SSUKView vs Bookbreath
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SSUKView
This app allows you to read various digital comic and ebook formats directly from your device or cloud storage. It offers a comfortable reading experience with customizable page turns, zoom, and brightness adjustments, and syncs your progress across devices.
- Supports ZIP, CBZ, PDF, EPUB, JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC
- Cloud integration (Google Drive, Dropbox)
- Automatic series grouping
- Customizable page turn animations
- Sync reading progress across devices
- Offline reading support
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SSUK View is a light, fast comic and e-book viewer. Open the files you already have, and pick up where you left off on any device. ■ Open files as they are - ZIP and CBZ archives, PDFs, EPUB e-books and folders of JPG, PNG, WebP or HEIC images open directly. - Pages are sorted naturally by file name (1, 2, … 10). - Wide two-page scans are split automatically. ■ Straight from the cloud - Read from Google Drive and Dropbox without downloading first. - Pick several volumes in a folder and add them to your shelf at once. - Pages are cached only while you read (up to 500 MB) and cleared oldest-first. - Save any book to the device to read offline. ■ Comfortable reading - A page-curl turn that feels like paper (or slide, or instant) - Automatic single or two-page view for your screen and orientation, with the cover on its own - Right-to-left paging for manga, tap or swipe to turn - A magnifier for small lettering, pinch to zoom - Slide up or down to adjust brightness - Keyboard shortcuts on iPad and Mac ■ Shelf and series - Continue reading, Reading and Favorites filters, search and sort - Volumes from the same folder or title are grouped into a series automatically - Make your own series, rename them, or take volumes out - Use any page of the book, or a photo, as its cover - Finish one volume and the next is ready to go ■ Continue anywhere - Sign in with email, Google or Apple to sync your shelf, page, favorites and series across iPhone, iPad and Mac. - Books you read on another device appear on your shelf and open from your connected cloud. - Your files are never uploaded — only records such as titles and reading position sync. - Every reading feature works without an account. ■ Made for iPad - Layouts adapt smoothly in Split View, Slide Over and Stage Manager. ■ Remove Ads SSUK View is free, with a small banner and an occasional ad when you open or finish a book (at most once every 20 minutes) — never while reading. A one-time Remove Ads purchase (₩4,900) removes them for good. - One-time purchase, not a subscription, charged to your Apple ID. - On a new device, tap My Account → Remove Ads → Restore purchase. Note: SSUK View is a viewer and does not sell comics or books. Please use only files you lawfully own. The app is available in Korean and English. Privacy Policy: https://sinabrolab.github.io/ssukview/en/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://sinabrolab.github.io/ssukview/en/terms.html
Bookbreath
This reading app offers a distraction-free experience with customizable paper tones and fonts, designed to mimic e-ink readers. It supports various file formats and provides features like highlighting, note-taking, and dictionary lookups. Enjoy a calm reading environment without any advertisements.
- Ad-free reading experience
- Supports TXT, EPUB, PDF files
- Customizable paper tones and fonts
- Two-page spread on larger screens
- Highlighting, notes, and search
- Dictionary and translation integration
- Read aloud with sleep timer
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Bookbreath is a reading app with no ads. The name is Korean for "the breath of a book". No banners, no pop-ups, no video ads. When you read, there is only text. Made for people who loved e-ink readers and now read on their phone. On iPhone Duo, unfold it and read two pages side by side, like a paper book. Fold it and keep reading one page at a time on the outer screen. Easy on the eyes • The page is never brighter than the room around you, with less flicker in the dark • Warm grey paper without blue glare, warmer after sunset • Dark papers for night: Night · Warm Ink · Deep Ink (true black), with the library and menus in the same colour • Black & white mode for this app only • Turn page by page with your choice of effect, or scroll straight down (trial) • The screen stays on while you read, and brightness is right there in the reader Any file, fast • TXT, EPUB and PDF — password-protected PDFs too • Read any PDF like a book with “Text Only”: bigger text, your font, highlights. Scanned PDFs are read on your device • Old TXT files in GBK, Big5, Windows-1251, KOI8-R, Shift-JIS, EUC-KR and other legacy encodings open without garbled text • Import a ZIP of books in one go • EPUBs keep their own table of contents and footnotes • Even books thousands of pages long open in about a second • Link your Downloads folder once and new books appear right away • Find, sort and rename books in your library • On iPad in landscape, two pages side by side like a book — PDFs too, with contents and search While you read • Highlights, notes, bookmarks and full-text search; step through matches with ‹ › • Long-press to select, drag the handles, and carry on onto the next page • Share a passage as a paper card image • Dictionary and translation • Read aloud in the book's own language with natural voices and a sleep timer (10 free minutes a day) • Turn pages with a keyboard or a Bluetooth page turner • Choose what the page header and footer show: title, chapter, pages left, time left, percent, progress bar • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, plus today's reading time and your streak • Lock the app with Face ID • Export highlights and notes as text • Literata, Charter and Korean book fonts, remembered separately for Chinese/Japanese/Korean books and all others; Chinese, Vietnamese and Cyrillic books get a typeface with every letter • In 16 languages: English, 한국어, 日本語, 简体中文, 繁體中文, Español, Français, Deutsch, Italiano, Português, Русский, Nederlands, Türkçe, ไทย, Tiếng Việt, Bahasa Indonesia Bookbreath Pro — buy once, keep forever (not a subscription) • Fine typesetting: line and paragraph spacing, letter spacing, margins, weight, alignment • Different fonts, spacing and margins per book; save your own presets • Unlimited read-aloud • Unlimited highlights and notes (free: unlimited in your first book, then 3 per book) • Add your own fonts (.ttf, .otf) • Every paper tone: Warm Ink · Deep Ink · Newsprint · Old Book • Sync between iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo through your own iCloud: position, highlights, notes, bookmarks, book files and your text settings (no sign-up) Books bought from stores with DRM protection can't be opened. Bookbreath reads the TXT, EPUB and PDF files you own. Tips The app is made without ads. If you like it, you can buy the developer a coffee in Settings. Tips unlock nothing — they are just support.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Bookbreath at none against SSUKView's shown. Bookbreath also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). SSUKView's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.4). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. SSUKView sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Bookbreath sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
SSUKView ships an update every 2 weeks, Bookbreath every 2 days. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.
| Parameter | SSUKView | Bookbreath |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 74 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sinabro Lab Co.,Ltd. | JAEBAEK LEE |
Customer experience
SSUKView
Bookbreath
In-app purchases
SSUKView
- Remove Ads$2.99
Bookbreath
- Tip · A Coffee$0.49
- Tip · Tea and Dessert$1.99
- Bookbreath Pro$5.99
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- Tip · A Book$6.99








