Comparison

EPUB Reader vs Open 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
Read full description

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

Open Reader

This app allows you to read your own EPUB, PDF, and CBZ files without converting them. It saves your progress automatically and offers extensive customization for text and background settings. Access your books directly from the Files app and enjoy offline reading.

Highlights
  • Read EPUB, PDF, and CBZ files
  • Automatic page saving
  • Customizable text and backgrounds
  • Offline reading support
  • Direct file access via Files app
  • No ads or in-app purchases
Features
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Read your own EPUB, PDF and CBZ comic files, and pick up exactly where you stopped. Open Reader keeps your books as ordinary files in Files > On My iPhone > Open Reader. Nothing is converted, hidden in a private library or offloaded to the cloud, so you can see, move and back up your books like any other file. • Your page is saved on every page turn, and survives closing the app, text size changes and relaunching. • EPUB, PDF and CBZ comics all open in this version, with no format locked behind a purchase. • 14 text sizes, plus line spacing, paragraph spacing, margins, justification and font. • Paper, Sepia, Night or Auto backgrounds. • Tap the edge of the page to turn it; the table of contents is one tap away. • Add many books at once, or a whole folder, from the Files app. Open in Open Reader from other apps. • Works offline. Remote images and scripts inside books are blocked. This version is free, with no account, ads, analytics or in-app purchases. Open Reader doesn't sell books and doesn't remove DRM; it opens DRM-free files you already have.

Screenshots

EPUB Reader4 screens
Open Reader3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Open Reader at none against EPUB Reader's 3. Open Reader also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). EPUB Reader's advantage is ratings volume (59 vs 1) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Open Reader asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Open Reader holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: EPUB Reader has 59 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

EPUB Reader ships an update every 5 days, Open Reader every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
EPUB Reader versus Open Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEPUB ReaderOpen Reader
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (59 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews82.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings59 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.117.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size213 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPETR JAHODAPaul Jump

Customer experience

EPUB Reader

All ratings55 ratings
Positive89.1%
Neutral5.5%
Negative5.5%
Written reviews45 reviews
Positive82.2%
Neutral8.9%
Negative8.9%

Open Reader

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

EPUB Reader

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium$4.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$79.99
None

Open Reader

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is EPUB Reader free?
EPUB Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Open Reader free?
Open Reader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, EPUB Reader or Open Reader?
Open Reader is rated higher. EPUB Reader averages 4.7 out of 5 from 59 ratings, while Open Reader averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do EPUB Reader or Open Reader have ads?
Neither EPUB Reader nor Open Reader shows ads.
Which is updated more often, EPUB Reader or Open Reader?
EPUB Reader ships an update every 5 days, and Open Reader every 2 weeks. Most recently, EPUB Reader was updated on November 5, 2026 and Open Reader on October 31, 2026.

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