Comparison

eBookReader vs Apricity

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

Head to head
About

eBookReader

This app allows you to read eBooks in FB2 and EPUB formats, organize your digital library, and convert books into audio for listening. It's designed for book lovers who also enjoy audiobooks.

Highlights
  • Read FB2 and EPUB eBooks
  • Build and manage your library
  • Convert books to audio format
  • Listen to audiobooks
Features
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eBookReader is a versatile app for working with FB2 and EPUB formats. Read eBooks, build your library, and convert books into audio format for convenient listening. The perfect solution for book lovers and audiobook enthusiasts, all in one app.

About

Apricity

This app offers a comprehensive reading and note-taking experience, transforming your device into a personal library. Enjoy features like text-to-speech, customizable bookshelves, and robust PDF annotation tools.

Highlights
  • Read Aloud with highlighting
  • Customizable digital bookshelves
  • PDF and document annotation
  • Handwriting and note-taking
  • Audio recording synced with notes
  • Focus timer and soundscapes
Features
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Apricity (n.): the warmth of the sun on a winter's day. The best reading happens late, when the house is quiet and a single lamp makes a small warm room inside the dark. Apricity is built around that feeling: a reading room for your books, a voice to read them to you, and a desk for your notes. SOMEONE TO READ TO YOU Read Aloud lights up each sentence as it's read, plays on with the screen locked and in CarPlay, and has a sleep timer. Choose Apple's voices or 54 natural voices in eight languages, made on your device. Character Voice gives a story's characters a voice of their own, and Expressive Reading lets a whispered line sound whispered. Siri knows it: "Read my book in Apricity." YOUR BOOKS, ON REAL SHELVES Add a PDF, EPUB, Word document, MOBI, FB2, Markdown or text file and it stands on a wooden shelf, lit by a lamp at night and daylight by morning. Pick one of four bookcases, stand books by cover or spine, and keep some in a cabinet. Furnish it with 21 themes, 21 wallpapers or your photo, 13 woods, seven lamps and shelf decorations. THE WEB AND THE CLASSICS Paste a link or share a page from Safari, and its story becomes a book, ready to read or hear at once. Or turn the bookcase to thousands of free public-domain classics, shelved by kind like a bookshop's; pick one and it's yours in seconds. TWO WAYS TO READ Original shows the page exactly as published, recoloured for the light you read by. Reflow sets the words like a book, in the face, size and spacing you choose. Scans are read too, and comics and manga open as pages, manga right to left. Highlight, keep notes, look up words and see how much you've read this week. KEEP THE LINES YOU LOVE Save a quote or a word as you read; the Quote of the Day and Word of the Day widgets bring them back each morning. WRITE ON YOUR PDFS Markup puts the notebook's pens on a PDF's own pages: circle a figure, answer a worksheet, and the PDF stays as it was. Split View keeps a notebook open beside the book. NOTEBOOKS THAT FEEL LIKE PAPER Write with Apple Pencil or a finger; pinch in close and the page stays sharp. Neat Writing tidies your hand, and shapes snap clean. Pages come in 81 kinds of paper, from Cornell notes to music staff. Add stickers, photos and sticky notes, choose from 30 covers, and search your handwriting. Notability and GoodNotes notes come in as ink you can keep editing. RECORD THE LECTURE Record as you write, then tap your writing to hear that moment again. Transcripts are made on your device, and with Apple Intelligence, Smart Notes sums up a notebook or quizzes you on it. SOMETHING TO READ BY A fire in the grate, birdsong, rain on the roof, jazz in a busy café: four soundscapes made on the device, and a focus timer to study by. YOUR BOOKS STAY WITH YOU There is no account; your books stay on your device, and iCloud sync carries your highlights, notes, Markup, notebooks and recordings to your other devices. FREE AND PREMIUM Free, for good: every kind of book, pages from the web, the free classics, shelves, both ways of reading, highlights, notes, Markup, every book's notebook, your own notebooks with the seven Classic covers, recording, and iCloud sync. Apricity Premium adds Read Aloud with every voice, transcripts, Smart Notes, exporting notes and notebooks, the Crafted and Illustrated covers, stickers, stamps and washi tape, the soundscapes and focus timer, furnishing the room, and your own fonts. Every new reader gets 14 days of Premium free, with no card asked for. After that, Premium is an auto-renewing yearly subscription, or a one-time purchase for good. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. When Premium ends, nothing you made is deleted. Made by Tesorin. Terms of Use: https://www.trytesorin.com/apricity/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.trytesorin.com/apricity/privacy

Screenshots

eBookReader4 screens
Apricity4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: eBookReader at none against Apricity's 2. eBookReader also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 88%) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). 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. Apricity sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year. eBookReader asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
eBookReader versus Apricity: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametereBookReaderApricity
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.1 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better87.5% of reviews
Number of ratings—8 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB212 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperGalina Pashchenko16697518 Canada Inc.

Customer experience

eBookReader

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Apricity

All ratings8 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

eBookReader

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Apricity

Subscriptions1
  • Apricity Premium$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Apricity Premium Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is eBookReader free?
eBookReader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Apricity free?
Apricity is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do eBookReader or Apricity have ads?
Neither eBookReader nor Apricity shows ads.

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