# Booklover - eBook Reader — For PDF / ZIP / RAR > Robust eBook reader for PDF, ZIP/CBZ, and RAR/CBR with advanced library management. (iPhone/iPad app by Plastic Software, Inc..) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/booklover-ebook-reader/id949207089 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Plastic Software, Inc.](https://appshunter.io/developer/949207088) - Category: Books, Utilities - Price: $3.99 - Rating: 4.60/5 from 57 App Store ratings · 100 written reviews indexed - Age rating: 17+ - Requires: iOS 18.6 · 21 MB - Languages: American English, Japanese - Released: 2015-01-07 - Data updated: 2026-08-30 - Monetization: paid - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/booklover-ebook-reader/id949207089/reviews.md ## What is Booklover? Booklover is a highly responsive and robust eBook reader. It excels at handling PDFs, manga, and scanned books. The metadata-driven library management system makes it easy to organize and enjoy a large collection of books in PDF, ZIP/CBZ, and RAR/CBR formats. Seamlessly integrated with iCloud Drive, books in the iCloud Drive/Booklover folder automatically appear in the app’s library and can be downloaded on demand. In the library, you can organize books by genres and arrange them using various bibliographic details such as title, author, publisher, and more. With the search field and powerful Library Navigator, you can quickly locate a book among thousands in your collection. Customize your reading experience with settings for each book, including page layout, transition axis and style, cropping, filters, progress direction, background, and more. Booklover supports bookmarks with titles and notes, as well as PDF text annotations (highlights), text search, and a table of contents. Main Features: # General • Manage and view eBooks (PDF, ZIP/CBZ, RAR/CBR) • Support for archived image files in JPG, PNG, GIF, HEIF, WEBP, AVIF, and JPEG XL formats • Automatic syncing of book files placed in iCloud Drive/Booklover. On-demand caching (download) of the remote files • Import files via iTunes (Windows), Finder (Mac), AirDrop, Drag & Drop, "Open with..." etc. • Import files via apps from various cloud storage services, such as Dropbox and OneDrive, as well as other services accessible through the iOS Files app. • Slide Over / Split View (iPad) • Hardware keyboard support (mainly in the reader) # Library • Section books by genre (ON/OFF) • The Library Navigator (ON/OFF) • Histories of added and opened books • Context Menu for individual books (long-press a book cover) • Change sort order: By Title, Author, Publisher, Filename, Added Date, etc. • Alphanumeric Index Labels (ON/OFF) • Toggle display of cover accessories • Adjust cover grid size • Responsive Shadow (shows page volume with shadow) • Filter books by Status, Genre, Tags, etc. • Search books by various bibliographic details, file name, and tags # Reader • PDF text annotations (highlights) with notes, text search, and a table of contents • Bookmarks with titles and notes • Lists of bookmarks and PDF annotations • Page transition settings: Axis (Horizontal, Vertical), Style (Scroll, Continuous Scroll, Stack, Crossfade, Zoom fade, Instant) • Progress direction setting: Left to Right, Right to Left (for vertical text, manga, Arabic, etc.) • Page layout setting: Automatic, Single-Page, Two-Pages (spread) • Separate page layout settings for view orientation (Portrait / Landscape) • Page trimming (for images only) • Page sizing: Show All, Width-Fit, Height-Fit • Page thumbnail view (overview, bookmarks) • Image correction filters • Dynamic background (When the "Background Color" option for a book is set to "Dynamic") • Adjust page spread position (Insert adjuster page at the beginning of the book body) • Text recognition within images (with compatible devices only) • Export (share) the currently displayed page # Book Management • Edit metadata: Title, Author, Genre, Publisher, Published Date, ISBN, etc. • Edit Tags (Can be used as filter criteria in the side menu) • Extract metadata (title/author) from PDFs • Extract various metadata from file names with configurable extraction rules • Automatic/Manual cropping of book covers • Batch modification of book settings and metadata • Transfer book files: "Open with...", AirDrop, Drag & Drop, etc. • Can manage the content files and data separately ("Ghost Book") ——————————————— # Acknowledgments [Books used in the screenshots] • "Give My Regards to Black Jack" by SHUHO SATO (Manga on Web: http://mangaonweb.com) • Public domain books from Feedbooks (http://www.feedbooks.com) • Public domain comics from digitalcomicmuseum.com (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com) ## Key features - Manage and view eBooks (PDF, ZIP/CBZ, RAR/CBR) - iCloud Drive syncing - Organize books by genre and bibliographic details - Powerful search and Library Navigator - Customizable reader settings - Bookmarks and PDF annotations - Support for archived image files ## Chart rankings - #70 in Top Paid · Book (US App Store) ## Recent user reviews (10 of 100) All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/booklover-ebook-reader/id949207089/reviews.md ### 4/5 — Please add progress sync for iCloud Across iDevices *2026-06-01* Basically as the title says. It would be nice to start reading on the iPad and then pickup from last page read on the iPhone. ### 5/5 — Great app for reading TTRPG PDFs *2026-05-10* I have way to many Table top role playing PDFs. They range from adventure, to rules systems, and monster manuals. I really love that this app has a good visual library, quality global bookmarks, and a two page view. The performance is great and reading in this app is a good experience. I would love to make one feature request. In the two page view some books down count the cover in the page counts and the two page view is out of sync with the layout. Would love a way to off set the two page layout by one page. GoodReader has this feature. It’s the one thing that causes me to still use that app. ### 5/5 — The best app for reading comics on iOS by far! *2026-05-02* I absolutely love this app. I've tried all of the other popular alternatives on iOS and none compare. The UI looks great, functions well, and has a ton of cool features. If you're like me and enjoy being able to customize everything about the way you read your comics/books/PDFs, this app is the one. One feature I would really like to see is OPDS integration. The idea of being able to see and use files from a server running on my home network is very appealing but I realize this is not a small ask. Regardless, I'll keep using and enjoying this app for as long as it's supported. I'd be more than happy to pay to support future development as well. The "buy once" model is great but so much work has gone into this app since I purchased it that I've more than gotten my $5 worth. Thank you devs! **Developer response:** Thank you so much for such a thorough review and kind words, absolutely encouraging. We'll keep pushing to make the app better reader for you and everyone. Thanks again..! ### 5/5 — ありがとう *2026-02-12* iCloud対応であることを知り他アプリから乗り換えた者です。 他の書類リーダーアプリとは違いフォルダによる階層分けができないのがBook loverの意図的な特徴でありユーザーにとっての目線では一部シンプリスト以外に使いずらい弱点だと感じていました。しかし新しいアップデートによりジャンルごとの折りたたみ、展開ができるようになり、ユーザーに合わせたカスタマイズでますます操作性を向上させてくれました。 感無量です。ありがとう。 欲を言えば全て隠してしまう折りたたみ以外に、ジャンル毎に一列にして横スライドできる折りたたみ機能が欲しかったですがいつかアップデートされることを楽しみにこれからも愛用させてもらいます。 **Developer response:** 開発者です。アップデートをご評価いただき誠にありがとうございます！今後も手を緩めずに、色々とより便利になるような更新を重ねていきたいと考えています。どうぞよろしくお願いいたします。 ### 2/5 — Doesn’t Support Epub Files *2026-01-16* Could be nice. Oh well, keep looking. ### 5/5 — Crash the application *2025-11-20* Is there a limit on the amount of books that you can add? I had about 300 books in the system crashed. I still will give you 5 stars. This application is so complete. Amazing job👍🏻👍🏻I’m going to try again to reset and install it. Thank you. It will be nice to create a filter for genres and tags **Developer response:** [Update: Nov 19, 2025] > I had about 300 books in the system crashed. > Is there a limit on the amount of books that you can add? We’re sorry for the inconvenience. We don’t set any limit on how many books you can add to the library. (We hear some of our users have thousands of books - in practice, the limit is determined by physical constraints like the device’s available disk space and memory. If those constraints are exceeded, unexpected behavior may occur.) If the crash continues, one possibility is that one or some of the added book files may have an unexpected issue, such as data corruption, or perhaps a file with an extremely large size (although we haven’t encountered such cases before). Identifying and removing such a file may resolve the problem. Other than those possibilities, it’s unfortunately very difficult for us to identify the cause at this point. If the issue persists, please contact us at booklover@plastic-software.com . With more details from you, we’ll do our best to identify the cause and suggest possible solutions. Thank you. -------- Thank you for using Booklover, and we’re sorry for the inconvenience. Could you let us know where or in what situation the crash occurred? We haven’t received any notable crash reports for the current version (3.6.0 as of Nov 15) and couldn’t reproduce the issue on our side, so we unfortunately don’t have enough information to identify the cause. If you could share more details with us at booklover@plastic-software.com , we’d really appreciate it. Thanks again for your help and support. ### 5/5 — Crash the application *2025-11-17* Is there a limit on the amount of books that you can add? I had about 300 books in the system crashed. I still will give you 5 stars. This application is so complete. Amazing job👍🏻👍🏻I’m going to try again to reset and install it. Thank you. **Developer response:** [Update: Nov 19, 2025] > I had about 300 books in the system crashed. > Is there a limit on the amount of books that you can add? We’re sorry for the inconvenience. We don’t set any limit on how many books you can add to the library. (We hear some of our users have thousands of books - in practice, the limit is determined by physical constraints like the device’s available disk space and memory. If those constraints are exceeded, unexpected behavior may occur.) If the crash continues, one possibility is that one or some of the added book files may have an unexpected issue, such as data corruption, or perhaps a file with an extremely large size (although we haven’t encountered such cases before). Identifying and removing such a file may resolve the problem. Other than those possibilities, it’s unfortunately very difficult for us to identify the cause at this point. If the issue persists, please contact us at booklover@plastic-software.com . With more details from you, we’ll do our best to identify the cause and suggest possible solutions. Thank you. -------- Thank you for using Booklover, and we’re sorry for the inconvenience. Could you let us know where or in what situation the crash occurred? We haven’t received any notable crash reports for the current version (3.6.0 as of Nov 15) and couldn’t reproduce the issue on our side, so we unfortunately don’t have enough information to identify the cause. If you could share more details with us at booklover@plastic-software.com , we’d really appreciate it. Thanks again for your help and support. ### 5/5 — Crash the application *2025-11-13* I will give 5 stars but the system just crashed on me. What is happening!!😧 **Developer response:** Thank you for using Booklover, and we’re sorry for the inconvenience. Could you let us know where or in what situation the crash occurred? We haven’t received any notable crash reports for the current version (3.6.0 as of Nov 15) and couldn’t reproduce the issue on our side, so we unfortunately don’t have enough information to identify the cause. If you could share more details with us at booklover@plastic-software.com , we’d really appreciate it. Thanks again for your help and support. ### 2/5 — タイトルのせいでエラー？それとも他の理由？ *2025-10-30, version 3.5.8* 縦書きPDFが読みたくて購入。 全角でのタイトルだとエラー表示がされ、数字4桁のタイトルにしたら表示されました。 ただ、古いPDFファイルの方は全角でもタイトルが長くても問題なく表示されます。 エラー原因が分からず四苦八苦している状況です。 【追記】 ダウンロードフォルダからクラウドの別フォルダにファイルを移動した後に共有したらインポートできました。 iPhoneの方の問題だとは思うのですが意味が分からず困惑してます。 ### 5/5 — Add custom cover thumbnail *2025-10-25, version 3.5.8* Please add custom cover from jpg/png, I had so many imageless document/script. Thank you ## Frequently asked questions about Booklover ### What file formats does Booklover support? Booklover is designed to handle a wide range of eBook formats, including PDF, ZIP/CBZ, and RAR/CBR. It also supports various archived image files like JPG, PNG, GIF, HEIF, WEBP, AVIF, and JPEG XL. ### How does Booklover help organize my book collection? The app features a metadata-driven library management system. You can organize books by genres, sort them using bibliographic details like title and author, and use tags for further filtering. The Library Navigator also aids in quickly locating books. ### Can I sync my books across devices? Yes, Booklover seamlessly integrates with iCloud Drive. Books placed in the iCloud Drive/Booklover folder will automatically appear in the app's library and can be downloaded on demand to your devices. ### What customization options are available for reading? You can extensively customize your reading experience. Settings include page layout (single, double-page spread), transition axis and style, cropping, filters, progress direction (left-to-right, right-to-left), background color, and page sizing. ### Does Booklover support annotations and bookmarks? Absolutely. The app allows you to add bookmarks with titles and notes, and supports PDF text annotations like highlights. You can also search for text within PDFs and navigate using a table of contents. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 3.8.3 — 2026-08-14 This version includes user interface improvements across multiple areas, as well as a few bug fixes. Improvements • [Library] Long-pressing selected book(s) now displays context menu (single or multiple selections) • [Library/Search] Added "Locate in All Books" to context menu displayed when long-pressing a book in search results • [Genre/Tag Assignments] When assigning a genre or tags to books, items can now be filtered by typing in text field at the top • Other miscellaneous user experience improvements Revisions • [Library] Actions previously shown in toolbar when selecting books have been consolidated into menu accessed via "..." button at the bottom right Fixes • Miscellaneous bug fixes Others: • As previously announced, the in-app "User Authentication" feature has been removed. Please use the operating system's built-in "Lock or Hide Apps" feature instead of Booklover's user authentication. • "Give My Regards to Black Jack" is no longer provided within the Booklover app. Please download it from the official website of its author, Shuho Sato, at https://densho810.com/free/. ### 3.8.2 — 2026-07-28 This version includes further improvements to the Cover Image Editor, along with several bug fixes. For information regarding new features introduced in version 3.8.0, please check the version history of the app. Improvements • [Cover Image Editor] Preview can now be moved to corners of screen by dragging • [Cover Image Editor] Loupe position can now be changed by dragging • Other miscellaneous user experience improvements Fixes • [Library] Fixed an issue where corresponding item counts in side menu would not update immediately after changing genre or status of multiple selected books • [Cover Images] Fixed an issue where cropping of cover images generated from book's image resources was not reflected when "Book Composition" was set to "No Cover Section" in book settings • [Cover Image Editor] Fixed an issue where Source Image picker views may not be presented under certain conditions • Other miscellaneous bug fixes Others: • As previously announced, the in-app "User Authentication" feature has been removed. Please use the operating system's built-in "Lock or Hide Apps" feature instead of Booklover's user authentication. • "Give My Regards to Black Jack" is no longer provided within the Booklover app. Please download it from the official website of its author, Shuho Sato, at https://densho810.com/free/. ### 3.8.1 — 2026-07-18 This version primarily fixes issues from the recently released version 3.8.0, along with other fixes and improvements. For information regarding new features in 3.8.0, please check the version history of the app. Fixes • [Library] Fixed an issue where Side Menu display button would not become enabled when search field was hidden while containing search text • [Library] Fixed an issue where, when selecting books via "Select", multiple books may not be selected with a single finger when panning horizontally or diagonally • [Library] Fixed an issue where "No Books" text could appear on "How to Add Books" view under certain conditions • [Library] Fixed an issue where search button and other controls were enabled when "How to Add Books" view was shown • Other miscellaneous bug fixes Improvements • [Library/Search] Search History on iPhones or narrow windows can now be dismissed by tapping blank area outside of buttons • Other miscellaneous user experience improvements Others: • As previously announced, the in-app "User Authentication" feature has been removed. Please use the operating system's built-in "Lock or Hide Apps" feature instead of Booklover's user authentication. • "Give My Regards to Black Jack" is no longer provided within the Booklover app. Please download it from the official website of its author, Shuho Sato, at https://densho810.com/free/. ### 3.8.0 — 2026-07-14 This version includes major enhancements to library search, introducing search history, search options, tag filtering, and more. Search results are now also preserved after opening and closing a book. We have also refined many other areas of the app, including substantial enhancements to the cover image editor. New Features and Improvements - [Library/Search] Search history - [Library/Search] Search Options view, accessible from the button on the trailing side of the search field - [Library/Search] Filter by Tags view, accessible from the button on the trailing side of the search field - [Library/Search] The exclusion operator (-) can now be used in search text - [Library/Search] The search state is now preserved when returning to the Library after opening and closing a book - [Library/Search] Search bar visibility can now be toggled using the search icon - [Library/Side Menu] Sections can now be collapsed or expanded using the chevron in each section header - [Library/Side Menu] New "Format" section that groups books by file format - [Library] An item can now be selected directly from the long-press context menu - [Library Settings] Item accessories can now be displayed in either color or monochrome - [Cover Image Editor] New options for image info, preview, loupe, aspect ratio lock and workspace background color - [Cover Image Editor] New button for selecting the entire image - [Cover Image Editor] Cover images can now be created from multiple sources, including resources within the book, Photos, and Files - [Reader/Book Settings] The Contrast and Sharpness editors for Image Correction Filters have been redesigned - [Reader/Book Settings] "Book Composition" is now available under "Other," allowing you to specify whether the book has a cover section - Various other improvements and stability enhancements Others: - As previously announced, the in-app "User Authentication" feature has been removed. Please use the operating system's built-in "Lock or Hide Apps" feature instead of Booklover's user authentication. - "Give My Regards to Black Jack" is no longer provided within the Booklover app. Please download it from the official website of its author, Shuho Sato, at https://densho810.com/free/. ### 3.7.1 — 2026-02-19 This version addresses a rendering issue in the reader view and introduces some usability improvements. Fixes • [Reader View] Mitigated small gaps that might be shown at the edge of the pages when magnifying content with small logical sizes Improvements • [Library] Selections for books are preserved after making editing actions for selected books, so that another editing action can be made successively • Other miscellaneous user experience improvements Others • As previously announced, the in-app "User Authentication" feature has been removed. Please use the operating system's built-in “Lock or Hide Apps” feature instead of Booklover’s user authentication. • Starting with new installations of this version (3.7.0), “Give My Regards to Black Jack” is no longer provided within the Booklover app. For users updating from versions prior to 3.7.0, availability will also be discontinued in the next release. 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