Rebuilt for modern iOS: experience the quiet elegance of fine paper reading for EPUB & CHM files. Rich typography customization. Pay once, enjoy full access forever.
Most e-readers are bloated with monthly subscription traps, intrusive ads, and clumsy formatting.
CHMate brings the quiet focus and tactile elegance of a real book back to your screen.
Native EPUB and CHM reader with rich typography customization, instant search, and paper themes.
Trusted by readers for over a decade, now rebuilt natively for modern iOS.
Pay once, own forever. Full unlimited access with no subscriptions.
CHMate+ is a local EPUB and CHM reader for iPhone and iPad. Import the books and documents you already own, arrange them into a library you enjoy, and read each one in the way that suits it best.
CRAFTED FOR FOCUSED READING
• Paper Texture & Themes: Curated paper backgrounds, customizable fonts, line spacing, margins, and dark mode
• Distraction-Free: Clean interface designed to put nothing between you and the text
• Tactile Gestures: Smooth chapter transitions and fluid page-turning that respect your reading rhythm
DUAL FORMAT POWER: EPUB & CHM
• EPUB: Perfect for literature, novels, and reflowable publications
• CHM & MHT: Read technical documentation, programming references, and compiled help manuals with structured tables of contents
POWERFUL, PRIVATE UTILITIES
• Instant Search: Lightning-fast full-text search across chapters
• Highlights & Notes: Capture the quotes that move you and review annotations easily
• iCloud Theme Sync: Seamlessly sync your typography themes across your devices via CloudKit
• Local Wi-Fi Transfer: Drop books directly from your computer browser to your device over Wi-Fi without cables
HONEST, ONE-TIME PURCHASE
• Full access and unlimited bookshelf included from the start
• No in-app purchases. No recurring subscriptions.
• No ads. No tracking.
I tried the lite version of this app, along with several others, before purchasing this one. The "quick jump" feature is very helpfully when scrolling through a large page; the ability to browse the entire photo gallery for a page is really nice, esp. when reading textbooks with figures that need referencing. However the best feature of this app is its ability to alter the text formatting within the app - this allows me to set the text so that it is easily read - I never have to scroll from right to left to read an entire line or squint to make out the text. These features make reading CHM files enjoyable. I gave this app only 4 stars because it is missing 2 very important features: 1. The ability to perform a text search on an entire document. It can search a single page or the TOC well - but if you're looking for a term that isn't in the currently loaded page, you're out of luck until you load it. There is only one CHM reader in the app store, to my knowledge, that has this feature (CHM+). I currently use CHM+ as my default reader for this reason.2. The ability to organize my files into folders.
Some crushes
Salman dawood
Not searching in whole documents when the book is large ( 5000 page ) like Nelson textbook of pediatric
Great EPub CHM Reader
Frank from NYC
Love this app!
so many usability problems
TT5569
Chmate is an expensive chm file viewer. But its high price doesn't not amount to its quality. There are so many issues with the user interface that caused a great deal of inconvenience to the users: (1) the table of content is out of sync with the chapter that the reader is currently reading. Suppose I am reading section 3.2 of a book. When I click the table of content button, the table doesn't not show section 3.2; instead it shows the beginning of the book. It is difficult to navigate to the nearby sections, say section 3.5, since I have to scroll all the way to that section. (2) All figures have to fit inside the screen and there is no way to zoom in to see the small details. There is absolutely NO way to see the details of any large figures. (3) Most of the useful buttons are at the top-right corner of the screen, which is the most inconvenience locations for most users. The buttons should be at the button or top-left corner.I can go on to list a couple of problems. In short, this app is a piece of crap--I won't pay the programmer $10 for making so many design problems in such a simple program.--Jan 11, 2011. The author fixed the table of content problem, added some zoom-in ability to the figures, and reduced the price. Therefore, I added two more stars to my review. But still, the figures cannot be zoom-in as much as I like, and the buttons are still at some inconvenient locations. If the author can fix these problems, I will give him a positive review.
New in this update:
• Browse and download curated public-domain books directly in CHMate+, with real covers and visible download progress
• Books appear immediately on your shelf while downloading; pause, resume, retry, or remove them at any time
• Improved Chinese and Japanese typography, including vertical layout, ruby spacing, and progress-preserving layout switches
• Reworked Find in Page so matches stay visible, result counts remain clear, and the keyboard gets out of the way
• A clearer Add Book menu, Recent sorting by default, and many reading and stability fixes
Version 260821.0
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Information
Seller
贤安 陈
Size
7.8 MB
Category
Books
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
Languages
English and 7 more
English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
