# Crown Book — Watch text reader

> Watch text reader (iPhone/iPad app by Artur Janowicz.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/crown-book/id6751164768 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Artur Janowicz](https://appshunter.io/developer/1826543860)
- Category: Books, Education
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.6 · 2 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2025-08-20
- Data updated: 2026-07-31
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/crown-book/id6751164768/reviews.md

## What is Crown Book?

A full-screen reader for large text files on your watch.
One book at a time: a .txt file sent from Crown Book for iOS.
Sending another book to your watch replaces the previous one.
Font size matches system settings – you can change it while reading in the watchOS control center.
Large files (>10 KB) are divided into pages and remember the last page you were reading.
You can scroll through text with your finger, the crown, or the "double tap" gesture.
Tapping the system clock takes you to the top of the page.
At the beginning of each page there is a button with the page number, which, when pressed, takes you to any page (selection with a preview of the first line of text).
At the end of each page (except the last) there is a button that takes you to the next page.
At the end of the book, there's a "CLOSE" button to close the book.
A closed book can be deleted ("Delete" button) or started over ("BOOK" button).
You can set a widget on the watch face displaying the page number of the currently read page and several lines of text (modular).
! The program comes with instruction (in the form of a mini-book: "Help" button) for two of my apps (Crown Book and Equatch) in two languages ​​(English and Polish).

Sending a file from iPhone to Apple Watch:
UTF-8 encoded .txt format (you can use TextEdit in macOS to change the encoding).
.txt compatibility with Apple Pages: File - Export to - Plain Text... - Save.
Compatibility with free gutenberg.org ebooks (PlainText UTF-8).
The loaded .txt file can be viewed in the iOS app (button with the file name). 
The .txt file remains in the iOS app until it is replaced by another file.
! When sending a file from iPhone, the Apple Watch must be unlocked with the app running.
! If the text doesn't appear on your watch after uploading, try again until it succeeds.

Minimum system requirements: watchOS 10 and iOS 17 ("double tap" scrolling requires Apple Watch 9 or later).


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.6 — 2026-07-27

- watchOS: widgets displaying the saved page number and several lines of text (modular)
- watchOS: updated "Help" instructions
- iOS: preview of loaded text (button with the file name)
- iOS: text remains in the app until it is replaced by another text

### 1.5 — 2026-02-03

- Mini-book instruction (new "Help" button in the watchOS app) for two of my apps (Crown Book and Equatch) in two languages ​​(English and Polish)
- Ability to close, start over, or delete a book (new "CLOSE," "BOOK," and "Delete" buttons)
- Ability to divide a book into pages using the ///cbpage marker (by editing the .txt file before sending it to the watch)
- Minor changes to the iOS app

### 1.4.1 — 2026-01-31

- Fixed text preview when selecting a page in the smallest watches with the largest fonts

### 1.4 — 2026-01-29

- At the beginning of each page, a button with the current page number appears, which, when pressed, allows you to move to any page (selection with a preview of the first line of the text)
- Text split into smaller pages
- More efficient file transfer from iPhone to Apple Watch.
- Other changes and fixes

### 1.3 — 2025-08-24

- Improved file pagination: smaller pages, no duplicate text
- Protection against errors occurring after an update, requiring reinstallation of the application

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## More apps by Artur Janowicz

- [Equatch](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/equatch/id6748608310)

All apps by Artur Janowicz: https://appshunter.io/developer/1826543860

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