Comparison

EPUB Player vs Sutra

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • EPUB3 media overlay support
  • Synced audio narration
  • Active text highlighting
  • Local EPUB import and library management
  • Customizable reading experience
  • Resume reading progress
Features
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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.

About

Sutra

Access your entire book collection from various sources in one beautiful app. Enjoy a customizable reading experience with synced progress, bookmarks, and highlights across devices. Organize your library with series info, search, and collections.

Highlights
  • Connect Kavita, Calibre, and OPDS servers
  • EPUB and PDF reading with page-curl effect
  • Rich typography and reading themes
  • iCloud sync for progress, bookmarks, and highlights
  • Offline downloads
  • Highlighting and search functionality
  • Series grouping and collections
Features
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Sutra is a warm, thoughtful home for every book and comic you love. Bring together your self-hosted library, your manga, your classic EPUBs, and those “just one more chapter” reads in one beautifully calm reader. Connect Kavita, Komga, or Calibre; explore any OPDS catalogue; or discover a new favourite from Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks. READ YOUR WAY • Enjoy EPUB, PDF, CBZ, MOBI, fixed-layout comics, and manga in one place • Move through comics panel by panel, or take in the whole page • Read right-to-left manga and beautiful iPad two-page spreads • Make the page yours with fonts, text size, spacing, themes, auto-scroll, page turns, and Sutra-only brightness control A LIBRARY THAT FEELS LIKE HOME • Browse dedicated Series and Collection views, with Favorites always close by • Sort by Recently Read, Title, Author, or Date Added while staying in a familiar cover grid • Let Sutra recover missing Calibre series details and keep your library beautifully organised • Pick up where you left off with dependable progress and finished-book sync for Kavita and Komga BUILT FOR SELF-HOSTERS • Connect Kavita, Komga, Calibre, Grimmory, or another OPDS server • Stream comic pages from Kavita and Komga when available, or download for offline reading • Keep your highlights and reading progress with you across your Apple devices Sutra is free to enjoy for EPUB and PDF reading, with no ads and no subscription. Unlock unlimited CBZ, MOBI, and Komga reading once, and keep it forever.

Screenshots

EPUB Player4 screens
Sutra4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: EPUB Player at 5.0 against Sutra's 4.4. EPUB Player also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). Sutra's advantage is ratings volume (14 vs 2). On price, ads, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sutra sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. EPUB Player asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

EPUB Player holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sutra has 14 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

EPUB Player ships an update every 3 days, Sutra weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
EPUB Player versus Sutra: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEPUB PlayerSutra
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.4 (14 ratings)
Positive reviews—84.6% of reviews
Number of ratings214 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer石 邓Koustav Dasgupta

Customer experience

EPUB Player

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Sutra

All ratings14 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral7.1%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive84.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative15.4%

In-app purchases

None

EPUB Player

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Sutra

One-time4
  • Small Tip$1.99
  • Medium Tip$2.99
  • Large Tip$4.99
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  • Sutra Pro$6.99

Questions

Is EPUB Player free?
EPUB Player is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sutra free?
Sutra is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, EPUB Player or Sutra?
EPUB Player is rated higher. EPUB Player averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Sutra averages 4.4 from 14 ratings.
Do EPUB Player or Sutra have ads?
Neither EPUB Player nor Sutra shows ads.
Which is updated more often, EPUB Player or Sutra?
EPUB Player ships an update every 3 days, and Sutra weekly. Most recently, EPUB Player was updated on October 13, 2026 and Sutra on October 17, 2026.

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