Comparison

EPUB Reader vs Volume.

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

Volume.

Features
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Volume is an expressive, privacy-first audiobook player built specifically for self-hosted listeners. Whether your library lives on Audiobookshelf, Jellyfin, or Plex, Volume brings your entire catalog together into a beautiful, fluid, and customizable listening experience crafted natively for iOS. KEY FEATURES: • MULTI-SERVER & MULTI-ACCOUNT SUPPORT Connect seamlessly to Audiobookshelf, Jellyfin, or Plex servers. Switch between libraries or servers effortlessly without losing your place. • NATIVE APPLE CARPLAY INTEGRATION Take your books on the road. Control playback, navigate chapters, and browse your queue safely with full CarPlay support. • OFFLINE LISTENING & DOWNLOAD MANAGER Download your favorite audiobooks directly to your device for offline playback during flights, commutes, or off-grid adventures. • ADVANCED PLAYBACK CONTROLS Tailor your listening session with variable playback speeds, customizable skip forward/backward durations, and smart chapter navigation supporting M4B chapters. • SMART SLEEP TIMER Fall asleep to your favorite stories. Set duration timers, end-of-chapter timers, or fade-out sleep controls. • NOTES & BOOKMARKS EXPORTER Save key moments while listening and export your bookmarks and notes in convenient formats anytime. • EXPRESSIVE & CUSTOMIZABLE DESIGN Personalize your home screen section order, configure player button layouts, and enjoy custom themes built with modern iOS typography and fluid visuals. • METADATA ENRICHMENT Integrates with Open Library to pull rich cover artwork, author info, and book descriptions—or default to embedded file comments. PRIVACY & FREEDOM Volume operates strictly client-side. Your server credentials, library data, and playback statistics remain private and under your control. No third-party analytics or tracking. Listen to your audiobooks, expressively. Download Volume today!

Screenshots

EPUB Reader4 screens
Volume.4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Volume. at none against EPUB Reader's 7. EPUB Reader's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks) and 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. Volume. asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

EPUB Reader ships an update every 5 days, Volume. every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
EPUB Reader versus Volume.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEPUB ReaderVolume.
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (48 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews82.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings48 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size202 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPETR JAHODAMorgan Archer

In-app purchases

7 purchases

EPUB Reader

Subscriptions5
  • Monthly Premium14 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Monthly: Read Aloud Offline$4.991 Month
  • Yearly – Launch Price7 Days trial$12.491 Year
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  • Yearly Premium14 Days trial$24.991 Year
  • Yearly: Highlights & Notes$29.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime – Launch Price$29.99
  • Lifetime: Library & Kindle$79.99
None

Volume.

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is EPUB Reader free?
EPUB Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Volume. free?
Volume. is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do EPUB Reader or Volume. have ads?
Neither EPUB Reader nor Volume. shows ads.
Which is updated more often, EPUB Reader or Volume.?
EPUB Reader ships an update every 5 days, and Volume. every 2 weeks. Most recently, EPUB Reader was updated on October 15, 2026 and Volume. on October 1, 2026.

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