Crown Book vs Wrist Ebook Reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Crown Book
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A full-screen reader for large text files on your watch. One book at a time: a .txt file sent from Crown Book for iOS. Sending another book to your watch replaces the previous one. Font size matches system settings – you can change it while reading in the watchOS control center. Large files (>10 KB) are divided into pages and remember the last page you were reading. You can scroll through text with your finger, the crown, or the "double tap" gesture. Tapping the system clock takes you to the top of the page. At the beginning of each page there is a button with the page number, which, when pressed, takes you to any page (selection with a preview of the first line of text). At the end of each page (except the last) there is a button that takes you to the next page. At the end of the book, there's a "CLOSE" button to close the book. A closed book can be deleted ("Delete" button) or started over ("BOOK" button). You can set a widget on the watch face displaying the page number of the currently read page and several lines of text (modular). ! The program comes with instruction (in the form of a mini-book: "Help" button) for two of my apps (Crown Book and Equatch) in two languages (English and Polish). Sending a file from iPhone to Apple Watch: UTF-8 encoded .txt format (you can use TextEdit in macOS to change the encoding). .txt compatibility with Apple Pages: File - Export to - Plain Text... - Save. Compatibility with free gutenberg.org ebooks (PlainText UTF-8). The loaded .txt file can be viewed in the iOS app (button with the file name). The .txt file remains in the iOS app until it is replaced by another file. ! When sending a file from iPhone, the Apple Watch must be unlocked with the app running. ! If the text doesn't appear on your watch after uploading, try again until it succeeds. Minimum system requirements: watchOS 10 and iOS 17 ("double tap" scrolling requires Apple Watch 9 or later).
Wrist Ebook Reader
Import DRM-free EPUB and TXT files from your iPhone to read them as clean text on your Apple Watch. The app divides books into small pages for comfortable reading sessions, allowing you to adjust font size and navigate chapters.
- Import DRM-free EPUB/TXT files
- Convert books to watch-friendly text
- Send books from iPhone to Apple Watch
- Save last reading position
- Adjust font size
- Chapter navigation
- Quick-launch complication
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Bring your own DRM-free EPUB or TXT files from iPhone to Apple Watch, and read them as clean, simple text. Wrist Reader is a lightweight reading companion for Apple Watch. It extracts the readable body text from your files, removing images, tables, notes, and complex styling for comfortable reading in short moments. Books are divided into small reading pages. Scroll with the Digital Crown to continue to the next page, adjust the font size and line breaks, jump to chapters when available, and resume where you left off. Wrist Reader does not sell, download, or provide book content. It is made for files you already own. Features: - Import DRM-free EPUB and TXT files on iPhone - Convert books into watch-friendly text pages - Send selected books from iPhone to Apple Watch - Save your reading position on Apple Watch - Adjust font size and choose word or character wrapping - Navigate chapters when EPUB chapter information is available - Open the app from a supported watch face complication - Keep 1 book for free; keep more with a one-time Pro purchase Notes: - Please use DRM-free EPUB files only. - Chapter navigation is not available for TXT files. - All book processing takes place locally on your devices.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Crown Book at none against Wrist Ebook Reader's 1. Wrist Ebook Reader's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 3 days). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Wrist Ebook Reader sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Crown Book asks for nothing beyond the download.
Crown Book ships an update every 3 days, Wrist Ebook Reader daily. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crown Book | Wrist Ebook Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Artur Janowicz | ironwhy |
In-app purchases
Crown Book
No in-app purchases
Wrist Ebook Reader
- Wrist Reader Pro$2.99
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