Comparison

YiBook vs MapleRead CX

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

Head to head
About

YiBook

An elegant ebook reader supporting EPUB and TXT formats. Easily import books from various sources, organize your library with categories, and customize your reading experience with notes, bookmarks, and custom fonts. The free version supports up to five books.

Highlights
  • EPUB/TXT book reading
  • Import books from OPDS, web, WiFi, iTunes
  • Add bookmarks, underlines, and notes
  • Organize books by category
  • Import custom fonts
  • Customizable typesetting
  • Track reading time
Features
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YiBook is a fully functional and elegant ebook reader. Features: • EPub/Txt books reading. • Get books from open resource (OPDS). • Get books from web page (Dropbox, Google, etc.). • Transfer books through WiFi or iTunes. • Add bookmarks, underlines and notes while reading. • Category for books, easily manage tons of books. • Setting password to lock category. • Import custom fonts. • Record reading time of each book. • Share books via mail or open it in other app. • Custom typeset for three classes, adjust quickly while reading. • Elegant way to look up the progress of reading - by pull up page. • Humanization design like "Tap Left to Turn Next Page". Note:YiBook FREE version allow to store 5 books. If you want to manage more books, you should buy the In-App Purchase for "YiBook Premium".

About

MapleRead CX

This app offers a unique audio-visual reading experience for EPUB ebooks. Customize book styles, generate pseudo audiobooks with various voices, and enjoy immersive reading with synchronized audio and text. It also functions as a powerful library management tool with extensive customization options.

Highlights
  • Audio-visual EPUB reader
  • Pseudo audiobook generation
  • Immersion reading (sync audio/text)
  • Customizable book styles and themes
  • Word lookup and translation
  • Library management and organization
  • User-defined fonts and highlight colors
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MapleRead is dedicated to enable unique audio-visual reading experience for everyone. ------------ Our MapleRead app family has 3 members, namely SE, CE and CX. - SE is our flagship product with all features. - CE is SE without PDF reader and built-in Library Server. - CX is CE with some limitation. Free to try. - No recurring subscription fees. No ads. Just buy it once. Gratuity optional. - Moreover, SE and CE can be run side-by-side via split-view multitasking. - Recommend SE for use on multiple devices with easy and fast book sharing via Library Server. - Recommend the SE-CE bundle for the best value. ------------ MapleRead includes a superb audio-visual EPUB e-book reader. - It lets you easily modify publisher's original book style to better suit your aesthetic taste. - It lets you instantly generate pseudo audiobooks with a choice of narrator voices over 40 languages. - It enables immersion reading so that you may read and listen to the same book in sync. - Background listening works well too. Compatible with Lock Screen Music Player and CarPlay. MapleRead UI is friendly to users of all ages. - Books can be read in regular and large print. - A choice of UI text sizes makes reading in non-book views much more comfortable. MapleRead is a great learning tool. - It lets you look up words, translate sentences, search text, highlight text and write notes. - It helps you collect vocabulary and organize notes with various priorities. - It provides hooks to user-defined dictionaries, translators, and other tools. - Immersion reading improves your comprehension, especially of foreign-language books. MapleRead is an effective and fast library management tool. - It is designed for you, a book lover, who may own a huge and/or growing book collection. - It lets you keep all your books in one place and well-organized automatically. - It lets you display your books elegantly in style. - It lets you easily repair individual book metadata. - If supports multiple book sets and multiple tags. - It offers multiple ways to import and export books, and works well with Calibre. MapleRead offers unprecedented user-defined customization options. - They include unlimited user-defined fonts, book themes, cover images and library scenes. - Each book theme includes various types of user-defined highlight colors. - Each book can have its own theme, and each EPUB book can have its own style. [For more technical details, screenshots, FAQ and reviews, please visit our website.]

Screenshots

YiBook4 screens
MapleRead CX4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: MapleRead CX at 3.4 against YiBook's 3.2. MapleRead CX also leads on ratings volume (24 vs 5). YiBook's advantage is monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs paid) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. YiBook sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and MapleRead CX sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

MapleRead CX holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 24 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of YiBook's written reviews are positive against 62% of MapleRead CX's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

YiBook ships an update every 2 months, MapleRead CX every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
YiBook versus MapleRead CX: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYiBookMapleRead CX
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.2 (5 ratings)3.4 (24 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews — better61.5% of reviews
Number of ratings524 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer振焯 陈Maplepop LLC

Customer experience

YiBook

All ratings5 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews42 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral7.1%
Negative26.2%

MapleRead CX

All ratings24 ratings
Positive58.3%
Neutral8.3%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews39 reviews
Positive61.5%
Neutral10.3%
Negative28.2%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

YiBook

One-time1
  • YiBook Premium$2.99
1 purchases

MapleRead CX

One-time1
  • Pro Upgrade$6.99

Questions

Is YiBook free?
YiBook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MapleRead CX free?
MapleRead CX is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, YiBook or MapleRead CX?
MapleRead CX is rated higher. YiBook averages 3.2 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while MapleRead CX averages 3.4 from 24 ratings.
Do YiBook or MapleRead CX have ads?
Neither YiBook nor MapleRead CX shows ads.
Which is updated more often, YiBook or MapleRead CX?
YiBook ships an update every 2 months, and MapleRead CX every 5 weeks. Most recently, YiBook was updated on October 26, 2026 and MapleRead CX on October 21, 2026.

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