EverReed vs Cleave for EPUB

EverReed is your personalized reading companion for tracking series, organizing your library, finding books that fit your taste, and reading your own books. Keep your reading life in one place — from deciding what to read next to following a series, managing your TBR, and reading EPUB or PDF books. PERSONALIZED BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS Get recommendations shaped by the books you finish, rate, save, reread, and drop. EverReed looks beyond genre to understand patterns in your reading taste, including pacing, tone, mood, themes, character focus, worldbuilding, romance level, and more. Taste DNA and Reader Insights help explain why a book may fit you and what kind of reading experience to expect. TRACK EVERY SERIES • See books in reading order • Track your progress across a series • See what comes next • Follow upcoming releases • Get release reminders for books you care about • Discover other series that fit your taste ORGANIZE YOUR READING LIBRARY • Track books as reading, finished, paused, dropped, rereading, or want to read • Create shelves and organize your TBR • Record ratings, notes, reviews, progress, and reading dates • View reading statistics, milestones, and wrap-ups • Import your Goodreads library SEARCH THE WAY READERS THINK Search by title, author, or series — or describe the mood, theme, pacing, setting, or kind of reading experience you want. READ YOUR OWN BOOKS Open EPUB and PDF files inside EverReed with reading progress, bookmarks, highlights, annotations, search, and reading controls. CONNECT YOUR PERSONAL EBOOK LIBRARY Connect compatible OPDS, Calibre, Kavita, or Komga libraries and access your own collection from EverReed. READ TOGETHER Create or join reading Rooms, share progress updates, react to posts, discuss books with spoiler protection, and keep a shared room TBR. YOUR READING LIFE, IN ONE PLACE EverReed is built for readers who want better recommendations, easier series tracking, a more organized library, and more control over what they read next. Privacy Policy: https://everreed.app/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Cleave is an on-device EPUB metadata editor for iPhone and iPad. Drop a book in, and it cleans up the messy title, author, and publisher fields in seconds — no account, no uploads, no tracking. Designed for readers who sideload books onto a Kindle, a Boox, a Palma, a Kobo, or into KOReader and Calibre. If you've ever had a library full of files named "The_Book_(z-lib.org)_(1).epub" with title "The Book (z-lib.org) - Copy", Cleave fixes them. FEATURES • Auto-clean on load Strips source-site watermarks from title, author, and publisher. Normalizes author-name order ("Austen, Jane" → "Jane Austen" or vice versa). Cleans file junk like "(1)", " - copy", " final". All rules are configurable. • Web enrichment Fills missing description, publisher, date, ISBN, series, and subjects from Apple Books, Open Library, and optionally Google Books. Anonymous queries — no account, no identifier sent. • Cover picker Fetches candidate covers from Apple Books and Open Library in one tap. Pick one, revert anytime, or use your own image from Photos. • Source-watermark page stripping Detects and removes the one-page "downloaded from" ad pages that some redistributors inject. • Rename by template Rebuild filenames from {author}, {title}, {series}, {seriesIndex}, {year}. Presets: Default, Calibre, Year-suffix, Series-first, Title-only. • Directory structure Save directly into a Calibre-style Author/ subfolder if your reader expects it. • Share sheet integration Share any EPUB from Files, Safari, Mail, or another app — Cleave picks it up, cleans it, and hands it back for saving. • Batch support Drop a bunch of files at once. Cleave walks you through them one by one with a running counter. PRIVACY Cleave does not collect any personal data. There is no account, no backend, no analytics, and no advertising SDK. The only network requests are anonymous metadata/cover queries to three public APIs (Apple Books, Open Library, Google Books) — none of which receive any user identifier. File processing happens entirely on your device. Your books never leave your iPhone or iPad. For power users: a diagnostics screen shows the share-extension log, the App Group inbox, and all settings. Everything is editable. SUPPORT Questions, bug reports, feature requests: cleave-whidbey.vercel.app/support Privacy policy: cleave-whidbey.vercel.app/privacy Cleave is designed by a small team who sideload books every week. If it saves you ten minutes a month, it's doing its job.