Comparison

Echobook vs Shansu

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

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About

Echobook

Features
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EchoBooks is the ultimate audiobook app that fits your stories and learning into any moment. Features: Listen offline with downloads Chapter-wise audio navigation Quick summaries for fast learning Bookmarks & resume playback anytime Rate & review audiobooks Whether commuting, relaxing, or studying, EchoBooks helps you explore new worlds, learn quickly, and enjoy stories wherever you are. Download EchoBooks today โ€“ your reading companion on the go!

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Shansu

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Read and listen to classic books with Shansu Books. Find nearly 80,000 free ebooks from Project Gutenberg and 19,000 English audiobooks from LibriVox, and download available titles to read or listen offline. Made for iPhone Duo Unfold iPhone Duo and it opens like a book: two facing pages with a soft crease down the middle. Page curl turns each page around that spine, and the back of the sheet is the next left-hand page. Read on one screen, take notes on the other. Turn on the notes panel and the left screen keeps the text while the right screen lists every highlight, note and looked-up word in the book. Tap an entry to jump to the passage, tap a marked passage to find its entry, and write notes right in the panel. iPad in landscape works the same way. Fold it and keep reading from the right-hand page. Each page on the cover screen matches one column of the open spread, page for page. Ready to read offline Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, A Christmas Carol and The Yellow Wallpaper come with the app. Open a complete book without an account or internet connection. Explore more English classics, download them and return to your saved place. Find your next book Browse rankings and recommendations in Store, including the Top 100 books and authors on Project Gutenberg for yesterday, the last 7 days and the last 30 days. Search Shansu Books by title or author from your Library, or search audiobooks in Listen; when no audiobook matches, Listen also searches ebooks from Shansu and Project Gutenberg. Listen to audiobooks Browse audiobooks by genre in Listen, search them and return to recent searches. Download individual chapters for offline listening, keep listening in the background and control playback from the Lock Screen and Control Center. Adjust speed, set a sleep timer, save audio bookmarks and skip back or forward. A floating record lets you return to the player while browsing the app. Like the audiobooks you want to keep and find them in your Library. Read and listen, together When an audiobook has a matching ebook, download it or open your local copy from the book page or player. Want to hear the book you are reading? Tap the headphones button in the reader menu to use your device's text-to-speech voice. The page follows the voice; if you turn away, tap Jump back or Listen here. The Listen player shows the current paragraph and lets you change chapters, set the speed from 0.5x to 3x, and stop after a set time or a number of chapters. Audiobooks and text-to-speech take turns, so they never play over each other. Highlight, take notes and look up words Select text to highlight or underline it in five colours, add a note, bookmark the page or look up a word online. Your bookmarks and highlights have their own tabs next to the chapter list. Search within a book to find any passage. Build a reading habit Continue from your last page, set a daily goal and see your recent reading time and streak. Reading and listening both count toward your goal. Reminders are optional, and your reading habits stay on your device. Turns like real paper Enjoy page curl, or choose Slide Over, Slide, Scroll or None. Adjust text size, brightness, warm light, spacing, paper colours and dark mode. Long English words break at natural hyphenation points, so justified lines stay even. Your own books too Import EPUB, TXT and PDF files, several at a time. Free to start The app contains ads. Optional rewarded videos unlock additional downloads or give you 30 minutes without native ads. An optional one-time purchase removes ads permanently and unlocks unlimited downloads; there is no subscription. Restore purchases with the same Apple Account. Questions or book corrections? Email service@hongmoe.com.

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Echobook4 screens
Shansu4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Echobook at none against Shansu's 1. Echobook also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Shansu sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Echobook asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Echobook versus Shansu: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEchobookShansu
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 6 days
AdsNo โ€” betterYes
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 โ€” better15.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size59 MB244 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperSandun SrimalMoe Games

In-app purchases

None

Echobook

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Shansu

One-time1
  • Remove ads permanently$4.99

Questions

Is Echobook free?
Echobook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Shansu free?
Shansu is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Echobook or Shansu have ads?
Shansu shows ads; Echobook does not.

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