Comparison

Book Reader vs Panel Flow

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

Head to head
About

Book Reader

This app helps you build reading habits by tracking your progress and personalizing your reading experience. Organize your books, maintain reading streaks, and gain visual insights into your reading time and pages read. Enjoy a distraction-free environment with extensive customization options.

Highlights
  • Personalized digital bookshelf
  • Reading streak and daily goal tracking
  • Smart reading progress monitor
  • Customizable font, text size, and themes
  • Dark and low-contrast modes
  • Distraction-free reading interface
Features
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Welcome to ReadBLOOM – your smart book reader to build habits, track progress, and personalize your reading journey. Build Your Own Bookshelf Create a personalized digital bookshelf filled with your favorite books. Whether you're into novels, study materials, or timeless classics, organize them your way with ease. Keep Your Reading Streak Alive Stay motivated with reading streaks and daily goals. ReadBLOOM encourages consistent reading habits that help you stay focused and keep growing. Smart Reading Tracker Monitor your reading time, pages read, and progress with a built-in tracker. Visual insights make it easy to stay on track and achieve your reading targets. Fully Customizable Experience Adjust font style, text size, line spacing, and background color. Switch to dark or low-contrast modes for comfortable reading anytime. Why Readers Love ReadBLOOM: Clean and distraction-free design Powerful customization tools Bookshelf organization that fits your style Reading streaks and progress tracking Visual stats with every book you read Perfect for focused and mindful readers Start your reading journey today with ReadBLOOM – where books meet focus and freedom. Subscription Options: Weekly Premium Plan – $5.99 per week Monthly Premium Plan – $14.99 per month 3-Month Premium Plan – $34.99 every 3 months These subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription and auto-renewal settings anytime by going to your Apple ID account settings. All payments will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. For more information, please see: Privacy Policy: https://readbloom.online/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://readbloom.online/terms.html

About

Panel Flow

Features
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Panel Flow is a comic and manga reader that follows the story panel by panel. Version 3.0 brings it to iPhone, iPad and Mac, with your library synced through iCloud. Bring your own collection: import CBZ, CBR, CB7, CBT and PDF files, or browse your own comic servers (OPDS-compatible). Panel Flow organizes it all and keeps your place. GUIDED READING - Panel and speech bubble detection: Panel Flow finds the panels on each page and moves through them in reading order, zooming in on one panel at a time. - Steady focus that reframes when you rotate the device and respects Reduce Motion. - Left-to-right, right-to-left for manga, and vertical scroll for long-strip comics. LISTEN AND TRANSLATE - Text-to-speech reads the speech bubbles aloud, and guided reading can move along with the voice, bubble by bubble. - Speech bubble translation shows the translated text right on the page. - On supported devices with Apple Intelligence, ask for an on-device description of the current page. YOUR LIBRARY, ON EVERY DEVICE - iCloud sync, once you turn it on: collections, reading progress and metadata follow you across iPhone, iPad and Mac. Downloaded pages and imported files stay on each device. - A personal reading shelf, collections, search, sorting and a metadata editor. - New chapter alerts: turn them on and Panel Flow checks your series from online sources in the background and lets you know about new chapters (your own comic servers are not included). - One Activity Queue for downloads and image enhancement, with several chapters downloading at once. - A Storage screen shows what each publication uses and frees space by type, chapter or publication. - Optional progress tracking with anime and manga tracking services. MADE TO FIT YOU - Themes from manga to noir, with accessible contrast in every one. - Shortcuts and Siri: Open Library and Continue Reading. - VoiceOver, Dynamic Type and Reduce Motion support. - Available in English, Spanish and Portuguese, with an original sample comic to try first. PRIVACY Anonymous usage analytics are off by default; you choose whether to turn them on in Settings > Privacy.

Screenshots

Book Reader4 screens
Panel Flow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Panel Flow at none against Book Reader's 3. Book Reader's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 27.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Book Reader sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Panel Flow asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Book Reader against 5.0 for Panel Flow. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Book Reader ships an update fortnightly, Panel Flow every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Book Reader versus Panel Flow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBook ReaderPanel Flow
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.1 — better27.0
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB136 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperYusuf SaglamTap4Mobile do Brasil

Customer experience

Book Reader

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Panel Flow

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Book Reader

Subscriptions3
  • ReadBloom Pro Weekly$2.997 Days
  • ReadBloom Pro Monthly$11.991 Month
  • ReadBloom Pro Three Monthly$25.493 Months
None

Panel Flow

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Book Reader free?
Book Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Panel Flow free?
Panel Flow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Book Reader or Panel Flow?
Book Reader and Panel Flow are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Book Reader or Panel Flow have ads?
Neither Book Reader nor Panel Flow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Book Reader or Panel Flow?
Book Reader ships an update fortnightly, and Panel Flow every 2 weeks. Most recently, Book Reader was updated on October 21, 2026 and Panel Flow on October 24, 2026.

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