Booklover Downloads & RevenueBooklover - eBook Reader · App Store
Booklover - eBook Reader is #5 in Books Paid in Japan and charting in 9 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 9 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperPlastic Software, Inc.
CategoryBooks
Price3.99 USD
Released
Rating★ 4.6 (57)
Version3.9.3
Age rating17+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)100k+ worldwide
Booklover - eBook Reader update history & changes
Last change · 21 events since 6 Jan 2015Full timeline ↓✏️New screenshots📈Entered the top 10📈Entered the top 10✏️New iPad screenshots📦Updated to version 3.9.3📦Updated to version 3.9.2🆕First spotted by AppInsider🆕Released on the App Store
Full timeline · 21 events
- ✏️Booklover - eBook Reader: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · AU
- 📈Booklover - eBook Reader entered the top 10Top Paid · Books · AU
- 📈Booklover - eBook Reader entered the top 10Top Paid · Books · DE
- ✏️Booklover - eBook Reader: new iPad screenshots· 10 countries
- ✏️Booklover - eBook Reader: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · 10 countries
- ✏️Booklover - eBook Reader: new iPad screenshots· JP
- ✏️Booklover - eBook Reader: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · JP
- 📦Booklover - eBook Reader updated to version 3.9.3This version includes optimizations for iPhone Duo, along with various fixes and minor improvements.
Fixes
• [Reader View] Fixed an issue where, depending on aspect ratio, page images may be displayed at lower resolution than optimal in continuous-scrolling mode
• [Reader View] Fixed an issue where zooming with double-tap frequently triggered simultaneous toggling of top and bottom bars
• Fixed display and layout issues in various parts of user interface
• Other miscellaneous bug fixes
Improvements
• Optimization for iPhone Duo
• [Reader View] Improved behavior of tap and double-tap gestures in continuous-scrolling mode
• Stability improvements
Others
• This is planned to be the last version supporting iOS/iPadOS 18.… more - 📈Booklover - eBook Reader charting in a new countryTurkey
- 📈Booklover - eBook Reader hit #1Top Paid · Books · JP
- 📦Booklover - eBook Reader updated to version 3.9.2This version lets you choose whether moving backward or forward opens the previous or next book. It also fixes several issues.
Revisions
• [Reader View] Moving backward at the beginning of a book or forward at the end no longer opens the previous or next book by default. To enable this behavior, turn on "Continue Across Books" in Reader Settings > Moving Between Books.
Fixes
• [Reader View] Fixed an issue where the keyboard could obscure fields in bookmark and annotation lists; scrolling the lists can now dismiss the keyboard
• [Reader View] Fixed a crash that could occur when using the previous or next book button with no neighboring book
• [Library] Fixed an issue on iOS 18 where swiping within the Library did not open the sidebar
• [History] Fixed an issue where items removed from History did not disappear from the list immediately
• Miscellaneous bug fixes
Improvements
• [Reader View] Improved the precision of slider control
• Performance and stability improvements
Others
• This is planned to be the last version supporting iOS/iPadOS 18.… more - 📈Booklover - eBook Reader new best rank in the overall chart: #110Top Paid · All Apps · JP
- 📈Booklover - eBook Reader new best rank in the overall chart: #126Top Paid · All Apps · JP
- 📦Booklover - eBook Reader updated to version 3.9.1This version improves usability in the Reader View, Library, and image editors, and fixes several issues.
Improvements
• [Reader View] Improved the quality of background colors when "Background Color" is set to "Dynamic"
• [Reader View] In double-page spread mode, the last page is now displayed as a spread even when it is an odd-numbered page
• [Reader View] You can now move to the previous book by turning back at the first page, or to the next book by turning forward at the last page
• [Library] On an iPhone or a narrow screen, you can now swipe the menu (sidebar) to show the Library
• [Library] When the sidebar is shown side by side, tapping the item currently selected in the sidebar now scrolls the Library to the top
• [Library/Search] "Search History" items can now be reordered by drag and drop
• [Cover Image Editor] The loupe can now be resized
• [Cover Image Editor] Sliders can now be moved along their axes while the loupe is shown
• [Page Cropping] Added a loupe
• Other miscellaneous user experience improvements
• Performance and stability improvements
Revisions
• [Library] Swapped the positions of the "Add Books" and "History" buttons in the toolbar
Fixes
• [Reader View] Fixed an issue on iOS 27 and later where page turning became slow when "Background Color" was set to "Dynamic"
• [Reader View] Temporary workaround for poor title visibility in Dark Mode on iOS 27 and later (until resolved in the OS)
• [Reader View] Fixed an issue where tapping the slider's track no longer changed the page
• [Reader View] Fixed an issue where touching a PDF link while swiping to turn pages in a PDF would navigate to the link destination
• [Reader View] Fixed an issue where showing PDF annotation notes caused the PDF file to be overwritten
• [Library] Fixed an issue where the transition for opening a book could be disrupted while the sidebar was shown
• [Library] Fixed an issue where the gesture for showing the sidebar was overly sensitive
• [Library] Fixed an issue where the screen refreshed for each book when adding books to the app
• [Library/Search] Fixed an issue where gestures in the "Search History" area passed through to the view behind it
• [Cover Image Editor] Fixed an issue with toolbar responsiveness
• Miscellaneous bug fixes… more - 📈Booklover - eBook Reader new best rank in the overall chart: #130Top Paid · All Apps · JP
- 📈Booklover - eBook Reader entered the top 10Top Paid · Books · JP
- 📈Booklover - eBook Reader charting in a new countryRussia
- 📈Booklover - eBook Reader charting in a new countryBrazil
- 🆕Booklover - eBook Reader first spotted by AppInsider#17 in Top Paid · Books · United States
- 📦Booklover - eBook Reader version 3.9.0No release notes
- 🆕Booklover - eBook Reader released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.6 ★
57 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#5
Books PaidMeasured
New ratings a week
2.8
▼ -14% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
Booklover - eBook Reader at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-09. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Booklover is a paid, metadata-driven eBook reader for iOS designed for users with large collections of PDFs, manga, and scanned books who require advanced organization and iCloud integration. The app holds strong positions in the Japanese (5th) and Australian (14th) paid Books charts, indicating significant traction in markets with high demand for specialized comic and document readers.
Similar apps: KyBook 3, Yomu Comic Reader, Documents by Readdle
Booklover - eBook Reader on the App Store
App details
App ID
949207089
Publisher
Plastic Software, Inc.
On the store since
Jan 2015
11 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 18.6+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
17+
1 content note below
Languages
2
EN JA
Size
22 MB
Also listed in
Books, Utilities
Content notesUnrestricted Web Access
App privacy Measured
Booklover - eBook Reader’s App Store privacy label declares 0 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 0 linked to your identity and 1 collected anonymously.
Used to track you
0
Linked to you
0
Not linked to you
1
Not linked to you
DDiagnostics
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Booklover - eBook Reader downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Booklover - eBook Reader's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | BooksPaid | #5 |
 Australia | BooksPaid | #14 |
 Germany | BooksPaid | #75 |
 South Korea | BooksPaid | #64 |
 India | BooksPaid | #115 |
 France | BooksPaid | #187 |
 Brazil | BooksPaid | #197 |
 Indonesia | BooksPaid | #116 |
 Italy | BooksPaid | #182 |
Apps near Booklover - eBook Reader on the chart
Books Paid, around #5.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.6 ★
57 ratings
Measured
Ratings
57
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
2.8
▼ -14% vs the 2 weeks before
Lifetime rating
4.6★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
64/100
faster than 78% of Books apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Booklover - eBook Reader
From the 20 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users highly praise the app's performance, customization options, and suitability for comics and PDFs, often calling it the best in its category. However, significant complaints focus on missing features like EPUB support, folder organization, and iCloud sync, alongside reports of crashes and broken file imports.
Mostly positive (85% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and its design. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Features & content: “GoodReader has this feature”
- Design: “Great design, beautiful and neat!”
- Crashes & bugs: “Bought, installed, app crashes instantly”
- Connection & sync: “Syncing with your iCloud folder is great though!”
About Booklover - eBook Reader
Booklover is a highly responsive and robust eBook reader. It excels at handling PDFs, manga, and scanned books.
The metadata-driven library management system makes it easy to organize and enjoy a large collection of books in PDF, ZIP/CBZ, and RAR/CBR formats.
Seamlessly integrated with iCloud Drive, books in the iCloud Drive/Booklover folder automatically appear in the app’s library and can be downloaded on demand.
In the library, you can organize books by genres and arrange them using various bibliographic details such as title, author, publisher, and more.
With the search field and powerful Library Navigator, you can quickly locate a book among thousands in your collection.
Customize your reading experience with settings for each book, including page layout, transition axis and style, cropping, filters, progress direction, background, and more.
Booklover supports bookmarks with titles and notes, as well as PDF text annotations (highlights), text search, and a table of contents.
Main Features:
# General
• Manage and view eBooks (PDF, ZIP/CBZ, RAR/CBR)
• Support for archived image files in JPG, PNG, GIF, HEIF, WEBP, AVIF, and JPEG XL formats
• Automatic syncing of book files placed in iCloud Drive/Booklover. On-demand caching (download) of the remote files
• Import files via iTunes (Windows), Finder (Mac), AirDrop, Drag & Drop, "Open with..." etc.
• Import files via apps from various cloud storage services, such as Dropbox and OneDrive, as well as other services accessible through the iOS Files app.
• Slide Over / Split View (iPad)
• Hardware keyboard support (mainly in the reader)
# Library
• Section books by genre (ON/OFF)
• The Library Navigator (ON/OFF)
• Histories of added and opened books
• Context Menu for individual books (long-press a book cover)
• Change sort order: By Title, Author, Publisher, Filename, Added Date, etc.
• Alphanumeric Index Labels (ON/OFF)
• Toggle display of cover accessories
• Adjust cover grid size
• Responsive Shadow (shows page volume with shadow)
• Filter books by Status, Genre, Tags, etc.
• Search books by various bibliographic details, file name, and tags
# Reader
• PDF text annotations (highlights) with notes, text search, and a table of contents
• Bookmarks with titles and notes
• Lists of bookmarks and PDF annotations
• Page transition settings: Axis (Horizontal, Vertical), Style (Scroll, Continuous Scroll, Stack, Crossfade, Zoom fade, Instant)
• Progress direction setting: Left to Right, Right to Left (for vertical text, manga, Arabic, etc.)
• Page layout setting: Automatic, Single-Page, Two-Pages (spread)
• Separate page layout settings for view orientation (Portrait / Landscape)
• Page trimming (for images only)
• Page sizing: Show All, Width-Fit, Height-Fit
• Page thumbnail view (overview, bookmarks)
• Image correction filters
• Dynamic background (When the "Background Color" option for a book is set to "Dynamic")
• Adjust page spread position (Insert adjuster page at the beginning of the book
The metadata-driven library management system makes it easy to organize and enjoy a large collection of books in PDF, ZIP/CBZ, and RAR/CBR formats.
Seamlessly integrated with iCloud Drive, books in the iCloud Drive/Booklover folder automatically appear in the app’s library and can be downloaded on demand.
In the library, you can organize books by genres and arrange them using various bibliographic details such as title, author, publisher, and more.
With the search field and powerful Library Navigator, you can quickly locate a book among thousands in your collection.
Customize your reading experience with settings for each book, including page layout, transition axis and style, cropping, filters, progress direction, background, and more.
Booklover supports bookmarks with titles and notes, as well as PDF text annotations (highlights), text search, and a table of contents.
Main Features:
# General
• Manage and view eBooks (PDF, ZIP/CBZ, RAR/CBR)
• Support for archived image files in JPG, PNG, GIF, HEIF, WEBP, AVIF, and JPEG XL formats
• Automatic syncing of book files placed in iCloud Drive/Booklover. On-demand caching (download) of the remote files
• Import files via iTunes (Windows), Finder (Mac), AirDrop, Drag & Drop, "Open with..." etc.
• Import files via apps from various cloud storage services, such as Dropbox and OneDrive, as well as other services accessible through the iOS Files app.
• Slide Over / Split View (iPad)
• Hardware keyboard support (mainly in the reader)
# Library
• Section books by genre (ON/OFF)
• The Library Navigator (ON/OFF)
• Histories of added and opened books
• Context Menu for individual books (long-press a book cover)
• Change sort order: By Title, Author, Publisher, Filename, Added Date, etc.
• Alphanumeric Index Labels (ON/OFF)
• Toggle display of cover accessories
• Adjust cover grid size
• Responsive Shadow (shows page volume with shadow)
• Filter books by Status, Genre, Tags, etc.
• Search books by various bibliographic details, file name, and tags
# Reader
• PDF text annotations (highlights) with notes, text search, and a table of contents
• Bookmarks with titles and notes
• Lists of bookmarks and PDF annotations
• Page transition settings: Axis (Horizontal, Vertical), Style (Scroll, Continuous Scroll, Stack, Crossfade, Zoom fade, Instant)
• Progress direction setting: Left to Right, Right to Left (for vertical text, manga, Arabic, etc.)
• Page layout setting: Automatic, Single-Page, Two-Pages (spread)
• Separate page layout settings for view orientation (Portrait / Landscape)
• Page trimming (for images only)
• Page sizing: Show All, Width-Fit, Height-Fit
• Page thumbnail view (overview, bookmarks)
• Image correction filters
• Dynamic background (When the "Background Color" option for a book is set to "Dynamic")
• Adjust page spread position (Insert adjuster page at the beginning of the book
Latest updates
3.9.3
This version includes optimizations for iPhone Duo, along with various fixes and minor improvements.
Fixes
• [Reader View] Fixed an issue where, depending on aspect ratio, page images may be displayed at lower resolution than optimal in continuous-scrolling mode
• [Reader View] Fixed an issue where zooming with double-tap frequently triggered simultaneous toggling of top and bottom bars
• Fixed display and layout issues in various parts of user interface
• Other miscellaneous bug fixes
Improvements
• Optimization for iPhone Duo
• [Reader View] Improved behavior of tap and double-tap gestures in continuous-scrolling mode
• Stability improvements
Others
• This is planned to be the last version supporting iOS/iPadOS 18.
3.9.2
This version lets you choose whether moving backward or forward opens the previous or next book. It also fixes several issues.
Revisions
• [Reader View] Moving backward at the beginning of a book or forward at the end no longer opens the previous or next book by default. To enable this behavior, turn on "Continue Across Books" in Reader Settings > Moving Between Books.
Fixes
• [Reader View] Fixed an issue where the keyboard could obscure fields in bookmark and annotation lists; scrolling the lists can now dismiss the keyboard
• [Reader View] Fixed a crash that could occur when using the previous or next book button with no neighboring book
• [Library] Fixed an issue on iOS 18 where swiping within the Library did not open the sidebar
• [History] Fixed an issue where items removed from History did not disappear from the list immediately
• Miscellaneous bug fixes
Improvements
• [Reader View] Improved the precision of slider control
• Performance and stability improvements
Others
• This is planned to be the last version supporting iOS/iPadOS 18.
3.9.1
This version improves usability in the Reader View, Library, and image editors, and fixes several issues.
Improvements
• [Reader View] Improved the quality of background colors when "Background Color" is set to "Dynamic"
• [Reader View] In double-page spread mode, the last page is now displayed as a spread even when it is an odd-numbered page
• [Reader View] You can now move to the previous book by turning back at the first page, or to the next book by turning forward at the last page
• [Library] On an iPhone or a narrow screen, you can now swipe the menu (sidebar) to show the Library
• [Library] When the sidebar is shown side by side, tapping the item currently selected in the sidebar now scrolls the Library to the top
• [Library/Search] "Search History" items can now be reordered by drag and drop
• [Cover Image Editor] The loupe can now be resized
• [Cover Image Editor] Sliders can now be moved along their axes while the loupe is shown
• [Page Cropping] Added a loupe
• Other miscellaneous user experience improvements
• Performance and stability improvements
Revisions
• [Library] Swapped the positions of the "Add Books" and "History" buttons in the toolbar
Fixes
• [Reader View] Fixed an issue on iOS 27 and later where page turning became slow when "Background Color" was set to "Dynamic"
• [Reader View] Temporary workaround for poor title visibility in Dark Mode on iOS 27 and later (until resolved in the OS)
• [Reader View] Fixed an issue where tapping the slider's track no longer changed the page
• [Reader View] Fixed an issue where touching a PDF link while swiping to turn pages in a PDF would navigate to the link destination
• [Reader View] Fixed an issue where showing PDF annotation notes caused the PDF file to be overwritten
• [Library] Fixed an issue where the transition for opening a book could be disrupted while the sidebar was shown
• [Library] Fixed an issue where the gesture for showing the sidebar was overly sensitive
• [Library] Fixed an issue where the screen refreshed for each book when adding books to the app
• [Library/Search] Fixed an issue where gestures in the "Search History" area passed through to the view behind it
• [Cover Image Editor] Fixed an issue with toolbar responsiveness
• Miscellaneous bug fixes
Store changes
What Booklover - eBook Reader changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
New screenshots
10 screenshots (was 10)
New iPad screenshots 
New screenshots
10 screenshots (was 10)
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