miEbooks vs Pearson e
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
miEbooks
This interactive e-reader allows users to annotate e-books with notes and sketches, highlight text, and generate summaries. It also provides access to multimedia resources and offers offline reading capabilities with cloud backup for annotations.
- Add notes and sketches
- Highlight text
- Generate summaries from highlights
- Access multimedia resources
- Offline reading
- Annotation backup
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miEbooks, developed by ITSI, is an interactive e-reader that enhances users’ reading and studying experience. The app enables users to add notes and sketches to specific sections of an e-book, make highlights, generate summaries from highlighted text for study purposes, receive additional multimedia resources, and more. Once downloaded, all books and resources are available offline and annotations are backed-up whenever users connect to the Internet or Wi-Fi within their institution. The miEbooks app is used by schools, tertiary institutions and corporate organisations for full-scale e-learning implementation, as well as individuals who are looking for a flexible and feature-rich e-book solution.
Pearson e
Access and download Pearson textbooks for offline study on tablets. Features include note-taking, voice recording, digital exercises, and classroom management tools for teachers.
- Download e-Textbooks for offline use
- Note-taking with text, voice, and drawings
- Digital exercises with auto-marking
- Interactive tools for peer evaluation
- Classroom management for teachers
- Synchronize notes across devices
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Pearson e-bookshelf enables students and teachers to access Pearson textbooks on the go. These e-Textbooks can be downloaded onto any tablet devices for offline usage, enabling users to access them in the classroom or at home, with or without Internet connection. Pearson e-bookshelf provides users with various effective teaching and learning tools such as note-taking, voice recording and digital exercises with auto-marking function. It is also equipped with interactive tools that promote peer evaluation and collaborative learning. What’s more, Pearson e-Textbook comes with the handy classroom management function that enables teachers to monitor, supervise and guide students’ learning and use of tablet devices in the classroom. Features: • Download e-Textbooks for offline usage • Add, edit, highlight and share notes (text, voice, drawings, weblinks) • Access effective learning and teaching tools specially designed for e-Textbooks • Manage students’ usage of tablet devices in the classroom • Synchronise your notes added to the e-Textbooks across different supported devices
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: miEbooks at 50% against Pearson e's 0%. miEbooks also leads on rating (3.9 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (185 vs 3). 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.
miEbooks holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: miEbooks has 185 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of miEbooks's written reviews are positive against 0% of Pearson e's.
miEbooks ships an update every 2 months, Pearson e every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on August 16, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | miEbooks | Pearson e |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (185 ratings) — better | 3.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 185 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 116 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ITSI HOLDINGS (PTY) LTD | Pearson Education Asia Limited |
Customer experience
miEbooks
Pearson e
In-app purchases
miEbooks
No in-app purchases
Pearson e
No in-app purchases








