Bluefire Reader App Reviews

No update for more than a year and no developer response to repeated crash reports. Too bad as there are no alternatives for those of us who need to read protected PDFs on an iPad. Shameful Apple has never provided a service, and a bummer that the only dev to make one has moved on to other things.

This is by far the best reading app! I’ve been using it for years and I love it!

The text color controls don’t work on iOS 16. No matter what you do, the text is always black, which makes dark mode impossible. Since I’m normally reading in bed at night, I can’t tolerate staring into a white screen with black text. Fix that and I’ll add another star. Then allow me to override idiotic authors who insist on full-justifying text (and ignoring the app preference) and it’ll be five stars!

Often when I return to the app or leave the book and return to the book in the app, the page count is off. And sometimes the book is not loading properly and the only way to recover is to restart the app and seek back to the page I was on.

I love this app. For epubs and pdfs you cannot go wrong. The organization parts of this app are my favorite. I have hundreds of ebooks organized in here. The only issue I have had with it so far is when I have a page with highlights open and turn off the screen the highlights don’t show when turning the screen back on. They are still there and will appear again once closing the app and opening it again. Very minor bug.

Missing some modern features, but if all you want is a good basic ereader then this is it.

Finally I can easily read acsm books from the library on my iPhone. Just download the file to your downloads folder in files and you can open the file in this app and begin reading your book. It has basic dictionary lookup and bookmarks, which is all I need. No more struggling with Adobe Digital Edition, one of the worst pieces of software from a major company. Bluefire is well worth the $5 if you want to tap into your library’s digital resources! I also like the banner on the thumbnail telling

Hi. Love Bluefire. The ease of searching is fantastic.

I just realized I’ve been using this app for five years and it hasn’t given me one bit of trouble. That should be celebrated. It’s a good treatment for the Adobe-DRM disease.

I purchased Bluefire because the books I borrowed from IA were unreadable in the “Adobe Digital Editions” app. I’ve only had the app a few minutes, but I was impressed with my first downloaded book, which effortlessly opened in Bluefire and is perfectly legible.