i2Reader Cloud vs Avalon Reader for FB2 books
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Avalon Reader for FB2 books
Read your FB2 ebooks with this intuitive reader. Easily import books from various sources, customize your reading experience with adjustable fonts and color schemes, and sync your progress across devices via iCloud. Enjoy a seamless reading journey on your iOS devices.
- Import FB2 books from web, iTunes, cloud drives, and OPDS catalogs
- Synchronize reading position across iOS devices via iCloud
- Adjustable fonts, line spacing, page width, and color schemes
- Easy navigation and book text search
- Translate words and phrases using Yandex Translate
- Book sharing and image gallery view
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Avalon Reader - ebook reading application with simple and intuitive interface. You can collect unlimited number of titles in your Library and read them for you own pleasure. Application optimized for all iPad and iPhone models and high resolution Retina Display graphics. It is possible to load ebooks in fb2 format into application by a number of ways, like: - download fb2 books using your favorite web browser application and open it with Avalon Reader using "Open In..." iSO feature - use iTunes file sharing to copy files from you computer - import books from you preferred cloud drive - Dropbox, OneDrive and Google Drive currently supported, more options coming in next versions - find and download book in any OPDS internet catalog You can read book on any iOS device you own and synchronize reading position over iCloud account (require internet connection) Avalon Reader features: - Turn pages with a tap or swipe - Easy navigation inside the book - Open electronic books from any source - Automatically expands fb2 files from zip archive - Adjustable fonts and font sizes - Adjustable line spacing - Adjustable page width - Three color schemes - Sort books by File name, Book Title, Author or Recently opened - Book Information Page - Book Images Gallery View - all embedded images on one page - Book sharing - possible to transfer book to any destination supported by iOS or any application which can handle this file type - book text search - words and phrases translation using Yandex translate service (require internet connection)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: i2Reader Cloud at Free against Avalon Reader for FB2 books's $1.99. i2Reader Cloud also leads on ratings volume (74 vs 1). Avalon Reader for FB2 books's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.1) and in-app purchases (none vs 5). On ads and device support 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; Avalon Reader for FB2 books costs $1.99 up front. i2Reader Cloud sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Avalon Reader for FB2 books asks for nothing beyond the download.
Avalon Reader for FB2 books holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: i2Reader Cloud has 74 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 48% of i2Reader Cloud's written reviews are positive against 65% of Avalon Reader for FB2 books's.
i2Reader Cloud ships an update every 3 months, Avalon Reader for FB2 books every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | i2Reader Cloud | Avalon Reader for FB2 books |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.1 (74 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.4% of reviews | 64.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 74 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yuriy Melyushin | Yuri Staloverov |
Customer experience
i2Reader Cloud
Avalon Reader for FB2 books
Bugs and 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
Avalon Reader for FB2 books
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
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
Avalon Reader for FB2 books
No in-app purchases
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