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Add to SafariWhen comparing Cool Reader vs Xodo PDF Reader & Editor, the Slant community recommends Cool Reader for most people. In the question“What are the best eBook readers on Android?” Cool Reader is ranked 7th while Xodo PDF Reader & Editor is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose Cool Reader is:
Cool Reader is available completely free and is also open source.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Free and open source
Cool Reader is available completely free and is also open source.
Pro Fully customizable
Pro A wide range of formats supported
Cool Reader supports epub (non-DRM), fb2, doc, txt, rtf, html, chm, tcr, pdb, prc, mobi (non-DRM) and pml formats.
Pro Efficient user interface
You get what you want by few interactions.
Pro Works great with diverse cloud services (e.g. Seafile) and saves changed documents on the fly in the cloud
Pro Very (very) good support
Feature Requests and bugs are nicely handled.
Pro Multi-tabs
Can open more than one PDF at a time in tabs.
Pro PDF can be read from SD Card
Xodo does not copy the PDF files to the internal memory.
Pro Reflow
App can reflow any PDF for an enhanced reading on small terminals. The process is a bit slow but works for every PDF.
Pro No ads
The reader offers a lot of features for free with no ads.
Pro Great handling for S-Pen/Digitizer
Cons
Con Constantly changes brightness
Con Could have a better UI design
Con Does not support DRM .epubs
.epubs with DRM are not supported by Cool Reader.
Con Incitation to update to Pro Version
Con Column view buggy
Sometimes the column view is not correctly displayed.
Con No more Google Drive API
Xodo has stopped Google Drive API compatibility.
Con Lag when reading
When switching pages, there can be some lag and a re-zoom of the page.
