Google Play Books vs QKSMS

Google Play Books offers many options while reading such as bookmarks, highlights and notes. Making for a good app to use for academic .pdfs and .epubs.

Users can use the Google Play Books webpage or app to upload their own .epubs or PDFs.

Google Play Books has an inbuilt dictionary for users to use to look up unfamiliar words.

Margins, text size, line spacing and color theme of the page can be changed to the users liking,.

No matter what device one is using the Google Play Books service on it will sync all eBooks and placement into the cloud.

Google Play Books has built in immersive mode when reading. This allows for the navigation and notification bars to be hidden, allowing the full screen to be used for the eBook.

Like the majority of Google's apps, Google Play Books has a slick interface that works quite smoothly.

Google Play Books offers a dark and a light theme to make it easier to read in dark or light rooms.

Google Play Books has an in built eBook store within the app, making for a convenient way to purchase titles.

Text to speech can be used to have an eBook read to the reader aloud.

When a new sms is received, a window will pop up that has the message and allows answering it from there, without having to open the app. It can be dismissed by tapping anywhere else on the screen.

Users can set different notification settings per user as an easy way to know who is messaging without having to look at the actual message.

Users can communicate with large groups at the same time due to the included group messaging feature. This is convenient when trying to synchronize with friends or colleagues.

While QKSMS is one of the younger apps, the developer is quickly adding features/fixing bugs.

The app is available for free with an optional donation IAP that ranges from $1-$10.

Responsive, highly customizable Material Design interface makes for a native looking app that fits in well with Google's UI design guidelines.

Through delayed messaging one can set it up so that a message is not sent automatically. This can help for those times that it may be best to think something over before sending out a rash message.

There are light and dark themes available within the settings which can be switched depending on how light it is around one when using the app. The dark theme can also help to conserve battery when being used as not as much brightness and hence battery will be used.

Users can schedule messages to be sent for later.

Those that own an Android Wear device will be able to set it to receive their messages on the Android Wear device making for convenient notifications and easy messaging through not having to take their phone out.