Comparison

EPUB & PDF 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 & 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.

Highlights
  • EPUB and PDF reading
  • Automatic reading statistics
  • Track reading progress and streaks
  • Save and revisit favorite quotes
  • Offline access to books
  • Consistent reading experience
Features
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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/

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 & PDF Reader4 screens
Apogee Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Apogee Reader at none against EPUB & PDF Reader's 3. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. EPUB & PDF Reader sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Apogee Reader asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
EPUB & PDF Reader versus Apogee Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEPUB & PDF ReaderApogee Reader
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.518.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB34 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperAnna SadnovaBrian Banuag

In-app purchases

3 purchases

EPUB & PDF Reader

Subscriptions2
  • Pro: monthly14 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Pro: annual14 Days trial$25.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro: lifetime$39.99
None

Apogee Reader

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is EPUB & PDF Reader free?
EPUB & PDF 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 & PDF Reader or Apogee Reader have ads?
Neither EPUB & PDF Reader nor Apogee Reader shows ads.

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