Reeden Reader vs Common Reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Reeden Reader
This app serves as a personal digital library, supporting all major eBook formats. It offers cross-platform syncing, AI-assisted reading features, and intelligent analytics to enhance the reading experience for knowledge workers and avid readers.
- All eBook format support
- Cross-platform syncing
- AI-assisted reading
- Smart reading analytics
- Powerful note-taking
- Customizable layout
- Offline reading
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Reeden – Your Personal Digital Library Your personal digital library, making reading enjoyable and knowledge easily accessible. Reeden is designed for heavy readers and knowledge workers, supporting all eBook formats, cross-platform syncing, AI-assisted reading, and intelligent analytics to make every reading session more efficient and flexible. Key Features All-Format Support: Read TXT, EPUB, MOBI, AZW, AZW3, PDF, and more. Seamless Multi-Device Sync: Sync books, reading progress, and notes via iCloud, WebDAV, S3, or OneDrive. Offline Reading: Fully enjoy local reading and system TTS audiobooks anytime, anywhere. AI-Assisted Reading: Ask questions about your books and generate key point cards for deeper knowledge. Smart Analytics: Track reading time, heatmaps, book rankings, and multi-dimensional insights. Powerful Notes: Highlight, underline, add comments, export notes, and create shareable posters. Customizable Layout: Fully adjust themes, fonts, backgrounds, line spacing, and page layout. Privacy Protection: Private mode with biometric unlock to safeguard personal bookshelves. Efficient Management: Categorize with tags, switch between grid/list/minimal views, and transfer books via Wi-Fi easily. More Experiences Reading Goals: Set daily word or time targets, plan your yearly reading, and automatically generate achievement posters. Audiobooks: Supports system offline TTS, Microsoft online TTS, and custom HTTP speech interfaces. Translation Modes: Immersive or replacement translation, AI model translation, API translation, and web page translation. Deep Sync: Sync reading progress, notes, books, and fonts across devices seamlessly. Download Reeden now and build your cross-platform eBook reading and knowledge management hub.
Common Reader
This app offers a unified reading and AI-powered analysis experience for various ebook formats. It allows users to ask questions about book content, automatically organize their library, and sync across multiple devices. Privacy is a core focus, with no proactive data collection.
- Supports multiple ebook formats (epub, azw3, mobi, txt, md, pdf)
- AI-powered questions about book content
- Automatic library organization with generative AI
- Cloud sync (iCloud, OneDrive, WebDAV)
- Fast full-library search
- Unified cross-platform interface
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- UI and interactions follow a carefully unified cross-platform logic and are built with native technologies for iOS and iPadOS. - Supports many ebook formats, including epub, azw3, mobi, txt, markdown, and pdf. - Supports nearly every ebook rendering feature, including vertical writing and RTL. - Listen with built-in system voices or AI voice models. - A high-performance, Metal-powered simulated page-turn engine offers an unparalleled visual experience. - Deeply integrates AI features for asking questions about books and automatically organizing your library with generative AI. - Supports cloud sync through iCloud, OneDrive, Google Drive, WebDAV, and more. - Provides fast full-library search across books, authors, tags, notes, highlights, and original text. - The app does not proactively collect any of your information. Your data is only processed by the model and cloud storage providers you trust.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Common Reader at none against Reeden Reader's 1. Common Reader also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Reeden Reader's advantage is ratings volume (60 vs 1) and review sentiment (89% vs 75%). On price, ads, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Reeden Reader sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Common Reader asks for nothing beyond the download.
Common Reader holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Reeden Reader has 60 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 89% of Reeden Reader's written reviews are positive against 75% of Common Reader's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Reeden Reader ships an update every 2 weeks, Common Reader every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Reeden Reader | Common Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (60 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.0% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 60 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 149 MB | 116 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 红国 张 | 天宇 高 |
Customer experience
Reeden Reader
Common Reader
In-app purchases
Reeden Reader
- Pro 一次性付费$14.99
Common Reader
No in-app purchases
