Patek Steel vs eBoox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Patek Steel
Explore a comprehensive digital guide to Patek Philippe steel watches, featuring high-resolution images and detailed descriptions of 187 rare and beautiful examples. This book offers invaluable insights for collectors and enthusiasts, covering a wide range of models and historical production details.
- High-resolution images of Patek watches
- Detailed descriptions of 187 examples
- Historical production information
- Over 900 color illustrations
- 12 chapters covering various watch types
- Pinch-to-zoom functionality
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After the publishing of Patek Philippe Steel Watches, now you can read on your iPad and mini iPad each page of this magnificent book, pinch to zoom in and out to view text and photos in high resolution of Patek watches that John Goldberger considers to be the most beautiful and rarest examples ever cased in steel by Geneva watch company. One hundred eighty-seven examples, including the current models, traced back through time thanks to painstaking research, with the collaboration of some of the world's leading collectors, and professionally photographed to show the details and the characteristics of the movement, case and dial of each example. A journey in the quintessence of the Patek Philippe spirit. Over 900 colour illustrations and 800 descriptions provide the collector and watch enthusiast with invaluable informations and new revelations on case reference numbers, dials, movements, related calibers and the year of production of each watch. 440 pages with twelve chapters: Pocket Watches and Clocks; Round Wristwatches; Rectangular Wristwatches; Water-proof Wristwatches; Chronograph Wristwatches; Perpetual Calendar Wristwatches with moon phases; Military Watches; Amagnetic Wristwatches; Self-Winding Wristwatches; Nautilus; Modern Wristwatches and Watch parts.
eBoox
This application provides a comfortable and customizable reading experience for a wide variety of e-book formats. It offers features like bookmarks, highlights, dark mode, and offline reading, with seamless online synchronization. Books can be easily uploaded from various sources, including cloud storage and email.
- Supports EPUB, MOBI, FB2, DOC, TXT, and more
- Customizable fonts, text size, and brightness
- Dark mode and offline reading
- Bookmarks, highlights, and notes
- Online auto-sync of books and progress
- AD-FREE reading experience
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eBoox – the most pleasant book reader ever! * *according to my mom :) • Cute, simple and useful UI, • Effective reading tools: bookmarks, 3-colors highlights, interactive links and notes, • Dark mode and offline reading, • Customized settings - Fonts, Fields, Text size, screen Brightness, Page scrolling, ets. • Suppots all your e-books, even in ZIP: EPUB, MOBI, DOC, DOCX, TXT, FB2, PRC, RTF, ODT, HTML, AZW, AZW3 and others text documents, • PDF supported (beta), • !Completely AD-FREE, • !Online auto SYNC of ebooks and reading progress, • !FREE WEB e-reader available! Start reading your e-books right now! Upload books via iTunes, import your files from the email, web browser, cloud storages (iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, Yandex.Disk etc) or share via AirDrop. In the app you will find detailed guide How to add ebooks in different ways. And we've already added three classic welcome books so you can appreciate the e-reader right away! This is a upgraded version of eBoox. The old one is no longer supported. In order not to lose your books, progress, quotes and bookmarks, install this app version. Run it on device and wait for the data transfer to finish. When you make sure that all your books appeared in eBoox 2020, you can safely delete eBoox.old. You can turn on the synchronization for backup.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: eBoox at Free against Patek Steel's $33.99. eBoox also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 43 months) and ratings volume (3.8K vs 2). Patek Steel's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On 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
eBoox is free to download; Patek Steel costs $33.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Patek Steel holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: eBoox has 3.8K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of Patek Steel's written reviews are positive against 88% of eBoox's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Patek Steel ships an update every 43 months, eBoox monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Patek Steel | eBoox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $33.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.8 (3.8K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 88.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3.8K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 43 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.2 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 156 MB | 177 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | John Goldberger | REDIT, OOO |
Customer experience
Patek Steel
eBoox
Bugs and requests
Patek Steel
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
eBoox
Reported bugs
3 issues- Highlighting and annotations sometimes behave unexpectedly
- Syncing between devices can be unreliable at times
- Occasional crashes or freezes when navigating the app
Requested features
7 requests- Add more font options, including bold and italic
- Implement a built-in dictionary or translation tool
- Allow direct import of books from local device storage
- Improve page numbering and reading progress display
- Add support for PDF files and annotations
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- Introduce a grid-style library view for book covers
- Implement automatic dark mode based on system settings
In-app purchases
Patek Steel
No in-app purchases
eBoox
No in-app purchases
