MapleRead CE vs i2Reader Cloud
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MapleRead CE
This app offers an immersive EPUB reading experience with customizable audio-visual features. It allows users to personalize book styles, generate audiobooks, and sync progress across devices. It also functions as a powerful library management tool for organizing and accessing your book collection.
- Customizable EPUB reader
- Pseudo audiobook generation
- Immersion reading (sync audio/text)
- Library management and organization
- Cross-device sync
- User-defined customization options
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MapleRead is dedicated to enable unique audio-visual reading experience for everyone. ------------ Our MapleRead app family has 3 members, namely SE, CE and CX. - SE is our flagship product with all features. - CE is SE without PDF reader and built-in Library Server. - CX is CE with some limitation. Free to try. - No recurring subscription fees. No ads. Just buy it once. Gratuity optional. - Moreover, SE and CE can be run side-by-side via split-view multitasking. - Recommend SE for use on multiple devices with easy and fast book sharing via Library Server. - Recommend the SE-CE bundle for the best value. ------------ MapleRead includes a superb audio-visual EPUB e-book reader. - It lets you easily modify publisher's original book style to better suit your aesthetic taste. - It lets you instantly generate pseudo audiobooks with a choice of narrator voices over 40 languages. - It enables immersion reading so that you may read and listen to the same book in sync. - Background listening works well too. Compatible with Lock Screen Music Player and CarPlay. MapleRead UI is friendly to users of all ages. - Books can be read in regular and large print. - A choice of UI text sizes makes reading in non-book views much more comfortable. MapleRead is a great learning tool. - It lets you look up words, translate sentences, search text, highlight text and write notes. - It helps you collect vocabulary and organize notes with various priorities. - It provides hooks to user-defined dictionaries, translators, and other tools. - Immersion reading improves your comprehension, especially of foreign-language books. MapleRead is an effective and fast library management tool. - It is designed for you, a book lover, who may own a huge and/or growing book collection. - It lets you keep all your books in one place and well-organized automatically. - It lets you display your books elegantly in style. - It lets you easily repair individual book metadata. - If supports multiple book sets and multiple tags. - It offers multiple ways to import and export books, and works well with Calibre. MapleRead supports secure sync across devices via MapleRead Cloud and iCloud. - It syncs reading positions, notes, vocab, bookmarks, and book set membership (but not the books). - It syncs reading positions additionally via iCloud for even better user experience. - It enables web access to synced data via web browsers from desktop and mobile devices. MapleRead offers unprecedented user-defined customization options. - They include unlimited user-defined fonts, book themes, cover images and library scenes. - Each book theme includes various types of user-defined highlight colors. - Each book can have its own theme, and each EPUB book can have its own style. [For more technical details, screenshots, FAQ and reviews, please visit our website.]
i2Reader Cloud
This app offers a comfortable reading experience with cloud synchronization across devices. Enjoy customizable layouts, interactive features like footnotes and dictionaries, and the ability to download books from various cloud services. It supports multiple formats and allows family sharing of libraries.
- iCloud synchronization for library and reading progress
- Customizable book layout (fonts, colors, spacing)
- Download books from Dropbox, Google Drive, Yandex Disk
- Interactive footnotes and dictionary support
- Family sharing and user reading statistics
- Supports FB2, EPUB, MOBI, DOC, PDF formats
- Auto-scrolling and auto-page turning
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Reading with comfort is a dream of any book lover! It’s more than 10 years already that my i2Reader has been making this dream come true. With each version of the app I add a bunch of new options and always try to keep the pleasure of reading a top priority. When putting books on digital shelves or turning over their 3D pages on any device (Mac, iPhone or iPad), you will always feel “I too Reader”* * - this is not a mistake :) Main features: • iCloud support: your library is synchronized in all your devices. You can start reading a book on iPhone and continue doing it on iPad or Mac! Everything from last the opened page, bookmarksо, highlighters to book metadata, including user's choice of a book cover, titles, genres, keywords, series etc. - is synchronized in each book; • Footnotes are displayed on the bottom of the page – like in real paper books! • Full support of 3D Touch: - in a library: to peek at a book info, press slightly on it; swipe up to bring up a context menu for this book; - when reading, you can assign 3D Touch to one of these options: Wikipedia or dictionaries. Press on a word and the assigned option will run right away, bypassing context menu. • Interactive guide to introduce features of the app; • Support of multitasking Side Over and Split View for iPad Pro, iPad Air or iPad mini; • Support Drag and Drop for iPad under iOS 11; • AutoScrolling – vertical text scrolling with adjustable by horizontal swipe speed; • Auto Turning – automatic page turning according to timer; • download books from Dropbox, Google Drive and Yandex disk as well. Google Drive now supports download of GDOC (Google Docs) files; • User's access: now all members of your family can read the same books not interfering with each other. Besides, the new feature enables you to highlight text fragments and comment on it, thus making up mini-chats in your own mini social/family networks :) • Review of reading statistics for both particular books and individual library users; • adjust brightness of the screen with a two-fingers vertical swipe; • finest configuration of a book layout for the most comfortable reading: everything like fonts, font size, colors, background is adjustable, including paragraph and line spacing; • i2Reader works with FB2 (also fb2.zip or fbz), EPUB (no DRM protection), MOBI, RTF, MS Word DOC/DOCX and PDF book formats; • different ways of page turning (including 3d page turning and vertical scroll); • voice/audio reading with the use of voice synthesizer; • easy selection and sorting of books based on various criteria - you won't get lost in your library and find your book in no time; • you can also create digital shelves which are also synchronized via iCloud; • support of starDict and XDXF dictionaries when reading; • Support of in-built iOS dictionaries; • support of Lingvo dictionaries when reading (if you have installed Lingvo app); • widget for notification center; • you can now share quotes to Facebook, twitter, Evernote or send then via email; • you can also download books from public OPDS libraries. All features in one simple and handy interface - now everything is at your fingertips! You are always welcome to share your opinion and suggestions to support@i2reader.net
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: i2Reader Cloud at Free against MapleRead CE's $6.99. i2Reader Cloud also leads on ratings volume (74 vs 13). MapleRead CE's advantage is review sentiment (79% vs 48%) and rating (4.5 vs 4.1). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
i2Reader Cloud is free to download; MapleRead CE costs $6.99 up front. MapleRead CE sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and i2Reader Cloud sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
MapleRead CE holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: i2Reader Cloud has 74 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of MapleRead CE's written reviews are positive against 48% of i2Reader Cloud's.
MapleRead CE ships an update every 6 weeks, i2Reader Cloud every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MapleRead CE | i2Reader Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $6.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (13 ratings) — better | 4.1 (74 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 78.6% of reviews — better | 48.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 74 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Maplepop LLC | Yuriy Melyushin |
Customer experience
MapleRead CE
i2Reader Cloud
Bugs and requests
MapleRead CE
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
i2Reader Cloud
Reported bugs
32 issues- App freezes during initialization
- Continuously tries to download from iCloud
- Crashes after updating to iOS 26
- App freezes during caching process
- Crashes and/or hangs on importing themes
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- Crashes randomly on iOS 17.0.3
- Page limit makes features worthless
- App crashes frequently on new iPad M1 chip
- Bugs and glitches, development seems abandoned
- App force closes constantly
- Translator service not working
- Cannot choose files from local device
- 3D page turning is broken (page goes off-screen)
- App freezes and crashes after minimizing
- Paid version data disappears (books, bookmarks, themes)
- Settings for reading themes crash the app
- Progress and some books lost
- First few pages of EPUBs mangled together
- App freezes after 2-3 page turns, requires full device reboot
- Copying text to Notes is slow and causes app to hang/restart
- App freezes when trying to upload books
- PDF pages turn back to page 1
- App doesn't stay on the last page read
- Syncing with iCloud shows 'book not processed yet'
- App goes back to the beginning of the book
- Hyperlinks aren't tapable
- In-document images not displayed
- Speech stops reading and requires app restart
- Loading dictionaries crashes the app
- Deleted dictionaries reappear after restart
- Tapping to turn page lags on iPhone 6S
- Screen dims and becomes unresponsive after a few minutes of reading/translation
Requested features
18 requests- Add new chapter functionality
- Option to move audio reading bar
- Higher quality text-to-speech with better pronunciation and softer voice
- Add support for djvu format
- Improve text-to-speech quality and add more voice engines
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- Ability to edit annotation of books
- Combine books of the same author in book list
- Add OneDrive support
- Improve PDF handling and page turning
- Add a manual and links for online dictionaries
- Improve ePub 3 support
- Allow font changes
- Fix issue with PDF progress bar when 'show as is' is off
- Make hyperlinks tapable
- Display in-document images
- Allow deletion of problematic dictionaries
- Transfer all themes from previous version
- Adjustable pauses between paragraphs for text-to-speech
In-app purchases
MapleRead CE
- Small Gratuity$0.99
- Gratuity Level 2$1.99
- Gratuity Level 5$4.99
i2Reader Cloud
- Auto-scroll$0.99
- Seamless textures$0.99
- Auto turning$0.99
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- Online translator$1.99
- Removal of limitations$3.99
Questions
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