National Library and Archives vs Gutenberg | eBook Reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
National Library and Archives
Access a comprehensive digital archive and library for the UAE, featuring historical media, public contributions, news archives, and an e-book store. Explore audio recordings and various other electronic services.
- Historical multimedia archive
- User-submitted historical content
- Daily news archives
- E-book store
- Audio library of Sheikh Zayed
- Electronic services
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تطبيق شامل للأرشيف والمكتبة الوطنية لدولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة تم فيه دمج جميع التطبيقات السابقة في واجهة واحدة جديدة كلياً يشمل التطبيق: كنوز الأرشيف: وهي مكتبة للوسائط المتعددة التاريخية وتشمل صور ووثائق وخرائط... ، علومكم: وتحتوي على مشاركات جمهور الأرشيف والمكتبة والوطنية من مواد تاريخية وتراثية يوميات: والتي تحتوي على أخبار يومية نشرت في الصحف لأصحاب السمو الشيوخ متجر الكتب الإلكترونية ويشمل إلإصدارات الإلكترونية باللغتين العربية والإنجليزية حيث يمكن للمستخدم شراءها وقراءتها من خلال التطبيق المكتبة الصوتية للشيخ زايد والتي تشمل مقاطع مسجلة من أقوال المغفور له الشيخ زايد بن سلطان آل نهيان والعديد من الخدمات الإلكترونية الأخرى
Gutenberg | eBook Reader
Access a vast library of public domain e-books and audiobooks from around the world. Explore tens of thousands of titles across numerous languages and categories, including classics and popular works.
- Vast public domain e-book library
- Extensive audiobook collection
- Thousands of titles available
- Multiple languages supported
- Categorized book selection
- Top 50 e-books listed
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This app contains the largest public domain e-book and audio book platforms in the world. This application brings a large collection of e-books and audio books to your phone and makes more than 50.000 e-books, 10.000 audio books available for you. Thousands of books from different categories and languages. Languages with more than 50 e-books, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog. Top 50 e-books: 1- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 2- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 3- The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 4- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 5- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 6- Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 7 -The Bayeux Tapestry Elucidated by John Collingwood Bruce 8- Why Men Fight by Bertrand Russell 9- Dracula by Bram Stoker 10- The Young Train Dispatcher by Burton Egbert Stevenson 11- Il Principe. English by Niccolò Machiavelli 12- Et dukkehjem. English by Henrik Ibsen 13- Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem 14- Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 15- Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary 16- Rowlandson by Mary White Rowlandson 17- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 18- Grimms' Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm 19- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 20- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 21- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American 22- Slave by Frederick Douglass 23- Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie 24- Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin 25- The Iliad by Homer 26- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare 27- Red Wagon Stories by Wells Hawks 28- War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy 29- The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana 30- The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for 31- Serious People by Oscar Wilde 32- Common Sense by Thomas Paine 33- Histories of two hundred and fifty-one divisions of the 34- German army which participated in the war 35- The Romance of Lust: A Classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous 36- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 37- Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville 38- The War in the East by Trumbull White 39- Ulysses by James Joyce 40- Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë 41- The Key to Theosophy by H. P. Blavatsky 42- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 43- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 44- The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 3 (of 4) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 45- The Theory of Environment by Armin Hajman Koller 46- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 47- The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin 48- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving 49- Webster & Tourneur by Cyril Tourneur and John Webster 50- Prestuplenie i nakazanie. English by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Top Audio Books: 1- Pride and Prejudice 2- Jane Eyre 3- Persuasion 4- Anne of Green Gables 5- Emma 6- Little Women 7- The Count of Monte Cristo 8- Mansfield Park 9- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 10- Wuthering Heights 11- The Woman in White 12- Frankenstein: The 1818 Text 13- A Little Princess 14- Moby-Dick 15- Sense and Sensibility 16- North and South 17- Dracula 18- The Scarlet PimpernelThe Scarlet Pimpernel 19- The 39 Steps 20- The Picture of Dorian Gray 21- Tess of the D'Urbervilles 22- David Copperfield 23- My Man Jeeves 24- The Invisible Man 25- A Christmas Carol 26- The Secret Garden 27- Northanger Abbey 28- Uncle Tom's Cabin 29- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 30- The Return of Sherlock Holmes 31- Middlemarch 32- A Room with a View 33- Agnes Grey 34- Wives and Daughters 35- Around the World in Eighty Days 36- The Metamorphosis 37- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 38- Don QuixoteDon Quixote 39- The Importance of Being Earnest 40- A Tale of Two Cities Terms of Use(EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: National Library and Archives at none against Gutenberg | eBook Reader's shown. National Library and Archives also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5). Gutenberg | eBook Reader's advantage is ratings volume (761 vs 3) and review sentiment (70% vs 60%). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. National Library and Archives sells 17 one-off in-app purchases and Gutenberg | eBook Reader sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
National Library and Archives holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gutenberg | eBook Reader has 761 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 60% of National Library and Archives's written reviews are positive against 70% of Gutenberg | eBook Reader's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
National Library and Archives ships an update every 2 months, Gutenberg | eBook Reader every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | National Library and Archives | Gutenberg | eBook Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.5 (761 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 69.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 761 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | National Library and Archives | Webron Software LTD |
Customer experience
National Library and Archives
Gutenberg | eBook Reader
Bugs and requests
National Library and Archives
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Gutenberg | eBook Reader
Reported bugs
7 issues- Search returns no results or irrelevant results
- Books listed on Project Gutenberg not appearing in app
- App fails to download certain books
- Reading progress not saved between sessions
- Continuous scroll instead of page-by-page display
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- Search function completely non-functional for some users
- App crashes or becomes unresponsive
Requested features
10 requests- Improved search functionality with better filtering
- Better book organization and categorization system
- Dictionary/word definition feature
- Improved paragraph spacing and text formatting
- Page-by-page navigation instead of chapter-based
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- Ability to delete books from library
- Bookmark and reading progress saving
- More non-fiction and contemporary book titles
- Author search by first and last name
- Reduced or optional advertisements
In-app purchases
National Library and Archives
- YawmeyatMohammedBinRashedFree
- Liwa Arabic 29Free
- Zayed From Challenges to UnionFree
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- YawmeyatZayedBinSultanFree
- YawmeyatMohamedBinZayedFree
- YawmeyatFatemaFree
- قصر الحصنFree
- Rasael Al Rasoul$3.99
- Emiratis All Our Yesterdays - Arabic$4.99
- Zayed Ibn Al Sahraa$4.99
- New Perpectives On Recording UAE History A$4.99
- Old Mosques of the Coasts of Abu Dhabi - Arabic$5.99
- Memoirs of the Emirates - Arabic$9.99
- India and UAE$9.99
- UAE and Iran - The three islands$9.99
- Black Gold and Frankincense - Arabic$9.99
- ZAYED Man Who Built A Nation Arabic$9.99
Gutenberg | eBook Reader
- Monthly Subscription$1.991 Month
- Weekly Subscription$4.997 Days
- Weekly Subscription3 Days trial$4.997 Days
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- Yearly Subscription$24.991 Year
- Premium$39.99
- Lifetime Premium$39.99
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