Comparison

miEbooks vs Pearson e

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Add notes and sketches
  • Highlight text
  • Generate summaries from highlights
  • Access multimedia resources
  • Offline reading
  • Annotation backup
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
miEbooks versus Pearson e: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametermiEbooksPearson e
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (185 ratings) — better3.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings185 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size116 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperITSI HOLDINGS (PTY) LTDPearson Education Asia Limited

Customer experience

miEbooks

All ratings183 ratings
Positive71.0%
Neutral5.5%
Negative23.5%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Pearson e

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

miEbooks

No in-app purchases

None

Pearson e

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is miEbooks free?
miEbooks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pearson e free?
Pearson e is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, miEbooks or Pearson e?
miEbooks is rated higher. miEbooks averages 3.9 out of 5 from 185 ratings, while Pearson e averages 3.0 from 3 ratings.
Do miEbooks or Pearson e have ads?
Neither miEbooks nor Pearson e shows ads.
Which is updated more often, miEbooks or Pearson e?
miEbooks ships an update every 2 months, and Pearson e every 3 months. Most recently, miEbooks was updated on August 16, 2026 and Pearson e on September 19, 2026.

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