Reader for Watch

Offline EPUB, TXT & TTS Reader

$1.99

Reader for Watch turns your Apple Watch into a fully standalone EPUB & TXT reader. Import books from your iPhone Files app, send them to your paired Apple Watch, then read offline or listen with Read Aloud (TTS) anytime—completely phone-free! Perfect for workouts, commutes, running, or leaving your phone behind. The app beautifully adapts your books for the watch screen with auto-scroll, chapter parsing, and customizable text styles. Key Features: • Standalone Reading: Read fully offline on Apple Watch after a quick transfer. • EPUB & TXT Support: Easy import from the iOS Files app or other apps. • Text-to-Speech (TTS): Listen via the Apple Watch speaker or Bluetooth headphones. • Smart Layouts: Automatic chapter parsing, reading progress sync, and bookmarks. • Smooth Auto-Scroll: Enjoy hands-free reading while on the move. • Quick Resume: Continue Reading widget and watchOS complication/control for fast resume. • Library Management: Pin books, track progress, and manage finished books. • Highly Customizable: Adjust font size, themes, custom colors, and speech rates. • Local Archiving: Option to archive local copies on iPhone after sending them to your watch. • Privacy First: Completely private. No data collection. Reader for Watch is designed for book lovers who want a clean, private, and simple way to carry their personal library on their wrist.

  • 3.1
    out of 5
    22 Ratings

What's new in this version: • Listen to books on Apple Watch with the new Read Aloud experience, including natural voices, chapter announcements, Now Playing controls, cover artwork, and background audio. • Customize Read Aloud with per-language speech rates, voice quality choices, and preferred voices for each language. • Keep reading and listening in sync with speech position restore, Follow Speech on Wake, and quick scrolling back to the spoken paragraph. • Move between chapters during Read Aloud with spoken chapter cues and smarter handling when the chapter title already appears in the text. • Read Aloud handles startup, pause and resume, interruptions, rapid chapter changes, and auto-scroll restoration more reliably. • Continue Reading widgets and controls now show book covers more reliably and refresh when cover art changes. • Improved book import, EPUB parsing, metadata preservation, and cover thumbnails. What's new recently: • This is a major update with a fully redesigned and optimized reading experience across iPhone and Apple Watch. • Continue Reading widgets and watchOS controls now show your current book and reopen the last reading position more reliably. • Improved bookmarks with multiple recent reading positions per book and more accurate paragraph-based restoration. • Tune your reading experience with more themes, a clearer theme picker, improved custom color controls, refined Watch reading controls, and better chapter titles. • Book transfers now show progress percentages, waiting states, cancellation, retry, and clearer availability messages. • Improved auto-scroll and manual scrolling behavior, including smoother behavior near chapter boundaries. • Improved TXT and EPUB parsing, including better TXT chapter navigation and support for numbered chapter headings. • See richer Watch book details, including current chapter, last read time, progress, and storage size. • Rename local books, delete Watch books, clean up archived books, and filter unsupported imports more reliably with clearer status feedback. • Search your iPhone and Apple Watch libraries, including matches from chapter titles. • Pin favorite books on Apple Watch and keep finished books in a separate Done Reading list. • Manage storage from iPhone with clearer counts, file sizes, cleanup tools, and better controls for local, archived, and Watch books. • Added Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), and Polish localizations. • Fixed crashes that could happen when opening some EPUB books and when loading the watch Lock Screen widget. • Improved library startup performance, transfer refreshes, transient bookmark resets, empty states, haptics, animations, and Liquid Glass layout.

The developer, 磊 汪, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

  • Data Not Collected

    The developer does not collect any data from this app.

    Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

    The developer indicated that this app supports the following accessibility features. Learn More

    • Supported Features

      • VoiceOver

      • Voice Control

      • Larger Text

      • Dark Interface

      • Differentiate Without Color Alone

      • Sufficient Contrast

      • Reduced Motion

    Seller
    • 磊 汪
    Size
    • 17.9 MB
    Category
    • Utilities
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
    • Apple Watch
      Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
    Languages
    English and 13 more
    • English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian
    Age Rating
    4+
    Copyright
    • © 2023-2026 iAugus