Comparison

EPUB Reader vs Qelivon

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

Head to head
About

EPUB Reader

This app allows you to import and read your DRM-free ebook files locally. It supports various formats and offers customizable reading settings for a personalized offline experience. You can also search, highlight, and annotate your books.

Highlights
  • Import DRM-free EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, FB2, TXT
  • Offline reading with no account
  • Customizable text and themes
  • Full-book search and highlighting
  • Chapter navigation and progress tracking
  • Export notes and highlights
Features
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EPUB Reader is an epub reader for the books you already own. Import your DRM-free EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, FB2 and TXT files into one local ebook library and read them offline, with no account and nothing uploaded. An ebook reader that takes the file as it is. EPUB reflows to your settings. DRM-free MOBI, AZW, AZW3 and PRC open directly, with AZW3 read from its KF8 layer for better typography. FB2 arrives as .fb2, .fb2.zip or .fbz, and TXT is decoded as UTF-8 or GBK, with a long chapterless file split into chapters you can navigate. The format is read from the contents of the file, so a book that lost its extension in mail still opens; what will not open is reported as unsupported or damaged. Reading is paginated, not an endless scroll: tap a side of the page or swipe. The contents list opens on the chapter you are in, the bottom bar carries the chapter name, page X of Y and your percentage through the book, and the progress bar jumps only when you let go. A reopened book starts on the page you left. Search the whole book from two characters up. Every hit arrives with its chapter name and the words around it; tap one and the reader lands there with the match highlighted. Highlight any passage in one of four colors, attach a note or copy it. Bookmarks, highlights and notes share one panel and export as plain text. Type size, page brightness, justified or left-aligned text and the light, sepia and dark paper themes are all free, night reading included. Every pixel of the reader follows the paper theme, and a book's own CSS cannot turn sepia or dark into dark text on a dark page. Offline books are the normal case here, not a mode you switch on: on a plane, in the subway, in a dead zone on the highway, the library and the book behave the same. At night the dark paper theme and the brightness slider let you read beside someone who is asleep. Studying, you highlight what matters, write your thought next to it, then export chapter, progress, passage and note into your notes app. Most of what sits beside this app in search is a different product. Content platforms hand you a catalog and want you signed in. Converters turn one format into another. Borrowing apps need a library card. Read-aloud apps are built around a voice. This one opens the files that are already yours and stays out of the way. • Open DRM-free EPUB, MOBI, AZW, AZW3, PRC, FB2 and TXT files • Format read from file contents, even with a wrong extension • TXT in UTF-8 or GBK, long files split into navigable chapters • Import several files in one go and get a single summary • Ebook library as a cover grid, three to six columns • Search by title or author, filter by reading, not started or finished • Sort by recently read, recently added, title or author to organize the shelf • Continue Reading card for the book you had open last • Page turns by tap or swipe, with a draggable progress bar • Contents list, chapter name, page X of Y and whole-book percentage • Full-book search with chapter name and context per hit • Four highlight colors, notes and copy from the selection bar • Bookmarks, highlights and notes in one panel, exportable as text • Line spacing, page margins and font family (Pro) Your books and your reading position stay in this app's storage on the device: no account, no sync, no record of what you read. To be clear about the edges: no PDF, no comic archives, no DOC or CHM, no conversion between formats, no way into books locked by another store's DRM, no text-to-speech, no audiobooks, no translation, no dictionary. The free library holds three books; EPUB Reader Pro lifts that limit and unlocks line spacing, page margins and font family. Bring your own files, drop them in and start reading. Terms of Use: https://zeroplay.io/docs/legal/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://zeroplay.io/docs/legal/privacy-policy

About

Qelivon

This e-book reader offers a paper-like reading experience with customizable shelves and support for a wide range of formats. It includes features like read-aloud, iCloud sync, and OPDS catalog integration. A free version supports up to 30 books, with an optional one-time purchase for unlimited access and advanced stats.

Highlights
  • Customizable book shelves
  • Support for FB2, EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, TXT, RTF, HTML, DOCX, ODT, DjVu, CHM, DOC, PDF
  • Read aloud functionality
  • iCloud sync for shelf and reading progress
  • OPDS catalog integration
  • Page curl and tap-to-turn options
  • Search, bookmarks, and highlights
Features
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Qelivon is an e-book reader for iPhone and iPad. Your books stand on a wooden shelf, open right from it and turn with a page curl, just like paper books. No account, no ads, no subscription. SHELF • Covers on a wooden bookcase, in light and dark appearance • Sort by title, author, date added, or arrange books yourself • NEW and FINISHED ribbons FORMATS • FB2, EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, TXT, RTF, HTML, DOCX, ODT • DjVu, CHM and DOC — the formats other readers won’t open • PDF and DjVu turn pages just like the other books • Old Cyrillic text encodings open without garbled characters READING • Turn pages with a curl or a tap on the edge • Only the text on screen; the controls appear with a tap in the center • Contents with a scrubber to jump through the book • Read aloud: the book is spoken sentence by sentence, the page turns by itself • Search, bookmarks and highlights • Footnotes open in a card over the page • Hyphenation in the language of each book • Rotation lock and “when to dim the screen” WHERE BOOKS COME FROM • The Files app • Other apps — “Open in Qelivon” • OPDS catalogs: add your own or an open library, search and download straight to the shelf ICLOUD • Shelf, reading position, bookmarks, highlights and stats on all your devices • A book added on another device shows up right away and downloads with a tap • Your data stays in your personal iCloud FREE AND FULL VERSION Qelivon is a complete reader for free, with up to 30 books on the shelf: all formats, OPDS, search, bookmarks, highlights, translation, iCloud sync, read-aloud with a choice of voice, page turning with the volume buttons, all fonts, bold text, line spacing, paragraph indent, page margins, all six papers, mark as finished, start over and share the book. The Full Version is a one-time in-app purchase, yours forever: • Unlimited shelf • Export quotes to a Markdown file • Reading stats: yearly goal, books finished by year, library summary The interface is available in 21 languages.

Screenshots

EPUB Reader4 screens
Qelivon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Qelivon at none against EPUB Reader's shown. Qelivon also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). EPUB Reader's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.6). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. EPUB Reader sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days and Qelivon sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for EPUB Reader against 5.0 for Qelivon. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

EPUB Reader ships an update every 2 months, Qelivon every 2 days. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
EPUB Reader versus Qelivon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEPUB ReaderQelivon
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size104 MB38 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperZeroPlay Ltd.Valerii Kotolevskii

Customer experience

EPUB Reader

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Qelivon

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

EPUB Reader

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly3 Days trial$5.997 Days
  • Monthly3 Days trial$14.991 Month
1 purchases

Qelivon

One-time1
  • Full Version$3.99

Questions

Is EPUB Reader free?
EPUB Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Qelivon free?
Qelivon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, EPUB Reader or Qelivon?
EPUB Reader and Qelivon are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do EPUB Reader or Qelivon have ads?
EPUB Reader shows ads; Qelivon does not.
Which is updated more often, EPUB Reader or Qelivon?
EPUB Reader ships an update every 2 months, and Qelivon every 2 days. Most recently, EPUB Reader was updated on November 10, 2026 and Qelivon on November 10, 2026.

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