SnailRead vs Eluna Reader

SnailRead is a calm, focused reader for people who want to read slowly and remember more. Open your PDFs and EPUBs in a clean, distraction-free space designed for deep reading — not endless scrolling. Highlight what matters, add your own notes, and let everything you mark collect in one place you'll actually revisit. WHY SNAILREAD • Built for focus. A quiet, beautiful reading surface with themes for day and night, adjustable fonts, spacing, and margins. • Your own engine. A purpose-built EPUB engine plus rock-solid PDF rendering — your books just work. • Read slowly, on purpose. Reading goals, daily streaks, and gentle reminders that keep the habit without the pressure. HIGHLIGHTS, NOTES & QUOTES • Highlight in color and attach notes as you read. • Every quote and note gathers on one screen — search, review, and come back to your best ideas. • Reminders and spaced review bring your highlights back over time, so the ideas you loved actually stick. AN AI ASSISTANT THAT RESPECTS THE BOOK • Ask about any passage and get a clear explanation — in your own language. • Instant dictionary for any word, in context. • Chapter summaries when you want the gist. Your books stay yours: excerpts are sent securely only when you ask, and aren't stored after the answer. SEE YOUR PROGRESS • Reading time, streaks, most-read books, and your most active day. • "Books this year" goal and a yearly "Year in Books" recap. • Home- and Lock-Screen widgets: continue reading, quote of the day, word of the day, streak, and goals. BRING YOUR LIBRARY • Import PDF and EPUB from Files, Mail, the web, and more. • Connect OPDS catalogs to browse and download. • Convert other formats (like DjVu) to read them too. • iCloud keeps your highlights, notes, and progress in sync across iPhone and iPad. READ TOGETHER (OPTIONAL) • Add friends by code, share what you're reading, and react to each other's quotes — privacy-first, and entirely up to you. Your notes are never shared. FREE & PLUS SnailRead is free to read your own books locally. SnailRead Plus unlocks sync, advanced stats, export, and themes. AI plans add the assistant, dictionary, and summaries. Subscriptions auto-renew; manage or cancel anytime in Settings. Read slowly. Think deeply. Remember more. Terms: https://snailread.app/terms Privacy: https://snailread.app/privacy

No subscription. No ads. No account. No AI. Eluna Reader opens almost any book or document — over 20 formats — and keeps every page, note and bookmark on your own device. Most reading apps rent you your own library. Eluna never does: reading is free, the only purchase is a one-time tip that unlocks nothing, and anything you write stays yours. READS 20+ FORMATS EPUB (2 & 3), FB2, FB3, MOBI, AZW3, PRC, PDF, DjVu, DOC, DOCX, ODT, RTF, TXT, Markdown, HTML, CHM, UMD and comics (CBZ, CBR, CBT) — even books inside ZIP archives. One shelf for novels, manga, manhwa, textbooks and PDFs alike. READ-ALOUD & REAL PAGE NUMBERS Listen to any book with the built-in read-aloud voice, the current sentence highlighted as it speaks. See real page numbers — "page 128 of 512" — not just a percentage, in a status bar you assemble yourself. TYPESET IT YOUR WAY Paged mode with slide, fade and 3D page-turn animations, or a smooth continuous scroll. Portrait or landscape, two-page spread on a tablet. 5 bundled fonts including OpenDyslexic, or import your own TTF/OTF. Fractional font size, four independent margins, line and paragraph spacing, hyphenation. Keep the publisher's own CSS, or force your own styling on top. NOTES THAT LEAVE THE APP Highlight in many colors, tag notes with hashtags, pin and group them into a second brain. Export the whole library to Markdown, Obsidian, Readwise, JSON or CSV — and import it back. Your annotations belong to you, not to a database. SYNC WITHOUT AN ACCOUNT Reading position, highlights, notes and reading statistics stay in step across iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud — encrypted end to end, no server, no sign-up. Speak KOReader's sync protocol (KOSync) or point it at your own WebDAV folder to plug into Kavita, Komga or Calibre-Web. FIND ANYTHING Full-text search across every book, inside PDF pages, and through all of your notes at once. On-device OCR reads scanned PDFs so even they become searchable — nothing is ever uploaded. BUILT FOR LONG READING Automatic day and night, sepia, OLED-black and e-ink themes. Blue-light filter, on-screen reading ruler, brightness control and auto-scroll. Remap tap zones, swipes and the volume keys. Dictionary and translation on any word — strictly opt-in. Browse OPDS catalogs and your own servers. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Works fully offline. No trackers, no telemetry, and no AI trained on your books. Optional Face ID / Touch ID lock and screenshot protection. Every connection the app can make is listed on a single screen. 61 LANGUAGES, 63 BADGES The whole app is translated into 61 languages. Reading statistics, daily streaks and 63 achievement badges keep the habit going. Eluna Reader — a power reader that respects your library and your privacy.