PlainReader: Parallel Reading
Your bookshelf, kept simple
$6.99
Read several books side by side — each keeps its place, bookmarks, and notes. A bookshelf that stays in order by itself, with the family's full reading engine.
PlainReader is a native reader for Mac, iPad, and iPhone, built for people who read several books at once — a technical manual beside a novel beside a textbook — and want keeping them in order to take no effort at all.
One picture explains it: JustReader is the book on your nightstand, ContinuousReader is the library — and PlainReader is the bookshelf between them.
EVERY BOOK HAS ITS OWN PLACE
The shelf is big: a thousand books, and each one carefully keeps its bookmarks, notes and reading position. Don't hold back. On Mac and iPad the list sits beside the text; on iPhone it is the app's main screen.
THE APP REMEMBERS WHAT MATTERS
Take a book off the shelf and bring it back a month later, and everything is where you left off. A history of your last 25 books reopens any of them at the same paragraph.
A READING EXPERIENCE YOU CONTROL
The same reading engine as our ContinuousReader: EPUB, FB2, MOBI, AZW3, PDF, Markdown, HTML, TXT and RTF, including inside ZIP and RAR archives; manga and comics as two-page spreads; Chinese and Japanese books with furigana; nine typefaces and 41 themes across five palettes plus Typewriter and Terminal; continuous scroll, paged, or two-page spread; real hyphenation in Latin, Cyrillic, CJK, Arabic, and Greek; Read Aloud with word-by-word highlighting; on-device translation; full reading statistics.
BOOKS FROM ANYWHERE
Import by file, link, or drag and drop — or browse OPDS catalogs (Standard Ebooks, Project Gutenberg, Feedbooks, or your own) with per-catalog shortcuts.
A BOOKSHELF, NOT A LIBRARY
Managing your shelf is as simple as it gets: drag to reorder, color-code a book. For a full library — folders, collection-wide search, iCloud sync, mass import — there is our ContinuousReader; for a single book on the nightstand there is our free JustReader. PlainReader is the shelf between them.
PRIVATE BY DEFAULT
No analytics, no telemetry, no tracking, no ads. Your books stay on your device.
No subscriptions and no in-app purchases. Universal Purchase: one price covers Mac, iPad, and iPhone. Family Sharing supported.
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• Manga and comics: CBZ, CBR and fixed-layout EPUB, right to left in spreads
• PDF in two ways: as text, or as pages exactly as in the file
• Simplified Chinese and Japanese interface; Chinese and Japanese books in their own encodings, furigana kept
• Kindle AZW3 without DRM and Markdown
• Archives of several books: a list with folders and a preview; import several or all at once
• Pictures full screen with zoom, a thumbnail size slider, a grid of all pages (F12 twice)
• Toolbar settings; Import opens a menu: a file or an OPDS catalog
• Retro on the iPad, an experimental skin
• Larger menus and a swipe on a book: read, colour, move, take off the shelf
• Import shows the book's category from its first step
The developer, Oleksii Koshkin, 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.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Oleksii Koshkin
- Size
- 23.6 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 7 more
- English, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Ukrainian
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Oleksii Koshkin
