Comparison

CrossPoint Sync vs Fayelio

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Fayelio

Features
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Fayelio is a calm, local-first reader for your own books: EPUB, PDF, MOBI, AZW3, FB2, CBZ comics and TXT. Your library lives on your phone, your highlights stay with you, and nothing is sent to us. READ THE WAY YOU WANT • A true two-page spread on foldable iPhones: the pages split exactly on the fold, like an open book. • Comfortable single-page reading on every iPhone, with your choice of font, size, spacing, margins and themes (light, dark, sepia or automatic). • Reading position, bookmarks and highlights are remembered for every book. • Manga and other right-to-left books turn the other way, including the two-page spread. • Gestures: tap an edge to turn, double-tap it to jump a chapter, slide along the left edge for volume or the right for brightness, and pull the page down to close the book. Each one can be turned off in Settings. • A table of contents on each book, and inside the reader, so you can jump back and forth between chapters. • Highlights in five colors, with your own notes on any highlight, all collected in one place. Tap a highlight to change its color or remove it. With Pro, export your highlights and notes as a Markdown file for one book or your whole library. • Reading themes (Light, Dark, Sepia and Auto are free; Paper, Night, Mint and High Contrast are Pro) and a choice of typefaces (six more with Pro). READ FOR ME • Have any chapter read aloud with natural voices, even with the screen locked. • The sentence being read is highlighted or underlined in the color you pick, and the page turns with the voice. • Start where you stopped, from the page you're on, or from any selected text. • Choose the reading speed. Books in other languages are read with a matching voice. • Free includes 10 hours of Read for Me. Pro adds unlimited listening and a sleep timer. SUMMARIES (FREE) AND TRANSLATION (Fayelio Pro) • Summarize a chapter, or a whole book, on your phone with Apple Intelligence. It's free and nothing leaves your device. With Pro you can instead use your own Claude or OpenAI key. • Translate any chapter into the language you choose, paragraph by paragraph, offline. • Scanned PDFs and comic pages are read with on-device text recognition, so they can be summarized and read aloud too. FREE BOOKS, ANYWHERE • Browse and download free books from Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks inside the app, plus a small shelf of classic newspaper comics published before 1931, hosted by the Internet Archive. • Add your own DRM-free EPUB, PDF, MOBI, AZW3, FB2, CBZ and TXT files, or share one from Files, Safari, Mail or any app straight into Fayelio. Everything works the same in every format: two-page spreads, highlights, search, Read for Me, translation and summaries. Books protected by DRM, such as Amazon or Kobo purchases, won't open. Fayelio is a reader: it doesn't provide books other than the free public-domain libraries in Discover. • A Now Reading widget for your Home Screen and Lock Screen shows your current book and progress. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account and no tracking. • Your reading position, bookmarks and highlights sync between your own Apple devices through your iCloud, if you turn it on in Settings > Sync. Fayelio Pro is a one-time purchase (no subscription) that unlocks translation, unlimited Read for Me with a sleep timer, four more reading themes and six more typefaces, exporting highlights and notes, searching inside a book, Ask about this book, your own AI (Claude or OpenAI) for summaries and more than twenty extra app icons, including holiday icons. Everything else is free, including three app icons (Classic, Paper and Noir).

Screenshots

CrossPoint Sync4 screens
Fayelio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CrossPoint Sync at none against Fayelio's 1. CrossPoint Sync also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). Fayelio's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). 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. Fayelio sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. CrossPoint Sync asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CrossPoint Sync ships an update every 2 months, Fayelio every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
CrossPoint Sync versus Fayelio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrossPoint SyncFayelio
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (17 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings17 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZohaib RaufFightX Inc.

In-app purchases

None

CrossPoint Sync

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Fayelio

One-time1
  • Fayelio Pro$4.99

Questions

Is CrossPoint Sync free?
CrossPoint Sync is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fayelio free?
Fayelio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do CrossPoint Sync or Fayelio have ads?
Neither CrossPoint Sync nor Fayelio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CrossPoint Sync or Fayelio?
CrossPoint Sync ships an update every 2 months, and Fayelio every 2 days. Most recently, CrossPoint Sync was updated on November 5, 2026 and Fayelio on October 31, 2026.

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