Comparison

Lamplight 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

Lamplight

Explore thousands of free public domain classic books with a beautifully designed reading experience. Set daily goals, track your reading habits, and sync progress across devices. Offline reading is also available.

Highlights
  • Thousands of free classic books
  • Daily reading goals and streak tracking
  • Customizable typography and themes
  • Automatic progress syncing across devices
  • Offline book downloads
  • Curated catalog by genre
Features
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Rediscover the joy of reading with Lamplight, a beautifully designed app for exploring public domain literature. Thousands of classic books, completely free, with no ads. BUILD A READING HABIT Lamplight helps you read consistently with daily reading goals and streak tracking. Complete bite-sized reading sessions to maintain your streak and watch your progress grow over time. A PREMIUM READING EXPERIENCE Every book features carefully crafted typography optimized for long-form reading. Choose from multiple fonts and color themes to create your perfect reading environment. YOUR PERSONAL LIBRARY Add books to your library and pick up right where you left off across all your devices. Progress syncs automatically, so you never lose your place. Download books for offline reading, perfect for commutes and flights. CLASSICS WORTH READING Browse a curated catalog spanning every genre: adventure, mystery, science fiction, romance, philosophy, and more. From Jane Austen to H.G. Wells, Herman Melville to Mary Shelley, the greatest works of literature are waiting for you. LAMPLIGHT PREMIUM Upgrade to unlock the full experience: - Highlights & Notes: Mark passages and add annotations as you read - Premium Themes: Beautiful color palettes for any mood or setting - Premium Fonts: Handpicked typefaces for the perfect reading experience - Reading Stats: Track your progress with heatmaps, streak records, and detailed statistics START READING TODAY No account required. Open the app, find a book, and start reading. It's that simple. --- Privacy Policy https://readmorebooks.app/lamplight/privacy TOS https://readmorebooks.app/lamplight/terms

About

EPUB Reader

This app offers a versatile reading experience for various digital formats, including EPUB, PDF, comics, and audiobooks. It provides extensive customization options for typography, color themes, and reader controls, ensuring a personalized and comfortable reading environment. The app also supports seamless library management and synchronization across devices.

Highlights
  • Supports EPUB, PDF, CBZ, CBR, and audiobooks
  • Customizable typography and color themes
  • Read aloud functionality with offline neural voices
  • Syncs reading position with e-readers
  • Organized library with instant search and metadata detection
  • Highlighting, note-taking, and export options
  • Reading statistics and progress tracking
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 21 languages. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://justread.app/en/privacy_policy

Screenshots

Lamplight4 screens
EPUB Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Lamplight at 5.0 against EPUB Reader's 4.6. EPUB Reader's advantage is ratings volume (55 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.1 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Lamplight sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and EPUB Reader sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lamplight holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: EPUB Reader has 55 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lamplight ships an update every 9 days, EPUB Reader every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Lamplight versus EPUB Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLamplightEPUB Reader
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.6 (55 ratings)
Positive reviews—82.2% of reviews
Number of ratings155 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.018.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB213 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperRobin AppsPETR JAHODA

Customer experience

Lamplight

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

EPUB Reader

All ratings55 ratings
Positive89.1%
Neutral5.5%
Negative5.5%
Written reviews45 reviews
Positive82.2%
Neutral8.9%
Negative8.9%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Lamplight

Subscriptions2
  • Lamplight Pro$1.991 Month
  • Lamplight Pro$14.991 Year
One-time2
  • Unlock Everything$4.99
  • Lamplight Pro Lifetime$34.99
3 purchases

EPUB Reader

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium$4.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$79.99

Questions

Is Lamplight free?
Lamplight 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, Lamplight or EPUB Reader?
Lamplight is rated higher. Lamplight averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while EPUB Reader averages 4.6 from 55 ratings.
Do Lamplight or EPUB Reader have ads?
Neither Lamplight nor EPUB Reader shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lamplight or EPUB Reader?
Lamplight ships an update every 9 days, and EPUB Reader every 5 days. Most recently, Lamplight was updated on October 31, 2026 and EPUB Reader on October 31, 2026.

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