Comparison

EPUB Reader vs EPUB Reader

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
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

EPUB Reader

Features
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Bunko is an EPUB reader and ebook reader for books you already own. Import your files, build a personal library and read offline without creating an account. Adjust the text and theme, save highlights and notes, and continue where you left off. MAKE EVERY PAGE YOURS • Flip pages with a realistic page curl animation or switch to scrolling. • Adjust font size, line spacing, margins and text alignment. • Choose light, sepia or dark mode, with system theme support. • Pick up where you left off with saved reading progress for every book. HIGHLIGHTS & NOTES • Highlight meaningful passages in your favorite colors. • Save notes alongside selected text. • Find and revisit every highlight and annotation in seconds. YOUR BOOKS. YOUR DEVICE. • Import from Files, iCloud Drive or compatible apps. • Organize and search your library by book title or author. • See covers, reading progress and recently opened books. • Read offline without creating an account. LISTEN, TRANSLATE & LEARN • Read Aloud (Pro): Listen to your books with text-to-speech and adjustable playback speed. • Translate & Dictionary (Pro): Select text to translate words or look up definitions while you read. BUILD A READING HABIT • Track a 7-day reading streak and earn 3 days of Bunko Pro. • Create a shareable Bunko Recap of your reading year (Pro). EPUB READER, PDF READER & MORE • EPUB: Enjoy reflowable text, chapters, a table of contents and reading progress. • PDF: Open documents with smooth, high fidelity rendering. • DOCX & TXT: Turn everyday documents into a comfortable reading experience. • CBZ, CBR, ZIP & RAR: Browse comics and image archives page by page. • XLSX: Quickly view spreadsheets whenever you need them. FREE READING & BUNKO PRO Start free with up to 10 book imports. Upgrade to Bunko Pro for unlimited imports, Read Aloud, instant translation, dictionary features and Bunko Recap. Your purchase also helps support ongoing development. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Read imported books offline. Translation and dictionary lookup require internet access and send the selected text to Google. Bunko uses Firebase Analytics for usage analytics, AdMob for ads and RevenueCat for purchases. Ads may appear in the library; Bunko Pro removes them. See the privacy policy for details. READ IN 15 LANGUAGES English, Turkish, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Thai and Chinese. Choose a monthly or yearly auto-renewable subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. Manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple ID account settings. Restore previous purchases anytime from Settings. Bunko is a reader, not a bookstore. It does not sell, provide or distribute books; it opens files you already own. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://furkanislek.github.io/bunko-privacy-policy.html

Screenshots

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EPUB Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: EPUB Reader at none against EPUB Reader's shown. EPUB Reader's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.1). On price, update cadence, 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 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and EPUB Reader sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

EPUB Reader ships an update every 5 days, EPUB Reader every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
EPUB Reader versus EPUB Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEPUB ReaderEPUB Reader
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (55 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews82.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings55 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 6 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size213 MB46 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperPETR JAHODAFurkan Akif ISLEK

In-app purchases

3 purchases

EPUB Reader

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium$4.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$79.99
3 purchases

EPUB Reader

Subscriptions2
  • Bunko Pro Monthly3 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Bunko Pro Yearly3 Days trial$5.991 Year
One-time1
  • Bunko Pro Lifetime$9.99

Questions

Is EPUB Reader free?
EPUB Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is EPUB Reader free?
EPUB Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do EPUB Reader or EPUB Reader have ads?
EPUB Reader shows ads; EPUB Reader does not.
Which is updated more often, EPUB Reader or EPUB Reader?
EPUB Reader ships an update every 5 days, and EPUB Reader every 6 days. Most recently, EPUB Reader was updated on October 31, 2026 and EPUB Reader on October 29, 2026.

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