# Bookmuse: AI Reading Companion — Read, listen, keep the words

> Read, listen, keep the words (iPhone/iPad app by Quan Ngo Van.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bookmuse-ai-reading-companion/id6815728446 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Quan Ngo Van](https://appshunter.io/developer/1724293557)
- Category: Books, Education
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 269 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-13
- Data updated: 2026-10-24

## What is Bookmuse?

Bookmuse is a calm reader for your own books, with an AI companion beside every page. Read in the language you're learning, understand every word in its sentence, listen along, and keep the words you meet.

READ YOUR OWN BOOKS
• Open EPUBs from Files, Mail, Safari or AirDrop; your books stay in your own iCloud Drive
• Page or scroll, with themes, fonts and spacing you set
• Contents, Search Book, bookmarks, and highlights with notes

UNDERSTAND EVERY WORD, RIGHT ON THE PAGE
• Hold a word or select a sentence and tap Translate: a card slides up with the meaning it has in that sentence, not just a dictionary list
• Pronunciation, every common meaning, a natural example and synonyms
• Word roots: see that "possession" comes from Latin possidere, "to hold", and recognise those roots in other words
• Ask a follow-up about any word: "Is it formal?", "Give me more examples"

ASK THE BOOK
• Ask AI about the passage you're reading, or the book so far: "Who is Mr. Bingley?", "What just happened?"
• Answers come from the book's own text, around where you are

LISTEN
• Bookmuse reads your book aloud and the text follows along
• Bookmuse Voices: natural voices for English and Vietnamese that run on your device, a free optional download
• Or any Apple voice, including Enhanced and Premium voices and your own Personal Voice
• Tap a sentence while listening to translate it, ask about it, or jump there

KEEP THE WORDS YOU MEET
• One tap saves a word, with the sentence and book it came from
• Saved words are marked everywhere they appear in that book, so you meet them again
• Your Vault: notes, tags, search, and filters by tag, language or book
• Import word lists (CSV/TSV) and export your Vault as CSV

REMEMBER THEM
• Flashcards scheduled with spaced repetition (FSRS), so each word comes back right before you'd forget it
• Finish a book, then review the words you saved from it
• A daily reading goal, reading and review streaks, and reminders at the times you choose

ALSO A TRANSLATOR
• Translate tab for any word or sentence
• Make Bookmuse your default Translate app: select text in any app, tap Translate, and save the word in one tap

YOUR CHOICE OF AI
• BookMuse AI (default): rich cards, follow-ups and the full Ask AI with nothing to set up, free for now
• Apple Translation: free, private, offline once a language is downloaded; gives the translation
• Apple Intelligence: on-device, on supported devices; adds roots, meanings, follow-ups and Ask AI
• Or connect an AI provider with your own API key: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, OpenRouter, Groq, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI, or any OpenAI-compatible server (including Ollama or LM Studio on your own network)

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• No account, no ads, no tracking, no analytics
• Your books, words and progress sync across iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud
• Choose Apple Translation or Apple Intelligence to keep lookups on your device

WIDGETS
• Today, Reading and Review Progress: your goal, streaks and the week at a glance
• Up Next: the words due for review, with their meanings
• Recently Added: your newest words

Built for iPhone and iPad, with Liquid Glass.

## Is Bookmuse safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Bookmuse.

## Is Bookmuse legit?

Bookmuse: AI Reading Companion appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Bookmuse is 70 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.3 — 2026-10-23

What's new in 1.3
- Bookmuse Voices now run on your iPhone's Neural Engine: faster, smoother and lighter on battery
- Faster Vietnamese voices
- Scroll mode: a mouse wheel moves between chapters
- Layout fixes for foldable iPhones

### 1.2 — 2026-10-17

- Folders: sort your Library into folders. Move books from a book's menu or with Select, and each folder shows its latest covers
- Export your highlights, notes and saved words as a PDF or Markdown file
- Review: words saved from a book now take turns with fill-in-the-blank sentences from that book. Turn it off in Settings, Flashcards
- Smoother edges when scrolling, and other polish

### 1.1 — 2026-10-15

- BookMuse AI: a built-in AI engine with nothing to set up, free for now. Rich word cards, follow-up questions and the full Ask AI
- Online voices: listen with ElevenLabs, OpenAI, OpenRouter, Vbee or your own server
- Browse book catalogs (OPDS) such as Project Gutenberg, Stump and Komga, and download EPUBs
- Widgets, Siri and Shortcuts: Continue Reading, Listen, Open a Book, Review Words
- Share any passage as a beautiful quote card
- Listen: chapter progress, time left and a chapter list
- Footnotes open in a sheet without losing your place
- New readers start in Scroll mode
- Many fixes and polish

### 1.0 — 2026-10-14

No release notes.

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