Bookworm vs ReadEra
Bookworm
babluboy.github.ioReadEra
readera.orgSide by side
| Figure | Bookworm | ReadEra |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 2 |
| Spec score · Ebook Reader Software | 7.1 (#23) | 7.9 (#12) |
| Purpose | Bookworm describes itself as a simple, focused eBook reader. | ReadEra is an app for reading books, magazines, articles, and documents without ads or registration. |
| Reading controls | Readers can adjust text zoom, margins and line width, choose light, sepia or dark profiles, bookmark pages and use full-screen mode. | Reading settings include text search, contents, page history, day/night/sepia/twilight/console modes, font controls, margins, hyphenation, zoom, brightness, and rotation. |
| Supported formats | Version 1.1.2 lists EPUB, PDF, MOBI, FB2, CBR and CBZ support. | It supports EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, FB2, PDF, DjVu, DOC, DOCX, RTF, ODT, TXT, CBR, CBZ, and files inside ZIP or RAR archives. |
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Bookworm
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ReadEra
ReadEra is an app for reading books, magazines, articles, and documents without ads or registration. It opens formats including EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, FB2, PDF, DjVu, DOC, DOCX, RTF, ODT, TXT, CBR, and CBZ, along with files inside ZIP or RAR archives. The app detects books and documents and organizes them through reading lists, author and series groups, collections, sorting, and folder tools. Readers can add bookmarks, quotes, notes, translations, dictionary lookups, and text selections. Controls include search, contents, page history, display modes, and settings for fonts, margins, hyphenation, zoom, brightness, and rotation. Multiple books or documents can be read at once, including in split-screen. Kids mode offers a simplified interface, parental control, and child-specific filtering and collections. Premium syncs books, documents, progress, bookmarks, and quotes with Google Drive, and adds background text-to-speech. ReadEra is available on Android, iOS, and macOS. The free plan costs nothing; Premium costs $14.99, paid once.