EPUB Reader - justread

EPUB Reader - justread

PDF, Comics & Audiobook Player

31 ratings
23 reviews
Free
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  • Released
  • Updated
  • March 7, 2026
  • September 7, 2026

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Customize your reading experience with extensive font and layout options. Effortlessly manage your library, track reading habits, and enjoy eye-care features. Sync your books across devices via cloud storage without proprietary lock-in.

200+ built-in fonts and custom font import
Adjustable text and layout settings
Smart dark mode with intelligent image inversion
20-20-20 eye health reminders
Library management for 5,000+ books
Cloud sync via iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive
Highlighting, notes, and bookmarking
Reading progress tracking and goal setting
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What's New in EPUB Reader

4.6

September 7, 2026

■ New features - Grimmory. Connect a self-hosted Grimmory server from the Library ••• menu and it does five things at once: browse and download its books with their metadata, send books to it, keep reading status, ratings and progress in step both ways, sync highlights, notes and bookmarks with its Notebook in both directions, and post your reading sessions to its statistics. Signing in also sets up KOReader sync for you. Grimmory 3.1 or newer. - Customizable reader toolbar. Settings > Reading > Reader Toolbar shows, hides and reorders the buttons under a book, separately for EPUB, PDF, comics and audiobooks, with one icon size slider and a live preview. Hidden buttons keep their keyboard shortcuts. - Delete several books at once. Select books in the Library and tap Delete: one confirmation with the count, and everything waits 30 days in Recently Deleted. - Update Metadata from File. A row above Delete in the book menu reads the title, authors, series, tags, description and cover again from the file itself, replacing your edits and keeping progress, highlights and bookmarks. - Show covers only. A switch under Display in the Home menu draws every shelf on Home as cover art alone. - Book Sources. Library Display gains Show Calibre, Show Grimmory and Show OPDS switches, so a source you do not use leaves the menus without disconnecting anything. - 0.05x speed steps. The audiobook and Read Aloud speed sheets open with a stepper between the presets, and the CarPlay speed button cycles to the next preset above. ■ Improvements - An EPUB counts as finished when its last page is on screen rather than at a percentage, so short books are finished too and no book is finished early after its file was replaced. - Hyphens now works while Publisher Style is on, so long words break in a book that keeps the publisher's formatting. - Image-only pages, such as scene-break ornaments and chapter glyphs, stay centered when Publisher Style is off. - The Sync with KOReader & Kobo help topic now shows Calibre's Kobo driver settings tab by tab, with screenshots, and a Setup guide link in the KOReader settings opens it. - Get Free Books reads OPDS Books once you have added a server of your own, and Display sits right under Select in the Library menu. - The Day and Night presets follow light and dark mode only when you set them to. The 4.4 update wired both by itself, which flipped the theme chosen in onboarding, so untouched presets are back to Manual. - The tap area outline is off by default and, when shown, says where in Settings to turn it off. ■ Fixes - A PDF whose table of contents loops no longer crashes the app, and a book that crashed while opening is no longer reopened at every launch. - The library shows a PDF's real page count instead of its file size in kilobytes, and the page it shows for a PDF or comic is the one the reader is on. - Cancelling the metadata scan no longer removes the books it was still reading. - Opening a very long book no longer runs out of memory while building its chapter map. - A word set in small caps at the start of a paragraph is no longer drawn as a drop cap. - Tapping the widget for the book already open no longer closes and reopens it, or turns a landscape book back to portrait. - On iPad, the reader's custom color picker opens in place at full height instead of closing itself the moment it appeared. ■ Localization - All the new text is natively translated across all 18 supported languages.

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User reviews

Leider ziemlich gut

Diese App ist eine besondere Lese App. Sie kann neben viele Buchformaten auch Hörbücher, aber das lasse ich hier aussen vor, weil es mich nicht interessiert.
Interessant hingegen finde ich die Möglichkeit, mit Calibre zu synchronisieren. Also starte ich mit dem Sync: Über 4000 Bücher, 100 teils sehr große PDFs: Eine gute halbe Stunde hat es gedauert, ohne Fehler. Wow, das hätte ich nicht erwartet. Das Zusammenspiel mit Calibre ist großartig.
Es gibt viele Extras wie "Lesefortschritt" oder andere Statistiken. Das brauche ich nicht. Wie schön, dass ich das alles von der Benutzerfläche ausblenden kann.
Das Menü steht erfreulicherweise auch auf Deutsch zur Verfügung, da fühlt man sich zu Hause.
Wichtig: Die Formatierungsmöglichkeit der Epubs. Sehr umfassend und übersichtlich präsentiert. Wenn man die entsprechende Einstellung erst einmal findet, kann man auch jedes Buch einzeln formatieren. Eigene Schriften können problemlos importiert werden!
[OBSOLET! DIESES PROBLEM WURDE WIE ANGEKÜNDIGT VOM ENTWICKLER MIT V4.6 BESEITIGT: Für mich ein Negativpunkt: Wählt man den Verlagsstil (Formatierung und Typographie des Buches werden übernommen) muss man ohne Silbentrennung auskommen. Sie ist dann nicht mehr auswählbar. Das ist im Deutschen mit seinen sehr langen Wörter durchaus nachteilig. Schade, ich hätte gern öfter den Verlagsstil genutzt!?]
Ansonsten nur Lob. Die App läuft sehr flüsssig, ohne Fehl und Tadel.
Leider ist der Preis entsprechend. Ein Abo kommt für mich nicht in Frage und die hohe Einmalzahlung ist eine Wette auf die nächsten drei, vier Jahre. Ich habe noch 10 Tage Zeit zu überlegen. Leider ist die App schon ziemlich gut, das Beste, was ich in diesem Bereich getestet habe. Deshalb alle Sterne.
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Response from developer

Vielen Dank für die ausführliche und freundliche Bewertung! Gute Nachricht zu Ihrem Kritikpunkt: Die Silbentrennung im Verlagsstil ist fertig und kommt mit Version 4.6. Viel Freude beim Lesen!

Amazing app!

This is a polished, full-featured and stable app with Calibre integration and up-to-date UI. Seems to handle large libraries with ease, no "broken" books (unlike many other apps I have tried), plenty of intuitive, well placed controls. Also has an awesome text-to-speech function with many natural voices available to download.
No spyware or telemetry of any kind - kudos to the developer!
Instant buy for me!
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Response from developer

Hi Joanna and thank you for the review. There is really nothing else to answer, thank a big thank you :-) Petr Jahoda

Exceptional app

In my long and often frustrating journey to find the perfect e-reader on iOS I never imagined I would stumble upon such a gem!
Clean, uncluttered modern interface (fully following iOS 26 design guidelines). Plethora of options, some unavailable in any other app are strategically placed throughout the UI, without ever getting in the way, Calibre integration, excellent text-to-speech implementation, etc.
Extra points to the developer for not including telemetry/analytics or other nasties!
Very happy to have found justRead, instant purchase for me.
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Response from developer

Hello Sarassine, thank you very much for the review and I hope future updates will not disapoint you. The thing I appreciate the most is this part: ’without ever getting in the way’. Thank you for noticing this. Happy reading, PJ.

Finally the perfect ebook reader! (almost)

I have been searching for a good ebook reader for over half a year now. I try to use open source when possible so I initially tested Koodo, Readest, and Anx. Unfortunately Readest and Koodo push for cloud which I don’t want to do, and Anx doesn’t support opds. While the other ones do support opds, I don’t like it much because there is little integration between library and client.

I’m not sure what’s so hard about connecting to calibre because none of these do it, which meant my library with these apps is completely disconnected from calibre. When I update metadata in calibre I have to delete and reupload on the client. Reading progress syncing with calibre is also obviously nonexistent.

This app fixes that and it is so refreshing for my client and calibre to actually talk to each other for once.

I do have a couple suggestions. I do wish there was a MacOS app. My favorite thing about Anx, Koodo, and Readest is they are completely cross platform. Android would also be great.

Second is the ability to offload books. My favorite feature of Anx Reader is that it shows you all the books on the WebDAV server, but only the cover images are stored on your device. You can download and offload books without the whole thing disappearing from your library. If this already exists, please let me know how.

Lastly, price 😅. I get that you need to make money, but I think it’s quite steep. Considering Koodo is $5 a year and Anx is less than $10 for lifetime. I would buy the lifetime immediately if it was under 40.

P.S. making this open source would be the most awesomest thing ever!!!
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Response from developer

Hello Joe Bob Ace. Thank you very much for the review and let’s go to answers. The macOS app is in the roadmap, most voted now, so it will be done. The ability to offload books is there, but not in the way you described: if you user iCloud folder as a library for books, iOS will offload books automatically (and download when needed), like it does with all files saved in iCloud. The price was adjusted few times according to talking with the users, so thank you for the feedback on this. Have a nice day… developers :-)

Best book app

Seriously this is one of the best apps for books I was able to put all my epubs, pdfs and even audiobooks in here. You have the yearly reading goals, even monthly wraps love it

Response from developer

Hello octaavis and thank you very much for the review. Audiobooks and TTS took the longest to get right, so good to hear they're working for you.

FAQ

Does justRead.app have ads?

No, justRead.app is ad-free. It is built natively for iOS and focuses on a seamless reading experience without advertisements.

What devices does justRead.app support?

justRead.app is available for iPhone and iPad, offering a consistent reading experience across Apple's mobile platforms.

How much does justRead.app cost?

justRead.app is free to download and use. It offers in-app purchases for additional features or content.

Can I sync my books with justRead.app?

Yes, justRead.app supports syncing your books through iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive, allowing you to manage your library across devices.

What are the customization options for reading in justRead.app?

justRead.app offers over 200 fonts, adjustable text size, weight, line spacing, paragraph spacing, alignment, hyphenation, and margins for a personalized reading experience.

Does justRead.app help with eye strain?

Yes, justRead.app includes a smart dark mode with intelligent image inversion and built-in 20-20-20 eye health reminders to help reduce eye strain during long reading sessions.

How does justRead.app track reading progress?

justRead.app provides a reading-by-hour heatmap, monthly and yearly breakdowns, daily goal setting, streaks, milestone badges, and a 30-day activity chart to motivate and track your reading journey.

What is the age rating for justRead.app?

justRead.app has an age rating of 4+, making it suitable for a wide range of users.