Classics – Public Domain Books

Read & listen to the classics

Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

The great books, beautifully bound — and finally quiet. Public Domain Books is a calm, carefully crafted library of the world's timeless classics. No ads. No accounts. No noise. Just the greatest works ever written, typeset with care and ready wherever you are. READ, OR LISTEN Every book can be read on a warm, paper-like page — or read aloud with natural narration, so you can keep going with your eyes closed. IN YOUR LANGUAGE Titles and translations across 11 languages — English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Chinese, and Turkish — with furigana over Japanese and pinyin over Chinese, for readers and learners alike. MADE TO FEEL LIKE A REAL BOOK Leather covers and gold lettering. Three restful themes — Paper, Original, and Quiet. Adjustable type, bookmarks, highlights, and notes. Your place is always saved, and syncs across your devices. YOURS, OFFLINE Each book downloads the first time you open it — after that, read it on a plane, a train, or a mountaintop. Everything is in the public domain. ON THE SHELF TODAY • Meditations — Marcus Aurelius • The Prince — Machiavelli • The Art of War — Sun Tzu • The Book of Five Rings — Miyamoto Musashi • On the Shortness of Life — Seneca • Enchiridion — Epictetus • As a Man Thinketh — James Allen • The Death of Ivan Ilyich — Tolstoy New titles and translations arrive regularly — and you can request the ones you're missing, right from the app. Open a book. Breathe out.

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Search inside a book now finds words with or without accents — type "coracao" and it finds "coração". Plus small fixes and polish.

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Seller
Pedro Moitinho
Size
7.4 MB
Category
Books
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 17.6 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 14.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 1.3 or later.
Languages
English and 10 more
  • English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Turkish
Age Rating
4+
Copyright
Texts are in the public domain. App © 2026 Pedro Moitinho.