■ New features - Listen & Read: link an EPUB to its audiobook, and the page follows the voice. Each sentence is shaded as it's spoken and the page turns by itself. Each copy keeps its own place and offers the other's when you switch. Linking is prepared on your iPhone or iPad, and the audio is never uploaded. Needs iOS 26 or later, for books in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. - Folders: browse your library folder's own subfolders from the Library title menu. - Tap a section title in the Library to fold its books away, or use Collapse All and Expand All in the View menu. ■ Improvements - Fonts by Style: give body text and headings each a serif, sans serif or monospace font of their own, and choose fonts for a book's code, quotes, captions and tables. - Chapter Title Spacing: a slider on Spacing & Alignment trims the empty space above, inside and below each chapter's opening. - Time Left: the bottom reading bar can show the time left in the chapter or the book, based on your own reading pace. - Highlight Colors: repaint any of the six highlight colors. Books, lists, exports and share cards all use your color. - Series Look: choose how a grouped series stands out in the grid and the list, as Layers, Band, Count or Two Covers. Two Covers is the new default, and the choice is in Edit Library. - Library filters can include or exclude books by collection, or show only books in no collection. - A Calibre library folder now reads each book's details and cover from Calibre's own metadata.opf and cover.jpg files. - List rows can show a book's publication date. Turn it on in Edit Library. ■ Fixes - Fixed a crash that could happen in Search while results were updating. - OpenDyslexic, AccessibleDfA and iA Writer Duospace now change the book's font, and New York no longer shows as Times. - iPhone Duo: the open Duo turns to landscape after starting closed, a page on the closed Duo no longer starts under the status bar, and the audiobook player's controls stay on screen on the open Duo. - Back to Page and the pin button stay above the search results bar. - A password-protected PDF no longer disappears from the library right after you add it. ■ Localization - All new text is natively translated across all 21 supported languages.

■ New features - Pins: in an EPUB book, select a passage and tap Pin, or touch and hold an image, such as a map, to pin it. Tap the pin button at the bottom of the page to look at your last pin without losing your place, or touch and hold it to see all your pins. On iPad, a pin can also float over the page or dock beside it. - Back to Page: after any jump in an EPUB book, from Contents, search, a bookmark, a highlight or a link, tap Back to Page at the bottom to return to where you were. - Audiobookshelf: connect your Audiobookshelf server as a new source, browse its libraries, and download audiobooks and ebooks into your library. Your listening and reading position and finished books sync both ways, and you can sign in with single sign-on. - An audiobook keeps playing after you close its player. A mini player above the tabs brings it back. - Touch and hold a skip button to choose how far it skips, from 5 to 60 seconds, separately for back and forward. Car Mode, the Lock Screen and CarPlay use the same lengths. - While Read Aloud or a book's narration is on, double-tap a word to read on from its sentence, even while paused. - iPhone Duo: when it is open, books show two pages side by side. The iPad Layout setting is now called Pages Side by Side. ■ Improvements - Headings can now have their own size and weight, as well as their own font. - The top and bottom reading bars each have a Text Size slider, from 100 to 200 percent, on the Reading Bars page. - Reading Speed now shows words a minute, or characters a minute in Japanese and Chinese, with pages a minute beside it. - Find Better Details also searches Apple Books, Hardcover when connected, and Audible for audiobooks. It can fill in a book's series, and its Sources page lets you choose where it looks. ■ Fixes - Fixed a crash with natural voices on iPhone 17 and iPads with the M5 chip. ■ Localization - JustRead now speaks Russian, and all new text is natively translated across all 21 supported languages.

■ New features - Reading Assistant: on an iPhone or iPad with Apple Intelligence, JustRead now helps you understand and remember what you read. Everything runs on your device, so nothing you read leaves it. It works with books in the languages Apple Intelligence supports, and you can turn it off in Settings › Reading. - Explain: select a word or passage and tap Explain for a short, plain explanation. Each book keeps its explanations, so you can look back at them later. - Who's This?: select a character's name in an EPUB book, and Explain tells you who they are, using only the pages you have read so far. - Catch Me Up: in an EPUB book, get a recap of where you left off and of the story so far. It is offered when you open a book after a week or more away, and you can always open it from Book Details. - Highlights Digest: the Reading Assistant sums up the key ideas in your highlights and notes. Find it in the menu of Highlights & Notes. - On iPad, the reader's popovers are redesigned: one size for all of them, chapter lengths and pages left in Contents, Newest or Book Order in Bookmarks and Highlights, highlight cards with the words around each passage, and a strip in Search that shows where the matches fall in the book. The Sleep Timer can also stop at the End of Chapter. - In PDFs, your highlights show in the page thumbnails, and links open with a quick tap. - Set Series: select books in the Library and tap Series to put them into one series, numbered in order. - Tags from Columns, in the Calibre source's settings, turns custom columns such as fandoms into tags. - Saved Words can join the reader's toolbar: touch and hold the toolbar and choose Customize Toolbar. ■ Improvements - Book servers on plain http:// now connect from anywhere, for example over Tailscale, ZeroTier or a dynamic DNS address, not only on your home network. - With a filter on in the Library, Add Books, Edit and Send to Calibre stay available. Send to Calibre also offers Send All Books. - Show Covers Only now also hides the series badge. - The Library's selection bar is redesigned, with Read and Unread in one control and a Series button. - Recently Added and Recently Changed use Calibre's dates for books from Calibre. - Books from Calibre now take their series and number from the server, and PDFs read the series Calibre embeds in their metadata. - Very large books, made of thousands of files, open and respond much faster. ■ Fixes - Fixed crashes in Read Aloud, the dictionary, reading reminders, searching in a book, and when resizing the app on iPad. - With Font set to Original, books that use different fonts in different sections now show each section in its own font, instead of one fallback font throughout. - Searching a server's books no longer closes the keyboard while nothing matches yet, for example while typing in Pinyin. - The app icon's edges are no longer jagged on the Home Screen. - A book is no longer in Up Next and Finished at the same time. - Background listening now plays from where you left off. - Search results and highlight previews no longer drop the spaces between words. - On iPad, tapping outside a reader popover no longer turns the page. - Highlights imported from other PDF apps now cover just their text. - Comics and audiobooks without a title in their metadata show their file name instead of Unknown. ■ Localization - All new text is natively translated across all 20 supported languages.

■ New features - Background listening now prepares books on the Neural Engine. It is much faster, and it keeps going with the screen locked. - You don't need to prepare a book to listen to it: Read Aloud starts right away, and Natural Voices keep reading with the screen locked. Preparing adds CarPlay, 15 and 30 second skips and lower battery use. - Natural voices no longer need the 327 MB engine download, because the engine now comes with the app. - Edit Library opens with Layout tiles: Grid, List or Compact. - Show Sections in Edit Library hides the Library's section titles, so every sort becomes one run of books. - Edit Book has an ISBN field, so Hardcover and Find Better Details can match the exact edition. ■ Improvements - Preparing a book slows down while the phone is warm, in use, in Low Power Mode or on battery, so the phone stays cool and usable. Plug in for full speed. - The Preparing now card has Play, Pause and Cancel buttons, and shows the engine and how fast it prepares. - The Summary, Add Books and Group Series switches at the top of Edit Library share one card. ■ Fixes - Choosing Monthly or Yearly on the plans page no longer closes the app on some iPhones. - The page curl no longer shows a bright strip at the fold on light themes, and it settles more smoothly. - Going back from a page of Themes & Settings or Settings no longer stalls. - On iPad, Two Columns shows the right books after you change the sort. - With the Clear and Tinted icon looks, the app icon's cover no longer fades into the background. - In English, Help Center search finds topics by what they cover, not only by their titles. ■ Localization - All new text is natively translated across all 20 supported languages.

■ New features - Calibre-Web NextGen is a new book source in Add Books › Add Source. Browse and download your books, and your page and read status sync both ways. Pair with a Code signs in without typing your password. - Go to Page adds Live Preview, which turns the book as you drag the ruler. Close without Go and you are back on your page. - The Go to Page ruler marks your bookmarks and highlights, and the Now tag scrolls back to your page. Tap the page numbers at the bottom to open Go to Page. - Tap to Turn Page can Fade or Sweep into the next page. Choose it under Animation, for EPUB books, comics and PDFs. - Customize Toolbar offers Go to Page, Scroll, Invert Images, Light or Dark Theme and Prevent Sleep. Hold the reader toolbar to switch them on. - Highlights that another app, such as Preview or Acrobat, saved in a PDF show up as your own. The file is never changed. - Statistics can import your KOReader reading time from BookOrbit and Grimmory. Switch on Import Reading Time on the server's page. ■ Improvements - Every Library sort has section titles and the side index again. - On iPad, List and Compact can show two columns again. Find Two Columns in Edit Library. - Edit on Home, Library, Statistics and Roadmap can hide the summary at the top of the tab. - Calibre Mapping has an Abandoned field, so the Abandoned status syncs with a Calibre Yes/No column. - Calibre virtual libraries import as collections more reliably, and Import as Collection files a shelf you already synced. - KOReader Sync now signs in to Calibre-Web Automated and Calibre-Web NextGen. - An OPDS catalog can deliver an audiobook too, when it is a single file. - In Read Aloud, the voice you pick shows Prepare for Background Listening right under it. - The side rails keep their symbols clear of the page text. ■ Fixes - A Calibre-Web catalog lists your whole library, not one book per letter. - On iOS 18, the Library title menu and the Done button in Select are back. - On iOS 26, letting go of a slider no longer leaves its sheet faded and the app ignoring taps. - In a PDF, Note and Share in a highlight's menu open again. - The Library's side index no longer covers Edit at the top of the page. ■ Localization - All new text is natively translated across all 20 supported languages.

■ New features - A new look. Every tab, every sheet and the reader are redesigned. Each tab opens with a summary at the top, with Edit right beside it. - New Statistics. Tap Edit to pin the cards you want, and open any card for a page with a chart to explore. New Time to Finish card, and Highlights for your records, streaks, goals, books and tags. Reading Recap now opens from Reading Time. - New widgets: Current Book, Statistics and Recap. The old widgets are gone, so add them again from your Home Screen. - Customize Toolbar. Hold the reader toolbar to choose and arrange its buttons, with the tap areas on the same page. - Customize Bookmark. Hold the One-Touch Bookmark to restyle it and move it anywhere on the page. - New reading bar styles for EPUB books in Reading Bars. - Go to Page is now a page ruler for EPUB and PDF: drag to any page and tap Go. - Your Notes puts highlights, notes and saved words on one page, with search and Select. - The Reading Wrap is rebuilt, with Share Wrap. Hide from Wrap in Edit Book leaves a book out of it. - Recent Activity on the Roadmap shows which features changed lately. - Project Gutenberg has categories, sorting and a language choice. - Details shows how many words an EPUB has. - On iPad, the audiobook player shows the chapter list beside the controls. ■ Improvements - Tap the Library title to switch collections. - Add Books replaces the + button: files, iCloud Drive and book servers in one place, and every book source lists its books on one page with the same filter. - New books in your library folder appear by themselves while Auto-Refresh Library is on. - Large libraries are faster: sorting 10,000 books takes less than half the time. - Covers fill every slot. A cover close to the book shape is trimmed to fit, any other sits on a blurred backdrop. - Themes & Settings holds the theme, text size and fonts in one place, and the Text Size slider previews as you drag. - Slim side rails replace the edge sliders for brightness and text size. - Default Reading Style is regrouped into three pages and adds Font. - Comic and PDF settings follow the same design as EPUB books. - Book Details, Edit Book, Search, Car Mode, App Settings and the Help Center are redesigned. - iCloud sync shows as a thin line under the status bar. - A refreshed glass app icon. ■ Fixes - A library scan that cannot read your folder no longer removes books, and books that iCloud offloaded stay in the library. - Choose from Files in Edit Book opens in the book's own folder. ■ Localization - All new text is natively translated across all 20 supported languages.

■ New features - Auto Bookmark. Turn it on in Settings > Reader Screen, and one bookmark follows the page where you stop in each book. - Double-Tap Bookmark. Also in Settings > Reader Screen: double tap an EPUB page to bookmark it, or to remove its bookmark. - Go to page in EPUB books. Tap the page number at the bottom of the screen to jump straight to a page. EPUB pages now count from 1. - Favorite fonts. Tap the star beside a font to add it to Favorites, at the top of the Fonts sheet. - Select across pages. Hold a selection handle at the edge of an EPUB page and the page turns, so a highlight can run onto the next one. Switch it off in Settings > Text Selection Menu > Turn Pages While Selecting. - Last Read Date for Calibre. Calibre Mapping can send the day you last read a book to a date column on your server. - Search in Settings. Find any setting by its name or by what it does. - A new welcome for new users: five short screens, free classics to download, and a Getting started checklist for the first two weeks. ■ Improvements - Reading settings open inside a book. Page turning, Auto-Scroll and Read Aloud sit in the book's settings sheet, and More Settings at its bottom opens the rest without leaving the book. - Icon Spacing in Settings > Reader Toolbar spaces the toolbar icons apart, so a missed tap opens nothing. - App Settings is now in the ••• menu of Library and Home, and Settings holds every app-wide setting, including your library, book sources and subscription. - Every Settings page opens as its own sheet, and Line Focus and Auto-Scroll moved into Reading. - Display can hide the format badge and the finished ribbon on covers. - Past Wraps opens from the Wrap card on Home. - Bookmarks, Highlights, Saved Words and Recently Deleted appear once they have something in them, and the Readwise button once Readwise is set up. - On iPad, the sidebar's collections and tags show on the Library tab only. Tap a row again to clear it, tap more tags to narrow further, and your most used tags come first. - The Tags sheet switches between Most Used and Alphabetical with one tap. - While you hold a margin slider, a guide on the page shows where the margin falls. - The dictionary has a Saved Words button, and Go to book marks the word on its page. - Edit Book shows where the book's file is, with a button that opens it in Files. - The Roadmap shows developer answers, and a switch stops developer messages from opening by themselves. - Hardcover links a book by itself when a title and author search finds exactly one match. - The Collections sheet is always ready to edit: drag to reorder, tap a name to rename it. - The Library's length filter now reaches at least 1,000 pages. - A refreshed app icon. ■ Fixes - Chapter titles and other text that a book sets in bold now show in bold. - Select All picks only the books on screen, so a bulk action never touches books a filter hides. - A filter that matches nothing shows No Matching Books instead of an empty screen. - The alphabet index reaches #, accented letters, Cyrillic and CJK. - The sync indicator on Home and Library opens Sync History. - PDF follows Show Top Status Bar. - Comics no longer fill the History strip. - A page that already has a bookmark no longer gets a second one. - Calibre no longer marks unchanged books as Changed after a server restart. - Authors such as Thomas à Kempis are filed under their surname. ■ Localization - JustRead is now in Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and all the new text is natively translated across all 20 supported languages.

■ New features - Group Series. Turn on Group Series in the Library's Display sheet and every series collapses into one cover with its reading progress. Tap it to see the books. Search groups them too. - Sync with Hardcover. Connect your Hardcover account in Settings. Reading status, progress, ratings and reviews travel both ways. Books with an ISBN match on their own, the rest wait in a list you go through once, and a book you finish asks to be matched right away. You can write a review in Edit Book. - Calibre Highlights. Turn on Highlights and Bookmarks in the Calibre connection, and the highlights, notes and bookmarks in your EPUB books sync both ways with your Calibre server. - Folder Collections. If your library arrived sorted into subfolders, tap Folder Collections in the Collections menu. Each top-level folder becomes a collection with its books. ■ Improvements - The app is now called JustRead. - Numbered titles sort by value, so Volume 2 comes before Volume 10. - Covers are stored sharper, so Medium and Large grid tiles stay crisp. - The Library is titled after the collection it is narrowed to. - The download is about 12 MB smaller. ■ Localization - All the new text is natively translated across all 18 supported languages.

■ New features - Saved Words. Tap + in the dictionary to keep a word with the page you read it on. Saved Words on Home lists your words by book or by date, and they sync to your other devices. - Correct how a name is read aloud. In Settings > Reading > Pronunciation, add a word and spell how it sounds. Every voice says it that way in every book. - Name your highlight colors. In Settings > Highlight Colors, call a color Vocabulary or Quotes. The name shows when you tap a highlight and under it in Highlights & Notes. - Collections and tags in the sidebar. On iPad, tap a collection or tag in the sidebar to show only its books in the Library. Display in the Home menu can hide either list. ■ Improvements - Section headings and the author, tags and progress under your books are darker in light mode, so they are easier to read. ■ Localization - All the new text is natively translated across all 18 supported languages.

■ New features - Apple Pencil on iPad. Drag it across words to select them. In Settings > Apple Pencil, Drag Across Text can highlight, look up or translate right away, and a double-tap or squeeze can turn the page. While Drag Across Text is on, swipe pages with your finger. - Remove from In Progress. Press and hold a book to take it off the In Progress shelf without deleting it. It keeps its progress and comes back when you open it again. - Search this chapter. Tap This Chapter above the search results in a book to search only the chapter you are reading. - Reading speed by language. When your books come in more than one language, a menu on the Reading Speed card shows the speed for each one. - Convert MOBI with Calibre. A MOBI or AZW3 book on your Calibre server now appears in Calibre Books with a Convert badge. Tap it, and Calibre makes an EPUB on the server, ready to sync. - Update Calibre when you close a book. Turn on Send After Closing a Book in Calibre Mapping, and your progress goes to Calibre a few seconds after you close a book. - Extra-large widgets. On iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, the Currently Reading and Reading Calendar widgets come in extra-large and tall extra-large sizes, now also on the iPhone Home Screen. ■ Improvements - Japanese books written vertically now turn page by page from right to left, like a printed book. - Reading speed now counts pages in EPUB books only, the same books its reading time comes from. If you read many PDFs or comics, it can be lower than before. - A Grimmory book in several formats shows each one, and the format filter picks which file you download. BookOrbit books show a chip for each format. - Calibre Books, Grimmory Books and BookOrbit Books leave the menus while their server can't be reached, instead of showing grayed out. - Tap the lit star in a book's Details again to remove its rating. - A Switch to lifetime topic in Help explains how to move from a subscription to the lifetime purchase. Subscribers also find it in the Home menu. ■ Fixes - A picture as tall as the page no longer splits across two pages, and Invert Images now inverts all of it. - Code in programming books is no longer centered line by line and keeps its indentation. - The first highlight on a PDF page shows up right away. - Text selected in a PDF stays marked while you pick a highlight color. - On iOS 27, PDF pages no longer jump or shrink when you show the reader controls. - Syncing books from Calibre no longer makes every library scan read your unopened Calibre books again and undo your edits to them. - The average and trend on the Reading Speed card update again after you read. - On iPad, the Library toolbar no longer lands on a second row under the tab bar after a cold launch. - On iOS 27, reader and audiobook sheets in iPhone landscape no longer run off the top of the screen. ■ Localization - All the new text is natively translated across all 18 supported languages.

■ New features - Keyboard support on iPad. Arrows, Space, Page Up and Page Down turn pages in every reader, and a menu bar puts the tabs, Search, Import from Files and the whole Book menu on Command shortcuts. Hold Command in a book to see the list. - BookOrbit. Connect a BookOrbit server from the Library ••• menu, download its books, and keep progress, highlights, notes and bookmarks in step in both directions. Your reading sessions go to its statistics. - Calibre virtual libraries. The title of the Calibre Books sheet is now a menu that shows one virtual library from your server. When you sync, you pick which of them become collections. - Filter by author. The library filter sheet gains an Authors section, a searchable list with a count for every author, where you include or exclude any of them. - Audiobooks from Calibre. M4B, M4A, MP3, AAC and FLAC now download from a Calibre server, and an Audiobooks only filter finds them. A book that also has an EPUB or PDF still downloads that. - Single sign-on for Grimmory. A server that signs its users in through an identity provider now offers a Sign in button in the connection sheet. - Dim only the book. Settings > Reading > Reader Screen gains Brightness Applies To, set to Whole Device or This App Only. On This App Only the slider on the screen edge dims the page instead of the device. ■ Improvements - The library, Home, search and statistics are faster. - Books open faster, and the images inside a book stay ready for the next time you open it. - Covers load faster in lists and in Calibre. - Two imports at the same time keep both books. - Deleting a book no longer removes it from your statistics. A book you read keeps its cover there and still counts as finished. ■ Fixes - Highlights that arrived from another device are drawn again. - The highlight menu keeps all its buttons on screen. - A book opened from a widget or Spotlight while the app starts now opens. - Editing a book while the metadata scan runs keeps your changes, your reading status and your own cover. - An interrupted database restore recovers at the next launch. - Read Aloud and the audiobook player no longer take the playback controls from each other. - The subscription screen recovers when prices fail to load. - Highlights exported as PDF no longer cut off long text. - A large book from a Calibre server downloads to the end instead of stopping partway. - OPDS paging, incomplete downloads and selecting several Grimmory books at once are fixed. ■ Localization - All the new text is natively translated across all 18 supported languages.

■ New features - Grimmory. Connect a self-hosted Grimmory server from the Library ••• menu and it does five things at once: browse and download its books with their metadata, send books to it, keep reading status, ratings and progress in step both ways, sync highlights, notes and bookmarks with its Notebook in both directions, and post your reading sessions to its statistics. Signing in also sets up KOReader sync for you. Grimmory 3.1 or newer. - Customizable reader toolbar. Settings > Reading > Reader Toolbar shows, hides and reorders the buttons under a book, separately for EPUB, PDF, comics and audiobooks, with one icon size slider and a live preview. Hidden buttons keep their keyboard shortcuts. - Delete several books at once. Select books in the Library and tap Delete: one confirmation with the count, and everything waits 30 days in Recently Deleted. - Update Metadata from File. A row above Delete in the book menu reads the title, authors, series, tags, description and cover again from the file itself, replacing your edits and keeping progress, highlights and bookmarks. - Show covers only. A switch under Display in the Home menu draws every shelf on Home as cover art alone. - Book Sources. Library Display gains Show Calibre, Show Grimmory and Show OPDS switches, so a source you do not use leaves the menus without disconnecting anything. - 0.05x speed steps. The audiobook and Read Aloud speed sheets open with a stepper between the presets, and the CarPlay speed button cycles to the next preset above. ■ Improvements - An EPUB counts as finished when its last page is on screen rather than at a percentage, so short books are finished too and no book is finished early after its file was replaced. - Hyphens now works while Publisher Style is on, so long words break in a book that keeps the publisher's formatting. - Image-only pages, such as scene-break ornaments and chapter glyphs, stay centered when Publisher Style is off. - The Sync with KOReader & Kobo help topic now shows Calibre's Kobo driver settings tab by tab, with screenshots, and a Setup guide link in the KOReader settings opens it. - Get Free Books reads OPDS Books once you have added a server of your own, and Display sits right under Select in the Library menu. - The Day and Night presets follow light and dark mode only when you set them to. The 4.4 update wired both by itself, which flipped the theme chosen in onboarding, so untouched presets are back to Manual. - The tap area outline is off by default and, when shown, says where in Settings to turn it off. ■ Fixes - A PDF whose table of contents loops no longer crashes the app, and a book that crashed while opening is no longer reopened at every launch. - The library shows a PDF's real page count instead of its file size in kilobytes, and the page it shows for a PDF or comic is the one the reader is on. - Cancelling the metadata scan no longer removes the books it was still reading. - Opening a very long book no longer runs out of memory while building its chapter map. - A word set in small caps at the start of a paragraph is no longer drawn as a drop cap. - Tapping the widget for the book already open no longer closes and reopens it, or turns a landscape book back to portrait. - On iPad, the reader's custom color picker opens in place at full height instead of closing itself the moment it appeared. ■ Localization - All the new text is natively translated across all 18 supported languages.

■ New features - Sync with KOReader & Kobo. Your reading position follows you between justread and any e-reader running KOReader, a Kobo included, in both directions. Connect the official KOReader sync server, your own, or a Grimmory library in Settings > KOReader, and the page you stopped on is waiting on the other device. Opening a book asks before it jumps, or jumps by itself if you prefer. The Help Center walks through every route step by step, from installing KOReader to picking a server. - Add-books menu. The + button in the Library opens a menu: Import from Files, Get Free Books, and Calibre Books whenever your server can be reached. ■ Improvements - Read Aloud keeps the spoken word in the middle of the screen in scroll mode, instead of snapping every sentence to the top. - Page counts are computed the way Calibre does it, so a book is the same length here as in the Pages column of your Calibre library. Every book is recounted once after the update. - Hiding the goal card on Home also hides the streak-at-risk banner and the finish confetti. - Filters now stay on the device that set them, so a filter on the iPhone no longer shrinks the library on the iPad. ■ Fixes - A damaged EPUB or comic file no longer crashes the app when it is opened or when its cover is read. - A neural Read Aloud voice that fails part way through preparing a book no longer freezes the app. - The reader's close and rotate buttons follow the book's colors on iOS 18, so a dark book on a light-mode device no longer hides them. ■ Localization - All the new text is natively translated across all 18 supported languages.

■ New features - Auto-Scroll. Books in scroll mode can scroll by themselves at a speed you pick, so you can read hands free. A floating button starts and stops it, and Settings has an Auto-Scroll page. - Backup. Your reading progress, highlights, bookmarks, tags and covers export to a single file you can keep or carry to another device, and import back the same way. - Wikipedia in Look Up. The look-up sheet gained a Wikipedia tab next to the dictionary. It asks the book's own language first, and English if that language has no article. - Instant Highlight. Highlights save straight away in the color you used last. A switch in Settings brings back the old pick-a-color-first flow. - A grace day for your streak. One missed day per calendar month no longer breaks your reading streak, and streaks you already lost that way repair themselves. - PDF passwords are remembered. Unlock an encrypted PDF once and it opens straight away next time, cover and details included. - Audiobook speed and smart rewind. Playback speed carries between books and sessions, and coming back after a break rewinds a few seconds so you can pick up the thread. - Day and Night follow your device. The Day and Night color presets can switch themselves with light and dark mode. - A new name. The app is now justread, all in lowercase. Your books, highlights and progress are untouched. - App Icon. Twelve icons in Settings > Appearance, each a different background behind the same book. - Headings. Chapter headings can take a font of their own, apart from the body font. - Link Style. Links keep their color, drop to the body color with an underline, or read like ordinary text. ■ Improvements - Eye Health Reminders no longer interrupt. The break reminder is a small toast with a countdown instead of an alert you have to dismiss. - Readwise highlights export by themselves when you close a book, once your token is saved. - Calibre Books opens with a bar telling you how many books are new or changed, so syncing them is one tap. - Help search matches hidden keywords, not just topic titles, so a word like voice or trash finds the right topic. - The streak-at-risk banner on Home can switch the evening Streak Alert on right where the warning is. - The library folder moved into Settings, with the current path and a way to change it. - Get Free Books in the library menu says what the OPDS browser is for, and adding a server now accepts a bare address. - Large Calibre libraries appear as they load, and one dropped batch no longer discards the rest. - Daily Reminder and Streak Alert start from the hour you actually read, not a fixed evening time. - Preparing for background listening pauses when the battery gets low, and picks up once you plug in. ■ Fixes - The reader close button could be invisible on a light-mode device with a dark book. - The Lock Screen kept showing the finished chapter after playback rolled into the next one. - The widget streak and goal ring roll over at midnight, and the streak counts today once the goal is met. - A dismissed update banner stays dismissed. - Opening a book file from another app now opens the book, not just the Library tab. ■ Localization - All the new text is natively translated across all 18 supported languages.

■ New features - CarPlay. justRead now shows up in your car. Audiobooks play there, and so do books prepared for Background listening, with covers, reading progress and a speed button on the car screen. - Lock Book. Any book can ask for Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode before it opens. The switch is in Edit Book, and it applies only on that device. - Recently Deleted. Deleted books now wait 30 days before they are gone for good. Restore one and its reading position, highlights, bookmarks and cover come back exactly as they were. - PDFs caught up. Read Aloud now works in PDFs, with the same voices and controls as everywhere else, and the contents sheet gained a Pages tab with a thumbnail of every page. - Search Online. Edit Book can now fetch a missing cover, description and details from Open Library and Google Books. - Continue Reading everywhere. You can ask Siri to open a book or pick up where you left off, and a new Continue Reading control for Control Center and the Lock Screen jumps straight back into your current book. - Daily Pages Goal. Set how many pages a day you want to read, next to the reading time goal. - Daily Reminder and Streak Alert. A reading reminder at the time you choose, and an evening notification when today would break your streak. Both are optional and live in Settings. ■ Improvements - One goal card. The four goal sections on Home merged into a single card, so time, pages, streak and your yearly books goal share one place. - Haptic Feedback. The small vibrations on taps now have a switch in Settings, in case you want them gone. ■ Localization - All the new text is natively translated across all 18 supported languages.

■ New features - Read Aloud in 31 languages. New multilingual voices speak German, French, Spanish and 28 more, on your device and with nothing sent anywhere. - Ten new voices. Five female and five male, and every one of them reads all 31 languages, so you pick a voice rather than a language. - Family Sharing. One subscription now covers your whole family. Turn on Purchase Sharing and everyone in your Family Sharing group gets justRead. - Settings, rearranged. Settings is a short list of pages now instead of one long scroll, and the new gear button on Home opens it. - Chapters in audiobooks. Two or more audio files in one folder come in as a single audiobook, m4b included, and an audiobook that is one m4b file now shows the chapters it carries inside. - Three buttons moved down within thumb reach: Suggest Feature in the Roadmap, the story in Statistics and Settings on Home. - Edge Controls has three modes. The brightness and text size sliders at the page edge can stay visible, stay hidden while the drag still works, or show up only with the toolbar. Comics got the section too. ■ Improvements - Calibre finds your server again when your router gives it a new address, and the connection screen says whether the server is reachable instead of always claiming it is. - On iPad in portrait, bookmarks and highlights moved into the ••• menu so the top bar has room. - The cover fan in the reading recap follows your finger the same way in both directions. - Help explains the audiobook folder rule and points at the new Settings pages. ■ Fixes - Fixed the wrong book being deleted, opened or renamed after you deleted several books in a row. - Fixed the app not starting on some devices, with a database error. - Fixed the subscription status not updating after a plan ended or changed, and a payment notice that would not go away. - Fixed a tap on a link in a book opening the toolbar as well as following the link. - Fixed a PDF reopening a little before the place you stopped reading. - Fixed the link color sitting out of line with the other color rows. ■ Accessibility - The reader now copes with the accessibility setting that draws borders around buttons. The toolbar used to run off the screen and the page was cut off mid-line. ■ Localization - Ukrainian has arrived, the app's 18th language. - All the new text is natively translated across all 18 supported languages.

■ New features - Toolbar Tap Area. Choose where a tap opens the toolbar in books, comics and PDFs, and drag the area to the size you like. It can also be outlined on the page while the toolbar is open. - Faster Calibre browsing. Your Calibre library opens right away, even with thousands of books, and you can sort, filter and see series and tags. - Line Focus. Step the guide by half a screen with a tap, and come back to the exact line you left. - Link Color. Pick your own link color for each color preset. - Book descriptions. Edit a book's description right in Edit Book. - New Help topics on supported formats, deleting books and the subscription, with search and a way to reach support. ■ Improvements - Books open much faster. A large EPUB went from about 8 seconds to under one. - Whole rows in the reader lists are tappable, not only the text. - Buttons look and work the same everywhere, and they follow larger text sizes. - Reading speed ignores the page jumps that come from syncing, so the number matches how you really read. - Closing the Calibre book list no longer goes through your library when nothing was downloaded. - Preparing a book for Read Aloud keeps running when you lock the screen or leave the app, on iOS 26. ■ Fixes - Fixed a crash a few seconds after launch while Read Aloud was preparing a book. - Fixed the app staying in landscape after you closed a book. - Fixed losing your place when you closed a book and opened it again right away. - Fixed the close and rotate buttons ignoring the first tap in landscape. - Fixed a swipe at the top of the page jumping a whole chapter. - Fixed Cantonese books offering only Mandarin voices for Read Aloud. - Fixed Calibre problems: duplicate books, a server error read as an empty library, and books without a date. - Fixed the reader toolbar on small screens. It now fits on an iPhone SE and in a slim window on iPad, and it no longer covers the reading bar at the bottom of the page. - Fixed the pages left, the chapter name and the bookmark titles in books that split one chapter across several files. - Fixed the table of contents numbering only the parts, not the chapters inside them. ■ Accessibility - Bigger tap targets in the reader lists and on the close and rotate buttons. - Buttons keep their shape at accessibility text sizes. ■ Localization - All the new text is natively translated across all 17 supported languages.

■ New features - Comics and manga. Read CBZ and CBR files beside your books, with two-page spreads, double-tap zoom, a page grid, an adjustable page dim, and a reading direction you set per book. - Read Aloud. Any EPUB without its own narration can be read to you, by any Apple voice on your device or by natural English voices you download once and then run offline. The sentence highlights as it is spoken, the pages turn on their own, and speed, sentence skips, a sleep timer and Lock Screen controls are always at hand. - Background listening. Prepare a book in advance and keep listening with the screen off or the app in the background. - Line Focus. Dim the page and keep a guide on the line you are reading. - Audiobooks from anywhere. Import them from Files, drag and drop or Open In, not only from your library folder. FLAC now reads like M4B and MP3, as a single file or as a folder of chapters. - Yearly books goal. Set how many books you want to finish this year and follow the progress from Home. - Wide tables in EPUBs no longer get cut off. They scroll inside the page, or open full screen with pinch to zoom. - Print a book's highlights, and share a PDF highlight as a quote card. - Cover size. Show small, medium or large covers in the library grid. - Discovery tips and new Help Center topics, so features stop hiding. - An Acknowledgments screen listing every open source component in the app. ■ Improvements - The app now says when iOS has blocked Local Network access, instead of letting every Calibre and OPDS connection fail as if the address were wrong. - Covers show a format pill only when your library holds more than one format. - Calibre and OPDS server passwords moved to the Keychain. - Large OPDS downloads no longer share the catalog timeout, a failed download says so and offers a retry, and an expired login asks you to sign in again. - EPUB columns on iPad follow the window instead of the device, so Split View and Slide Over stay readable. - Sheets ask before discarding text you have typed. - The Export Highlights Shortcut can export a single book. ■ Fixes - Fixed the sync icon spinning forever after the app came back from the background. - Fixed the reader on iPad reopening at the start of the chapter after the app had been in the background. - Fixed an audiobook folder with a dot in its name losing part of that name. - Fixed the history and image strips in the reader drawing an oversized background. - Fixed multi-file drag and drop reporting the wrong number of imported books. - Fixed a rating changed on another device needing a relaunch to show up. ■ Accessibility - VoiceOver summaries for the reading charts in the widgets. - Full-size tap targets in the highlight menu and the list sheets. - Sheets that were cramped at accessibility text sizes now open large. ■ Localization - All the new text is natively translated across all 17 supported languages.

■ Fixes - Fixed a database error that could stop the app from opening on a new installation. - Fixed PDF highlights appearing in the wrong position on pages with cropped margins.

■ New features - Custom book covers. Set or replace the cover for any book, right from its detail screen. Your choice syncs across your devices, and refreshing metadata no longer overwrites a cover you picked by hand. - Abandoned books. Mark a book you have stopped reading as Abandoned. It stays in your library but leaves In Progress, Up Next, the Home quick actions, and the widget, without pretending you finished it. - Exclude filters. Library filters for tags, status, and format are now three-way: off, include, or exclude. Hiding every book with a tag is now as easy as showing only the ones that have it. - Shortcuts and Siri. New actions let you export highlights, sync highlights to Readwise, and pull new or changed books from Calibre or push your changes back, all from the Shortcuts app or a Siri phrase. ■ Improvements - Books now open on a tap and reveal their actions on a long press: mark as read, up next, or abandoned without leaving the shelf. - Translation now lets you choose the source language, not only the target. - Books leave Up Next automatically once you read past 1%, so the shelf reflects what you are actually reading. - Swipe left on a saved filter to delete it. ■ Fixes - Fixed a sync issue where edits made while syncing was paused could be silently dropped before reaching iCloud. - Fixed the sync icon spinning forever after a library scan, and prevented duplicate background sync engines from starting. - Fixed several widgets showing nothing, and widgets always appearing in English no matter your language. - Fixed the Look Up dictionary sheet occasionally opening blank or crashing. - Fixed a crash when translating selected text. - Fixed the Share Book sheet clipping its edge on iPad, and the Suggest Feature keyboard sizing on iPad. ■ Accessibility - The new tap-to-open, hold-for-actions control on book covers is fully operable with VoiceOver. ■ Localization - Added European Portuguese as its own language, distinct from Brazilian Portuguese. - The widgets are now fully translated in every supported language, with correct plurals. They previously showed English text to everyone. - All newly added text is natively translated across all supported languages.

■ New features - Reading Wrap: a story-style recap of your reading, with covers, stats, and superlatives. Opens from Home, Stats, a monthly banner, or the yearly takeover, and any card can be shared. - Personalize the whole app with a surface theme. Pick a color in Settings → Appearance and tune background and section-fill strength with sliders. Your choice syncs across your devices. - A new custom color picker with Spectrum and Sliders tabs, used for both the app theme and reading color presets. - Import books straight from Files. A new + button in the Library opens a multi-select picker for EPUB and PDF, with batch progress, cancel, and duplicate detection. - New library-wide bookmark manager. See every bookmark from every book in one place, grouped By Book or By Date, with search and tap-to-open. Opens from the Home toolbar. - Download PDFs from OPDS catalogs, not just EPUBs. Each imported book opens in the right reader automatically. - Import fonts without leaving the reader. A new + in the EPUB fonts sheet adds fonts mid-book, and the list refreshes instantly. - First launch now seeds a small starter library so there is something to read right away. ■ Improvements - Every sheet now uses a standard navigation bar with the close button on the leading edge, matching iOS conventions. Reader sheets in landscape get a tighter header and the right width. - Redesigned share cards for books, milestones, highlights, and Wrap: solid artwork with no transparent edges, and actions in the toolbar. - Recap is more interactive: swipe through the cover fan, scrub periods with a horizontal date strip, and see every finished book on one cover wall. - Highlight notes can be edited inline. - Restyled full-screen image viewer, with smoother panning when zoomed. - Calibre now detects better changes per book, so unchanged books are no longer re-imported. - Clearer OPDS downloads: a green check and a success haptic confirm when a book finishes importing. - Refreshed onboarding, library location sheet, Library import button, and audiobook toolbar. ■ Fixes - Fixed a crash when opening a book whose description contains HTML. - Fixed Files import reporting "0 imported" for readers who had never picked a library folder. - Fixed OPDS catalogs (e.g. Kavita) showing the same book several times while hiding others. - Fixed the image browser opening the wrong image on first open, and images sitting off-center. - Fixed the Roadmap detail view going blank after a refresh. - Fixed reader search fields on iPad needing two taps before the keyboard appeared. ■ Accessibility - Broad VoiceOver and Dynamic Type pass across the reader, library, stats, and sheets: charts inside cards are reachable again, oversized text no longer breaks layouts, low-contrast text is readable in light mode, small controls got full-size tap targets, and the new color picker is fully operable with VoiceOver. ■ Localization - All the newly added text is natively translated across all supported languages.

■ New features - Turn EPUB pages with an Apple Books-style page curl. A real paper-fold animation, switch it on in Settings. - Send books straight to your PocketBook: email any book to your @pbsync.com address, just like Send to Kindle. - Import custom fonts from a ZIP archive. A whole family with all its weights and styles lands in one step. - New "Recently Changed" library sort orders books by when their file last changed on disk. ■ Improvements - The free trial is now 14 days (up from 7). - Refreshed app icon with a new purple gradient and dedicated light and dark versions. - New "Multiple libraries" help topic: keep several book folders side by side and switch between them without losing files or progress. ■ Fixes - Imported fonts now show every weight and style right away, instead of only Regular until the next relaunch. - Fixed Japanese vertical writing (tategaki): vertical-text EPUBs now lay out and turn pages correctly. ■ Accessibility - Send to Kindle and Send to PocketBook are now reachable from the VoiceOver Actions rotor on Home cards and Search results, not just long-press. - Clear-email buttons in Settings enlarged to a full 44pt touch target. - Page curl now respects Switch Control, VoiceOver, and Reduce Motion, restoring normal page turning when toggled mid-book. ■ Localization - All the newly added text is natively translated across all supported languages.

■ New features - EPUB text now has a continuous font-weight slider: drag to make the type lighter or heavier. ■ Improvements - Custom fonts are now grouped by family. ■ Fixes - Adding both the regular and the italic version of a font no longer turns your entire book italic. ■ Accessibility - VoiceOver now reads the font-weight slider, announcing the exact weight and whether it's one of the font's real weights or an approximated one. ■ Localization - All the newly added text is natively translated across all 15 supported languages.

■ New features - Listen to audiobooks. justread now plays your audiobooks right alongside your EPUBs and PDFs, whether each book is a single file or a folder of chapter tracks. The player gives you a chapter list, adjustable playback speed,bookmarks, a sleep timer, skip-back and skip-forward, and it always picks up exactly where you left off. Controls show up on your Lock Screen, and playback keeps going in the background. Car Mode included. ■ Improvements - Browse a catalog, don't just search it. Online libraries (OPDS) that organize books into categories (by author, tag, or series) can now be browsed section by section down to each book, which helps when you're not sure exactly what to search for. - Clearer names that fit listening too: "Want to Read" is now "Up Next," and "Reading Goal" is now "Daily Goal." - Your library and stats now include audiobooks: you can filter to just your audiobooks, and your time listened counts toward your activity. ■ Fixes - PDFs in scroll mode reopen exactly where you stopped. - OPDS catalogs that group books into categories (such as BicBucStriim) now return search results again, and their categories open properly instead of failing to load. - Searching an OPDS catalog for titles with symbols like & or + no longer comes back empty. - Turning off every source in an OPDS online library now correctly shows no books. ■ Accessibility - Audiobooks work with VoiceOver throughout: the new player, the sleep timer, and the Car Mode controls are all spoken clearly, and a book announces whether you're listening or reading rather than relying on its icon alone. - VoiceOver now reads the full morning/afternoon/evening/night breakdown on your activity stats, and your shareable book card is fully navigable. ■ Localization - All the newly added text is natively translated across all 15 supported languages.

■ New features - Read-along narration: EPUBs that ship synced narration (EPUB 3 Media Overlays) can now be read along to, with the spoken sentence highlighted as the narrator reads. ■ Improvements - Your place in a book now catches up across devices: reopening a book jumps forward to the furthest point you reached on another device, and never backwards. - More book covers show up: EPUBs whose artwork couldn't be read before (because of the size of epub) now display it, and very large books no longer time out while their details load. ■ Fixes - OPDS catalogs that group books into categories (such as BicBucStriim) now show every book instead of only the first one. - EPUBs authored in strict XHTML that used to open to a blank or error page now render correctly. ■ Accessibility - Read-along narration works with VoiceOver: the audio-mode toggle now announces whether narration is on instead of relying on color alone, and the animated waveform respects Reduce Motion, holding still when that setting is on. ■ Localization - The newly added read-along narration text (audio controls, the help center topic, and VoiceOver hints) is natively translated across all 15 supported languages.