Comparison

Book Reader vs ReadStream

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

Head to head
About

Book Reader

This app combines audiobooks, eBooks, and AI-powered summaries into a single platform. It offers AI narration, the ability to convert your own EPUB files to audio, and automatic searching for free public domain books.

Highlights
  • AI audiobook narration
  • AI book summaries
  • EPUB to audiobook conversion
  • Import EPUB, PDF, TXT
  • Automatic book finder
  • Offline reading and listening
Features
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Book Reader turns your books and documents into audiobooks, and lets you read along as they play. LISTEN TO ANY BOOK • Natural AI narrators: five voices for each of 10 languages, and listening in more than 40 book languages • Instant voices start right away; Studio voices (Premium) are even more expressive • Speed from 0.5× to 3×, skip back 15 s or ahead 30 s, jump by chapter or sentence • Sleep timer, including "end of chapter", with a gentle fade-out • Keeps playing in the background, with lock-screen controls and CarPlay READ ALONG • The sentence being spoken is highlighted as you listen • Start listening from any sentence with "Listen from here" • Night, Day and Sepia themes, serif or sans, adjustable text size and spacing • Table of contents, search in book and bookmarks • PDFs open as the original pages or as reflowed text YOUR OWN FILES • Import EPUB, PDF, DOCX and TXT files up to 100 MB • Share or "Open in" from Files, Mail, Safari and other apps • Share a link to a PDF or EPUB from your browser DRM-protected books and scanned PDFs are not supported. DISCOVER CLASSICS • Public-domain classics from Project Gutenberg and Wikisource, ready to listen • Voiser Picks and shelves for adventure, mystery, love, sci-fi, horror, philosophy, poetry and children's books HIGHLIGHT, NOTE, TRANSLATE • Five highlight colors and notes, all in one searchable list • Translate a passage into 20 languages with AI • Share a quote as an image ONE LIBRARY ON EVERY DEVICE • Start as a guest, no sign-up needed • Sign in with Apple or Google to sync your library, progress, highlights and bookmarks • Books you open stay on your device for offline reading FREE AND PREMIUM • Free: listen to Voiser Picks with Instant voices, plus 30 minutes a month for your own books and other classics • Premium: hours of listening to your own books and Studio voices. Fair-use limits apply: 10 hours a week (weekly plan), 40 hours a month (monthly) or 480 hours a year (annual) • Plans: weekly, monthly and annual. A free trial may be offered on the weekly plan for eligible users; its length is shown before you subscribe. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and renewal is charged within the 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use: https://policies.voiser.ai/ai-book-reader/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://policies.voiser.ai/ai-book-reader/privacy/

About

ReadStream

Features
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ReadStream is a reading app for people who love books — whether you read them yourself or listen to them read back to you. I built it because I was tired of losing my place in downloaded books and chapters, juggling formats, and never quite knowing where I'd left off. If that sounds familiar, this might be the app you've been looking for. What you can do with it: • Import books and chapters in Word, EPUB or PDF format, organise them into series, and always come back to exactly where you stopped. • Fetch chapters from sites like Royal Road or Project Gutenberg, keep them in your library, and pull in updates whenever new ones appear. • Listen to your books read aloud — useful when your eyes are tired, or when you'd rather just close them and let the story come to you. • Save articles from the web and follow RSS feeds, so your long-form reading and the stories you track all live in the same place. • Keep notes as you go, against any book or chapter, without needing a separate app to do it. • Choose from a range of reading themes, including a warm paper mode that feels closer to an actual page than a screen. Most reading apps are built around content they want to sell you. ReadStream is built around content you've already found. Your imported chapters, your downloaded audiobooks, the serials you follow on Patreon or Royal Road — it's all treated as first-class material, organised the way you'd want a proper library to work. Everything stays on your device. Nothing is chasing you for your attention. It won't suit everyone. If you want a shop, a social feed, or reading challenges with badges, this isn't that. It's a quiet app for people who just want to read. If your reading life is currently scattered across half a dozen folders and formats, ReadStream is one place to bring it home. https://dscreations.co.uk/readstream/support

Screenshots

Book Reader4 screens
ReadStream4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ReadStream at none against Book Reader's 4. 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. Book Reader sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. ReadStream asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Book Reader versus ReadStream: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBook ReaderReadStream
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVoiser Teknoloji Limited SirketiDavid Sealey

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Book Reader

Subscriptions4
  • Weekly3 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Weekly$4.997 Days
  • Monthly$14.991 Month
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  • Annual Subscription$49.991 Year
None

ReadStream

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Book Reader free?
Book Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ReadStream free?
ReadStream is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Book Reader or ReadStream have ads?
Neither Book Reader nor ReadStream shows ads.

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