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Open-source ebook reader for EPUB, PDF, MOBI, and other formats, with customizable layouts, annotations, library browsing, text-to-speech, translation, and cross-device sync. This update adds vocabulary lists, reading statistics, page-turn options, and expanded sync features.
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About this app
Readest is a modern, open-source ebook reader for people who read a lot, and want their books, notes and progress to follow them everywhere.
Open EPUB, PDF, MOBI, AZW3, FB2, CBZ, TXT and Markdown, and tune the reading experience down to the last detail.
Read your way • Paginated or scrolling modes with smooth page-turn animations • Custom fonts, themes, spacing, margins and columns • Vertical text for CJK books • Built for e-ink, with contrast tuned for slow-refresh screens • Open up to four books side by side for research and comparison
Your whole library • Browse and download from OPDS catalogs and public libraries • Connect to Calibre and Calibre-Web, covers and metadata included • Organize with custom bookshelf groups • Full-text search inside a book
Notes that last • Highlights, bookmarks and structured notes • Copy a highlight together with a deep link back to the passage • Export your annotations
Listen and understand • Text-to-speech with downloadable offline voices and Android Auto support • Translate a sentence, a page, or an entire book • Wikipedia and dictionary lookup without leaving the page
Sync everywhere • Readest Cloud, or bring your own: Google Drive, OneDrive, WebDAV, S3 • KOReader sync keeps your progress in step with your e-reader • Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, Linux and the web
Readest is open source. Questions or ideas: support@readest.com Privacy policy: https://readest.com/privacy-policy
What's new
Vocabulary: You can now build a vocabulary list, mark words as Learning or Mastered for Word Lens hints, and sync with Anki Statistics: Added a reading statistics dashboard so you can see your reading habits at a glance Reading: Added Page Flip and paper curl page turns, a page preview while dragging the progress slider, a straight-line reading ruler, and keyboard-only text selection Styling: You can now ignore publisher fonts, make white image backgrounds transparent, and adjust dialogue highlighting Text-to-Speech: You can now preview voices, pick a default voice per language, and sync downloaded read-aloud audio across devices Library: You can now import pasted text and Word or RTF files, share collections as bundles, search for covers in the app Sync: Added Grimmory, Obsidian, and CrossPoint 2.0 highlight sync, a new view of where your reading data goes, and a switch for servers with self-signed certificates Dictionary: You can now resize the dictionary popup, customize AI context lookups, edit word hints, and choose your lookup app on Android PDF: Text is now sharper, especially on iOS and Android, with smoother pinch zoom, panning, and gapless horizontal scrolling More: The KOReader plugin can sign in with a QR code, iPhone Duo gets book mode on its inner display, and stylus annotation and sync are more reliable
About this version
- Version
- 0.12.20 (12020)
- Size
- 44.54 MB
- Requires Android
- 8.0
- Target SDK
- 26
- Architecture
- armeabi-v7a
- Downloads
- 7
- Updated
- Nov 6, 2026
- Package
- com.bilingify.readest
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