Comparison

EPUB Reader vs eReader

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

eReader

Features
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eReader opens your own EPUB and PDF books and gets out of the way. Set the page up the way your eyes like it, keep the lines that matter, and let the app read aloud when your hands are busy. No account, no store, no format lock-in. READ EPUB AND PDF • Opens EPUB 2, EPUB 3 and PDF files from Files, iCloud Drive, AirDrop, Mail or Safari • PDFs reflow like ebooks, so your font, size and theme apply to them too • Page View shows a PDF's original layout for scans, tables and diagrams • Fast search across the whole book, table of contents and jump to page MAKE EVERY PAGE YOURS • 12 reading templates: Paperback, Night Owl, Focus, Flow, Easy Read, Large Print, Compact and more • 8 page themes, from Sepia and Paper to true-black Night • Any installed font, with full control of size, line, letter and paragraph spacing READING AIDS THAT KEEP YOUR PLACE • Paragraph Focus dims everything except the paragraph you are reading • Color Flow tints each line so its end matches the start of the next • Bold Word Starts guides your eye along the line for faster reading • Speed Reader shows one word at a time, at the pace you choose LISTEN TO ANY BOOK • Text to speech turns an EPUB or PDF into an audiobook • Choose the voice, language and speed, and start from any sentence • Keeps reading with the screen off; the text follows the voice HIGHLIGHTS, NOTES AND BOOKMARKS • Highlight in five colors or underline, and add notes • Bookmark pages and jump back in one tap • Share a favourite line as a quote card, ready for Messages or Instagram Stories AI CHAPTER SUMMARIES • Recap the chapter so far with no spoilers, or the last pages after a break • Written on your device by Apple Intelligence, so your book never leaves it • Requires a device that supports Apple Intelligence BUILD A READING HABIT • Daily goal, streaks and a chart of your reading time • Time left in the chapter and the book, at your own reading speed • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets open your book in one tap • Optional gentle reminders when you have been away for a few days YOURS ON EVERY DEVICE • iCloud sync for books, position, highlights and bookmarks on iPhone, iPad and Mac • Works fully offline PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No sign-up. Your books stay on your device and in your own iCloud • Book titles, text, highlights and searches are never collected FREE AND PREMIUM eReader is free to download and read with. The free version shows ads between reading sessions. Premium removes ads and unlocks unlimited highlights and bookmarks, every template, theme and reading aid, text to speech, iCloud sync and AI summaries. Premium is an auto-renewing monthly or yearly subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account, and the subscription renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. eReader opens DRM-free EPUB and PDF files. It does not open books protected by DRM, such as most books bought from Kindle or Apple Books, and it does not play recorded audiobook files. Terms of Use: https://ereader-epub-audio.web.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://ereader-epub-audio.web.app/privacy/ Support: https://ereader-epub-audio.web.app/support/

Screenshots

EPUB Reader4 screens
eReader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: EPUB Reader at none against eReader's shown. EPUB Reader also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (18.1 vs 26.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. EPUB Reader sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and eReader sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

EPUB Reader ships an update every 5 days, eReader every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
EPUB Reader versus eReader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEPUB ReadereReader
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (54 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings54 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size207 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPETR JAHODAsina alparslan

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
2 purchases

eReader

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription$3.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription$24.991 Year

Questions

Is EPUB Reader free?
EPUB Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is eReader free?
eReader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do EPUB Reader or eReader have ads?
eReader shows ads; EPUB Reader does not.
Which is updated more often, EPUB Reader or eReader?
EPUB Reader ships an update every 5 days, and eReader every 3 months. Most recently, EPUB Reader was updated on October 24, 2026 and eReader on October 24, 2026.

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