Comparison

iPublishCentral Reader vs i2Reader Cloud

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

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

iPublishCentral Reader4 screens
i2Reader Cloud4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: iPublishCentral Reader at none against i2Reader Cloud's 5. iPublishCentral Reader also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). i2Reader Cloud's advantage is review sentiment (48% vs 19%) and rating (4.1 vs 3.7). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. i2Reader Cloud sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. iPublishCentral Reader asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

i2Reader Cloud holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 156 and 74 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 19% of iPublishCentral Reader's written reviews are positive against 48% of i2Reader Cloud's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iPublishCentral Reader ships an update every 2 months, i2Reader Cloud every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
iPublishCentral Reader versus i2Reader Cloud: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriPublishCentral Readeri2Reader Cloud
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (156 ratings)4.1 (74 ratings) — better
Positive reviews19.0% of reviews48.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings156 — better74
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 MB37 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperiPublishCentralYuriy Melyushin

Customer experience

iPublishCentral Reader

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

i2Reader Cloud

All ratings74 ratings
Positive78.4%
Neutral4.1%
Negative17.6%
Written reviews64 reviews
Positive48.4%
Neutral7.8%
Negative43.8%

User reviews

iPublishCentral Reader

From 156 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Nice design, works well
  • 🚀 Swiftly updated
  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 👍 Nice App, easy to download and read
  • 👍 Keeps notes updated across devices

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App constantly crashes
  • 🐛 Notes/highlights not synced
  • 🐛 Poorly built app
  • 🐛 No way of writing notes
  • 🐛 Deletes written notes

i2Reader Cloud

From 74 App Store ratings

What we love

  • ✨ Extensive customization options
  • 📚 Wide variety of ebook format support
  • 🎨 Theme designer and customization
  • ☁️ Cloud synchronization
  • 📖 Great ebook reader

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
  • 🐌 Slow performance and lagging
  • 🔋 High battery consumption
  • 💸 Monetization is off-putting
  • 🗑️ Some features feel like bloat

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

i2Reader Cloud

Reported bugs

32 issues
  • App freezes during initialization
  • Continuously tries to download from iCloud
  • Crashes after updating to iOS 26
  • App freezes during caching process
  • Crashes and/or hangs on importing themes
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  • Crashes randomly on iOS 17.0.3
  • Page limit makes features worthless
  • App crashes frequently on new iPad M1 chip
  • Bugs and glitches, development seems abandoned
  • App force closes constantly
  • Translator service not working
  • Cannot choose files from local device
  • 3D page turning is broken (page goes off-screen)
  • App freezes and crashes after minimizing
  • Paid version data disappears (books, bookmarks, themes)
  • Settings for reading themes crash the app
  • Progress and some books lost
  • First few pages of EPUBs mangled together
  • App freezes after 2-3 page turns, requires full device reboot
  • Copying text to Notes is slow and causes app to hang/restart
  • App freezes when trying to upload books
  • PDF pages turn back to page 1
  • App doesn't stay on the last page read
  • Syncing with iCloud shows 'book not processed yet'
  • App goes back to the beginning of the book
  • Hyperlinks aren't tapable
  • In-document images not displayed
  • Speech stops reading and requires app restart
  • Loading dictionaries crashes the app
  • Deleted dictionaries reappear after restart
  • Tapping to turn page lags on iPhone 6S
  • Screen dims and becomes unresponsive after a few minutes of reading/translation

Requested features

18 requests
  • Add new chapter functionality
  • Option to move audio reading bar
  • Higher quality text-to-speech with better pronunciation and softer voice
  • Add support for djvu format
  • Improve text-to-speech quality and add more voice engines
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  • Ability to edit annotation of books
  • Combine books of the same author in book list
  • Add OneDrive support
  • Improve PDF handling and page turning
  • Add a manual and links for online dictionaries
  • Improve ePub 3 support
  • Allow font changes
  • Fix issue with PDF progress bar when 'show as is' is off
  • Make hyperlinks tapable
  • Display in-document images
  • Allow deletion of problematic dictionaries
  • Transfer all themes from previous version
  • Adjustable pauses between paragraphs for text-to-speech

In-app purchases

None

iPublishCentral Reader

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

i2Reader Cloud

One-time5
  • 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

Questions

Is iPublishCentral Reader free?
iPublishCentral Reader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is i2Reader Cloud free?
i2Reader Cloud is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, iPublishCentral Reader or i2Reader Cloud?
i2Reader Cloud is rated higher. iPublishCentral Reader averages 3.7 out of 5 from 156 ratings, while i2Reader Cloud averages 4.1 from 74 ratings.
Do iPublishCentral Reader or i2Reader Cloud have ads?
Neither iPublishCentral Reader nor i2Reader Cloud shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iPublishCentral Reader or i2Reader Cloud?
iPublishCentral Reader ships an update every 2 months, and i2Reader Cloud every 3 months. Most recently, iPublishCentral Reader was updated on October 5, 2026 and i2Reader Cloud on October 7, 2026.

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