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.

Where Tomen is different

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.

Where Tomen is different

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.

Where Tomen is different

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.

Where Tomen is different

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.

Where Moon+ Reader is ahead

What you give up

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

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.