Comparison

ePub Reader vs Apogee Reader

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

Head to head
About

ePub Reader

Read eBooks and documents in various formats like EPUB, PDF, and DOC. Import files easily, customize your reading experience with themes and fonts, and manage bookmarks and notes. Unlock more features with a PRO subscription.

Highlights
  • Supports EPUB, PDF, TXT, DOC, DOCX, ODT
  • Import via Browser, AirDrop, iCloud, Finder
  • Chapter browsing and bookmarking
  • Font customization and themes
  • Brightness control
  • Note-taking functionality
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Our app is a versatile mobile app designed for downloading and reading eBooks and documents with ease. It supports a wide range of formats including EPUB, PDF, TXT, DOC, DOCX, and ODT, as well as ZIP and RAR archives for direct extraction and reading. Users can import files through Browser, AirDrop, iCloud, Finder, and other apps, making access seamless across devices. The app offers intuitive navigation with chapter browsing, font customization, themes, brightness control, bookmarks, and notes. Free users can enjoy up to five books and notes, basic formats, and a light theme with two font options. The PRO version unlocks unlimited books and notes, advanced format support, widget integration, and enhanced reading personalization. Whether you're a casual reader or a digital library enthusiast, Our app makes your reading experience smooth and customizable. This application contains auto-renewable subscriptions and In-App Purchases: 1 week - Weekly - 4.99USD, 1 month - Monthly - 12.99USD, 1 year - Yearly - 39.99USD, Lifetime - 59.99USD Terms of Use Link: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1isnXJ8UzpPB0u-30XGbGvNo0p6PZgMpu53MvCF6O5b0/edit?tab=t.0

About

Apogee Reader

Features
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Apogee is a native iOS reader for a BookOrbit server you run yourself. Your books stay on your own machine, and there's no account to make beyond the one on your own server. It reads what your library holds: • Ebooks. EPUB and MOBI, with your choice of font, theme, margins and page flow. You can add your own font files from the Files app. • Audiobooks. Chapters, a sleep timer, playback speed, CarPlay and Lock Screen controls. • Comics. CBZ, CBR and CB7, in paged or webtoon mode. • PDFs, cropped to the text so the margins don't waste your screen. Read & Listen joins a book to its audiobook. Read a chapter on the train, then play the audiobook in the car and it starts where you stopped reading. While it plays, the sentence being read shows on screen. Your place is kept for every book and sent back to your server, so you can put the phone down and pick up on another device. It uses the same progress format as KOReader, so a Kindle running KOReader and this app stay in step. Your reading time goes to your server's reading log too, and on BookOrbit 3.0 and later it's marked as reading, listening or Read Aloud. Download a book and it works with no network at all. Your library, your place, your notes and your highlights are all there offline. It also does: • Highlights and notes, searchable, and synced to your server. • Sign in with your password, or with the sign-in provider your server uses. • Send a book from the Files app to your server's library. • Send books to a CrossPoint e-ink reader on your Wi-Fi. • Reading Stats, from your server's reading log. • Spotlight, so your books turn up in search from the home screen. • A widget for whatever you're part way through. • Read Aloud, using the voices already on your phone. • Series grouping, collections, and a filing rule for right-to-left manga. • Fanfic Updates, if you want it: sign in to Archive of Our Own and Apogee checks the works you follow and brings new chapters into your library. Apogee is an unofficial app, not made or endorsed by AO3 or the Organization for Transformative Works. • iPad layouts, not a stretched phone app. • Guides for every feature at apogeereader.app. Apogee talks to your server. It talks to AO3 only if you sign in to Fanfic Updates, and your audiobook notes sync through your own iCloud account. Nothing comes to me unless you choose to send it. Apogee needs a BookOrbit server to be useful. It isn't a shop. It doesn't sell, supply or recommend books. It reads the library you already have. Apogee is built by one person. It's free, with no ads, no in-app purchases and no tracking.

Screenshots

ePub Reader4 screens
Apogee Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Apogee Reader at none against ePub Reader's 5. ePub Reader's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). 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. ePub Reader sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Apogee Reader asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
ePub Reader versus Apogee Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterePub ReaderApogee Reader
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB34 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperTEXAS ADVANCE LLCBrian Banuag

In-app purchases

5 purchases

ePub Reader

Subscriptions4
  • Weekly$4.997 Days
  • Weekly-Trial3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Monthly$12.991 Month
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  • Yearly$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$59.99
None

Apogee Reader

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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