Apple Books AlternativesTop Ebook Readers & Ebook Libraries like Apple Books
Apple Books is described as 'The single destination for all the books you love, and the ones you’re about to. Browse the Book Store, join Oprah’s new Book Club, keep track of what you’ve read and want to read, and listen to enthralling audiobooks. All in one place' and is a very popular Ebook Reader in the news & books category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Apple Books for a variety of platforms, including Android, iPhone, iPad, Android Tablet and Web-based apps. The best Apple Books alternative is calibre, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Apple Books are KOReader, Project Gutenberg, FBReader and Amazon Kindle.
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Apple Books alternatives are mainly Ebook Readers, but if you're looking for Ebook Libraries or PDF Readers you can filter on that. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Apple Books.- Ebook Reader
- Free • Proprietary
- 109 calibre alternatives
Free e-book manager with features including library management, format conversion, syncing to devices, internet-independent operation, built-in viewer, news download as e-books, text-to-speech, privacy focus, extensible plugins, and no registration or tracking.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Country of Origin
Canada
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Self-Hosted
- Flathub
- PortableApps.com
- Homebrew
Comments about calibre as an Alternative to Apple Books
Most Recent CommentIt let's me read the epub files, however, it has twitches sometimes, not switching the pages right away.
Mateo CastroIt has all the features of iBooks. Fonts size change, highlighting, bookmarking, dissection of Chapters.
- 52 KOReader alternatives
An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook, Linux and Android devices.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- Android
- AppImageHub
- Kobo
- PocketBook Reader
- Flathub
- F-Droid
- Kindle Fire
- 58 Project Gutenberg alternatives
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired.
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Application type
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Online
Project Gutenberg Features
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Application types
Country of Origin
Russia
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
Comments about FBReader as an Alternative to Apple Books
Mateo CastroIt is simple, with the side keys you scroll and with the up and down keys you pass the pages.
- 110 Amazon Kindle alternatives
The Kindle app puts millions of books, magazines, newspapers, comics, and manga at your fingertips.
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Application types
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
Amazon Kindle Features
Comments about Amazon Kindle as an Alternative to Apple Books
you can't read epub files on Kindle
- 32 Book's Story alternatives
Material3 eBook reader - Book's Story. Built with Jetpack Compose. Free & Open Source & Ad Free. 4 supported file formats (.txt, .pdf, .epub, .fb2), 2 supported languages. Lots of customization.
- 63 Google Play Books alternatives
Discover a vast library of books to search, preview, and buy, read free public domain books, sync page positions, and back up purchases online for a seamless reading experience across multiple devices.
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Application types
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Android Auto
Google Play Books Features
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Country of Origin
Italy
EU
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
Comments about Foliate as an Alternative to Apple Books
it provides a beautiful ereader with page flip animation, and two page view mimicking paper books that runs on a full computer not a mobile device. unfortunately only works on linux. but very good!
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Application types
Country of Origin
China
Platforms
- Android
- Android Tablet
- 72 ReadEra alternatives
Read book files in EPUB, PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF, TXT, DJVU, FB2, MOBI and CHM formats. Supports chapters, bookmarks, page style. Saves the current reading position. Automatic detection and display of the list of all supported documents on your device.
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Application types
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Android
Calibre is a great program for management and ebook conversion but its built-in reader is crappy and has no animations. not intuitive. bad gui. great program, bad reader. Moonreader for android is way better, but I want something with similar functionality to either moonreader or apple books and calibre can't display as well.