Comparison

Readova vs Wrist Novel Reader

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

Head to head
About

Readova

A focused eBook reader designed for a calm and simple reading experience. Import your own EPUB, TXT, and FB2 files, customize your reading environment, and utilize text-to-speech functionality. Track your progress and manage your library with cloud sync options.

Highlights
  • Supports EPUB, TXT, FB2 formats
  • Customizable fonts, themes, and spacing
  • Text-to-speech with adjustable speed
  • Hands-free auto-reading modes
  • Highlighting and note-taking
  • Reading statistics and progress tracking
  • iCloud and WebDAV cloud sync
Features
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Readova is a quiet, focused iOS eBook reader. Our goal is simple: make reading feel peaceful again. No forced sign-in. No built-in bookstore. No ads. Open your library and start reading. A Quiet, Fluid Experience Enjoy smooth scrolling, natural page turns, and carefully rendered text, images, and layouts. Open Your Books Supports EPUB, PDF,MOBI, AZW, AZW3, TXT, FB2, and other popular formats. Import local files directly without complicated conversions. Read Your Way Choose continuous scrolling or page-turning mode. Customize fonts, text size, spacing, and themes. Import your own fonts and look up selected words with the system dictionary. Listening Is Reading Too Listen while commuting, doing chores, or resting your eyes. Use system voices right away, or enjoy clear, natural narration with the high-quality offline voice engine. Follow along with sentence highlighting, adjust rate and pitch, set a sleep timer, and control playback from the Lock Screen or Control Center. You can also connect your own cloud voice service for more voice options. System voices and the offline engine can process text on your device. Hands-Free Reading Auto Scroll moves the page at your preferred pace. Timed Page Turns advance pages automatically. Sentence Mode reads one sentence at a time and continues onto the next page. Annotations and Notes Use highlights, underlines, wavy underlines, or strikethroughs in multiple colors. Add private notes to selected text. Reading Statistics Explore daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly statistics, including reading time, words read, streaks, trends, and focused hours. Organize Your Library Create categories, reorder books, pin favorites, and sort by title or date. Switch between English and Chinese on layouts optimized for different iPhone sizes. Continue Across Devices Use iCloud or WebDAV to sync your library, book files, progress, annotations, notes, and categories. Sync is optional and enabled only by you. Readova does not provide a public library or upload books to Readova servers. Upgrade to Pro Choose a Pro subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. High-Quality Offline Voices Generate speech on your device for natural narration without a constant internet connection. Cloud Sync Sync your library, files, progress, notes, and categories through iCloud or WebDAV. WebDAV Import Connect your own WebDAV service and import eBooks directly. 49-Encoding Detection Recognize Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and many other text encodings. Unlimited Library, Categories, and Notes Organize your collection and capture thoughts without limits. Custom Fonts and Sorting Import fonts and arrange categories by name, date, or drag and drop. Reading Insights View weekly, monthly, and yearly reading trends. The free version includes core reading, system text-to-speech, Auto Reading, basic encoding support, daily statistics, and annotations. Your Reading Stays Private Readova does not include a bookstore, distribute eBooks, or analyze your book content. Books and reading data stay on your device by default. If you enable iCloud or WebDAV, relevant data is synced to your own account or configured service. If you connect a cloud voice service, narrated text is sent to that service. System text-to-speech, Auto Reading, and the offline voice engine can run locally on your device. Made by an independent developer who loves reading. No ads. No third-party tracking. No unnecessary distractions. Just reading. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Wrist Novel Reader

Manage your local ebook library and sync reading progress between your iPhone and Apple Watch. Enjoy a focused, full-screen reading experience directly on your wrist, with easy page-turning and customizable themes.

Highlights
  • Import local TXT ebooks
  • Sync reading progress between devices
  • Full-screen reading on Apple Watch
  • Page turning with taps
  • Library management on iPhone
  • Adjustable font size and theme
Features
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Wrist Novel Reader is a local novel reader for both your phone and your Apple Watch. It supports importing local e-books such as TXT and EPUB (EPUB files are converted to TXT automatically), and you can also share a novel straight into the app from the Files app. Read on the phone and on the watch, with reading progress synced between them. On Apple Watch you can open a novel and read it full screen. Turn pages by tapping, using the double-tap gesture, rotating the Digital Crown, or let it turn pages automatically (the interval is adjustable) — and you can also switch to vertical scroll reading, which moves down chapter by chapter. Tap the top-left corner to bring up the Back, Contents and Settings buttons. Jump to the previous or next chapter in one tap, open the full table of contents to go to any chapter, and pick up right where you left off. Put on headphones and turn on the audiobook: your watch reads the novels in your library aloud, at an adjustable speed, and keeps playing with the screen off. On the phone you can manage your shelf, import novels, split an oversized file into several books by chapter, adjust font size, line spacing, margins and themes, or read with swipe page turning, continuous vertical scrolling, search in the contents, switch chapters and sync progress. The phone also supports audiobook and auto page turn: it reads a novel aloud at an adjustable speed and keeps playing on the lock screen, while auto page turn flips pages by interval in page mode and scrolls at a steady speed in scroll mode. In the book details you can also set a custom cover, edit the title and author, convert between Simplified and Traditional Chinese in one tap, or export the novel as an EPUB to share with others. Read to a page on your phone and continue on your watch; wherever you stop on the watch, your phone picks it up automatically. Made for people who like to organize their library on the phone and read comfortably on the watch — making novel reading simpler and more portable.

Screenshots

Readova4 screens
Wrist Novel Reader3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Readova at 15.0 against Wrist Novel Reader's 17.6. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Readova sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Wrist Novel Reader sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Readova against 5.0 for Wrist Novel Reader. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Readova's written reviews are positive against 62% of Wrist Novel Reader's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Readova ships an update every 9 days, Wrist Novel Reader every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Readova versus Wrist Novel Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReadovaWrist Novel Reader
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews — better61.5% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer俊 汪姝婕 章

Customer experience

Readova

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Wrist Novel Reader

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive61.5%
Neutral15.4%
Negative23.1%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Readova

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Weekly$0.997 Days
  • Pro Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
One-time1
  • Readova Pro · Lifetime$14.99
1 purchases

Wrist Novel Reader

One-time1
  • Premium Membership(Lifetime)$1.99

Questions

Is Readova free?
Readova is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Wrist Novel Reader free?
Wrist Novel Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Readova or Wrist Novel Reader?
Readova and Wrist Novel Reader are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Readova or Wrist Novel Reader have ads?
Neither Readova nor Wrist Novel Reader shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Readova or Wrist Novel Reader?
Readova ships an update every 9 days, and Wrist Novel Reader every 5 days. Most recently, Readova was updated on October 7, 2026 and Wrist Novel Reader on October 16, 2026.

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