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Your library, your shelf, your reading habit.
Leaf & Spine is a calm, distraction-free home for your EPUBs, PDFs, comics and audiobooks. Arrange them on a 3D bookshelf, read with highlights, notes and drawings, listen with the screen off, and watch a daily reading habit take shape. Read for free, or upgrade to Premium for stats, focus sessions, backups and your own servers.
BRING IN YOUR BOOKS
• Read EPUB, PDF, CBZ and CBR, and listen to audiobooks. Audiobooks require Premium.
• Add a whole folder at once, or pick files yourself.
• Discover free public-domain books and audiobooks from Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks and LibriVox.
• Connect your own server (Premium): Calibre, Calibre-Web, Kavita, Komga, Audiobookshelf, or a WebDAV folder such as Nextcloud or a NAS. Browse it, search it as you type, and download books to read offline.
READ YOUR WAY
• Highlight, take notes, draw with pen, pencil and highlighter, and look words up in the dictionary or translator.
• Listen: the page is read aloud with the sentence lit up, using natural voices made on your device, and an EPUB that comes with a recording plays the narrator.
• Focus mode for reading a sentence at a time, and a reading ruler.
• Presets, typefaces (including Atkinson Hyperlegible and OpenDyslexic), heading styles and page-turn speed. Premium readers can import their own fonts.
AUDIOBOOKS THAT KEEP PLAYING
• Keep listening with your phone locked or while you use another app, with play, pause and skip on the lock screen.
• Chapters, bookmarks, notes, speed and a sleep timer that works with the screen off.
ORGANISE YOUR SHELF
• A 3D bookshelf with categories, sub-categories, tags and series, sorted and grouped by author or series, with bookends you can fold into a box set.
• Spines take their colour from each book's cover, or customise spines, patterns and covers yourself.
• A page for every book: progress, the next in its series, description, chapters and your marks.
• Fix a book's details, or fill them in from Open Library (Premium).
• The Notebook gathers every highlight, note, drawing and looked-up word from your whole library, and one search covers it all.
BUILD A HABIT
• Goals in minutes a day or days a week, reminders at a time you choose, and streak freezes so one missed day doesn't erase months.
• Home follows the series you are reading, and finishing a book offers the next one.
• Home screen widgets with your current book and a highlight worth rereading.
• Premium stats: time read and listened, pages, chapters, books finished, genres, highlights and words looked up, by week, month, year or all time.
FOCUS SESSIONS (Premium)
• Set a timer and read inside an immersive environment: a fireplace, a beach, a waterfall or a rainy window, each with its own ambience and music, which keep playing with the screen locked.
YOUR PLACE, EVERYWHERE (Premium)
• Back up automatically to iCloud or Google Drive, and keep your place across your devices.
• Sync your progress with Audiobookshelf, Komga, Kavita and KOReader.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• No account or sign-up needed to start reading.
• Your books, highlights, notes and progress stay on your device. Backups go to your own iCloud or Google Drive, never to our servers.
• Six themes, light and dark (two free), and the app in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
PERFECT FOR
• Students who highlight, draw and track study time.
• Fiction readers who want EPUBs and audiobooks in one place.
• Comic and manga readers with CBZ and CBR collections.
• Anyone with a Calibre, Kavita, Komga or Audiobookshelf library.
CONTENT NOTICE
Leaf & Spine does not sell or host books. Discover lists free public-domain titles from Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks and LibriVox; everything else is your own files and your own servers.
Terms of Use (EULA):
https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Updated update:The developer has clarified that reading progress is indeed synced to iCloud for every session, which is very good news! I do wonder if frequent annotations and highlights on different devices might get lost with only once-a-day backups, but I don’t use these features all that heavily, so it might not be an issue for me. I have restored my 5-star rating and enthusiastically recommend this reader!Update:Well, the developer has added automatic iCloud backup, which is good, but the implementation seems to be only a marginal improvement because it only backs up once a day. I switch devices for reading multiple times a day, so it’s not clear I’ll get any benefit from the automation and I’ll have to continue backing up manually. I’d prefer a more aggressive backup strategy using app open/close and wake/sleep events so we’d have true iCloud sync. Original review:This is a beautiful, feature-packed app that could easily become my 5-star go to reader… except that it uses Google Drive to backup instead of iCloud Drive. Unfortunately, that makes it a nonstarter.
Developer Response
Dear User, Thank you for the update and for sticking with Leaf & Spine. The full backup runs once a day but your reading place doesn't wait for it. Turn on Keep my place across devices in Backup & Restore on each of your devices (same iCloud account). Your page in every book is then saved to iCloud each time you close a book or leave the app and your other device picks it up as soon as you open the app or come back to it. Highlights, notes and newly added books still travel with the daily backup so for switching devices to keep reading, Keep my place is the one to turn on.
Love this!!
Blue🌊👀
*Up date* I freaking love this app!! Once you learn how to navigate this reader it will become your favorite reading app!!**I love this reading app. I think it is amazing. The only problem I have encountered is I can’t figure out how to get it to read my epub books. I’m not tech savvy so I’m sure it’s not the app. If you love reading this is a wonderful app even if your not tech savvy like me ☺️
Developer Response
Thank you for the 5 stars! You can now listen to your EPUBs in the new update by tapping on the bottom while reading to bring up the controls menu and tapping on Listen. You can also go to settings and tap on Restart Tutorial. Happy Reading and Listening :)
Books had to stay in the app forevery
Zack mans
EBoox had to stay in the app forever not being erased cause I know it’s gonna read the books if they want to once a day in that app
Developer Response
Thank you for the 5-star review! I'm glad you gave Leaf & Spine a try. If you have any suggestions or features you'd like to see, I'd love to hear them. The fix is coming in the next update on version 2.4.0. Happy reading!
Please Add Arabic Language Support
AishRA.
I really like the app, but I would love to see Arabic language support added.
Your library, your servers
Connect your own server: Add Calibre, Calibre-Web, Kavita, Komga, Audiobookshelf or WebDAV servers such as Nextcloud and NAS devices. Browse folders and download books for offline reading.
Sync your progress: Premium keeps your reading position in sync with Audiobookshelf, Komga, Kavita and KOReader, including support for audiobooks, PDFs and comics.
Listen with the screen off: Audiobooks continue playing while your phone is locked or you're using another app, with lock-screen controls, sleep timer and ambience support.
Show covers on your shelf: Choose to display a book cover facing outward on the bookshelf for a more personal, bookshop-style look.
Audiobookshelf chapters: Audiobooks import with their chapters, including multi-file audiobooks that play as one continuous book.
Version 2.8.0
The developer, Aqeeb Rizwan, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Purchases
Identifiers
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
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