Comparison

EPUB Reader vs One At A Time

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

One At A Time

This app offers a distraction-free reading experience, allowing users to switch between speed reading and traditional page browsing. It provides access to a curated library of free public-domain classics and allows users to import their own EPUB files, all without requiring an account.

Highlights
  • One-word speed reading mode
  • Regular page browsing
  • Import EPUB files
  • Curated free classics library
  • Home screen widget
  • Customizable fonts and themes
Features
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A distraction-free EPUB reader built for reading wherever you are. I built One At A Time because I found it difficult to read on public transit. I needed a distraction free e-reader that I could glance away from and pick up right where I left off. FOCUSED & PAGE READING Switch between one-word speed reading and regular page browsing with a single press. Word bookmarks help you jump right back in. YOUR LIBRARY, ON YOUR PHONE Import EPUBs from Files, or browse a curated free library of public-domain classics right in the app. Everything stays on this device. No account required. A WORLD OF FREE BOOKS There’s a world of free literature out there. Access it easily. Browse genres, download classics, and add them to your shelf in a tap. BOOKS ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Keep your current book front and center with a home screen widget. Pick up where you left off without hunting through folders. MAKE IT YOURS Font size, reader placement, light or dark. Configure the reading experience as you wish. FREE FOREVER No purchases. No subscriptions. No upselling. Happy reading. Privacy note: One At A Time does not require an account and does not sync your library to any server. Network is only used when you choose to download a free-library title or open an external catalog link.

Screenshots

EPUB Reader4 screens
One At A Time4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: One At A Time at none against EPUB Reader's 7. One At A Time also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). EPUB Reader's advantage is ratings volume (54 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.1 vs 26.2). 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. One At A Time asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

One At A Time holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: EPUB Reader has 54 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
EPUB Reader versus One At A Time: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEPUB ReaderOne At A Time
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (54 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews81.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings54 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.1 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size210 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPETR JAHODAVir Manik Bedi

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

One At A Time

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is EPUB Reader free?
EPUB Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is One At A Time free?
One At A Time is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, EPUB Reader or One At A Time?
One At A Time is rated higher. EPUB Reader averages 4.6 out of 5 from 54 ratings, while One At A Time averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do EPUB Reader or One At A Time have ads?
Neither EPUB Reader nor One At A Time shows ads.

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