Novel e vs Bookoscope
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Novel e
Discover, download, and read ePub and FB2 books on your iPhone and iPad. Customize your reading experience with adjustable fonts, layouts, and text alignment. Features include in-content search, bookmarks, and comments.
- Search and download books from OPDS servers
- Supports ePub and FB2 formats
- Customizable font, layout, and text alignment
- In-content search
- Bookmarks and comments
- Night reading mode
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Novel is easy way to search, download and read books for iPhone and iPad. Novel opens content published in the ePub and FB2 formats. It supports Search and Download books from OPDS servers. Also you can add ePub and FB2 documents from Mail or Safary browser. For easy reading choose Font Fixed layout (portrait or landscape) Text alignment Also Novel supports Search in content of book Bookmarks Comments forward / back navigation night reading numbering by all pages or chapters Main advantages: 1. Excellent quality turning pages. 2. View comments without navigation into book. 3. Bookmarks with context. 4. Absence of dependence on any websites.
Bookoscope
Browse and download public domain ebooks or access your own self-hosted library. This app crawls OPDS endpoints, caches book data, and allows quick export to your preferred ereader.
- Browse self-hosted ebook libraries
- Download public domain classics
- Searchable by metadata
- Cached feeds
- Quick download and export
- Compatible with Calibre-web, Kavita, Ubooquity
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Bookoscope is a fast, searchable ebook catalog. With Bookoscope, you can browse your own self-hosted ebook library as well as download public domain classics from Project Gutenberg. FEATURES: - Fast - Easy on the eyes - Includes over 70,000 public domain books from Project Gutenberg - Uses cached feeds (refresh on demand) - Searchable by any available metadata - Quick download and export to the ereader of your choice COMPATIBLE WITH: - Calibre-web - Kavita - Ubooquity - Any ebook server with OPDS 1.0 functionality WHY USE BOOKOSCOPE? Some ereader apps can connect to OPDS endpoints, but the functionality is tucked away and awkward. There's no way to browse and search all the ebooks you have access to, all at once. Bookoscope fills that niche. It crawls your OPDS endpoints, finds and caches all the books it can, and lets you easily download any of them to your device. From there, you can export them to your preferred ereader. BOOKOSCOPE IS NOT: - An ebook reader, sync client, or annotator, like Apple Books, Google Books, or Kindle. - A metadata editor or organizer, like Calibre. - A self-hosted ebook server, like Kavita, Ubooquity, or calibre-web. Bookoscope may be used with any of the above, but is not affiliated with any other app or tool. WHAT IS OPDS? OPDS is the open standard for web endpoints that expose catalogs of ebooks. Many people use home OPDS servers for their personal ebook libraries. WHAT IF I DON'T HAVE AN OPDS SERVER? That's okay! You can use Bookoscope to browse and download free, completely legal books in the public domain. Start with classics like: - Moby Dick - Frankenstein - Pride and Prejudice - The Great Gatsby - The complete works of William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Frederick Douglass, and more!
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Verdict
Novel e and Bookoscope both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Novel e's written reviews are positive against 0% of Bookoscope's. Novel e also leads on price ($0.99 vs $2.99). Bookoscope's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months). On rating, ratings volume, ads 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
Novel e costs $0.99 and Bookoscope $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Novel e against 5.0 for Bookoscope. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Novel e's written reviews are positive against 0% of Bookoscope's.
Novel e ships an update every 3 months, Bookoscope every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Novel e | Bookoscope |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Eugene Smirnov | Isaac Lyman |
Customer experience
Novel e
Bookoscope
In-app purchases
Novel e
No in-app purchases
Bookoscope
No in-app purchases
