FlowReader vs EPUB Reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FlowReader
This app allows you to read EPUB books hands-free with intelligent auto-scrolling. Customize your reading experience and import your own books to enjoy while multitasking.
- Hands-free auto-scrolling
- Personal EPUB import
- Precision pace control
- Immersive focus mode
- Customizable appearance
- Reading themes
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Stop holding your phone. Start holding your focus. WHY FLOWREADER? True Hands-Free Reading: Our intelligent auto-scroll engine moves at your pace, so you can keep your hands on the weights or the whisk. Your Library, Your Way: Import 1 personal EPUB for free. Upgrade to Premium for unlimited personal EPUB imports. Precision Pace Control: Fine-tune scrolling speed to match your comfort level, from a slow crawl to a rapid flow. Immersive Focus Mode: A clean, distraction-free reading environment designed to help you stay in the book. Custom Comfort: Adjust appearance and layout for your environment. Custom reading themes are available with Premium. Whether you’re meal prepping in the kitchen, hitting the treadmill, or relaxing at home, FlowReader turns reading into a seamless hands-free flow. PERFECT FOR The Active Reader: Read while walking or on the treadmill. The Home Chef: Follow recipes or enjoy a book while your hands are busy. The Commuter: Read comfortably without constant swiping. The Minimalist: A lean, gesture-light reading experience. SUBSCRIPTION INFO FlowReader is free to download. Premium features require a separate purchase (subscription or lifetime unlock). Auto-renewable subscription: FlowReader Premium Subscription options: Monthly and Yearly (pricing shown in-app) Lifetime unlock: One-time purchase option Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase Subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period Manage and cancel subscriptions in Apple ID account settings Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/flowreader-privacypolicy/home Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
EPUB Reader
This app allows you to import and read your DRM-free ebook files locally. It supports various formats and offers customizable reading settings for a personalized offline experience. You can also search, highlight, and annotate your books.
- Import DRM-free EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, FB2, TXT
- Offline reading with no account
- Customizable text and themes
- Full-book search and highlighting
- Chapter navigation and progress tracking
- Export notes and highlights
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EPUB Reader is an epub reader for the books you already own. Import your DRM-free EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, FB2 and TXT files into one local ebook library and read them offline, with no account and nothing uploaded. An ebook reader that takes the file as it is. EPUB reflows to your settings. DRM-free MOBI, AZW, AZW3 and PRC open directly, with AZW3 read from its KF8 layer for better typography. FB2 arrives as .fb2, .fb2.zip or .fbz, and TXT is decoded as UTF-8 or GBK, with a long chapterless file split into chapters you can navigate. The format is read from the contents of the file, so a book that lost its extension in mail still opens; what will not open is reported as unsupported or damaged. Reading is paginated, not an endless scroll: tap a side of the page or swipe. The contents list opens on the chapter you are in, the bottom bar carries the chapter name, page X of Y and your percentage through the book, and the progress bar jumps only when you let go. A reopened book starts on the page you left. Search the whole book from two characters up. Every hit arrives with its chapter name and the words around it; tap one and the reader lands there with the match highlighted. Highlight any passage in one of four colors, attach a note or copy it. Bookmarks, highlights and notes share one panel and export as plain text. Type size, page brightness, justified or left-aligned text and the light, sepia and dark paper themes are all free, night reading included. Every pixel of the reader follows the paper theme, and a book's own CSS cannot turn sepia or dark into dark text on a dark page. Offline books are the normal case here, not a mode you switch on: on a plane, in the subway, in a dead zone on the highway, the library and the book behave the same. At night the dark paper theme and the brightness slider let you read beside someone who is asleep. Studying, you highlight what matters, write your thought next to it, then export chapter, progress, passage and note into your notes app. Most of what sits beside this app in search is a different product. Content platforms hand you a catalog and want you signed in. Converters turn one format into another. Borrowing apps need a library card. Read-aloud apps are built around a voice. This one opens the files that are already yours and stays out of the way. • Open DRM-free EPUB, MOBI, AZW, AZW3, PRC, FB2 and TXT files • Format read from file contents, even with a wrong extension • TXT in UTF-8 or GBK, long files split into navigable chapters • Import several files in one go and get a single summary • Ebook library as a cover grid, three to six columns • Search by title or author, filter by reading, not started or finished • Sort by recently read, recently added, title or author to organize the shelf • Continue Reading card for the book you had open last • Page turns by tap or swipe, with a draggable progress bar • Contents list, chapter name, page X of Y and whole-book percentage • Full-book search with chapter name and context per hit • Four highlight colors, notes and copy from the selection bar • Bookmarks, highlights and notes in one panel, exportable as text • Line spacing, page margins and font family (Pro) Your books and your reading position stay in this app's storage on the device: no account, no sync, no record of what you read. To be clear about the edges: no PDF, no comic archives, no DOC or CHM, no conversion between formats, no way into books locked by another store's DRM, no text-to-speech, no audiobooks, no translation, no dictionary. The free library holds three books; EPUB Reader Pro lifts that limit and unlocks line spacing, page margins and font family. Bring your own files, drop them in and start reading. Terms of Use: https://zeroplay.io/docs/legal/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://zeroplay.io/docs/legal/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: FlowReader at none against EPUB Reader's shown. FlowReader also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 months). EPUB Reader's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. FlowReader sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and EPUB Reader sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for FlowReader against 5.0 for EPUB Reader. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
FlowReader ships an update every 6 days, EPUB Reader every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FlowReader | EPUB Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 104 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Beka Demuradze | ZeroPlay Ltd. |
Customer experience
FlowReader
EPUB Reader
In-app purchases
FlowReader
- Flow Reader Premium$2.991 Month
- Flow Reader Premium7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$39.99
EPUB Reader
- Weekly$5.997 Days
- Monthly$14.991 Month








