小读书 vs Common Reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
小读书
This AI-powered reading companion offers intelligent book summaries, AI-assisted note refinement, personalized reading lists, and generated reading guides. It helps users efficiently process book content, organize notes, and navigate their reading journey with ease.
- AI-generated book summaries
- AI-assisted note refinement
- Personalized reading list creation
- Reading guide generation
- AI book discussions
- Curated book selection
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小读书是您的AI读书与听书伴侣，提供智能书摘生成、读书笔记AI润色、个性化书单创建和阅读指南网页生成功能。通过AI深度解析书籍内容，帮助您高效阅读、系统整理笔记，让阅读不再迷茫，知识管理更加轻松。 【核心功能】 • 精选书籍：浏览精心挑选的图书，包括经典文学、热门畅销书和专业知识类书籍 • 阅读指南：获取每本书的详细阅读指南，帮助您更好地理解和欣赏作品 • AI智能对话：与AI助手进行有关书籍的深度交流，解答疑问，获取见解 • 搜索功能：快速找到您感兴趣的书籍和主题 • 个性化推荐：基于您的阅读历史和偏好，获取定制化的书籍推荐 【为什么选择小读书】 • 专业解析：提供深入且易于理解的图书解析和背景知识 • 智能互动：AI助手能够回答关于书籍的具体问题，提供个性化阅读建议 • 优雅界面：简洁直观的用户界面，让阅读体验更加舒适 • 离线功能：下载阅读指南，随时随地享受阅读乐趣 • 定期更新：不断增加新书和改进功能，持续提升用户体验 无论您是想找到下一本值得阅读的书，还是希望深入了解您已阅读的作品，小读书都能满足您的需求。开始您的智能阅读之旅，探索文学和知识的无限可能！
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 rating: Common Reader at 5.0 against 小读书's 1.0. Common Reader also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 8 days). 小读书's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 75%) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Common Reader holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of 小读书'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.
小读书 ships an update every 8 days, Common Reader every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 小读书 | Common Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 116 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | zhijun li | 天宇 高 |
Customer experience
小读书
Common Reader
In-app purchases
小读书
No in-app purchases
Common Reader
No in-app purchases
