Moon+ Reader · a comparison
Coming from Moon+ Reader, honestly.
Moon+ Reader has been the Android reader for a decade, and for a lot of people it still should be. This page says plainly where Tomen is different, where it is not, and who should keep what they have.
Every device, one purchase
Moon+ Reader is an Android app. Tomen runs in any browser today, as a Windows app and an Android app, and one Plus purchase covers all of them. Your place, highlights and settings follow you between a phone, a tablet and a PC through a Tomen account.
No ads, in the free version too
Moon+ Reader's free version shows ads; its Pro purchase removes them. Tomen's free tier has no ads, no account and no tracking, and it is complete: every format, nine themes, contents, search, sorting, gestures. Plus adds the things you do inside a book, not the reading itself.
The page is set, not just displayed
Moon+ Reader gives you a great many settings and leaves the result to you. Tomen re-sets every book in its own typography, with the type and measure chosen once for every book and tuned to the screen, so a messy EPUB reads as well as a designed one and nothing has to be adjusted per book. If you like tuning, that is a loss; if you want to open a book and read, it is the point.
Comics, and a Calibre library
CBZ, CBR, CBT and CB7 open as comics, with spreads, right-to-left reading for manga, and a minimap when you zoom into a page. A Calibre library comes in four ways, from adding the folder to keeping it in Dropbox. The Calibre guide has each one.
What you give up
- Depth of settings. Moon+ exposes far more knobs for margins, fonts, page effects and gestures than Tomen ever will.
- Price. Moon+ Reader Pro is a smaller one-time purchase for one platform. Tomen Plus is $49, once, for every platform.
- Years of polish on Android alone, including things Tomen does not do yet, such as reading PDFs as reflowed text. Tomen reads a PDF as pages, the way it reads a comic.
If you read only on one Android phone and you have Moon+ Reader set up the way you like it, stay. This page is for people who read on more than one device, or who want the ads gone without the settings.
Moving over
- Your books are files; copy or share them into Tomen, or add the folder they live in. Nothing is converted.
- Your highlights come too. Export them from Moon+ Reader and Tomen imports the file, placing each one by its passage; that is part of Plus, as is exporting Tomen's own highlights to Markdown so they are never stranded again.
- Try it in a browser first at read.tomen.app. Nothing to install, and the shelf you make there is the one the apps sign into.
Open the reader Everything else Tomen does
Free to read. Tomen Plus is $49, once, with a 30-day trial and no card. Moon+ Reader is a trademark of its developer; this page compares, it does not speak for them.