iBouquiniste Lite vs MapleRead CX
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iBouquiniste Lite
This app offers a customizable ebook reading experience with support for multiple formats. Adjust fonts, indents, and paper types to mimic reading a physical book. Organize your library by author or recently opened books.
- Supports FB2, EPUB, PDF, DJVU, MOBI, CBR, CBZ, TXT
- Adjustable fonts, paragraph indents, paper type
- OPDS catalog support
- Notes functionality
- Send books via email
- Author Library organization
- Real page numbers
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iBouquiniste is an iPad and iPhone ebook reader like none you've seen before. Unlike other readers, this app supports FB2, EPUB, PDF, DJVU, MOBI, 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! 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 OPDS catalogs * Full support for iPad retina display * 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) 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.- You can send a book by email - Unique Authors Library (each author on it's own bookshelf) - Real page numbers - Adjustable fonts, spacings, margins, book paper etc. - You can download books via iTunes or any app supporting file transfer (for example Mail or Safari)
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.
- 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.]
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: MapleRead CX at none against iBouquiniste Lite's shown. iBouquiniste Lite's advantage is rating (3.8 vs 3.4) and monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs paid). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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. iBouquiniste Lite sells 4 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.
iBouquiniste Lite holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 49 and 24 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 60% of iBouquiniste Lite's written reviews are positive against 62% of MapleRead CX's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
iBouquiniste Lite ships an update every 3 weeks, MapleRead CX every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iBouquiniste Lite | MapleRead CX |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (49 ratings) — better | 3.4 (24 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 61.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 49 — better | 24 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 85 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sandr | Maplepop LLC |
Customer experience
iBouquiniste Lite
MapleRead CX
Bugs and requests
iBouquiniste Lite
Reported bugs
10 issues- App crashes on launch or when opening books
- Cannot open certain book formats (EPUB, FB2, DJVU)
- Ads are unclosable or reappear after purchase
- OPDS does not work
- Control codes appear instead of characters
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- App does not open or access books
- Battery drains significantly
- App crashes when interacting with ads
- Corrupted pages
- App crashes on initial loading page
Requested features
10 requests- Add option to remove ads
- Improve OPDS support
- Add notes and markup features
- Improve handling of large books
- Fix issues with specific file formats
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- Add dark mode
- Improve UI for smaller screens
- Add translation/thesaurus feature
- Allow highlighting current chapter in list
- Add picture enlargement option
MapleRead CX
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
iBouquiniste Lite
- PDF Support$0.99
- DJVU Support$0.99
- Remove Ads$1.99
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- iBouquiniste Cloud Storage Basic$1.99
MapleRead CX
- Pro Upgrade$6.99
Questions
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