EPUB & PDF Reader vs Bookgeist
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EPUB & PDF Reader
This app allows you to read EPUB and PDF files with automatic tracking of your reading progress, speed, and streaks. It offers a consistent reading experience for both formats and lets you save favorite quotes with reminders.
- EPUB and PDF reading
- Automatic reading statistics
- Track reading progress and streaks
- Save and revisit favorite quotes
- Offline access to books
- Consistent reading experience
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Readgio: Smart EPUB & PDF Reader with Built-in Statistics Read your own EPUB and PDF books. Your progress, speed and streaks are tracked automatically - no manual logging required. True Book Experience for EPUB & PDF: • EPUB support • PDF books displayed like real books • Same reading experience for EPUB and PDF • Import your own files • Offline access Unlike most apps, PDF files are not treated as plain documents - they are read in the same immersive reader as EPUB books. Automatic Reading Statistics: • Reading progress • Daily streaks • Reading speed • Detailed statistics • Insights into your reading habits Just read — and your data updates automatically. Save Quotes & Get Reminded: • Highlight and save your favorite quotes. • Receive gentle reminders that bring meaningful passages back to you. Revisit the ideas that matter. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Bookgeist
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Bookgeist is an app for organizing your books, tracking your reading, and preserving everything that happens along the way. But it’s much more than a library manager. You can organize books, collections, and series; track reading sessions and progress; save quotes; build your reading history; explore statistics, goals, and reading memories; and create a notebook that connects characters, places, theories, notes, and everything else you discover between the pages. Bookgeist tries to preserve something that usually gets lost: not just which books you’ve read, but what those books left with you. YOUR LIBRARY Organize all your books and create a space of your own for your collection. • A complete library with multiple views, filters, and search. • Manual and smart collections. • Series and sagas with their own dedicated space. • Favorites, TBRs, and personal lists. • Built to handle large libraries, too. YOUR READING Bookgeist stays with you while you read. • Track reading sessions and reading time. • Plan what you want to read next. • Follow your progress and reading streaks. • Explore your activity and reading calendar. • Keep a complete history for every book. • Discover statistics, goals, and your year in reading. • Track loans and purchases. THE NOTEBOOK This is where Bookgeist becomes a little less conventional. The Notebook isn’t just for writing notes. You can save quotes, characters, places, creatures, organizations, theories, images, audio, and other elements from your reading. And then you can connect them. Link characters to one another, connect places with events, build family trees, follow theories, or create a map of everything you’ve discovered inside a book. A book may end. Your notebook doesn’t have to. Bookgeist is free to download and use, with no limits on books or reading sessions. Bookgeist Studio unlocks advanced features through a subscription. BOOKGEIST STUDIO Studio expands Bookgeist for readers who want to take their library and reading much further. • Full series features, progress tracking, and notebooks shared across all books in a series. • Favorite quotes and books, rankings, Tier Lists, and Wrap-ups. • Upcoming releases and reminders. • Achievements, badges, and collectible items. • Your year in reading and special shelves: Hall of Fame, yearly reads, and your full library in alphabetical order. • More themes, fonts, and alternative views. • Detailed analysis of your library, reading habits, and spending. • AI-powered features: recognize books and entire shelves to import them into your library, generate images of characters from your own descriptions, and much more. PRIVATE. LOCAL. YOURS. Your books, notes, and reading history live on your phone. No account required, and the core features work offline. Your library isn’t a public profile, and your notes remain private unless you choose to share them with someone. It’s your library. It stays with you. AND GEISTY Geisty is the little spirit that lives inside Bookgeist. He’ll keep you company while you read and appear in different corners of the app. His name shares the same root as Bookgeist: Geist, the German word for “spirit.” Bookgeist also plays on the idea of Zeitgeist — the “spirit of an age” — to imagine something like the spirit of books. The one that lives within every book. The one that runs through our reading. And, above all, the one that stays with us long after we’ve finished. That’s the kind of place I’m trying to build in Bookgeist. A place for your books. For your reading. And for everything they leave with you. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Bookgeist at 16.4 against EPUB & PDF Reader's 18.5. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. EPUB & PDF Reader sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Bookgeist sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $3.90 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | EPUB & PDF Reader | Bookgeist |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 181 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Anna Sadnova | Luis Gonzalez Lopez |
In-app purchases
EPUB & PDF Reader
- Pro: monthly14 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Pro: annual14 Days trial$25.991 Year
- Pro: lifetime$39.99
Bookgeist
- Bookgeist Studio Monthly$3.901 Month
- Bookgeist Studio Yearly$44.901 Year
- Buy me a coffee$1.99
- Stamps 20$2.90
- Stamps 40$3.90
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- Movie night$8.99
- Stamps 100$9.90
- Treat me to a book!$17.90
- Bookgeist Lifetime$79.90









