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Everything justRead.app does as an EPUB, PDF, comic and audiobook reader for iPhone and iPad. Twenty sections, ten features each.

All Features

  1. Your Library
  2. Organizing Your Shelf
  3. Book Details & Covers
  4. Reading
  5. Comics & Manga
  6. Audiobooks
  7. Read Aloud & Narration
  8. Typography
  9. Themes & Colors
  10. Layout & Screen
  11. Highlights & Notes
  12. Bookmarks, Search & Word Tools
  13. Home Dashboard
  14. Goals & Streaks
  15. Statistics
  16. Recap & Reading Wrap
  17. Calibre, OPDS & Sending Books
  18. Sync, Widgets & Shortcuts
  19. Accessibility & Comfort
  20. Privacy, Data & Help
The justRead.app library grouped by author, every cover carrying its format badge, and an import finishing forty-five books in three seconds
01

Your Library

  • Point the app at any folder of DRM free books, local or in iCloud Drive
  • Works with any folder Dropbox, Drive or OneDrive syncs into Files
  • First launch builds a library for you and puts a sample book in it
  • Every book in every subfolder is imported, however deep it sits
  • An import button that takes EPUB, PDF and comics straight from Files
  • Pick many files at once, with a progress banner you can cancel
  • Drag books out of Files and drop them onto the app on iPad
  • Open in justRead from Files, Mail, Safari or any share sheet
  • Pull to refresh rescans the folder and picks up what changed
  • Delete a book and a later rescan will not bring it back
The sort and group menu open on author, series and folder, and a handful of books selected at once to mark read or drop into a collection
02

Organizing Your Shelf

  • List and grid views, with small, medium or large covers
  • 11 sort modes, from series and rating to read time and file date
  • Filter by reading status, format, rating, series, length or tag
  • Tap a chip twice to exclude it, for everything except audiobooks
  • Save a filter combination under a name and use it again later
  • Collections you create, rename, reorder and count
  • Freeform tags, with quick chips for the 20 you use most
  • An alphabet rail for scrolling a long library fast
  • Select several books to mark them read or file them in a collection
  • Show or hide cover, title, author, series and tags per list and grid
A book's details sheet with its rating, read time, pace and longest session, and the edit screen for its cover, title, author, series and tags
03

Book Details & Covers

  • Title, author, series and cover are read out of the file on import
  • Edit title, authors, series, series index and tags on EPUBs and PDFs
  • Replace any cover with a picture from Photos or Files
  • A custom cover syncs, so the book looks right on every device
  • Star ratings, which also travel back to Calibre
  • An Up Next flag that clears itself once you pass 1 percent
  • Abandoned status for a book you gave up on but want to keep
  • A finished ribbon, plus badges for PDF, comic and audiobook
  • A detail card with that book's stats and an editable reading history
  • Share a book as a card with its cover and your reading stats
A page of Alice in Wonderland with nothing on screen but the book, and the same page with the reading toolbar and progress bar showing
04

Reading

  • A full EPUB 3 reader that keeps the publisher's own formatting
  • PDFs sit in the same library, with the same highlights and progress
  • Swipe or tap the edges to turn pages, tap the middle for the toolbar
  • Continuous scrolling instead of pages, for EPUB and PDF alike
  • A nested table of contents with the chapter you are in marked
  • Percent, page number, pages left in the chapter, and a chart to tap
  • Strips for flipping back through recent pages or a book's images
  • Your position saves itself and survives a cold launch
  • It catches up to the furthest page you reached on another device
  • Password protected PDFs open once you type the password
A two-page comic spread filling an iPad held in landscape, the panel art running edge to edge
05

Comics & Manga

  • CBZ and CBR comics open in the same library as your books
  • One page, a two page spread, or Auto that follows the device
  • Fit the page how you like and pick the background behind it
  • Pinch to zoom, double tap to zoom 3x on the spot you tapped
  • A grid of page thumbnails takes the place of a table of contents
  • Type a page number and jump straight to that page
  • Reading direction Auto, left to right, or right to left
  • Manga carrying a ComicInfo.xml opens right to left with nothing set
  • CBR archives are repacked on import, so they open like any comic
  • Comics count toward your streaks, goals and statistics
The audiobook player with its cover, chapter position, speed and sleep timer, and the large-button car mode beside it
06

Audiobooks

  • Single file audiobooks and folders of chapter files both work
  • m4b, mp3, m4a, aac and flac, plus .audiobook and .zab packages
  • A chapter list that shows where you are in the book
  • Playback speed from 0.75x to 2x for slow or fast narrators
  • Skip forward 30 seconds or back 15 with a single tap
  • A sleep timer, so it stops on its own when you drift off
  • Bookmarks per audiobook, including from the car
  • Car Mode with oversized controls you can hit while driving
  • Lock Screen and Control Center controls while it plays
  • Title, author and cover art come out of the files themselves
An EPUB reading itself aloud with the spoken sentence highlighted, and the voice picker offering natural voices to download
07

Read Aloud & Narration

  • Read Aloud speaks any EPUB that has no narration of its own
  • Apple voices in every language the app is translated into
  • The sentence being read is highlighted, the current word underlined
  • The page turns itself on the word being spoken
  • Speed from 0.75x to 2x, with a sleep timer for the evening
  • It keeps playing in the background, with Lock Screen controls
  • 8 English neural voices you can download and run on the device
  • Prepare a book once and it plays with the screen off, like audio
  • Preparing runs in a queue that survives leaving the app
  • EPUB 3 read along narration highlights the text as it is read
The font picker listing every font on the device, and the typography settings for size, weight, margins and publisher styling
08

Typography

  • System fonts plus any font you import, searchable in the picker
  • Import .ttf and .otf files, or a whole .zip of font families
  • Add or remove custom fonts from inside the reader
  • A weight slider that snaps to the weights the font really has
  • Single weight fonts get a synthesized one, so the slider still works
  • Font size from an edge slider, the toolbar, or Cmd plus and minus
  • Line height, word spacing, letter spacing and paragraph spacing
  • First line indent, and text alignment the way you want it
  • Hyphenation, ligatures, normalization and publisher styles
  • Japanese vertical writing flows right to left as it should
A theme being edited with a full colour picker for the text, and the saved themes list holding a day theme and a night theme
09

Themes & Colors

  • 9 accent themes plus any custom color, tinting the whole app
  • Sliders for how strongly the background and rows pick up the tint
  • Accent colors are adjusted for contrast so text stays readable
  • A color picker with a spectrum field, RGB sliders and hex entry
  • Named reader presets for text and background color
  • Build as many presets as you like in a live editor
  • Presets can switch themselves between light and dark mode
  • Or follow sunrise and sunset where you actually are
  • A warning when a color pair ends up too low contrast
  • Invert colors on any PDF, and invert images in dark EPUBs
A book laid out in two columns across an iPad in landscape, with the progress bar along the bottom edge
10

Layout & Screen

  • Page margins set separately for portrait and landscape
  • Top, bottom and side margins each on their own
  • One or two columns on iPad, set for each orientation
  • PDF page fit, two page spread with an offset first page, spacing
  • PDFs scroll vertically or horizontally, whichever you prefer
  • An Apple Books style page curl when you turn a page
  • Settings that apply to one book only, leaving the rest alone
  • Separate layouts for iPhone and iPad, since they differ
  • Choose what the top and bottom bars show while you read
  • Lock the orientation, hide the status bar, keep the screen awake
One passage highlighted in pink and another in blue with the copy, highlight and look up menu open, and a highlight shared as a card carrying the book's cover and author
11

Highlights & Notes

  • Highlight in 6 colors, one of them a red underline
  • Highlighting works the same in EPUBs and PDFs
  • A proper note editor on any highlight, not a one line field
  • A per book list with the text, color, percent, date and note
  • Tap a highlight in the list to jump back to it
  • Browse every highlight from every book in one place
  • Share a highlight as a card with the cover, author and your note
  • Export a whole book's highlights as a PDF to keep or print
  • Export them as Markdown instead, if that is where your notes live
  • Send highlights to Readwise with your own token
A search inside a book listing every match for a word with the position it sits at, and the translation sheet turning a selected word from English into French
12

Bookmarks, Search & Word Tools

  • Bookmarks that record the chapter, percent, page and date
  • A floating bookmark button you can drag where you want it
  • Browse every bookmark across all books, by book or by date
  • Full text search inside a book, with matches marked in EPUBs
  • A search bar that keeps the count while you step through hits
  • The last 10 searches in each book are remembered
  • Search the library by title, author, series or tag
  • Your books show up in iOS Spotlight, cover and all
  • Look up a word in the dictionary without leaving the page
  • Translate a passage, or reorder the selection menu to taste
The home screen showing the daily goal, the yearly books goal and the In Progress shelf, and the display sheet where every section is switched on or dragged into a new order
13

Home Dashboard

  • 9 sections you can reorder or hide to build your own dashboard
  • In Progress, so the book you are reading is one tap away
  • An Up Next shelf for the ones you plan to read next
  • The last 10 books that landed in your library, newest first
  • The last 10 you finished, in the order you finished them
  • An Abandoned shelf for the ones you set aside
  • Your daily goal and streak up top, if you want them there
  • A card that appears when a new Reading Wrap is ready
  • Long press the app icon for Library, Search and current books
  • Did you know cards that surface features you have not found
The streak milestones running from Beginner at ten days up to Immortal at seven hundred and thirty, and the card that celebrates a milestone and its current streak
14

Goals & Streaks

  • A daily goal in minutes, with 4 levels from 5 to 60
  • A bar chart of the last 30 days against that goal
  • A yearly books goal, tracked against your pace month by month
  • Rereads count toward it, because it counts finish events
  • A reading streak for every day you hit the goal
  • An evening nudge when the streak is about to break
  • 7 milestone badges, from a 10 day streak up to 730
  • Badges unlock with an animation and a card you can share
  • Confetti and a shareable card the moment you finish a book
  • Listening counts too, so audiobooks keep the streak alive
The statistics screen with the year calendar, activity by hour and the fifty-two week summary, and the reading speed chart sitting beside the totals for the year
15

Statistics

  • 6 stat sections you can reorder or hide to taste
  • Activity by hour, so you can see when you actually read
  • A 52 week summary of time read and books finished
  • This month against your goal, added up day by day
  • The whole year at a glance, with every month side by side
  • A year grid heatmap, with shapes as well as color
  • Reading speed in pages per minute, still in beta
  • Longest session, peak hour and consistency percentage
  • Charts you can scrub with a finger for the exact numbers
  • Per book stats, including the session you are in right now
A Reading Wrap card counting the hours, books and days of a year with the month you read most, and the year calendar of covers with the books of a single month laid out beneath it
16

Recap & Reading Wrap

  • Recap pages for any day, week, month or year you have read
  • A calendar of covers, with a sheet of the books for each day
  • An endless date strip for scrubbing back through your history
  • Reading Wrap plays your month or year as a story of cards
  • Cards with no data skip themselves, so nothing shows a zero
  • A wall of every cover you finished, drifting slowly past
  • A fan of covers you can riffle through with your thumb
  • A reader personality card, from Night Owl to Completist
  • Colors come from the months you read most, so no two look alike
  • Export the card you are on as a poster to share
A Calibre library being browsed with New and Synced badges on the books, and an OPDS catalog open with a download button beside every title
17

Calibre, OPDS & Sending Books

  • Connect to a Calibre content server found over Wi-Fi or typed in
  • Browse several Calibre libraries, with New, Changed and Synced badges
  • Import books, then push your reading data back to Calibre
  • 12 fields go back, from rating and progress to finish dates
  • Map each field to whatever column your Calibre uses
  • Incremental sync that notices metadata only edits
  • Add as many OPDS catalogs as you like, Gutenberg is built in
  • Search a catalog or browse it by category, then download in place
  • EPUB, PDF and comic downloads land straight in your library
  • Email any book to your Kindle or your PocketBook
A home screen carrying the week, the streak, the book in progress and the reading calendar as widgets, and a Lock Screen showing the same book with its progress, streak and minutes read
18

Sync, Widgets & Shortcuts

  • iCloud sync of position, highlights, bookmarks, sessions and settings
  • 13 kinds of data sync, down to your themes and saved filters
  • A sync indicator, plus a log of what synced and when
  • Books stay readable offline and download from iCloud when needed
  • 5 home screen widgets, each in small and medium
  • Currently Reading, Reading Calendar, Daily Goal, Streak, Quick Stats
  • 5 Lock Screen widgets, including Minutes Today and a progress ring
  • Tap a widget to land on the exact book or screen
  • 4 Shortcuts actions, all of which run without opening the app
  • Siri phrases work out of the box in all 17 languages
The edge controls for brightness, font size and one-touch bookmarking, and a twenty-twenty-twenty break reminder resting over the page
19

Accessibility & Comfort

  • VoiceOver labels, hints and announcements across the whole app
  • Dynamic Type, with limits so the layouts do not fall apart
  • Reduce Motion stops the Wrap from advancing on its own
  • Reduce Transparency swaps the glass for solid backgrounds
  • Filter chips get named Include, Exclude and Clear actions
  • The calendar heatmap uses shapes as well as color
  • Line Focus dims the page except the line you are on
  • Full keyboard control on iPad, from page turns to font size
  • Import OpenDyslexic or any other font you read better in
  • A brightness slider on the page edge, and 20-20-20 eye breaks
The in app roadmap with votes and comments against each idea, and the help centre listing its guides from adding books to Calibre two-way sync
20

Privacy, Data & Help

  • No account and no sign up, your books stay yours
  • Anonymous analytics you can switch off in one tap
  • Delete just your highlights, or just sessions before a date
  • Clearing the library empties the app, not your folder
  • Reset every preference back to default in one place
  • Hide the tabs you never use and keep the app simple
  • Available in 17 languages, Siri phrases included
  • A help center with 21 guides, from Calibre to comics
  • An in app roadmap where you can vote, comment and suggest
  • A What's New screen per release, and a banner when an update ships

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