Comparison

FreeIReader vs Fleuron

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

Head to head
About

FreeIReader

Features
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FreelReader: Built for Ultimate Reading and a Fluid Experience Are you looking for a reading tool that is truly responsive, smooth, and versatile? FreelReader gives you a brand-new choice: a clean reader that perfectly combines high performance, high-refresh-rate smoothness, and freedom—built purely for the ultimate experience. 【Silky High Refresh Rate · Ultimate Performance】 Fluid animations in every scenario: Deeply optimized for high-refresh-rate screens. Whether it’s the delicate animation of realistic page turning or buttery-smooth vertical scrolling in waterfall mode, you get high-refresh-rate responsiveness that stays right under your finger. Millisecond-level instant response: Built on a high-performance rendering engine, even extremely large texts load without lag, letting you enter immersive reading in an instant. 【All Formats Supported · Native EPUB Refined Typesetting】 Full support for TXT and EPUB: Seamlessly import local TXT files and standard EPUB e-books. Native EPUB refined typesetting engine: Faithfully restores the book’s original chapter structure, mixed text-and-image layouts, and beautiful typographic design, giving you authentic layouts comparable to physical books. Layout your way: Includes the warm, elegant XiaLu WenKai font. Freely adjust font size and fine-tune line spacing, paragraph spacing, and margins with one tap to create your own comfortable reading view. 【Immersive Translation · Cross-Language Without Barriers】 Bilingual immersive comparison: When reading foreign-language originals, simply select text to invoke the system’s high-fidelity translation with one tap. Original and translated text are interwoven for a seamless, immersive cross-language reading experience. 【Web Source Extension · Aggregate Online Novels】 Built-in browser extension: Add any literature, news, or novel website you often read directly to your bookshelf. Smart progress tracking: Automatically records your reading position while browsing the web; next time, resume with one tap. Combined with the reader’s built-in font-size and font optimization, web content is turned into a comfortable, refined layout. 【Privacy and Security · Absolutely Clean】 Tool as a service: No ad pop-ups, no background online data collection. All local books and reading data are stored securely only on your local device. No interruptions—just an absolutely quiet corner for reading. Download FreelReader now and start your journey of free, high-refresh-rate reading. Feedback QQ group: 614504562. Email: wrxdz01@outlook.com By using this app, you agree to Apple’s Standard License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Fleuron

Enhance your reading experience with integrated tools for understanding complex texts. Look up meanings, track characters and places, and take notes without leaving the page. Supports English, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese EPUBs.

Highlights
  • In-line word definitions
  • Character and place index
  • Markdown note-taking
  • Spaced repetition for vocabulary
  • Multi-language support (EN, JP, KR, CN)
  • Offline functionality
  • Read aloud with device voices
Features
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Read real books in English, Japanese, Korean or Chinese, and understand them. Fleuron is an EPUB reader for reading above your level. It puts short meanings above the hard words, readings over Japanese and Chinese, and a spoiler-free guide to who's who beside the page, so you can stay inside the story. LENS Short hints sit above the words you may not know. Tap any word for its full entry: the sense that fits this sentence, its reading and an example. Mark a word as known and its hint goes away. READINGS Furigana over Japanese, in horizontal or vertical text. Pinyin over Chinese, with each character broken down. Korean words traced back to their dictionary form. COMPASS A guide to the people, places and terms in your book, built only from the pages you have read. Nothing from later in the book. NOTEBOOK AND STUDY Highlight with a marker stroke, write notes in the margin, and find them all again in a Notebook written by hand. The words you save come back in Study on a spaced-repetition schedule. DICTIONARY Every word you look up is filed as an index card, with the book and the sentence you found it in. All the dictionaries are inside the app and work offline. YOUR READING LIFE A bookshelf for every book you own, on paper or on screen. Reading time, pages, streaks and goals. Import from Goodreads. Read to Unlock keeps the apps you choose locked until you have read for the day. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Eight widgets for the Home Screen, the Lock Screen and StandBy, and buttons for Control Center. MADE FOR THE PAGE Pages turn with a slide, a curl or a fade. Two pages at once on a wide iPad and on iPhone Duo. Read aloud with the voices on your iPhone. PRIVATE No account, no ads, no tracking, no analytics. Your books and notes stay on your device. PRICE Free to download, with one book of your own and sample books in Japanese, Korean and Chinese. One payment unlocks unlimited books. No subscription.

Screenshots

FreeIReader4 screens
Fleuron4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: FreeIReader at 15.0 against Fleuron's 18.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. FreeIReader sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month and Fleuron sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FreeIReader ships an update every 3 weeks, Fleuron every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
FreeIReader versus Fleuron: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFreeIReaderFleuron
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB216 MB
Age rating17+4+
Developer正 董Adib Ashraf

In-app purchases

1 purchases

FreeIReader

Subscriptions1
  • Membership service (one month)$0.991 Month
1 purchases

Fleuron

One-time1
  • Fleuron$24.99

Questions

Is FreeIReader free?
FreeIReader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fleuron free?
Fleuron is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do FreeIReader or Fleuron have ads?
Neither FreeIReader nor Fleuron shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FreeIReader or Fleuron?
FreeIReader ships an update every 3 weeks, and Fleuron every 2 weeks. Most recently, FreeIReader was updated on November 5, 2026 and Fleuron on October 31, 2026.

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