iPublishCentral Reader vs Inkwell
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
Inkwell
This free ebook reader offers a highly customizable reading experience with adjustable fonts, colors, and spacing. It seamlessly integrates translation and dictionary lookup, allowing you to import your own EPUB files and enjoy a personalized literary journey.
- Customizable fonts, sizes, and colors
- Adjustable margins and paragraph spacing
- Integrated iOS Translation and Dictionary
- Intuitive design with smooth animations
- Fast ebook loading
- Import your own EPUB files
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Discover Inkwell, the ultimate free ebook reader designed for customizable reading experiences. Immerse yourself in popular books with personalized settings for fonts, sizes, and colors. Inkwell is completely free, ensuring an exceptional reading experience without hidden costs. Features: • Open source and completely free, no locked features or in-app purchases • Highly customizable reading experience with adjustable font styles, sizes, and colors • Fine-tune margins, paragraph spacing, and explore captivating color options • Seamlessly integrated iOS Translation and Dictionary Look Up features for enhanced exploration and understanding • Intuitive design for easy navigation and smooth, beautiful animations • Fast ebook loading, eliminating waiting times and allowing you to dive into the story instantly • Bundled with four timeless masterpieces from Project Gutenberg • Import your own .epub files to curate a collection that matters to you Download Inkwell now and embark on a personalized literary journey like never before. Rediscover the joy of reading!
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Verdict
iPublishCentral Reader and Inkwell both sit at 3.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 67% of Inkwell's written reviews are positive against 19% of iPublishCentral Reader's. iPublishCentral Reader's advantage is ratings volume (156 vs 9) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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.
Inkwell holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iPublishCentral Reader has 156 ratings behind it against 9, 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 67% of Inkwell's.
iPublishCentral Reader ships an update every 2 months, Inkwell every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iPublishCentral Reader | Inkwell |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (156 ratings) | 3.9 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 19.0% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 156 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 178 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | iPublishCentral | Dimitrie Milinovich |
Customer experience
iPublishCentral Reader
Inkwell
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
Inkwell
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
iPublishCentral Reader
No in-app purchases
Inkwell
No in-app purchases
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