Readova vs OmniReader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Readova
This app offers a peaceful reading experience with customizable text, page turns, and an optional AI voice narration. It supports a wide range of ebook formats and allows for organized library management with optional cloud syncing.
- Supports EPUB, PDF, MOBI, AZW, TXT, FB2
- AI voice narration with offline engine
- Customizable fonts, themes, and spacing
- Continuous scrolling or page-turning modes
- Highlighting, underlining, and note-taking
- Reading statistics and progress tracking
- iCloud and WebDAV library syncing
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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/
OmniReader
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OmniReader is a local-first reader for your personal files. Keep novels, PDFs, and work documents together in one library and make reading easier to manage. SUPPORTED FORMATS • TXT, Markdown, RTF, HTML, and CSV in a paginated text reader • PDF with Apple PDFKit • Word, Excel, and PowerPoint with Apple Quick Look READING FEATURES • Automatically detect chapters and jump through the table of contents • Search text documents and save your reading progress • Add bookmarks, notes, and highlights • Choose page-turn styles, fonts, text size, character and line spacing, and reading themes ORGANIZE YOUR LIBRARY • Import multiple files without moving the originals; copies stay on your device • Organize with favorites, recently opened files, folders, and tags • Manage multiple documents at once PRIVACY FIRST Imported documents and library data stay on your device and are not uploaded to our servers. No account is required. Unlock the full version with a one-time purchase. No subscription or auto-renewal. The App Store shows the current price. Restore your purchase with your Apple Account.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Readova at every 9 days against OmniReader's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Readova sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and OmniReader sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Readova ships an update every 9 days, OmniReader every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Readova | OmniReader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 俊 汪 | 波 王 |
In-app purchases
Readova
- Pro Weekly$0.997 Days
- Pro Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Readova Pro · Lifetime$14.99
OmniReader
- Lifetime Full Unlock$2.99









