Reed vs Qelivon

Reed is a calm, focused reader for the books and documents you already own. Open plain text, Markdown, and EPUB files and read them beautifully. • Open your own .txt, Markdown (.md), and EPUB files • Clean, typographic reading with light, sepia, and night themes • Adjustable font, size, margins, and page-turn style • Reading progress, bookmarks, and in-book search • Read aloud with text-to-speech • Reading stats and streaks • iCloud sync keeps your library and progress across all your devices • Smart text-encoding detection for older files No account required. Your library stays on your device and in your personal iCloud. Reed is free with ads — remove them anytime with a one-time purchase.

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.