Official Release March 2026

Feature Roadmap

Discover what we're building and what's coming next for justRead. We're continuously evolving to provide the best reading experience.

Completed - Q4 2025

Performance

  • Optimized and tested with 5,200+ EPUB files

Library Management

  • View Options: Switch between grid and list layouts
  • Reading Status: Mark books as completed with a single tap
  • Progress Display: Visual indicators showing percentage progress, page count, and book length
  • Smart Sorting: Default sort by author surname with series grouping
  • Advanced Search: Find books by author, title, or series name

Reading Experience

  • Orientation Lock: Lock reading mode to portrait or landscape
  • Brightness Control: Adjust brightness with intuitive touch gestures while reading
  • Readium Integration: Full support for advanced reading preferences (margins, heights, spaces, ligatures, reading order, ...)
  • Complete Customization: Choose any colors for text and background
  • Sleep Mode: Toggle sleep mode on or off, to prevent device going to sleep

Navigation & Preferences

  • History Browser: Quick navigation through your 100 most recently visited pages
  • Bookmarks: Mark important passages and save reading locations
  • Table of Contents: Navigate chapters and sections effortlessly
  • Consistent Design: All preferences use the same design

Health & Wellness

  • 20-20-20 Mode: Smart reminders to look away and rest your eyes during long reading sessions
In Progress — Q1 2026

Insights & Community

  • Dashboard: Reading statistics, insights, and charts to track your reading journey
  • Feature Voting: In-app roadmap with community voting on requested features and suggestions of new features

Support & Localization

  • In-App Help: How-to guides, FAQs, and problem reporting
  • Translations (Phase I): English, Japanese, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese (BR), Korean, Turkish, Italian, Czech

Audio

  • Text to Speech: Listen to your books on the go with high-quality voice synthesis
Planned — Q2 2026

Library Enhancements

  • Tags: Display and sort books using Calibre tags
  • Advanced Sorting: Additional sorting options for precise library organization
  • Alphabet Shortcuts: Quick-jump alphabet sidebar for navigating large libraries

Reader Features

  • Smart Annotations: Intelligent highlighting and note-taking features

Engagement

  • Widgets: Home screen widgets with book progress, current read, reading stats and more
  • Badges: Earn achievement badges for reading milestones and challenges (gamification)

Support & Localization

  • Translations (Phase II): Vietnamese, Thai, Hindi, Polish, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Portuguese (PT), Greek, Hungarian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Norwegian, Arabic, Indonesian, Hebrew
  • Update Notifications: In-app alerts for new app versions and features
Planned — Q3 2026

Health Integration

  • Apple Health Sync: Track heart rate and reading metrics during your sessions (how much does reading calm you?)

Community Integration

  • Hardcover.app Connection: Sync reviews and other data with Hardcover.app

Finder Library Integration

  • Browse and edit your EPUB collection directly in macOS Finder with cover previews, metadata editing, and reading progress sync. Organise books by collections and tags without leaving the file system
Planned — Q1 2027

Cross-Platform

  • Properly tailored iPad version with crossplatform sync

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