Comparison

eBooks.com vs EPUB Reader

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

Head to head
About

eBooks.com

Access your purchased eBooks from eBooks.com on any device. Read offline, sync progress, and customize your reading experience with notes, highlights, and adjustable settings. Organize your library and enjoy accessibility features.

Highlights
  • Offline reading
  • Cross-device syncing
  • Highlighting and note-taking
  • Customizable reading settings
  • Library organization
  • Accessibility features
Features
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Your personal eBooks.com library, right in your pocket. Pick up any book you've purchased from eBooks.com and start reading, whether you're at home, on the go, or somewhere without internet. Your reading progress syncs across all your devices, so you never lose your place. PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF Start reading on your phone, continue on your tablet. Your progress, bookmarks, and annotations sync automatically across every device linked to your eBooks.com account. READ OFFLINE, ANYWHERE Download your ebooks to your device and enjoy them without an internet connection. Perfect for flights, commutes, or anywhere life takes you. MAKE EVERY BOOK YOUR OWN Highlight your favorite passages in multiple colors, add notes in the margins, and bookmark the pages that matter most. Your annotations stay with you across all your devices. READ YOUR WAY Customize your reading experience to suit you. Adjust font size, font style, text color, background color, line spacing, margins, and more. Choose between page-flip or scroll mode. ORGANIZE YOUR LIBRARY Create collections to sort your books your way. Browse by grid or list view, and sort by title, author, or recent activity. ACCESSIBILITY BUILT IN Full VoiceOver support, high-contrast options, and toolbar labels help make reading accessible to everyone. GETTING STARTED Download the app for free, sign in with your eBooks.com account, and your library is ready to read. Don't have an account yet? Create one at eBooks.com and start building your library today.

About

EPUB Reader

Customize your reading experience with extensive font and layout options. Effortlessly manage your library, track reading habits, and enjoy eye-care features. Sync your books across devices via cloud storage without proprietary lock-in.

Highlights
  • 200+ built-in fonts and custom font import
  • Adjustable text and layout settings
  • Smart dark mode with intelligent image inversion
  • 20-20-20 eye health reminders
  • Library management for 5,000+ books
  • Cloud sync via iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive
  • Highlighting, notes, and bookmarking
  • Reading progress tracking and goal setting
Features
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EPUB, PDF, comics, and audiobooks in one native iOS reader. Fast, deeply customizable, and built to disappear so you can simply read. FOUR FORMATS, ONE SHELF Read EPUB 3 and PDF. Read CBZ and CBR comics and manga, with two-page spreads, double-tap zoom, and a reading direction you set per book. Listen to audiobooks with chapters, a sleep timer, Car Mode, and CarPlay. Or follow along with EPUB 3 narration, where the text highlights in time with the voice. READ ALOUD Any book can be read to you, by any Apple voice on your device or by natural neural voices in 31 languages that you download once and then run offline. The sentence highlights as it is spoken and the pages turn on their own, with speed presets, sentence skips, a sleep timer, and Lock Screen controls. Prepare a book in advance and keep listening with the screen off. TYPOGRAPHY YOU CONTROL 200+ fonts, or import your own. Tune size, weight, line and paragraph spacing, alignment, hyphenation, and separate margins for portrait and landscape. Save settings per book so a novel, a textbook, and poetry each look right. Build your own color themes and let them switch at sunset. Choose which buttons the reader toolbar shows and where a tap opens it, and give links their own color and style. Smart dark mode keeps images natural, and in-reader brightness, Line Focus, and eye-care break reminders protect your eyes. NO LOCK-IN, EVER Your books stay ordinary files in an ordinary folder, never a proprietary database. Point justread at any folder: on device, iCloud Drive, or one your cloud app syncs through Files. Import from a Calibre server or any OPDS catalog. Email a book to your Kindle or PocketBook. IN SYNC WITH YOUR E-READER Your reading position follows you to any e-reader running KOReader, a Kobo included, in both directions. Connect a self-hosted Grimmory server to browse and download its books, send books to it, and keep status, ratings, highlights, notes, and bookmarks in step both ways. A LIBRARY THAT SCALES Thousands of books with no lag, and a book opens in about a second. Instant search by title, author, or series. Automatic metadata and series detection, 11 sort modes, saved filters, collections, and tags. Edit any book's details by hand, description included. Spotlight opens any book from your home screen. HIGHLIGHTS, NOTES, BOOKMARKS Highlight, underline, and attach a note. Browse every highlight across your whole library in one place, share a quote as a card, or export to Markdown, PDF, or Readwise. YOUR READING, IN NUMBERS Daily goals, a yearly books goal, streaks, and milestone badges. An hourly heatmap shows when you read best. Monthly and yearly recaps, plus a story-style Reading Wrap that turns your year into cards worth sharing. AND THE REST Home screen and lock screen widgets. Dictionary and translation. Full-text search and a nested table of contents. iCloud sync, so you resume on the exact line on any device. Right-to-left and Japanese vertical text. A page curl, if you want one. Free for 14 days, then a subscription or a lifetime purchase, both with Family Sharing. Available in 18 languages. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://justread.app/en/privacy_policy

Screenshots

eBooks.com4 screens
EPUB Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: EPUB Reader at 87% against eBooks.com's 0%. EPUB Reader also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.1) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). eBooks.com's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 7) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.1). On price, ads 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

Both are free to download. EPUB Reader sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. eBooks.com asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

EPUB Reader holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: EPUB Reader has 47 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of eBooks.com's written reviews are positive against 87% of EPUB Reader's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

eBooks.com ships an update every 3 weeks, EPUB Reader every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
eBooks.com versus EPUB Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametereBooks.comEPUB Reader
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.1 (7 ratings)4.7 (47 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews86.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings747 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.1
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB123 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperEBOOKS.COM PTY LIMITEDPETR JAHODA

Customer experience

eBooks.com

All ratings7 ratings
Positive28.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative71.4%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

EPUB Reader

All ratings47 ratings
Positive91.5%
Neutral4.3%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews38 reviews
Positive86.8%
Neutral7.9%
Negative5.3%

In-app purchases

None

eBooks.com

No in-app purchases

7 purchases

EPUB Reader

Subscriptions5
  • Monthly Premium14 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Monthly: Read Aloud Offline$4.991 Month
  • Yearly – Launch Price7 Days trial$12.491 Year
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  • Yearly Premium14 Days trial$24.991 Year
  • Yearly: Highlights & Notes$29.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime – Launch Price$29.99
  • Lifetime: Library & Kindle$79.99

Questions

Is eBooks.com free?
eBooks.com is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is EPUB Reader free?
EPUB Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, eBooks.com or EPUB Reader?
EPUB Reader is rated higher. eBooks.com averages 2.1 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while EPUB Reader averages 4.7 from 47 ratings.
Do eBooks.com or EPUB Reader have ads?
Neither eBooks.com nor EPUB Reader shows ads.
Which is updated more often, eBooks.com or EPUB Reader?
eBooks.com ships an update every 3 weeks, and EPUB Reader every 5 days. Most recently, eBooks.com was updated on October 9, 2026 and EPUB Reader on October 11, 2026.

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