Comparison

EpubReader vs Duri

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

Head to head
About

EpubReader

Read EPUB books offline with a customizable reader. Listen to your books with built-in text-to-speech and sync your library across devices. Organize your collection with custom collections and smart sorting.

Highlights
  • Offline EPUB reading
  • Built-in text-to-speech (TTS)
  • iCloud library sync
  • Customizable reading experience
  • Organize books into collections
  • Multiple import methods
Features
Read full description

EpubReader is a clean, powerful ebook reader built exclusively for iPhone and iPad. Read EPUB books offline, listen with built-in text-to-speech, and sync your entire library across devices with iCloud. Import DRM-free EPUB books in seconds, organize them into custom collections, customize every detail of your reading experience — fonts, themes, dark mode — and pick up right where you left off on any device. Effortless Book Import • Import EPUB files from Files or iCloud Drive • WiFi Transfer – drag and drop books from Mac or PC • Open in from Safari • AirDrop support Fully Customizable Reading • Light, Sepia, Dark Mode & True Black (OLED) night mode themes • Adjust font size, line height, margins, and spacing • Choose from premium, highly readable fonts • Page curl animation or smooth vertical scrolling • Bookmarks with notes and color highlights Built-in Text-to-Speech (TTS) — Read Aloud • Listen to your ebooks hands-free like an audiobook • Real-time sentence highlighting • Automatic page turning • Great for multitasking or resting your eyes Automatic iCloud Sync • Sync books across iPhone and iPad • Reading progress, bookmarks & highlights stay updated • Secure and private — powered by your personal iCloud Smart Library & Collections • Organize your books into custom collections • Create multiple bookshelves for different genres, authors, or projects • Quickly add or move books between collections • Smart sorting by recent reads so your current book is always easy to find • Full Table of Contents navigation Privacy First • EpubReader never tracks your reading habits. • No analytics tracking. • No data selling. • No mandatory sign-ups. • All books stay on your device or securely in your personal iCloud. Download EpubReader today and enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Note: EpubReader supports DRM-free EPUB files only. DRM-protected books are not supported.

About

Duri

Features
Read full description

Duri is a reader for the books and documents you already have: EPUBs, PDFs and the scans of them, comics, plain text and Markdown, and articles saved from the web. It turns their pages like a book, remembers where you stopped, and keeps your highlights and notes where you can find them. PAGES THAT TURN LIKE PAPER A real page curl that follows your finger, the back of the leaf showing through, on every kind of file. On an iPad on its side the book lies open as a two-page spread, with the spine down the middle and a double-page comic panel across both. MADE TO BE READ FOR HOURS Four themes free and ten more with Pro, among them an E-ink theme that stops every animation. Five reading faces, and your own fonts with Pro. Line spacing and margins, a page you can pinch. Footnotes open where you are. READS ALOUD Any book, any document, even a scanned PDF, whose words Duri recognises on your phone. Press Listen and the voice begins within a second or two, from the page you are on or from any sentence you choose, and follows you when you turn the page. A listening view like lyrics, lit word by word, in a voice of Duri's own that runs on your phone: four to choose from, and nothing you read leaves the device. Ten minutes a day are free. YOUR NOTES STAY YOURS Highlight in five colours, write notes (typed or by hand), copy with a citation, make a quote card (Pro). Draw on a PDF with a pen, a highlighter and an eraser, and share the PDF with your marks in it. Export everything as Markdown or plain text, always, for free. AWAY FROM THE APP Widgets for the book you're reading, what's playing and your daily reading goal. A listening remote on your Apple Watch. Save a page from Safari's share sheet and it's an article in your library. Follow a site and new pieces arrive by themselves. On an iPad, read a book beside its translation. ON IPHONE DUO Open, a book lies across both screens with its spine on the fold, and the library and contents use both pages. Half folded, the page stands above the fold with the controls below, so it reads on a table by itself. HONEST ABOUT WHAT IT CAN'T DO Books locked to another store (Kindle, Apple Books) can't be opened here, and Duri says so rather than pretending. NOTHING ABOUT YOU LEAVES YOUR DEVICE No servers of ours. A book from a catalogue or a page you save comes straight from where it lives, and sync, if you want it, goes through your own iCloud and nowhere else. DURI PRO One purchase, once, shared with your family: unlimited listening, iCloud sync, ten more themes and five accents, your own fonts, quote cards and PDF export of your notes. It costs US$9.99 (the App Store shows the price in your country), is paid once and never renews: it is not a subscription. Everything else is free, and stays free. Terms of use: https://duri.neeraj.ca/terms.html Privacy policy: https://duri.neeraj.ca/privacy.html

Screenshots

EpubReader4 screens
Duri4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: EpubReader at none against Duri's 1. EpubReader also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). Duri's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 3 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). 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. Duri sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. EpubReader asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Duri holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

EpubReader ships an update every 3 months, Duri daily. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
EpubReader versus Duri: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEpubReaderDuri
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB247 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPenghui ZhaoNEERAJ SHARMA

In-app purchases

None

EpubReader

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Duri

One-time1
  • Duri Pro$9.99

Questions

Is EpubReader free?
EpubReader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Duri free?
Duri is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, EpubReader or Duri?
Duri is rated higher. EpubReader averages 4.8 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Duri averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do EpubReader or Duri have ads?
Neither EpubReader nor Duri shows ads.
Which is updated more often, EpubReader or Duri?
EpubReader ships an update every 3 months, and Duri daily. Most recently, EpubReader was updated on October 31, 2026 and Duri on October 31, 2026.

Other comparisons