EPUB Reader vs FusionRead
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EPUB Reader
This app offers a versatile reading experience for various digital formats, including EPUB, PDF, comics, and audiobooks. It provides extensive customization options for typography, color themes, and reader controls, ensuring a personalized and comfortable reading environment. The app also supports seamless library management and synchronization across devices.
- Supports EPUB, PDF, CBZ, CBR, and audiobooks
- Customizable typography and color themes
- Read aloud functionality with offline neural voices
- Syncs reading position with e-readers
- Organized library with instant search and metadata detection
- Highlighting, note-taking, and export options
- Reading statistics and progress tracking
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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
FusionRead
This application allows users to read EPUB and PDF files with integrated translation for over 70 languages. It features a bilingual reading mode, vocabulary building tools, and reading statistics to aid language learners and bilingual readers.
- EPUB & PDF reader
- Instant translation
- Bilingual reading mode
- Vocabulary builder
- Reading statistics
- iCloud sync
- Dark mode
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FusionRead is a free EPUB and PDF reader with built-in translation. The perfect ebook reader for language learners and bilingual readers. READ ANY BOOK IN ANY LANGUAGE Open EPUB and PDF files instantly. Our smart translator helps you understand foreign books in 70+ languages - English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, and more. KEY FEATURES: - EPUB & PDF Reader: Open any ebook format - Instant Translation: Tap to translate any text - Bilingual Mode: Read side-by-side translations - Vocabulary Builder: Learn new words with spaced repetition - Reading Statistics: Track your progress daily - iCloud Sync: Continue on any device - Dark Mode & Themes: Customize your reading PERFECT FOR: - Language learners practicing foreign reading - Researchers working with multilingual sources - Travelers reading local literature - Students studying abroad WHAT USERS SAY: "Perfect for reading Japanese novels while learning!" "The translation feature is incredibly accurate." "Finally an app that helps me read foreign books!" PRIVACY FIRST: Translations are processed on-device when possible. Your reading data stays private. Download FusionRead - your multilingual book reader today!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: EPUB Reader at 82% against FusionRead's 0%. 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
Both are free to download. EPUB Reader sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and FusionRead sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
EPUB Reader ships an update every 5 days, FusionRead every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EPUB Reader | FusionRead |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (55 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 82.2% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 55 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.1 | 18 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 213 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | PETR JAHODA | 音 卢 |
Customer experience
EPUB Reader
FusionRead
In-app purchases
EPUB Reader
- Monthly Premium$4.991 Month
- Yearly Premium$29.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$79.99
FusionRead
- Pro Lifetime$3.99









