Cengage Read vs Labyrinth Library
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cengage Read
Access and study your digital textbooks from anywhere. This app allows students to read, take notes, highlight, bookmark, and use text-to-speech for a flexible learning experience on the go.
- Read eTextbooks on the go
- Take notes and highlight
- Bookmark important sections
- Text-to-speech functionality
- Search keywords
- Navigate via table of contents
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Read your eTextbook and study on the go with the Cengage Read app. Cengage Read lets students study whenever – and wherever – they want. Take notes, highlight and bookmark info, have the text read out loud with text-to-speech and easily search keywords and jump to pages with the table of contents. Just log in with your Cengage username and password to get started.
Labyrinth Library
Access your educational content and multimedia on the go with this e-reader app. Study offline, take self-quizzes, and utilize text-to-speech for a flexible learning experience. Sync notes and highlights across all your devices.
- Offline access to learning content
- Self-quizzes with immediate feedback
- Text-to-speech functionality
- Highlighting, note-taking, and bookmarking
- Cross-device syncing
- Customizable text settings
- Search within content
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Take your learning on the go with Labyrinth Learning’s companion e-reader app. With anytime, anywhere access to your learning and multimedia content from your mobile device, you can keep up with your studies while you keep up with your day. • Learn anywhere with offline access to all learning and multimedia content • Check your understanding with self-quizzes that give immediate feedback • Listen to your books with the text-to-speech feature • Highlight text, take notes, bookmark pages – all synced to your account across all your devices • Customize text settings and preferences • Search for words or phrases and see the results in context • Access alternative text for images to support all learners Requirements: • Active Labyrinth Library account • One or more books redeemed in your account
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Labyrinth Library at 4.6 against Cengage Read's 4.2. Cengage Read's advantage is ratings volume (4.2K vs 35). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Labyrinth Library holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cengage Read has 4.2K ratings behind it against 35, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Cengage Read | Labyrinth Library |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (4.2K ratings) | 4.6 (35 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 19.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4.2K — better | 35 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18 | 18 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cengage Learning | Labyrinth Learning, Inc. |
Customer experience
Cengage Read
Labyrinth Library
Bugs and requests
Cengage Read
Reported bugs
4 issues- Frequent crashes and sign-outs
- Inconsistent highlighting and note-taking functionality
- Inability to view full pages and content
- Text-to-speech feature not working properly
Requested features
4 requests- Improve text formatting and layout
- Add split-screen support for note-taking
- Enhance accessibility features like text-to-speech
- Integrate assignment and due date tracking
Labyrinth Library
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Cengage Read
No in-app purchases
Labyrinth Library
No in-app purchases
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