# ParaGraFX: Illustrate Books — Art styles for classic novels > Art styles for classic novels (iPhone/iPad app by Jason Mumford.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/paragrafx-illustrate-books/id6795768929 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Jason Mumford](https://appshunter.io/developer/6795768931) - Category: Books, Graphics & Design - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 12+ - Requires: iOS 17.6 · 64 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-09-03 - Data updated: 2026-10-24 ## What is ParaGraFX? ParaGraFX is an EPUB reader that illustrates the page you are actually on. Stop on any passage and generate an image drawn from that specific moment in the text — not a generic cover, not the author's portrait, but the scene in front of you. THIRTY-SIX STYLES, OR INVENT YOUR OWN Not thirty-six kinds of oil painting: the styles span the ways pictures get made. Gothic stained glass, Japanese woodblock, Victorian pen-and-ink engraving, Byzantine mosaic, medieval illuminated manuscript, linocut, risograph, cyanotype blueprint, cross-stitch sampler, Art Deco poster, Bauhaus geometry, Memphis postmodern, plasticine stop-motion, anime cel, 16-bit pixel art, teletext blocks, Italian Futurism, brutalist concrete, neon synthwave — and more. Or describe a style of your own, anything you can put into words. Your styles are saved and appear everywhere you generate. Four of the most demanding styles appear once Image Quality is set to Standard or higher, because the fast renderer cannot draw them properly. REFINE WHAT YOU GET Ask for a change in plain words — warmer light, night-time, more detail — or edit the image prompt directly and send exactly what you wrote. TWELVE CLASSICS INCLUDED Alice in Wonderland, Dracula, Moby Dick, Pride and Prejudice, Middlemarch, Romeo and Juliet, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Don Quijote, Little Women, Beauty and the Beast, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and The Gracchi, Marius and Sulla. BRING YOUR OWN BOOKS Open any EPUB from Files, or search Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks and the Internet Archive from inside the app. ILLUSTRATE A WHOLE BOOK Queue every chapter at once and let it work in the background — each chapter gets its own illustration, in a style you pick or one you invent. A PROPER READER Adjustable type, a hundred colour themes plus one you can build yourself, page-position memory across books, and a chapter map. Your reading position is kept on device. HOW CREDITS WORK Illustrations cost credits, bought in packs. There is no subscription and no account to create. Generated images are stored briefly on our servers so they can reach your device, then deleted automatically after seven days. Your copy stays on your phone. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | 10 Credits | $1.99 | one-time | | 10 Credits | $3.99 | one-time | | 60 Credits | $7.99 | one-time | | 150 Credits | $17.99 | one-time | ## Is ParaGraFX safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess ParaGraFX. ## Is ParaGraFX legit? ParaGraFX: Illustrate Books has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for ParaGraFX is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.0.17 — 2026-10-21 Opening the library no longer closes the book you are reading. • The library opens over your book, with a way back out of it named for the book you came from — tap "‹ Dracula", or swipe the panel down, and you are on the same page you left. It used to be a screen that replaced the reader, and the only way out of it was to pick something, which is a way of starting a book rather than of cancelling. Coming back then meant rebuilding the reader from scratch: on a large illustrated book that was several seconds behind a spinner, for what should be the cheapest action in the app. • Your place is now kept exactly, including an illustration you had open and anything being generated, because the book is never closed to show you the shelf. • The library has its own entry at the top of the menu, rather than sitting inside "Open EPUB" — it was the one item in there that led to books you already have, filed under a heading about finding new ones. • That menu is now called "Find a Book", and opening a file from your device is "Open an EPUB File…" rather than "Disk". The word EPUB is now in the one place it tells you something: which of your own files the app can take. ### 1.0.16 — 2026-10-19 Thirty-six art styles instead of fifteen, and most of them are not paintings. The old set had drifted into variations on oil paint; this one spans the ways pictures actually get made. • Styles now cover print and ink, drawing, graphic design, craft and material, photography, animation and games, and a few that are none of those — Byzantine mosaic, cross-stitch sampler, linocut, blueprint, brutalist concrete, 1980s teletext, 16-bit pixel art. The picker groups them by medium so the range is visible rather than buried in one long list. • Four styles need more of the image model than the fast renderer has, so they appear once Image Quality is set to Standard or better: 16-bit pixel art, chalk on a blackboard, low-poly PS1-era 3D, and layered paper cutout. On the fast setting they are hidden rather than attempted, because a style that comes back as a vague painting is worse than one that was never offered. • The style you choose for the Illustrate button is remembered. It used to last exactly one illustration and then revert, so choosing a style meant choosing it again for every image. It now persists between illustrations and across launches, and the picker opens on your current choice. • You can still describe a style of your own in your own words, on any image quality setting. ParaGraFX is also now an iPad app. It had always installed on one, but only as a blown-up iPhone app in a portrait-locked window, and that window hid a reader bug nobody could have reported. • The app runs at the iPad's own size, in portrait or landscape, rather than in iPhone compatibility mode. • Rotating the reader now re-measures the page. Turning an iPad to landscape used to clip the page at both edges, bleed the previous column in at the top, and leave the page count reporting the portrait figure. The reader had never been told it was resized at all; it is now, and the new measurement is taken from the width the page is actually drawn at. • A page of text is no longer a single line across thirteen inches. The text sits in a column of a comfortable reading width, scaled to your font size and centred, while illustrations, tables and figures still use the full width. • The reading toolbar is grouped in the middle instead of flung to the far corners of the screen, so the controls are near each other and near your thumbs. • The library list is a column rather than full-bleed rows, and the opening card about what ParaGraFX does stays a card instead of stretching the width of the screen. Nothing in the iPad work changes how the app looks or behaves on an iPhone. ### 1.0.14 — 2026-10-15 Mostly about illustrating a whole book at once, which this release reworks, and about the places that counted your images wrongly. • You can now choose the art style for each image separately, rather than one set of styles for the whole run. Each image can also be set to a random style — from all fifteen, or from a shortlist you pick — and you can write your own style instructions and use those instead. • The results screen shows the images that run actually made. It used to list every illustration in the book, so if you had made some earlier you were shown more images than you asked for, under a message counting only the new ones. • Those images now open in the image viewer alongside the ones you already had open, instead of replacing them. They were previously left in the book and in the results grid, and the one screen built for looking at images in sequence did not know they existed. • The results screen no longer shows fewer images than it made. It read the finished run two seconds after the job reported done, which is a guess about how long the images take to download; when the guess was short, four images appeared and then became two. • Progress now counts images rather than chapters. Asking for five images of one chapter said "0 of 5 chapters" of a book you had selected one chapter from. • A gallery entry per book, not per run. Illustrating more of a book you had already illustrated made a second, dated folder beside the first — and images made while reading were kept in a separate entry again. All of a book's illustrations are now in one place, including the ones already on your device. • Illustrating a book twice no longer loses the second run from the gallery. Only the first run was saved there, so later images were in the book and absent from your gallery. • A list of illustrations in a book now takes you to the illustration. Tapping one opened a footnote window holding the picture's caption, and the entries in Beauty and the Beast and Little Women were all affected. The link now goes to the page the picture is on. • The Image Quality screen opens tall enough to show every option. "Best" was below the fold with nothing to indicate it was there, so the highest quality setting was easy to never find. • Your credit balance now sits under the Illustrate button rather than in the corner, so a change to it is visible where you are already looking. • Modify is no longer offered when you have no credits. It costs a credit like any other image, so tapping it asked you to write instructions and only then said you could not afford it. • A crash between paying for a whole-book run and the app recording it can no longer charge you twice for the same run. • A long book no longer runs out of time partway and keeps the credits. The server now reserves time to finish and refund properly. Thank you again to the reader who found most of these by using the app rather than reading its source. ### 1.0.13 — 2026-10-13 Mostly about a book's own table of contents, which turned out to be wrong in nine of the twelve bundled books. • Tapping a chapter in a book's contents page now goes to that chapter. In most of the bundled books it went to the title page instead, because a chapter link and a footnote reference are spelled identically in EPUB and several books use different names for the same chapter in different places. Moby Dick, Pride and Prejudice, Don Quijote and others were all affected. • A chapter reached that way now starts at the top of the page, rather than part-way across with the end of the previous page still showing. • Tapping a chapter no longer opens a footnote window. In some books it opened one containing the whole chapter. • The guided tour no longer points at a cover image. On a book that opens with a cover, the steps about selecting text and illustrating a passage were pointing at a picture, asking you to select words that weren't on screen. The tour now starts you on a page with prose. • Illustrating many chapters at once is honest about what it will do. Twenty-five images is the most in one run, which was never said. You were asked to hold credits for every image you selected, charged only for the twenty-five it made, and then told it had done all of them. Now it says so before you start, asks for the twenty-five credits it will actually spend, and afterwards tells you how many of your selection were illustrated and how many are left. • A chapter with several illustrations shows all of them. If you made more than one image for a chapter, the results screen and the gallery each showed just one, so a run looked like it had done less than it had. Every image was saved and readable in the book — only those two screens were under-reporting. Thank you to the reader who found all of these by reading the books rather than the code. ### 1.0.12 — 2026-10-07 Fixes from a week of reading the app rather than writing it. • Pages in some books were drawn shifted slightly to the right, cutting off the right-hand margin and showing a sliver of the previous page on the left. The reader measures where a chapter starts in the page's own units and then scrolls to it in the screen's units, and on most iPhones those are not quite the same scale. The conversion was missing. • Moving between chapters in those books could also land in the wrong place — a title page, or a bare list of chapters, instead of the chapter you tapped. • Tapping a chapter in a book's own contents page sometimes opened a footnote window holding the whole chapter. Chapter links and footnote references are spelled identically in EPUB, and the app now tells them apart. • Changing the font size mid-chapter left the page number past the end of the chapter — "Pg 11/7". Your place is now carried across the new pagination, so you stay where you were reading. • Your font and text size are remembered between sessions. Only the colour scheme was, before. • The launch screen now offers to continue a bundled book. It only ever offered downloaded ones. • Scanned books from the Internet Archive no longer repeat a machine-readability notice at the top of every page. It is said once, when the book opens. Thank you to the readers who reported these, and particularly to the one who kept testing through two fixes that did not work. ## Related topics [book illustrator](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/book-illustrator) · [illustration maker](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/illustration-maker) · [illustration art](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/illustration-art) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-10-24.*