Comparison

iBouquiniste vs MapleRead CX

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

Head to head
About

iBouquiniste

This app offers a highly customizable ebook reading experience, supporting a wide range of formats. It allows users to adjust fonts, paper types, and indents for a personalized feel, akin to reading a physical book. Features include note-taking, cloud synchronization, and organized libraries.

Highlights
  • Supports FB2, EPUB, MOBI, PDF, DJVU, CBR, CBZ, TXT
  • Adjustable fonts, spacing, margins, paper type
  • Author and Favorites Libraries
  • Cloud synchronization for books and reading progress
  • Note-taking and bookmarking
  • Real page numbers
Features
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iBouquiniste is an ebook reader like none you've seen before. This app supports FB2, EPUB, MOBI, PDF, DJVU, CBR, CBZ and TXT formats and offers adjustable fonts, paragraph indents, paper type and more. iBouquiniste gives you a reading experience that's as close as you can get to reading a real book, and it even lets you share your favorite books via email. Click "...More" to learn why you should download this App today! *** Featured In New and Newsworthy! *** Do you love to read? With iBouquiniste you'll take your favorite books wherever you go! iPad and iPhone book readers are a great innovation for busy book lovers, but they're still evolving. Some readers are so cluttered with settings and controls that you can barely read the text, while others are bare bones "What you see is what you get" style apps. iBouquiniste is a completely different reading experience. iBouquiniste Features Include: * Supports notes * Send books by email * Unique Author Library (each author on their own bookshelf) * View most recently opened books in the order you opened them * Real page numbers * Adjustable fonts, spacing, margins, book paper and more * Download books via iTunes or any app supporting file transfer (i.e. Mail or Safari) * OPDS catalogs support * iBouquiniste Cloud Storage for synchronisation (books, reading positions, citations and bookmarks) The interface is clean and easy to use. The only controls on the screen are the ones you absolutely need, but you have the control that you want to display your books exactly the way you want them. iBouquiniste supports FB2 formatted books, which is how most books are formatted. Other reader apps still don't do that. If you want an even more personal reading experience, that's not a problem. You control paragraph indentation, font face and size, margins and even the type of paper for the pages in your book. Where some apps offer sepia tones, iBouquiniste can display your book on realistic paper, with actual page numbers for each page! Tired of digging through your library to find a specific book? This app gives you several ways to find any book in your collection with just a few taps. Like other, similar apps, iBouquiniste includes a complete table of contents that lists every book you own. This is a great feature if you're not sure what you want to read; but if you have a lot of books, you might spend more time looking for something to read than actually reading! That's why this app also features a unique Author's Library and a Favorites Library. If you're in the mood to read a certain book from a particular novelist, you'll quickly find what you're looking for in the Author's Library. Each writer has their own shelf with all of their works that are in your collection. Have you ever put down a book with the idea that you would come back and finish it after you've read something else? Who hasn't done that? The problem is that when you're ready to go back and finish it, you sometimes can't remember the title of the book, or even the name of the author. Now that you have iBouquiniste, all you need to do is to sort your books with "Recent". This feature narrows your search by displaying the books in the order you opened them. Now you can get back to that unfinished book within just a few seconds of starting your search. Once you've finished it, why not share that novel with a friend? It's as easy as sending an email right from the app! Don't let your book reader decide how your books should look. Spend less time searching and more time reading. Download iBouquiniste now and have all of your books at your fingertips.

About

MapleRead CX

This app offers a unique audio-visual reading experience for EPUB ebooks. Customize book styles, generate pseudo audiobooks with various voices, and enjoy immersive reading with synchronized audio and text. It also functions as a powerful library management tool with extensive customization options.

Highlights
  • Audio-visual EPUB reader
  • Pseudo audiobook generation
  • Immersion reading (sync audio/text)
  • Customizable book styles and themes
  • Word lookup and translation
  • Library management and organization
  • User-defined fonts and highlight colors
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MapleRead is dedicated to enable unique audio-visual reading experience for everyone. ------------ Our MapleRead app family has 3 members, namely SE, CE and CX. - SE is our flagship product with all features. - CE is SE without PDF reader and built-in Library Server. - CX is CE with some limitation. Free to try. - No recurring subscription fees. No ads. Just buy it once. Gratuity optional. - Moreover, SE and CE can be run side-by-side via split-view multitasking. - Recommend SE for use on multiple devices with easy and fast book sharing via Library Server. - Recommend the SE-CE bundle for the best value. ------------ MapleRead includes a superb audio-visual EPUB e-book reader. - It lets you easily modify publisher's original book style to better suit your aesthetic taste. - It lets you instantly generate pseudo audiobooks with a choice of narrator voices over 40 languages. - It enables immersion reading so that you may read and listen to the same book in sync. - Background listening works well too. Compatible with Lock Screen Music Player and CarPlay. MapleRead UI is friendly to users of all ages. - Books can be read in regular and large print. - A choice of UI text sizes makes reading in non-book views much more comfortable. MapleRead is a great learning tool. - It lets you look up words, translate sentences, search text, highlight text and write notes. - It helps you collect vocabulary and organize notes with various priorities. - It provides hooks to user-defined dictionaries, translators, and other tools. - Immersion reading improves your comprehension, especially of foreign-language books. MapleRead is an effective and fast library management tool. - It is designed for you, a book lover, who may own a huge and/or growing book collection. - It lets you keep all your books in one place and well-organized automatically. - It lets you display your books elegantly in style. - It lets you easily repair individual book metadata. - If supports multiple book sets and multiple tags. - It offers multiple ways to import and export books, and works well with Calibre. MapleRead offers unprecedented user-defined customization options. - They include unlimited user-defined fonts, book themes, cover images and library scenes. - Each book theme includes various types of user-defined highlight colors. - Each book can have its own theme, and each EPUB book can have its own style. [For more technical details, screenshots, FAQ and reviews, please visit our website.]

Screenshots

iBouquiniste3 screens
MapleRead CX4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: MapleRead CX at Free against iBouquiniste's $3.99. iBouquiniste's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 3.4) and review sentiment (77% vs 62%). On update cadence, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

MapleRead CX is free to download; iBouquiniste costs $3.99 up front. iBouquiniste sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and MapleRead CX sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

iBouquiniste holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iBouquiniste has 161 ratings behind it against 24, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of iBouquiniste's written reviews are positive against 62% of MapleRead CX's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iBouquiniste ships an update every 4 weeks, MapleRead CX every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
iBouquiniste versus MapleRead CX: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriBouquinisteMapleRead CX
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (161 ratings) — better3.4 (24 ratings)
Positive reviews76.6% of reviews — better61.5% of reviews
Number of ratings161 — better24
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size83 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSandrMaplepop LLC

Customer experience

iBouquiniste

All ratings161 ratings
Positive92.5%
Neutral3.7%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews188 reviews
Positive76.6%
Neutral7.4%
Negative16.0%

MapleRead CX

All ratings24 ratings
Positive58.3%
Neutral8.3%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews39 reviews
Positive61.5%
Neutral10.3%
Negative28.2%

Bugs and requests

iBouquiniste

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Page number issues with some books
  • Corrupted book formatting
  • Inconsistent performance on older devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Highlight and annotate text
  • Custom bookshelves and collections
  • Dictionary/translation integration
  • Improved iCloud/cloud sync
  • Faster library loading

MapleRead CX

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

8 purchases

iBouquiniste

One-time8
  • Medium Storage of 1500 books for 1 month$0.99
  • Large Storage of 3000 books for 1 month$1.99
  • Extra Large Storage of 5000 books for 1 month$2.99
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  • 100GB iBouquiniste Cloud Storage for 1 month$3.99
  • Medium Storage of 1500 books for 1 year$5.99
  • Large Storage of 3000 books for 1 year$7.99
  • Extra Large Storage of 5000 books for 1 year$9.99
  • 100GB iBouquiniste Cloud Storage for 1 year$12.99
1 purchases

MapleRead CX

One-time1
  • Pro Upgrade$6.99

Questions

Is iBouquiniste free?
iBouquiniste costs $3.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is MapleRead CX free?
MapleRead CX is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, iBouquiniste or MapleRead CX?
iBouquiniste is rated higher. iBouquiniste averages 4.7 out of 5 from 161 ratings, while MapleRead CX averages 3.4 from 24 ratings.
Do iBouquiniste or MapleRead CX have ads?
Neither iBouquiniste nor MapleRead CX shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iBouquiniste or MapleRead CX?
iBouquiniste ships an update every 4 weeks, and MapleRead CX every 5 weeks. Most recently, iBouquiniste was updated on October 26, 2026 and MapleRead CX on October 21, 2026.

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