Comparison

EPUB Player vs Paperheart

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

Paperheart

Features
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Some people finish forty books a year. The rest of us mean to. Paperheart is the reading tracker that makes picking the book back up the best part of your evening — a shelf worth looking at, a streak worth keeping, and someone to talk to the moment you finish. A SHELF YOU'LL ACTUALLY OPEN Real covers, arranged like a real bookshelf. Reading, to-read, finished — and a small gold mark on every book you got to the end of. It looks like something you'd keep, because it is. LOGGING TAKES ONE TAP Type the page you're on. That's it. Paperheart works out the rest — how far through you are, how many pages today, how many days in a row. No forms, no fuss, nothing to maintain. A STREAK THAT'S KIND ABOUT IT Ten pages counts. So does one. The point isn't to perform reading, it's to keep going — and a streak you can actually hold is the one that lasts. SOMEONE TO TALK TO ABOUT IT Finish a book and there's finally someone to talk to about it at 1am. The reading companion knows the book, knows how far in you are, and will not spoil the ending. It'll even write your review for you when you can't find the words. AND IT KNOWS WHAT'S NEXT Ask what to read next and three books come back — the rest of the series first, then two that feel like the one you just closed. Real covers. One tap puts any of them on your shelf. EVERY WORD YOU MEET 86,000 definitions, built in and fully offline — look a word up mid-page without leaving the book, on a plane, anywhere. Keep the ones you love, and flashcards bring them back just before you'd have forgotten them. YOUR YEAR, MADE BEAUTIFUL Reading Wrapped turns your months and years into something worth sharing. Pages, books, streaks, the genres you leaned into, the one you couldn't put down. FREE FOREVER Tracking your reading is free, forever. Your shelf, your pages, your streak, your notes, your ratings — all of it, no trial, no countdown, no catch. Premium unlocks the rest of the magic: the companion whenever you want it, the dictionary and your words, recommendations, and Reading Wrapped. IT STAYS ON YOUR PHONE No account. No sign-up. No ads, ever, and nothing sold to anyone. Your shelf and everything in it lives on your device — the only thing that ever leaves is a chat message, and only if you say yes first. Made for people who love books and would quite like to read more of them. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://claude.ai/code/artifact/898d8fea-62c5-4532-8d29-c3d9d0831eb7

Screenshots

EPUB Player4 screens
Paperheart4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: EPUB Player at none against Paperheart's 2. Paperheart's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 4 days) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and ads 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. Paperheart sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. EPUB Player asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

EPUB Player ships an update every 4 days, Paperheart daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
EPUB Player versus Paperheart: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEPUB PlayerPaperheart
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB26 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developer石 邓LUCA JACK THOMAS DENNISON

In-app purchases

None

EPUB Player

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Paperheart

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is EPUB Player free?
EPUB Player is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Paperheart free?
Paperheart is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do EPUB Player or Paperheart have ads?
Neither EPUB Player nor Paperheart shows ads.
Which is updated more often, EPUB Player or Paperheart?
EPUB Player ships an update every 4 days, and Paperheart daily. Most recently, EPUB Player was updated on October 24, 2026 and Paperheart on October 29, 2026.

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