MapleRead vs ReadEra
MapleRead
maplepop.comReadEra
readera.orgSide by side
| Figure | MapleRead | ReadEra |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 2 |
| Spec score · Ebook Reader Software | 7.7 (#16) | 7.9 (#12) |
| Privacy | The privacy policy says Maplepop accounts use an email address as the Maplepop ID and that personal information is not sold, rented, or shared with third parties. | The Android policy says the app does not collect personal information or user files, while anonymous technical and usage statistics can be disabled in settings. |
| Support | The help page provides FAQs and instructions for reporting EPUB rendering bugs through the app. | ReadEra provides support at [email protected]. |
Plans
MapleRead
- MapleRead CXFree
- MapleRead CE$6.99, paid once
- MapleRead SE$8.99, paid once
- MapleRead SE-CE Bundle$10.49, paid once
In their own words
MapleRead
MapleRead is an iOS e-book reader family with CX, CE, and SE editions. Its EPUB reader offers adjustable styles, layouts, themes, and fonts. It can generate pseudo audiobooks using narrator voices in over 40 languages and supports synchronized immersion reading. Readers can look up words, translate sentences, save vocabulary, highlight passages, and add notes. Books can be organized with sets and tags, and their metadata can be edited.
All editions read DRM-free, password-free EPUB files; SE also reads DRM-free, password-free PDFs. MapleRead works with Calibre and supports importing or transferring books through OPDS, HTML, PC Upload, iTunes, and AirDrop. Cloud sync covers reading positions, notes, vocabulary, bookmarks, and book-set membership, but not book files; synced data can be viewed in a browser on desktop or mobile. CX is free to try with limitations and in-app purchases. CE costs 6.99 USD once, SE costs 8.99 USD once, and the SE-CE bundle costs 10.49 USD once.
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.