Comparison

EPUB Reader vs noter

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

About

noter

This app allows users to read EPUB and PDF files, offering extensive annotation features with Apple Pencil support. Users can highlight, draw, and add margin notes, then export their annotations. It also supports Calibre integration and customizable reading themes.

Highlights
  • Apple Pencil annotation
  • Highlight and markup text
  • Add margin notes
  • Export annotations as PDF
  • Calibre library integration
  • Customizable reading themes
  • Browse online catalogs
Features
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noter is the reading app for people who think with a pencil. With full Apple Pencil support for EPUBs, you can highlight, annotate, and draw directly on the pages. Full Apple Pencil Support - noter fully supports the Apple Pencil, so you can write directly on EPUBs. Highlight, draw, circle, and doodle all over your favourite books. - Highlight and annotate passages so you can add your thoughts as you read. - Add notes in the margin of a page, so you can take notes in a larger canvas for your biggest ideas. - PDF support, so you can draw on those in addition to EPUBs. Export Your Notes - Easily export all your highlights, notes, and write-on-page ink. Just a few taps and you get a PDF with all your annotations. Calibre Support - noter can connect right to Calibre, making it easy to import your entire library. Customize Your Reading - Choose from built-in themes or create your own. - Set custom background and text colours. Notebooks - Create your own notebooks. Rapidly switching between a notebook and a book is easy, so you can quickly take long form notes while you read. Additional Features - PDF support - Edit book metadata for easy library management and filtering - No account required. No ads. Privacy focused. - Sync between your Apple devices using Apple's secure iCloud - Folder support - Browse and search books from online catalogs (OPDS), such as Project Gutenberg, directly within the app. These books are provided by third-party sources and are typically in the public domain in the United States. Availability may vary depending on your country’s copyright laws. noter uses Apple's standard End User License Agreement. A copy of it can be found here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

EPUB Reader4 screens
noter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: EPUB Reader at 83% against noter's 0%. EPUB Reader also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (48 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 noter sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

EPUB Reader holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: EPUB Reader has 48 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of EPUB Reader's written reviews are positive against 0% of noter's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

EPUB Reader ships an update every 5 days, noter weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
EPUB Reader versus noter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEPUB Readernoter
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (48 ratings) — better2.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews82.5% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings48 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.1 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size202 MB21 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperPETR JAHODARajiv Green

Customer experience

EPUB Reader

All ratings48 ratings
Positive89.6%
Neutral6.3%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews40 reviews
Positive82.5%
Neutral10.0%
Negative7.5%

noter

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

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
3 purchases

noter

Subscriptions3
  • noter Premium Weekly3 Days trial$0.997 Days
  • noter Premium Monthly3 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • noter Premium Annual3 Days trial$24.991 Year

Questions

Is EPUB Reader free?
EPUB Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is noter free?
noter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, EPUB Reader or noter?
EPUB Reader is rated higher. EPUB Reader averages 4.7 out of 5 from 48 ratings, while noter averages 2.0 from 1 ratings.
Do EPUB Reader or noter have ads?
Neither EPUB Reader nor noter shows ads.
Which is updated more often, EPUB Reader or noter?
EPUB Reader ships an update every 5 days, and noter weekly. Most recently, EPUB Reader was updated on October 16, 2026 and noter on October 13, 2026.

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