Codex Reader Early Access vs Tomelet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Codex Reader Early Access
Organize and enjoy your existing digital books and audiobooks in one unified library. Seamlessly switch between reading and listening with synchronized text and narration, all accessible offline. Customize your reading experience with extensive options and device integrations.
- Unified book and audiobook library
- Readaloud synchronized text and narration
- Offline access to downloaded content
- CarPlay and Siri integration
- Customizable typography and playback
- Home Screen widgets and Live Activity
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Codex Reader turns the books you already own into one library you can read and listen to. Connect your own sources — Plex, Audiobookshelf, OPDS catalogs, and Storyteller — or bring files straight in from the Files app. Your EPUBs, M4Bs, and MP3 audiobooks all land in a single shelf. READ AND LISTEN, TOGETHER Readalouds keep the text and the narration in sync, highlighting each line as it's spoken. Switch between reading and listening whenever you like and pick up exactly where you left off. BUILT FOR iOS CarPlay for the drive. Siri and Spotlight to jump straight into a book. Home Screen widgets and a Live Activity for what you're in the middle of. Everything works offline once downloaded. MADE YOURS Choose your app icon, tune typography and playback to taste, organize shelves and reading lists, and follow authors or servers to hear about new arrivals. Codex Premium adds iCloud sync so your place in a book follows you between devices.
Tomelet
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Read the book the way it was printed. Tomelet starts from what the publisher made — the fonts, spacing and images — and lets you work on top of it. It is a private reader for EPUB, PDF and many more formats, with its own typesetting engine. THE PAGE COMES FIRST • Publisher fonts, styles and images are kept by default. • Change the type size and the text reflows without losing the design. • Bright, sepia, dark and black themes; margins, line spacing, alignment and hyphenation are yours to set. WRITE ON THE PAGE • Highlight, underline, add notes and bookmarks in EPUBs and in PDFs with selectable text. • Draw with Apple Pencil — pressure changes the line — or switch on finger drawing. • Export a book's notes as Markdown or JSON. THE FORMATS YOU OWN EPUB, PDF, MOBI, AZW3, FB2, DjVu, CBZ comics, DOCX, TXT, Markdown and HTML, plus older formats such as CHM, LIT and Palm eReader — all DRM-free. Books locked with DRM are recognised and explained; Tomelet doesn't remove protection. EVERY LANGUAGE ON THE PAGE Right-to-left text such as Arabic and Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese and Korean with ruby annotations, and hyphenation come from one rendering engine. Tomelet itself speaks 28 languages. A LIBRARY THAT TIDIES ITSELF Titles, authors, series and covers come from the file and, unless you turn it off in Settings, from Open Library. Automatic tags, collections and series keep things in order, and search finds books in your library and words inside a book. FREE TO READ. PAY FOR SYNC. The free app is the whole reader, not a trial: every format and reading feature, notes, export and local backup, offline and with no account. It is supported by one ad before a book opens — never while you read, and never on your first day. TOMELET SYNC Tomelet Sync keeps your books, reading positions, highlights, notes and ink in step across your iPhone, iPad and computer, removes ads, and includes 10 GB of encrypted storage. Everything is encrypted on your device before it is uploaded; our servers never hold a key that can read your library. A new device is approved from one you already trust, or with your Recovery Key. Tomelet Sync is an auto-renewable subscription, billed monthly or yearly, with a free trial for eligible new subscribers. Payment is charged to your Apple Account; the subscription renews unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the period, and you can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://tomelet.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://tomelet.app/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Codex Reader Early Access at none against Tomelet's shown. Tomelet's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Codex Reader Early Access sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Tomelet sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Codex Reader Early Access ships an update every 2 weeks, Tomelet every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Codex Reader Early Access | Tomelet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 110 MB | 126 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cameron Green | TOMELET PTE. LTD. |
In-app purchases
Codex Reader Early Access
- Codex Premium$6.99
Tomelet
- Tomelet Sync Monthly14 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Tomelet Sync Yearly14 Days trial$99.991 Year
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