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24 alternatives to Hyphen

A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for ePubs.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hyphen launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS▲34
Hyphen is an ePub Reader for iOS
2015 · hyphenreader.com · its alternatives →
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ReadHere▲146
Lightweight PDF & EPUB reader in your browser
Jun 2026 · readhere.app · its alternatives →
3
Readmill▲69
A beautiful e-book reader for iPhone, iPad and Android
2013 · readmill.com · its alternatives →
4
Glose▲241
A next-generation social reading platform for ebooks
2014 · glose.com · its alternatives →
5
Techie News▲72
A new simple and fast HN Reader for iOS
2015 · its alternatives →
6
Marvin▲63
eBook reader for iOS. Your books, everywhere.
2014 · appstafarian.com · its alternatives →
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Readwise Reader▲380
The all-in-one reading app for power readers
2022 · readwise.io · its alternatives →
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Readwise Reader, an all-in-one reading app▲326
Hey HN, cofounder of Readwise here. We've been working on this cross-platform reader app for about 2 years, excited to finally share it in public beta. Probably the most notable thing that makes Reader unique is that it supports almost any content type you could want to save/read/highlight: * web pages * emails/newsletters * PDFs * ePubs * twitter threads * youtube videos (with transcripts) * RSS feeds With all of your knowledge content in one place, we built powerful reading and highlighting, as well as a bunch of novel triage/organization features, so you can actually…
2022 · readwise.io · its alternatives →
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Addr▲98
A collective and annotation-focus ePub reader
2014 · its alternatives →
10
Readder▲152
A Reddit client with advanced features
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Bookaroozie▲135
AI powered Kindle alternative that works with PDFs, EPUBs
2025 · bookaroozie.com · its alternatives →
12
Rocket Reads▲147
A simpler alternative to Goodreads
2015 · its alternatives →
13
FolioReaderKit▲70
A Swift ePub reader and parser framework for iOS.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
14
Glose for Mobile▲255
A social reader for ebooks, now on Android
2015 · glose.com · its alternatives →
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Unread for iPad▲68
A clean, distraction-free reading experience, now on iPad
2014 · jaredsinclair.com · its alternatives →
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Eplee▲82
A simple and beautiful open-source ePub reader
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Folio▲98
A read-later app sending a typeset digest to your e-reader
Aug 2026 · myfolio.so · its alternatives →
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Wattpad v6.0 (iOS)▲99
Read books and stories you can't find anywhere else.
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Goodreads 3.0 for iOS▲107
Drastic redesign of popular social network for book lovers
2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Liquid Text 2.0▲157
A better way to understand text - across multiple documents
2016 · liquidtext.net · its alternatives →
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Readr▲113
A free reader that answers your questions and reads aloud
Sep 2026 · readr-ai.github.io · its alternatives →
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Readonly▲88
A simple and easy to use read it later app
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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MuM▲93
A reading-first Markdown engine for macOS
24d ago · mum.jiker.ai · its alternatives →
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Simplenote▲124
Simple, lighter alternative to Evernote
2014 · its alternatives →

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