Comparison

EPUB Reader vs BookTok

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

BookTok

Features
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BookTok ist Dein digitaler Bücherschrank Behalte den Überblick über deine gesamte Büchersammlung. Scanne Bücher per ISBN-Barcode, entdecke neue Titel und verfolge deinen Lesefortschritt – alles in einer App. Barcode-Scanner Halte dein iPhone an den Barcode eines Buches und es wird sofort erkannt. Titel, Autor, Cover und Beschreibung werden automatisch geladen. Persönliche Bibliothek Organisiere deine Bücher nach Lesestatus: möchte ich lesen, lese ich gerade oder bereits gelesen. Erstelle Bücherregale, vergib Bewertungen und behalte deine Favoriten im Blick. KI-Empfehlungen Basierend auf deinen Büchern und Bewertungen schlägt dir die KI neue Titel vor, die genau deinen Geschmack treffen – mit persönlicher Begründung, warum du das Buch lieben wirst. Lesefortschritt & Statistiken Verfolge deine gelesenen Seiten, starte Lese-Timer und analysiere deine Lesegewohnheiten mit übersichtlichen Statistiken und Diagrammen. Erfolge & Streaks Sammle Badges für deine Lesemeilensteine und halte deine Lesestreak aufrecht – perfekte Motivation für mehr Lesezeit. Notizen & Highlights Halte Gedanken, Zitate und Highlights zu jedem Buch fest – immer griffbereit, wenn du sie brauchst. Buch direkt kaufen Finde gefundene Bücher direkt bei Amazon und kaufe sie mit einem Tap.

Screenshots

EPUB Reader4 screens
BookTok4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BookTok at none against EPUB Reader's 7. EPUB Reader's advantage is iOS requirement (18.1 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. EPUB Reader sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. BookTok asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
EPUB Reader versus BookTok: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEPUB ReaderBookTok
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (48 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings48 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size207 MB3 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperPETR JAHODASebastian Baehr

In-app purchases

7 purchases

EPUB Reader

Subscriptions5
  • Monthly Premium14 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Monthly Premium$4.991 Month
  • Yearly – Launch Price7 Days trial$12.491 Year
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  • Yearly Premium14 Days trial$24.991 Year
  • Yearly Premium$29.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime – Launch Price$29.99
  • Lifetime Premium$79.99
None

BookTok

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is EPUB Reader free?
EPUB Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BookTok free?
BookTok is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do EPUB Reader or BookTok have ads?
Neither EPUB Reader nor BookTok shows ads.

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