BeeReader vs JustReader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BeeReader
This app transforms your Apple Watch into a portable e-reader. Import EPUB, PDF, or TXT files from your iPhone and read them directly on your wrist, even offline. Enjoy a distraction-free reading experience with customizable themes and text sizes.
- Import EPUB, PDF, TXT files
- Read on Apple Watch
- Offline reading capability
- Digital Crown scrolling
- Hands-free auto-scroll
- Customizable themes and text size
- On-device AI PDF cleanup
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BeeReader turns your Apple Watch into a real book reader. Import a .txt, EPUB, or PDF on your iPhone and BeeReader sends it straight to your wrist — no account, no cloud, no data collection. Everything is processed on your own devices. WHY BEEREADER • Read anywhere — on a walk, in line, in bed — without reaching for your phone. • Works fully offline. Once a book is on your watch, you never need a connection. • Distraction-free: just your text, the way reading should be. FEATURES • Import TXT, EPUB, and PDF from Files, iCloud Drive, or any app via the Share sheet. • Digital Crown scrolling, with your reading position saved automatically. • Hands-free auto-scroll at a steady, adjustable reading pace. • Read-aloud on the watch itself — a built-in voice reads your book through your Bluetooth headphones while the page follows along. • A "continue reading" watch-face complication — tap to jump right back into your book. • Four easy-on-the-eyes themes (black, paper, sepia, and Night for a dark room) and adjustable text size. • Automatic on-device cleanup for messy PDFs — fixes broken line breaks and strips page headers and footers. • An on-phone bookshelf re-sends any book to a new Apple Watch in a tap. PRIVACY FIRST BeeReader has no account and collects no data. Your books never leave your devices. The first few books are free. BeeReader Pro is a one-time purchase for unlimited imports — no subscription, ever.
JustReader
A free, native reader for Mac, iPad, and iPhone that supports various file formats. It offers a customizable reading experience with multiple themes, fonts, and scroll options, plus on-device translation and no ads or tracking.
- Supports EPUB, FB2, MOBI, HTML, TXT, RTF, DOC/DOCX
- Customizable themes, typefaces, and palettes
- Continuous scroll, paged, or two-page spread
- On-device translation
- Chapter navigation and in-book search
- No ads or tracking
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JustReader is a free, native reader for Mac, iPad, and iPhone. Open a book file and read it the way it should look — one book at a time, no library to manage, no account, no ads. OPENS WHAT YOU HAVE EPUB, FB2, MOBI, AZW3, PDF, Markdown, HTML, TXT, RTF and DOC/DOCX (on the Mac), including inside ZIP and RAR archives. Chapters, footnotes and pictures come through, and the app works out the encoding by itself. Manga and comics in CBZ and CBR open as two-page spreads, and Japanese manga reads right to left. Chinese and Japanese books open too, old encodings like GB18030 and Shift_JIS included. Furigana sits above the kanji. THE FULL READING EXPERIENCE Nine typefaces and 41 themes across five palettes, plus Typewriter and Terminal. Continuous scroll, paged, or two-page spread. Real hyphenation in Latin, Cyrillic, CJK, Arabic, and Greek. Read Aloud with word-by-word highlighting. On-device translation — nothing leaves your device. Chapter navigation, in-book search, an image gallery, and a fullscreen mode with multiple clock styles. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No analytics, no telemetry, no tracking, no ads. Files stay on your device. WANT YOUR LIBRARY TO FOLLOW YOU? ContinuousReader is the full version: an iCloud-synced library with your reading position to the exact paragraph on every device, bookmarks and notes, OPDS catalogs, reading statistics, folders, and more. Free.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: JustReader at none against BeeReader's 1. JustReader also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 33%). BeeReader's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. BeeReader sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. JustReader asks for nothing beyond the download.
BeeReader ships an update every 3 days, JustReader every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BeeReader | JustReader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yingtao Guo | Oleksii Koshkin |
Customer experience
BeeReader
JustReader
In-app purchases
BeeReader
- Bee Reader Pro$3.99
JustReader
No in-app purchases








