Comparison

CYOA vs EPUB Reader

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

Head to head
About

CYOA

Create and play interactive text-based adventure stories. Write your own narratives with unlimited chapters and dynamic choices, or explore stories created by others. Save your progress and resume anytime.

Highlights
  • Write custom text adventures
  • Play interactive stories
  • Unlimited chapters and scenes
  • Dynamic choices
  • Bookmark progress
  • Background images
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Do you remember those classic 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books where it would say "If you open the door, turn to page 16"? This app allows you to recreate the fun of interactive text-based adventure games by playing along to a story, or writing your own and sharing it. Features include: - Write your own choose-your-own-adventure text adventures - Play through interactive stories written by you or your friends - Unlimited chapters / scenes - Dynamic choices based on character conditions, items or random dice rolls. The options are endless! - Icons for each chapter and link - Background images - Bookmark your progress and resume right where you left off next time - Optional biometric authentication to protect your stories And more! *Premium subscription required for some features Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Supplemental Terms of Use: https://walshmedia.net.au/cyoa#terms Privacy Policy: https://walshmedia.net.au/cyoa#privacy

About

EPUB Reader

Customize your reading experience with extensive font and layout options. Effortlessly manage your library, track reading habits, and enjoy eye-care features. Sync your books across devices via cloud storage without proprietary lock-in.

Highlights
  • 200+ built-in fonts and custom font import
  • Adjustable text and layout settings
  • Smart dark mode with intelligent image inversion
  • 20-20-20 eye health reminders
  • Library management for 5,000+ books
  • Cloud sync via iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive
  • Highlighting, notes, and bookmarking
  • Reading progress tracking and goal setting
Features
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EPUB, PDF, comics, and audiobooks in one native iOS reader. Fast, deeply customizable, and built to disappear so you can simply read. FOUR FORMATS, ONE SHELF Read EPUB 3 and PDF. Read CBZ and CBR comics and manga, with two-page spreads, double-tap zoom, and a reading direction you set per book. Listen to audiobooks with chapters, a sleep timer, Car Mode, and CarPlay. Or follow along with EPUB 3 narration, where the text highlights in time with the voice. READ ALOUD Any book can be read to you, by any Apple voice on your device or by natural neural voices in 31 languages that you download once and then run offline. The sentence highlights as it is spoken and the pages turn on their own, with speed presets, sentence skips, a sleep timer, and Lock Screen controls. Prepare a book in advance and keep listening with the screen off. TYPOGRAPHY YOU CONTROL 200+ fonts, or import your own. Tune size, weight, line and paragraph spacing, alignment, hyphenation, and separate margins for portrait and landscape. Save settings per book so a novel, a textbook, and poetry each look right. Build your own color themes and let them switch at sunset. Choose which buttons the reader toolbar shows and where a tap opens it, and give links their own color and style. Smart dark mode keeps images natural, and in-reader brightness, Line Focus, and eye-care break reminders protect your eyes. NO LOCK-IN, EVER Your books stay ordinary files in an ordinary folder, never a proprietary database. Point justread at any folder: on device, iCloud Drive, or one your cloud app syncs through Files. Import from a Calibre server or any OPDS catalog. Email a book to your Kindle or PocketBook. IN SYNC WITH YOUR E-READER Your reading position follows you to any e-reader running KOReader, a Kobo included, in both directions. Connect a self-hosted Grimmory server to browse and download its books, send books to it, and keep status, ratings, highlights, notes, and bookmarks in step both ways. A LIBRARY THAT SCALES Thousands of books with no lag, and a book opens in about a second. Instant search by title, author, or series. Automatic metadata and series detection, 11 sort modes, saved filters, collections, and tags. Edit any book's details by hand, description included. Spotlight opens any book from your home screen. HIGHLIGHTS, NOTES, BOOKMARKS Highlight, underline, and attach a note. Browse every highlight across your whole library in one place, share a quote as a card, or export to Markdown, PDF, or Readwise. YOUR READING, IN NUMBERS Daily goals, a yearly books goal, streaks, and milestone badges. An hourly heatmap shows when you read best. Monthly and yearly recaps, plus a story-style Reading Wrap that turns your year into cards worth sharing. AND THE REST Home screen and lock screen widgets. Dictionary and translation. Full-text search and a nested table of contents. iCloud sync, so you resume on the exact line on any device. Right-to-left and Japanese vertical text. A page curl, if you want one. Free for 14 days, then a subscription or a lifetime purchase, both with Family Sharing. Available in 18 languages. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://justread.app/en/privacy_policy

Screenshots

CYOA4 screens
EPUB Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: EPUB Reader at 4.7 against CYOA's 1.0. EPUB Reader also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (48 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. CYOA sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.49 per month and EPUB Reader sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

EPUB Reader holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: EPUB Reader has 48 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CYOA ships an update every 3 months, EPUB Reader every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
CYOA versus EPUB Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCYOAEPUB Reader
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)4.7 (48 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—82.5% of reviews
Number of ratings148 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.0 — better18.1
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB202 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperDaniel WalshPETR JAHODA

Customer experience

CYOA

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

EPUB Reader

All ratings48 ratings
Positive89.6%
Neutral6.3%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews40 reviews
Positive82.5%
Neutral10.0%
Negative7.5%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

CYOA

Subscriptions1
  • Premium (1 month)7 Days trial$0.491 Month
7 purchases

EPUB Reader

Subscriptions5
  • Monthly Premium14 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Monthly Premium$4.991 Month
  • Yearly – Launch Price7 Days trial$12.491 Year
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  • Yearly Premium14 Days trial$24.991 Year
  • Yearly Premium$29.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime – Launch Price$29.99
  • Lifetime Premium$79.99

Questions

Is CYOA free?
CYOA is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is EPUB Reader free?
EPUB Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, CYOA or EPUB Reader?
EPUB Reader is rated higher. CYOA averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while EPUB Reader averages 4.7 from 48 ratings.
Do CYOA or EPUB Reader have ads?
Neither CYOA nor EPUB Reader shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CYOA or EPUB Reader?
CYOA ships an update every 3 months, and EPUB Reader every 5 days. Most recently, CYOA was updated on October 14, 2026 and EPUB Reader on October 16, 2026.

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