# Marginalia — Smart Reader — A reader with a memory

> A reader with a memory (iPhone/iPad app by Mahmoud El sherif.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/marginalia-smart-reader/id6814914666 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Mahmoud El sherif](https://appshunter.io/developer/6814914668)
- Category: Books, Education
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 17.4 · 7 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-11-04
- Data updated: 2026-11-06

## What is Marginalia?

Marginalia is a reading app for people who mark up their books.

Highlight a sentence and it stays on that sentence. Change the type size,
switch the typeface, turn the phone — the mark does not drift, because
Marginalia remembers your place as the words themselves rather than as a
number that stops meaning anything the moment the page is re-cut.

WHAT IT DOES

• Reads EPUB and PDF. Add books from Files, iCloud Drive, Mail, or anywhere
  else on your phone.
• Seventy-three books to start with, free and complete — Frankenstein, Alice,
  Dorian Gray, The Great Gatsby, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and seventy more.
• Highlight in four colours and write notes against any passage.
• Reads aloud, and keeps reading with the screen locked — following the words
  with an underline as it goes.
• Search the whole book and land on the passage, not on a page number.
• Set the page the way you like it: size, typeface, line spacing, margins, and
  justified or ragged.
• The book's own table of contents, wherever the book provides one.
• Ask about a passage, or the book so far. Answers come only from pages you
  have already read, so nothing ahead of you is spoiled. (Needs a free
  Marginalia account.)

YOUR BOOKS STAY YOURS

You do not need an account to read. Your books, your highlights and your notes
live on your device, and a book file is never uploaded.

Sign in with a Marginalia account only if you want more: your highlights,
notes and place in each book on your other devices, and the reading assistant.
No ads, no tracking, and nothing is sold.

## Is Marginalia safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Marginalia.

## Is Marginalia legit?

Marginalia — Smart Reader has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Marginalia is 50 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-11-04

No release notes.

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