentral Reader4 screens
Books Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Books Reader at 4.7 against iPublishCentral Reader's 3.7. Books Reader also leads on review sentiment (38% vs 19%). iPublishCentral Reader's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 9) and ratings volume (156 vs 22). On price, update cadence, ads 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

Both are free to download. Books Reader sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. iPublishCentral Reader asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Books Reader holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iPublishCentral Reader has 156 ratings behind it against 22, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 19% of iPublishCentral Reader's written reviews are positive against 38% of Books Reader's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iPublishCentral Reader ships an update every 2 months, Books Reader every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
iPublishCentral Reader versus Books Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriPublishCentral ReaderBooks Reader
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (156 ratings)4.7 (22 ratings) — better
Positive reviews19.0% of reviews37.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings156 — better22
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size178 MB59 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperiPublishCentralVillow

Customer experience

iPublishCentral Reader

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

Books Reader

All ratings22 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral4.5%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive37.5%
Neutral25.0%
Negative37.5%

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

Books Reader

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

iPublishCentral Reader

No in-app purchases

9 purchases

Books Reader

Subscriptions4
  • Regular donation$1.991 Month
  • Regular donation$3.991 Month
  • Regular donation$5.991 Month
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  • Regular donation$9.991 Month
One-time5
  • Donation$1.99
  • Donation$3.99
  • Donation$5.99
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  • Donation$9.99
  • Custom Fonts & Themes$9.99

Questions

Is iPublishCentral Reader free?
iPublishCentral Reader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Books Reader free?
Books Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, iPublishCentral Reader or Books Reader?
Books Reader is rated higher. iPublishCentral Reader averages 3.7 out of 5 from 156 ratings, while Books Reader averages 4.7 from 22 ratings.
Do iPublishCentral Reader or Books Reader have ads?
Neither iPublishCentral Reader nor Books Reader shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iPublishCentral Reader or Books Reader?
iPublishCentral Reader ships an update every 2 months, and Books Reader every 3 months. Most recently, iPublishCentral Reader was updated on October 5, 2026 and Books Reader on September 23, 2026.

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