eBoox: ePub PDF e-book Reader

Google User

4 years ago

Selecting a book to read requires tapping on it at least ten times. Usually when I tap on it, it just wiggles sideways a few pixels and does nothing else. Very little configuration. Incapable of displaying multiple font faces in one document. Completely lacks monospace font which is required for code in programming books. All of the font choices are really ugly. Painfully bright white ui that cannot be changed. Scrolling is really jumpy, you can't just smoothly scroll down.

A Google user

5 years ago

Awesome! This is an almost prefect little free app! It has a low learning curve and is very easy to use. It has quite a few custamizable features inc: font & font size, line spacig, margins, background & font color choices, bookmarks; I might have missed a few. It takes you to the place where you stopped reaing and has a TOC. No dictionry, but that's O.K. Kindle's ditonaries leave much to be desired; you wind up having to Google the word anyway. Many high praises for eBoox!

A Google user

5 years ago

I had hopes, but I guess I will try another time. I didn't feel that the UI was set up in the most intuitive manner, but perhaps that is just me. I have tried numerous ereaders, and have several downloaded, but still haven't found THE ONE. Thanks for your work to give an ad free app. Btw, I have enjoyed your little responses to those with complaints. I guess it is a sign of the times that people get upset about the app not reading certain formats when you are very clear what formats it supports.

Yajaira Munoz

1 year ago

Been using this app for over a year now an di love it. Only thing is that I've been logged out a couple times and everything I've had and all the folders got lost even though I'd done the sync option available, it hasn't worked for me. But everything else I love. All the customization available is awesome, I'm always changing it and have never come across a setting I couldn't create.

Washu Ai

3 years ago

I can read books off my sd card. Nice supported format selection. Simple, functional. I figured out colored content' s purpose long before I figured out how to turn it off in settings. An app preview pic would help. No ads & free - maybe I should be concerned that I'm the product, but best feature. So far so good. I wish I'd come across this app sooner. I created a new shelf 1st thing. 4 presets sufficient, but any colors I fancy would be nice.

A Google user

6 years ago

I've tried probably every ebook reader that's in the popular top 20 on the app store. The ones I always come back to are Moon+ Pro or FB Reader. However, the eboox app is a breath of fresh air. For two reasons: (1) It is FAST, I mean blazingly fast, no lags even on large book files that cause FB Reader to choke, and (2) It is simple and effective. The UI does not confuse or overwhelm with unnecessary, complex features. It has all the basic features needed to read and navigate your ebooks. There are a few features I'd hope to see added as the app matures, but giving it a 5 star as an excellent performing app, a truly new and fresh design where simplicity is a virtue, and finally, because it has a lot of promise to get even better. I'd hope to see two features in the near future: 1. The ability to sync not just books, but also reading data (like your positions in the books, your notes and highlights, etc.) across your devices. 2. The ability to use the Epub 3 feature where footnote links pop up and display as a panel or window on the current page. Rather than navigating to a separate list of notes, which then forces the reader to navigate BACK to their original position.

David Hawley

4 years ago

Mixed. I quite liked it and then someone sent me a zip file with photos in it, and for some reason it opened in Eboox reader. After that the reader would not work. It only displayed the photo, and I was unable to do anything else with it. I could not get any of the controls, whatever I did. Even restarting the phone, didn't help, it just went back to the photo, as soon as it opened, and no other books were accessible. Eventually I had to uninstall it, remove the zip file and reinstall.

Dylan Perea

4 years ago

This app is great. I'm not an avid reader, somewhat new to regular reading, but this app helps so much. I can highlight, bookmark, and share books with anyone interested. The advanced setting are very nice, I can change the size of the font, the font itself, the background of the pages, how the pages turn, it's incredible. Definitely a top notch reading app.

Alannah Forster

3 years ago

This app does what you want it to do, it is easy to navigate and has pretty much all the functionality you could want. The minor issues are ones you will find with any ereader, like font size changing where you are in the text. My only wish would be the ability to add a short note that displays in the list of installed books, though i have been able to get around that by editing the "author". Thanks for the great app, ive gotten a lot of use out of it :)

aimee valadez

4 years ago

Love this app, It doesn't seem to have a limit on how many books you can have on your shelf. It provides a lot of setting options on color of the pages, highlighters and brightness. It also lets you change the font and how the words hyphen. I didn't give it 5 stars because it doesn't provide the option to flip the pages like a book. It also doesn't let you zoom out to see the reel of pages, which I'd like so that I can find my highlighted text better and other info pieces. Still an amazing app.

A Google user

5 years ago

A decent epub reader, but not great. This is one of the fastest readers that I've tried. There appears to be no way to use the volume buttons to change pages. The controls for adjusting text size are a little wonky. Works well in split screen mode. Requires too many taps to visit the table of contents or to change color mode (night, day, etc)

Shelby Brucato

2 years ago

So far, I'm really liking the app! The dark mode is nice, and the free syncing option is a huge plus, not to mention being able to download your own fonts! I only have one complaint, and it might just be my epubs, but the spacing between certain words is huge and there's no option to fix it. In other apps, align left seems to do it... But I can't find a similar setting on this app. Regardless, I'm still looking forward to using this app more. I love the colored progress bar.

A Google user

5 years ago

Good lightweight e-reader. It can be sensitive and will turn the oage when swiping down to bring up my home row buttons. Highlighting text can also be difficult as you can't see where the cursor is when touching the screen, it could use the letter pop-up feature that is usually standard when highlighting text on a mobile device.

TEETHFACE

1 year ago

Love the app! Been using it for a few months and it does everything I need it to. You can change the fonts, text size, light and dark mode, and even paragraph spacing. I would definitely recommend. My only complaint is that it doesn't tell you what page you're on, and when I go to click on chapters it doesn't go to the chapter, but that one hasn't been to huge of an issue. I'm mostly annoyed about it not showing the page number. Over all great app though.

Dennis Gagliardotto

1 year ago

This is an incredible app – and arguably the best of its kind – if you're looking for a solid eReader that accommodates for all sorts of formats. It's got a clean user interface, customization options for your books, and essentially acts as a personal cloud library—all for free. This is one of the very few apps I think I've ever encountered since smartphones and apps were introduced that actually makes me feel bad for using it without having to pay a premium. Huge thanks and kudos to the devs.

Tristian Kintop

1 year ago

I've had no problems reading every book downloaded thus far. Reading on the phone can have a straining effect on the eyes so the "dark mode" setting is nice. I don't have anything bad to say about this app, other than the fact it doesn't have any fancy features that makes reading more enjoyable such as converting pdf files to epub. Reading the downloaded books as pdf is frustrating, but that is the only discrepancy I can see. I love the app, and will continue using it!

Terry Clapp

10 months ago

Copy and paste does not work for special characters or numbers in .txt files. I can copy a word that contains characters such as !,#,$, and numbers, and eBoox will show the whole word is copied to the clipboard, but then only pastes the alpha portion of the word into the field. I couldn't reassociate the file type with a different program, so I just had to uninstall eBoox to get my copy/paste function for text files to work correctly. Also not as intuitive as PDF Viewer Pro.