beook vs BigBlueButton
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
beook
This app offers a unique approach to digital learning, going beyond simple reading to facilitate active studying. It allows users to take notes, solve exercises, and summarize content within digital textbooks from various publishers and institutions.
- Active studying tools
- Note-taking capabilities
- Exercise solving
- Cross-reference examination
- Digital teaching material platform
- Supports multiple devices
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beook - a different ebook Digital books themselves are not a novelty. Thus, there are many ebook readers and their corresponding apps to be found scrimmaging the market. They produce satisfactory results for literature and works of reference - however, their are not suitable for active studying. To study does not merely mean «to read and to understand», it also includes reflecting, taking notes, examining cross references, solving exercises, summarizing. beook solves this problem. The beook app is a platform for digital teaching material of any kind provided by miscellaneous publishers, educational institutions and authors. Next to the iPad it is also available for Windows, Mac Computer and other tablet operating systems. Simply try it out yourself.
BigBlueButton
This application provides a comprehensive virtual classroom experience, enabling users to participate in live sessions with features like chat, a shared whiteboard, audio, video, and screen sharing capabilities.
- Virtual classroom access
- Real-time chat
- Interactive whiteboard
- Two-way audio
- Camera sharing
- Screen sharing
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The BigBlueButton app lets you join virtual classrooms and enjoy a full-featured experience, including chat, whiteboard, two-way audio, camera, and screen sharing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: beook at 5.0 against BigBlueButton's 1.4. BigBlueButton's advantage is ratings volume (12 vs 2). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
beook holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BigBlueButton has 12 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
beook ships an update every 3 weeks, BigBlueButton every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 2, 2026 and September 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | beook | BigBlueButton |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 1.4 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 16.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 101 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | ionesoft GmbH | BigBlueButton |
Customer experience
beook
BigBlueButton
In-app purchases
beook
No in-app purchases
BigBlueButton
No in-app purchases
