Parallel Texts Reader vs eBoox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Parallel Texts Reader
Read books with instant, sentence-by-sentence translations in multiple languages. Listen to translations and tap words for more options like transcription and pronunciation. Features a growing library of over 370 books across various language pairs.
- Parallel text translation
- Listen to sentence translations
- Tap for word details
- Extensive book library
- Multiple language pairs
- Reverse translation mode
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Application for reading books with parallel translation. Allows you to listen and see the translation of any sentence while reading. Constantly updated library of books - we are adding books every month. Now the library has more then 370 books: - English - Russian - English - French - English - German - English - Italian - English - Spanish - English - Ukrainian - English - Polish - English - Chinese - Russian - English - Russian - French - French - Russian - French - English - French - Ukrainian - French - Polish - Spanish - Russian - Spanish - English - Spanish - Ukrainian - German - Russian - German - Ukrainian - German - English - Danish - English - Norwegian - English - Hebrew - Russian - Estonian - Russian Touch any part of the text to see the translation. To memorize, transcribe, translate or listen the word, tap and hold your finger on it. Reverse mode allows you to change the primary language into the translated language, that is, for example from English-Spanish to Spanish-English.
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 rating: eBoox at 4.8 against Parallel Texts Reader's 4.0. eBoox also leads on review sentiment (88% vs 54%) and ratings volume (3.8K vs 10). 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.
eBoox holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: eBoox has 3.8K ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of Parallel Texts Reader's written reviews are positive against 88% of eBoox's.
Parallel Texts Reader ships an update every 6 weeks, eBoox monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Parallel Texts Reader | eBoox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (10 ratings) | 4.8 (3.8K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.3% of reviews | 88.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 3.8K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #180 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 9.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 177 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ivan Savchenko | REDIT, OOO |
Customer experience
Parallel Texts Reader
eBoox
Bugs and requests
Parallel Texts Reader
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
Parallel Texts Reader
No in-app purchases
eBoox
No in-app purchases
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