Fleuron vs EPUB Reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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The best reading tools don't pull you out of a book. They meet you inside it. Fleuron is an EPUB reader for people reading above their level — in English, or in Japanese, Korean and Chinese. It puts meaning, memory and study into the page itself, so you stay in the story instead of leaving it to look things up. LENS — MEANING, WITHOUT LEAVING THE LINE Short hints appear above the words likely to slow you down, set in the space between lines so nothing reflows and nothing moves. Tap any word for the full entry: readings, senses chosen for this sentence, examples, and the alternatives kept honest and available. Turn the density up when a book is hard and down when it isn't. COMPASS — A MEMORY FOR EVERY WORLD YOU ENTER Fleuron builds an index of the people, places and terms in your book as you read. It is spoiler-safe by construction: a character is described only from what you have already read, never from what is ahead. Come back after a day or a year and know exactly where you are. THE NOTEBOOK — YOUR THINKING, KEPT WITH THE BOOK Write notes in Markdown. Link a word, a character, a passage or another note, and follow the thread in either direction. Highlights, notes and saved words live together, per book, and searchable across all of them. WORDS THAT FIND THEIR WAY BACK Saving a word starts a quiet spaced-repetition schedule that decides when it should return, and in which direction — meaning, reading, or writing the word back from its sound. No decks to manage. No streak shouting at you. FOUR LANGUAGES, THOUGHT THROUGH Not one engine with the labels swapped. Japanese gets real morphological analysis and furigana over the kanji that need it. Chinese gets pinyin and character breakdowns — radicals, strokes, components. Korean gets its own grammar handling. English gets sense disambiguation from the sentence it's in. Vertical Japanese text is supported, set the way the book intends. EVERYTHING ON THE DEVICE Every dictionary ships inside the app — English, Japanese, Chinese and Korean. Nothing is fetched when you look a word up, nothing is queued for later, and the whole reader works on a plane. READ ALOUD Narration works immediately with the voices already on your iPhone, and keeps your place while you listen. An optional on-device neural voice is available if you want a more natural one. NO ACCOUNT. NO TRACKING. NO SERVER. There is nothing to sign up for. Your books, notes, highlights and saved words stay on your device. Fleuron has no analytics, no advertising and nowhere to send your reading — because it has no server at all. HOW IT'S SOLD Fleuron is a free download with one book of your own — the whole reader, both intelligence features, the Notebook and every dictionary, not a trial. One payment unlocks unlimited books, forever. There is no subscription. Bring your own EPUBs, or start with the sample books in Japanese, Korean and Chinese that ship with the app.
EPUB Reader
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Bunko is a calm, fast reader for the books and documents you already own. Import a file and start reading in seconds — with a real page-turn animation, typography you control, and a library that stays entirely on your device. ONE READER FOR EVERYTHING • EPUB — reflowable text with chapters, table of contents and progress tracking • PDF — smooth, high-fidelity rendering • DOCX and TXT — read documents like books • ZIP, RAR and CBZ/CBR archives — browse comics and image collections page by page • XLSX — open spreadsheets when you need a quick look READING THE WAY YOU LIKE IT • Page-turn mode with a genuine curl animation, or scroll if you prefer • Adjustable font size, line height, margins and text alignment • Light, sepia and dark themes that follow your system setting • Your position is remembered per book — pick up exactly where you left off LISTEN AND LEARN • Read-aloud: have any book read to you at the speed you choose (Pro) • Tap to learn: instant translation and a dictionary for selected text (Pro) HIGHLIGHTS AND NOTES • Select any passage to highlight it in the color you choose • Attach a note to a passage and find it again from the annotations list • Jump straight back to any highlight or note in the text KEEP THE HABIT • Bunko Recap: your reading year as a shareable card (Pro) • Keep a 7-day reading streak and earn 3 days of Pro A LIBRARY THAT STAYS YOURS • Import from Files, iCloud Drive or any app that can share a document • Search across your library by title and author • Covers, reading progress and recently opened books at a glance • No account, no sign-up, no cloud sync — everything is stored locally PRIVACY BY DESIGN Bunko works fully offline. Your books are never uploaded, and the app collects no reading data. There are no ads and no tracking. AVAILABLE IN 15 LANGUAGES English, Turkish, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Thai and Chinese. BUNKO PRO The app is free to use and lets you import up to 10 books. Bunko Pro unlocks unlimited imports and supports future development. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. You can restore a previous purchase at any time from Settings. Bunko does not include a bookstore and does not sell or distribute books. It opens files you already have. Bunko Pro is available as a monthly or yearly auto-renewable subscription, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple ID account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://furkanislek.github.io/bunko-privacy-policy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Fleuron at none against EPUB Reader's shown. EPUB Reader's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 9 days) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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. Fleuron sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and EPUB Reader sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Fleuron ships an update every 9 days, EPUB Reader every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fleuron | EPUB Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 158 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Adib Ashraf | Furkan Akif ISLEK |
In-app purchases
Fleuron
- Fleuron$24.99
EPUB Reader
- Bunko Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
- Bunko Pro Yearly$5.991 Year
- Bunko Pro Lifetime$9.99







