Comparison

Raspberry Pi Official Magazine vs Gutenberg | eBook Reader

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

Head to head
About

Raspberry Pi Official Magazine

This monthly magazine provides in-depth features, creative home projects, and expert tips for Raspberry Pi users. It caters to enthusiasts of all ages looking to explore and build with the popular single-board computer.

Highlights
  • Monthly features
  • Home-made projects
  • Tips and tutorials
  • Raspberry Pi guides
  • Enthusiast content
Features
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Raspberry Pi is the official Raspberry Pi magazine. Every month it offers brilliant features, amazing home-made projects and the very best selection of tips and tutorials for Raspberry Pi enthusiasts of all ages. Subscribe and save: Purchase a single issue for only £4.49 Purchase a rolling one month subscription for only £2.29 Purchase an annual subscription for only £26.99 Subscription Nature: - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period - Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase Our Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.raspberrypi.org/privacy/ Terms and conditions can be viewed at https://www.raspberrypi.org/terms-conditions-sale/

About

Gutenberg | eBook Reader

Access a vast library of public domain e-books and audiobooks from around the world. Explore tens of thousands of titles across numerous languages and categories, including classics and popular works.

Highlights
  • Vast public domain e-book library
  • Extensive audiobook collection
  • Thousands of titles available
  • Multiple languages supported
  • Categorized book selection
  • Top 50 e-books listed
Features
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This app contains the largest public domain e-book and audio book platforms in the world. This application brings a large collection of e-books and audio books to your phone and makes more than 50.000 e-books, 10.000 audio books available for you. Thousands of books from different categories and languages. Languages with more than 50 e-books, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog. Top 50 e-books: 1- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 2- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 3- The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 4- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 5- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 6- Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 7 -The Bayeux Tapestry Elucidated by John Collingwood Bruce 8- Why Men Fight by Bertrand Russell 9- Dracula by Bram Stoker 10- The Young Train Dispatcher by Burton Egbert Stevenson 11- Il Principe. English by Niccolò Machiavelli 12- Et dukkehjem. English by Henrik Ibsen 13- Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem 14- Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 15- Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary 16- Rowlandson by Mary White Rowlandson 17- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 18- Grimms' Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm 19- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 20- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 21- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American 22- Slave by Frederick Douglass 23- Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie 24- Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin 25- The Iliad by Homer 26- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare 27- Red Wagon Stories by Wells Hawks 28- War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy 29- The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana 30- The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for 31- Serious People by Oscar Wilde 32- Common Sense by Thomas Paine 33- Histories of two hundred and fifty-one divisions of the 34- German army which participated in the war 35- The Romance of Lust: A Classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous 36- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 37- Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville 38- The War in the East by Trumbull White 39- Ulysses by James Joyce 40- Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë 41- The Key to Theosophy by H. P. Blavatsky 42- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 43- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 44- The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 3 (of 4) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 45- The Theory of Environment by Armin Hajman Koller 46- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 47- The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin 48- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving 49- Webster & Tourneur by Cyril Tourneur and John Webster 50- Prestuplenie i nakazanie. English by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Top Audio Books: 1- Pride and Prejudice 2- Jane Eyre 3- Persuasion 4- Anne of Green Gables 5- Emma 6- Little Women 7- The Count of Monte Cristo 8- Mansfield Park 9- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 10- Wuthering Heights 11- The Woman in White 12- Frankenstein: The 1818 Text 13- A Little Princess 14- Moby-Dick 15- Sense and Sensibility 16- North and South 17- Dracula 18- The Scarlet PimpernelThe Scarlet Pimpernel 19- The 39 Steps 20- The Picture of Dorian Gray 21- Tess of the D'Urbervilles 22- David Copperfield 23- My Man Jeeves 24- The Invisible Man 25- A Christmas Carol 26- The Secret Garden 27- Northanger Abbey 28- Uncle Tom's Cabin 29- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 30- The Return of Sherlock Holmes 31- Middlemarch 32- A Room with a View 33- Agnes Grey 34- Wives and Daughters 35- Around the World in Eighty Days 36- The Metamorphosis 37- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 38- Don QuixoteDon Quixote 39- The Importance of Being Earnest 40- A Tale of Two Cities Terms of Use(EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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Raspberry Pi Official Magazine4 screens
Gutenberg | eBook Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

Raspberry Pi Official Magazine and Gutenberg | eBook Reader both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 70% of Gutenberg | eBook Reader's written reviews are positive against 31% of Raspberry Pi Official Magazine's. Gutenberg | eBook Reader also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (745 vs 217). Raspberry Pi Official Magazine's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Raspberry Pi Official Magazine sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Gutenberg | eBook Reader sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Raspberry Pi Official Magazine against 4.5 for Gutenberg | eBook Reader. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 217 and 745 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 31% of Raspberry Pi Official Magazine's written reviews are positive against 70% of Gutenberg | eBook Reader's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Raspberry Pi Official Magazine ships an update every 4 months, Gutenberg | eBook Reader every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Raspberry Pi Official Magazine versus Gutenberg | eBook Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRaspberry Pi Official MagazineGutenberg | eBook Reader
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (217 ratings) — better4.5 (745 ratings)
Positive reviews31.0% of reviews69.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings217745 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRASPBERRY PI LTDWebron Software LTD

Customer experience

Raspberry Pi Official Magazine

All ratings217 ratings
Positive89.9%
Neutral1.8%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews42 reviews
Positive31.0%
Neutral2.4%
Negative66.7%

Gutenberg | eBook Reader

All ratings745 ratings
Positive89.1%
Neutral3.0%
Negative7.9%
Written reviews66 reviews
Positive69.7%
Neutral6.1%
Negative24.2%

User reviews

Raspberry Pi Official Magazine

From 217 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great information for Raspberry Pi enthusiasts
  • 👍 Excellent customer service support
  • 👍 Easy to use and search back issues
  • 👍 Good content from the magazine
  • 👍 Useful for beginners

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App crashes frequently
  • 🐛 Blank white screen on opening
  • 🐛 Cannot restore purchases
  • 🐛 Subscription issues and login problems
  • 🐛 Content is old and available for free elsewhere

Gutenberg | eBook Reader

From 745 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 📚 Extensive collection of classic literature
  • 💰 Free access to thousands of books
  • 👍 Easy to use interface
  • 📖 Page-turning feature mimics physical books
  • 🌙 Night mode for comfortable reading

Room to improve

  • 🔍 Search function is unreliable and confusing
  • 📱 Poor book organization and browsing
  • 💔 Missing many books found on Project Gutenberg website
  • 📺 Excessive and intrusive advertisements
  • ⚙️ Limited customization options for book format

Bugs and requests

Raspberry Pi Official Magazine

Reported bugs

18 issues
  • App crashes every time it's opened
  • Blank white screen when app opens
  • Constant need to restore purchases
  • Downloading purchased issues fails
  • App freezes when trying to repurchase
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  • Search functionality is broken
  • Cannot filter accessible issues
  • Login issues and lost subscriptions
  • Cannot restore purchases due to invalid receipt
  • Connection errors on server side
  • Lost access to paid editions
  • PDF download button disabled in mobile app
  • Unable to process purchases
  • App stuck in portrait view on iPad
  • Content formatting issues on iPhone
  • Error: no magazines to display
  • Error: no internet connection
  • Subscription not recognized by Newstand app

Requested features

6 requests
  • Support for other languages
  • Account creation page on website
  • iPad splitscreen support
  • iPad Pro resolution support
  • Ability to recover password
Show 1 more
  • Better organization of downloaded issues

Gutenberg | eBook Reader

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • Search returns no results or irrelevant results
  • Books listed on Project Gutenberg not appearing in app
  • App fails to download certain books
  • Reading progress not saved between sessions
  • Continuous scroll instead of page-by-page display
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  • Search function completely non-functional for some users
  • App crashes or becomes unresponsive

Requested features

10 requests
  • Improved search functionality with better filtering
  • Better book organization and categorization system
  • Dictionary/word definition feature
  • Improved paragraph spacing and text formatting
  • Page-by-page navigation instead of chapter-based
Show 5 more
  • Ability to delete books from library
  • Bookmark and reading progress saving
  • More non-fiction and contemporary book titles
  • Author search by first and last name
  • Reduced or optional advertisements

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Raspberry Pi Official Magazine

Subscriptions2
  • The MagPi Magazine Subscription$2.991 Month
  • The MagPi Magazine Subscription$35.991 Year
One-time9
  • The MagPi Essentials 3$3.99
  • The MagPi Issue 49$3.99
  • The MagPi Special Edition$3.99
Show 6 more
  • The MagPi Issue 43$3.99
  • The MagPi Issue 50$3.99
  • The MagPi Issue 55$3.99
  • The MagPi Essentials 8$3.99
  • The Official Raspberry Pi Projects Book$7.99
  • Official Projects Book - Volume 2$7.99
6 purchases

Gutenberg | eBook Reader

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly Subscription$1.991 Month
  • Weekly Subscription$4.997 Days
  • Weekly Subscription3 Days trial$4.997 Days
Show 1 more
  • Yearly Subscription$24.991 Year
One-time2
  • Premium$39.99
  • Lifetime Premium$39.99

Questions

Is Raspberry Pi Official Magazine free?
Raspberry Pi Official Magazine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Gutenberg | eBook Reader free?
Gutenberg | eBook Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Raspberry Pi Official Magazine or Gutenberg | eBook Reader?
Raspberry Pi Official Magazine is rated higher. Raspberry Pi Official Magazine averages 4.6 out of 5 from 217 ratings, while Gutenberg | eBook Reader averages 4.5 from 745 ratings.
Do Raspberry Pi Official Magazine or Gutenberg | eBook Reader have ads?
Gutenberg | eBook Reader shows ads; Raspberry Pi Official Magazine does not.
Which is updated more often, Raspberry Pi Official Magazine or Gutenberg | eBook Reader?
Raspberry Pi Official Magazine ships an update every 4 months, and Gutenberg | eBook Reader every 6 weeks. Most recently, Raspberry Pi Official Magazine was updated on October 16, 2026 and Gutenberg | eBook Reader on October 15, 2026.

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