# PlainReader: Parallel Reading — Your bookshelf, kept simple > Your bookshelf, kept simple (iPhone/iPad app by Oleksii Koshkin.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/plainreader-parallel-reading/id6801140208 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Oleksii Koshkin](https://appshunter.io/developer/6781187069) - Category: Books - Price: $6.99 - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 23 MB - Languages: Chinese (Simplified, China), Ukrainian, Russian, German (Germany), Japanese, French (France), American English, European Spanish - Released: 2026-08-31 - Data updated: 2026-10-28 ## What is PlainReader? PlainReader is a native reader for Mac, iPad, and iPhone, built for people who read several books at once — a technical manual beside a novel beside a textbook — and want keeping them in order to take no effort at all. One picture explains it: JustReader is the book on your nightstand, ContinuousReader is the library — and PlainReader is the bookshelf between them. EVERY BOOK HAS ITS OWN PLACE The shelf is big: a thousand books, and each one carefully keeps its bookmarks, notes and reading position. Don't hold back. On Mac and iPad the list sits beside the text; on iPhone it is the app's main screen. THE APP REMEMBERS WHAT MATTERS Take a book off the shelf and bring it back a month later, and everything is where you left off. A history of your last 25 books reopens any of them at the same paragraph. A READING EXPERIENCE YOU CONTROL The same reading engine as our ContinuousReader: EPUB, FB2, MOBI, AZW3, PDF, Markdown, HTML, TXT and RTF, including inside ZIP and RAR archives; manga and comics as two-page spreads; Chinese and Japanese books with furigana; nine typefaces and 41 themes across five palettes plus Typewriter and Terminal; continuous scroll, paged, or two-page spread; real hyphenation in Latin, Cyrillic, CJK, Arabic, and Greek; Read Aloud with word-by-word highlighting; on-device translation; full reading statistics. BOOKS FROM ANYWHERE Import by file, link, or drag and drop — or browse OPDS catalogs (Standard Ebooks, Project Gutenberg, Feedbooks, or your own) with per-catalog shortcuts. A BOOKSHELF, NOT A LIBRARY Managing your shelf is as simple as it gets: drag to reorder, color-code a book. For a full library — folders, collection-wide search, iCloud sync, mass import — there is our ContinuousReader; for a single book on the nightstand there is our free JustReader. PlainReader is the shelf between them. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No analytics, no telemetry, no tracking, no ads. Your books stay on your device. No subscriptions and no in-app purchases. Universal Purchase: one price covers Mac, iPad, and iPhone. Family Sharing supported. ## Is PlainReader safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess PlainReader. ## Is PlainReader legit? PlainReader: Parallel Reading appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for PlainReader is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 4 releases) ### 1.7 — 2026-10-28 • Manga and comics: CBZ, CBR and fixed-layout EPUB, right to left in spreads • PDF in two ways: as text, or as pages exactly as in the file • Simplified Chinese and Japanese interface; Chinese and Japanese books in their own encodings, furigana kept • Kindle AZW3 without DRM and Markdown • Archives of several books: a list with folders and a preview; import several or all at once • Pictures full screen with zoom, a thumbnail size slider, a grid of all pages (F12 twice) • Toolbar settings; Import opens a menu: a file or an OPDS catalog • Retro on the iPad, an experimental skin • Larger menus and a swipe on a book: read, colour, move, take off the shelf • Import shows the book's category from its first step ### 1.6 — 2026-10-02 • Two ways to read: Comfort adapts the page automatically, Professional lets you build your own reading IDE • Statistics, the reading journal and all your notes on buttons on the home screen; they outlive removing a book from the shelf and export to a file • Statistics with charts — for the whole library or the current book • Up to four columns, new page-turn effects Flip, Cards and Sink, page textures and a frame around the text • Reader settings on six tabs, quiet mode, manual translation • The book's menu has Read, Book Card, and Chapters and Bookmarks • Thanks to Elli, one of our readers, for the ideas ### 1.5 — 2026-09-12 • A shelf with dividers: give a category a name and a colour, drag books into it, fold it, filter the whole shelf — up to 999 books • The shelf at the side of the book on the Mac and the iPad, or as the home page; covers in the rows, progress as a bar, a number or a ring • Select several books at once: move, recolour or remove them together; import several files in one go with duplicates marked • Control from the keyboard: arrows, Space, Return, ⌘↑/⌘↓; File menu commands and a Shortcuts tab • Panels go where you put them: bookmarks, notes, search, translation, chapters and pictures dock to any edge, float, or hide — with ready-made layouts • iPhone: full-screen reading with active corners, sheets for navigation and settings, and a selection mode of its own • Feature themes at night, more ways to style the page, quick settings with named sections ### 1.4 — 2026-08-31 No release notes. ## More apps by Oleksii Koshkin - [JustReader: EPUB & FB2 Reader](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/justreader-epub-and-fb2-reader/id6781187067) - [ContinuousReader: Book Reader](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/continuousreader-book-reader/id6783733436) All apps by Oleksii Koshkin: https://appshunter.io/developer/6781187069 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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