Lex Reader vs Persimmon Reader

READ BOOKS THE WAY YOU WANT TO - Dark mode (EPUB) reader with scroll, paginated, blitz, and bilingual modes - PDF reader with bookmark & search functionality (OCR) - Fully customizable font styles, sizes, etc. - Make highlights, notes, etc. - Automatically sync progress across devices KICK BACK WITH AMBIENT AUDIOBOOKS - 30,000+ human & AI-narrated audiobooks - Text-to-audio synchronization (read along) - Multiple narrators options (solo, dramatic & group readings) - Ambient mode (choose between different ambient sounds) - Adjust playback speed (0.5x - 3x) and set sleep timer BUILD THE LIBRARY OF YOUR DREAMS - Lightning fast search across 6,000,000+ books (search title, author, genre, subject) - Import reading data from Goodreads, Storygraph, or a generic CSV file - Personalized home page (browse audiobook narrators, quotes, opening lines, illustrations) - Browse hundreds of curated bookshelves - Create and share your own shelves - Upload your own books/audiobooks (EPUB, PDF, MP3) with automatic metadata enrichment (cover, (cover, title, author, publication date) SOCIAL FEATURES - Activity feed displaying other users’ books, shelves, highlights & notes - Add collaborators to help build shelves - Invite 3 friends for 1 month of Lex Premium - Track reading progress, streaks, etc. SYNC EVERYWHERE Your reading activity syncs across devices. Start a book on your laptop, pick it up on your phone, and switch from the book to the audiobook whenever you please. INCLUDED FOR FREE: - 6,000,000+ books & 30,000+ audiobooks - Ambient audiobook listening - Text-to-audio synchronization - Paginated and Scroll reading modes - Upload your own books (EPUB and PDF) - Personalized book recommendations - Create, share, and save shelves, highlights, notes - Follow and connect with other users FOR POWER USERS (PREMIUM): - Lex AI: ask about any book, get better recommendations, and have it take app-specific actions on your behalf - Offline mode: download books/audiobooks to read anywhere (no internet required) - Higher upload limits: extra space for EPUBs, PDFs, and MP3s - Bilingual mode: get in-page translations to your preferred language (21 languages available) - Blitz mode: word-level / sentence-level Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (200-750 WPM) - PDF to EPUB conversion: turn PDFs into proper Ebooks - Verified badge: profile checkmark PERFECT FOR - Bookworms - Classical literature lovers - History buffs - Autodidacts - High school / college students - Book clubs SUBSCRIPTION INFO - Lex Premium (Monthly): $9.99/month - Free Trial - Lex Premium (Yearly): $95.90/year ($7.99/month) - Free Trial Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account. Subscription automatically renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage subscriptions in your Apple ID Account Settings. Terms of Service: https://lex-books.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://lex-books.com/privacy Support: https://lex-books.com/support Lex is built by book lovers, for book lovers. We believe reading should be accessible to anyone, anytime, anywhere. And we’re just getting started.

Persimmon is a simple, focused ebook reader built around one thing: reading. The interface stays out of your way and leaves as much room as possible for the book. No annotations, no AI features, no clutter—just open a book and read. Page turns are carefully tuned to feel responsive and natural. They follow your finger, stay smooth through fast repeated swipes, and are designed for people who read quickly. You can also rapidly flip through pages, a bit like thumbing backward through a paperback. Your library and reading progress can sync for free through your own cloud storage, so there’s no separate Persimmon account to create. Just use your existing cloud drive and keep reading across devices. Your books and reading data stay on your device unless you choose to sync them. Even then, they go directly to your own cloud drive.