Comparison

EPUB Reader vs Flippy

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

Head to head
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 21 languages. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://justread.app/en/privacy_policy

About

Flippy

Transform your PDFs into interactive books with realistic page-turning animations and an AI voice that reads aloud. Understand complex texts with AI-powered explanations and summaries. Organize your library and track your reading progress.

Highlights
  • Realistic page-turning animations
  • AI-powered text-to-speech narration
  • AI-driven explanations and summaries
  • Automatic table of contents generation
  • Library organization with collections
  • Offline reading and listening
Features
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Flippy turns your PDFs and EPUBs — even scanned books, manga and comics — into real, flippable books: pages curl under your finger, a natural voice reads every page aloud, and built-in AI explains anything you don't understand. REALISTIC PAGE FLIP Swipe anywhere and watch pages curl, fold and settle with real physics. Tap the edges to turn, or glide with the chapter scrubber. On iPad, two-page book mode turns pages over the spine like a real book, and on iPhone Duo the spine sits right on the fold. SCANNED BOOKS, NOW READABLE A PDF that is just pictures of pages — an old textbook, a scanned manga? Flippy recognizes the text on your device, so Read Aloud, selection, Define, AI and Contents work like on any other PDF. Latin-alphabet languages, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Arabic and Russian. LISTEN TO ANY BOOK (Premium) Any PDF or EPUB becomes an audiobook. 8 natural voices read in the language of the text. Lock-screen controls, screen-off listening, speed from 0.75x to 2x. Highlight while you listen; tap the chip to return to the voice. Page numbers and repeated headers are skipped. Hearing the words while you see them helps readers with dyslexia, low vision and ADHD. TAKE IT WITH YOU Download a chapter — or just the pages you pick — and listen offline like a podcast. Saved it in another voice? Flippy tells you and switches in a tap. UNDERSTAND ANYTHING (Premium) Highlight a confusing passage and tap the glowing orb for a clear explanation, right on the page. Ask about your book — or another book in your library, with page citations. The AI can see the page, too: ask about a chart, figure, table or comic panel, even one on another page. Or ask out loud and hear the answer back. STUDY SMARTER Turn any chapter into flashcards or a practice quiz, save study sets, get chapter summaries. Define any word in any language, hear it pronounced, and keep it in My Words with the book it came from. IN YOUR LANGUAGE Flippy speaks 18 languages, now including Japanese, and follows your device language. Arabic and Farsi get a full right-to-left interface. AI answers in the language you read in. SMARTER CONTENTS Every PDF gets a tap-to-jump table of contents, even without one: Flippy finds the chapters by itself right after you open the book. A Bible lists its 66 books, a scanned course every lesson. Plus instant text search. FREE CLOUD SYNC Sign in with Google — free for everyone — and your bookmarks, highlights, notes, reading positions, collections and reading stats follow you across devices. Your PDF and EPUB files are never uploaded. READING FEATURES • Import from files, URLs or Google Drive links; Collections, a Continue Reading card, progress and streaks • Bookmarks with notes; multi-color highlighting, drawing and annotation • Scroll mode — continuous vertical reading • Fullscreen with pinch-to-zoom • Two-page spreads on iPad — beautiful for manga, comics and sheet music (Right-To-Left supported) • Pure-black interface, easy on your eyes and battery; works offline FREE & PREMIUM Reading, highlighting, bookmarking and cloud sync are free, and your first week unlocks every Premium feature — no card, no account. Premium then adds read-aloud, AI explanations and summaries, offline audio, every highlight color, extra bookmarks and note export. Pro suits heavy listeners; one-time packs like the Boost add minutes and AI uses, no subscription needed. PRIVACY FIRST No ads. No selling your data. Your files are never uploaded, and highlights and notes stay on your device unless you choose Cloud Sync — free, optional, deletable any time. Read Aloud sends only the text it reads; AI sends your question, the relevant page text and pictures of the pages involved, so it can read charts and figures. Details in our privacy policy. Download Flippy and rediscover the pleasure of turning pages. Terms of Use: https://flippypdf.github.io/terms-of-use/ Privacy Policy: https://flippypdf.github.io/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

EPUB Reader4 screens
Flippy4 screens

Verdict

The call

EPUB Reader and Flippy both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 82% of EPUB Reader's written reviews are positive against 0% of Flippy's. EPUB Reader also leads on ads (none vs shown). Flippy's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.1). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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 Reader sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Flippy sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for EPUB Reader against 4.6 for Flippy. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 55 and 20 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 82% of EPUB Reader's written reviews are positive against 0% of Flippy's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
EPUB Reader versus Flippy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEPUB ReaderFlippy
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (55 ratings) — better4.6 (20 ratings)
Positive reviews82.2% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings55 — better20
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.115.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size213 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPETR JAHODATrison Braithwaite

Customer experience

EPUB Reader

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

Flippy

All ratings20 ratings
Positive85.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

EPUB Reader

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

Flippy

Subscriptions4
  • Flippy Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Flippy Pro Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Flippy Premium Yearly$29.991 Year
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  • Flippy Pro Yearly$59.991 Year
One-time2
  • Boost$2.99
  • Bulk$9.99

Questions

Is EPUB Reader free?
EPUB Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Flippy free?
Flippy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, EPUB Reader or Flippy?
EPUB Reader is rated higher. EPUB Reader averages 4.6 out of 5 from 55 ratings, while Flippy averages 4.6 from 20 ratings.
Do EPUB Reader or Flippy have ads?
Flippy shows ads; EPUB Reader does not.
Which is updated more often, EPUB Reader or Flippy?
EPUB Reader ships an update every 5 days, and Flippy weekly. Most recently, EPUB Reader was updated on October 31, 2026 and Flippy on October 31, 2026.

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