CrossPoint Sync vs CrossPort
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CrossPoint Sync
Wirelessly transfer books and manage your e-ink reader's library from your iOS device. Clip web articles and convert them into EPUBs for seamless reading. Organize files, create folders, and set custom sleep screens.
- Wireless file transfer over WiFi
- Device file browser and management
- Safari web article clipping to EPUB
- Upload queue with progress tracking
- iOS Share Extension for EPUBs
- Customizable sleep screen image
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CrossPoint Sync is a wireless companion app for the XTEink X4 e-ink reader. Transfer books, manage your device library, and clip web articles — all over your local WiFi network, no cables required. WIRELESS FILE TRANSFER Send EPUBs to your e-ink reader over WiFi. Uploads are chunked and streamed over for reliable, fast transfers. DEVICE FILE BROWSER Browse the full file system on your e-ink reader directly from your iPhone. Navigate folders, create new folders, delete files, rename files, move files and download books back to your phone. Swipe actions make file management quick and intuitive. SAFARI WEB CLIPPER Save any web article for your e-ink reader with the built-in Safari extension. CrossPoint Web Clipper extracts the article text, downloads images, and converts everything into a clean EPUB that's ready to read on your device. Clips sync automatically the next time you open the app. UPLOAD QUEUE Queue multiple books for transfer and watch them upload one by one with real-time progress tracking. The queue persists across app launches — add books now and they'll transfer automatically when your device connects later. iOS SHARE EXTENSION Share EPUBs from any app — Files, Safari, email — directly into CrossPoint Sync's upload queue. Files are picked up automatically and transferred to your device. SLEEP BACKGROUND CUSTOMIZATION Set a custom sleep screen image on your e-ink reader. Pick any photo from your library, preview it, and upload it to your device as the sleep background. ADDITIONAL FEATURES • Configurable upload paths for books and clipped articles • Dark mode support • Swipe-to-delete and swipe-to-save file actions • Breadcrumb navigation with swipe-back gesture • Device info display: hostname, IP, firmware version
CrossPort
Manage your e-ink reader's library, wallpapers, and files wirelessly. Browse books with cover art, track reading progress, and read EPUBs on your phone. Customize sleep screens and organize device files efficiently.
- Browse book library with cover art
- Track reading progress sync
- Built-in EPUB reader
- Download books for offline reading
- Add custom sleep screen wallpapers
- Manage device files wirelessly
- Automatic device discovery
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CrossPort is an EPUB reader built for long books: real two-page spreads, a page curl you can feel, natural voices that read to you, and a recap of the story so far when you come back. It also pairs with e-ink readers running CrossPoint, so your place follows you between phone and reader. READING • Paginated pages with page curl or slide, and two-page spreads in landscape • Themes, fonts, and layout settings to make every book comfortable • Bookmarks, contents, and a scrubber that shows the chapter as you drag, with undo for jumps • Show progress as a percentage or as pages • Import EPUBs from Files, AirDrop, or Share READ ALOUD • Listen to any book, with every word highlighted as it's spoken and pages that turn on their own • Natural neural voices, including 17 PocketTTS voices, or make your own from a short recording • Play from Here: select any sentence to start there • Pronounce As: fix how a name or word is said, for one book or all of them • Keeps playing in the background, with lock screen controls, and picks up where you stopped PREVIOUSLY • Coming back after a break? CrossPort recaps the story up to your place, using Apple Intelligence • Only what you've already read is used, so recaps never spoil what's ahead FIND BOOKS • Browse Project Gutenberg, Calibre content servers, and other OPDS catalogs • Book details with synopses, ratings, and page counts PAIRS WITH YOUR E-INK READER • Works with Xteink X4, X3, and other readers running CrossPoint or compatible firmware • Reading position and bookmarks sync both ways between your phone and your reader • Send books to your reader over WiFi, optimized for e-ink • Make sleep screen wallpapers from your photos, previewed as they'll look on e-ink • Browse, upload, rename, move, and delete files on your reader MORE • Home screen widget with your current book • Siri and Shortcuts: continue reading, check your progress, or send a book to your reader No e-ink reader needed. CrossPort works on its own as a reader on your iPhone. Recaps need an iPhone with Apple Intelligence. Some neural voices need iPhone 13 or later.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: CrossPoint Sync at Free against CrossPort's $2.99. CrossPoint Sync also leads on ratings volume (17 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). CrossPort's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). On review sentiment, ads 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
CrossPoint Sync is free to download; CrossPort costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
CrossPort holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CrossPoint Sync has 17 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
CrossPoint Sync ships an update every 2 months, CrossPort every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | CrossPoint Sync | CrossPort |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (17 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #55 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zohaib Rauf | Snacks After Midnight |
Customer experience
CrossPoint Sync
CrossPort
In-app purchases
CrossPoint Sync
No in-app purchases
CrossPort
No in-app purchases








