Gutenberg Project vs Project Gutenberg Ebooks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gutenberg Project
Access over 60,000 classic books and 7,000 human-read audiobooks from Project Gutenberg. Enjoy a beautiful reading experience with synchronized audio and text, intelligent table of contents, and personalized recommendations based on user data. Export books with notes and bookmarks.
- Access 60,000+ classic books
- 7,000+ human-read audiobooks
- Synchronized read-along audio/text
- Intelligent Table of Contents
- Big data-driven recommendations
- Export books with notes/bookmarks
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【Premier Reader】: This app costs $6, and our users are paying for it each and every day. Why? It is the best Gutenberg Reader: beautiful images, elegant formatting, and graceful page turning. Contents live from Project Gutenberg with last-minute update, more than 60,000 most important books ever published in history. Plus more than 7,000 human-read audio books. 【Audio books】: There are more than 7,000 human-read audio books, all for the price of a cup of coffee. Alternatively you could pay $3-5 for a single audiobook as some of the "Audio app" would ask you to pay. 【Book recommendation】: Every app gives you a list of book recommendation, but where did they find the list? dreamed up in 'lala' land? We base our recommendation solidly on big data, tens of millions of pages actually read by our users. Downloading or page flipping has no effect on the ranking of our recommendation list. 【Number of Books】: No other apps have more Gutenberg books, and many competitors are missing some classic Gutenberg books, and many competitors use outdated data from Gutenberg. 【Reading】: Texts and images are presented by a sophisticated book reader: beautiful presentation, graceful page turning, and the most intelligent Table of Contents (better than any other book reader for the same book). 【Read-along】: Audio and Text are synchronized when possible. You can read, listen, or read-Along, and switch between them at will. 【Export】: Export a book together with bookmarks and the notes you inserted into the book to anyone and any device, or save it i the cloud (google drive, one drive, or iCloud). * The PAID version "Gutenberg Books" allows unlimited reading and listening.
Project Gutenberg Ebooks
Access and read thousands of public domain ebooks from Project Gutenberg. This app offers a customizable reader, smart search, offline access, and annotation tools for a personalized reading experience.
- Thousands of public domain ebooks
- Smart ebook search and filtering
- Offline reading capability
- Ebook annotations and notes
- Customizable reader with themes
- Multi-language support
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Project Gutenberg Ebooks at 4.6 against Gutenberg Project's 3.3. Project Gutenberg Ebooks also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and monetization model (freemium vs paid). Gutenberg Project's advantage is review sentiment (41% vs 20%). On price, ratings volume, 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. Gutenberg Project sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Project Gutenberg Ebooks sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Project Gutenberg Ebooks holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 43 and 45 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 41% of Gutenberg Project's written reviews are positive against 20% of Project Gutenberg Ebooks's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Gutenberg Project ships an update every 2 months, Project Gutenberg Ebooks every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gutenberg Project | Project Gutenberg Ebooks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (43 ratings) | 4.6 (45 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.7% of reviews — better | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 43 | 45 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | himalaya-soft | Natalja Morozova |
Customer experience
Gutenberg Project
Project Gutenberg Ebooks
In-app purchases
Gutenberg Project
- Unlimited Reading$2.99
- Unlimited Listening$2.99
Project Gutenberg Ebooks
- Weekly Premium$4.997 Days
- Monthly Premium$9.991 Month
- Yearly Premium$29.991 Year
