Cinder Reader vs EPUB Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cinder Reader
A modern, ad-free app for reading ebooks, comics, manga, and PDFs. Organize your personal library, import files from various sources, and customize your reading experience with flexible tools and appearance settings.
- Read ebooks, comics, manga, and PDFs
- Import and manage personal library
- Connect to content sources
- Customize reader appearance
- Track reading progress
- Create highlights and notes
- Organize with folders and filters
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Cinder is a modern, ad-free reading app for ebooks, comics, manga, PDFs, web novels, and more. Build a library that fits the way you read. Import your own files, connect your preferred catalogs and personal content sources, organize everything in one place, and enjoy a clean, customizable reading experience across multiple formats. Features Read ebooks, comics, manga, and PDFs in one app Import your own files and manage your personal library Add and browse compatible catalogs and personal content sources Customize fonts, themes, spacing, alignment, and reader appearance Track reading progress and pick up where you left off Create highlights and notes Organize books with folders, filters, and library tools Discover new titles with built-in discovery features Sync with your Hardcover account to track reading progress and discover new books Designed for phones, tablets, and larger screens Built for readers Cinder focuses on a polished, distraction-light reading experience with flexible library management and deep reader customization. Whether you’re reading novels, graphic novels, manga, or documents, Cinder gives you one place to keep everything organized. Privacy-first by design Your library and reading setup stay centered around your own content, your own sources, and your own reading workflow.
EPUB Player
This app reads EPUB3 books with media overlays, offering synced audio narration and text highlighting. It also functions as a local EPUB reader with library management and customizable reading settings.
- EPUB3 media overlay support
- Synced audio narration
- Active text highlighting
- Local EPUB import and library management
- Customizable reading experience
- Resume reading progress
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EPUB Player is a reader built specifically for EPUB3 books with media overlays. Source code at: https://github.com/seedds/EPUB_Player If your EPUB includes media overlay support, EPUB Player lets you follow the narration with synced audio playback and active text highlighting. Tap spoken text to start from that point, jump by chapter, and resume from your last played segment. The app also works as a clean local EPUB reader for iPhone and iPad. Import books from Files, manage your library, restore reading progress, and customize the reading experience with themes, font size, line height, highlight color, and imported custom fonts.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: EPUB Player at none against Cinder Reader's 1. EPUB Player also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). Cinder Reader's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 2). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Cinder Reader sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. EPUB Player asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Cinder Reader against 5.0 for EPUB Player. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 2 respectively.
Cinder Reader ships an update every 3 weeks, EPUB Player every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cinder Reader | EPUB Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JESSE LAMAR MARTIN | 石 邓 |
Customer experience
Cinder Reader
EPUB Player
In-app purchases
Cinder Reader
- Cinder Pro Lifetime$8.99
EPUB Player
No in-app purchases








