Too customisable
The app’s premise is good but unfortunately there are just too many options to go through just to get a book readable.
You have the option to change fonts and size, etc., but it’s very difficult to gauge just how that applies to your book without a preview screen.
It led to a lot of trial and error which just ended with frustration on my part being unable to get it to look exactly how I wanted it to so I gave up in the end.
You have the option to change fonts and size, etc., but it’s very difficult to gauge just how that applies to your book without a preview screen.
It led to a lot of trial and error which just ended with frustration on my part being unable to get it to look exactly how I wanted it to so I gave up in the end.
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The best reading app, by far. Yet, there is great room for improvement.
I will remove half a star every two weeks without an update addressing the problems I’m pointing out in this review. Yes, this is a threat. It’s how I show how much I love this app.
I’m starting with the problems deliberately—not because I dislike Readest, but because I think it’s an excellent EPUB reader and an impressive piece of app design. The best by far in this IOS prison. Download it, pay for their features, they have great pricing. Still, some issues, particularly with PDF reading, are too disruptive to overlook.
1. PDFs jump unexpectedly in scroll mode
The most horrible bug I’ve encountered is that PDFs jump to a different position when I touch the screen to continue scrolling. This makes you lose your place in the text and repeatedly interrupts the reading experience. I’ve tried several adjustments within the app, but I haven’t found any reliable fix. For sustained reading, this is more than a minor annoyance. It makes it impossible to stay immersed and focus in the text. This is the issue I most hope to see resolved soon.
Obs: I noticed this problem is related to the "reading ruler feature". Despite being careful to see if I was touching the ruler or positioning it badly, it keeps skipping.
2. Performance can become sluggish with a large library
The app sometimes slows down and occasionally needs to be force-closed and restarted. My large library may be a contributing factor, although only a small proportion of my books are actually downloaded locally. I’m not sure what causes the slowdowns, but more consistent performance would make a noticeable difference.
3. The focus-reading tools have great potential, but need refinement
The RSVP (“Fast Focus Reading”) feature is promising, but several aspects of its design undermine its purpose.
The context window display isn’t particularly helpful because it’s ugly and small and there’s no option to hide or customize it. Settings and controls also remain visible around the displayed word, creating distractions in a mode that should be designed to minimize them. But more importantly, we need a touch-controlled option, rather than relying entirely on a preset reading speed. Ideally, tapping the screen would advance one word, while pressing and holding would let the words flow continuously on a preset speed. Currently, tapping either pauses the automatic flow or jumps to another paragraph. Neither gives me the direct, word-by-word control.
I’d also like a dedicated guided-highlighting mode within the text, independent of text-to-speech: something that briefly highlights each word or paragraph in sequence, providing a visual guide to pace reading and help maintain attention.
The TTS feature already does something very similar, but its highlighting settings don’t seem to work correctly. Although it offers a choice between word-level and paragraph-level highlighting, selecting individual words still results in whole paragraphs being highlighted in my experience. Instead of helping me follow the text precisely, this becomes another distraction.
Readest already gets a great deal right, especially with EPUBs. Fixing the PDF scrolling bug, improving stability, and refining these focus-reading tools would make an already impressive app much more dependable and enjoyable to use. For now, it’s the best thing I found. It deserves the 5-stars for this precise reason. Yet, the app is still unreliable under these conditions. We need feedback and fixing.
I’m starting with the problems deliberately—not because I dislike Readest, but because I think it’s an excellent EPUB reader and an impressive piece of app design. The best by far in this IOS prison. Download it, pay for their features, they have great pricing. Still, some issues, particularly with PDF reading, are too disruptive to overlook.
1. PDFs jump unexpectedly in scroll mode
The most horrible bug I’ve encountered is that PDFs jump to a different position when I touch the screen to continue scrolling. This makes you lose your place in the text and repeatedly interrupts the reading experience. I’ve tried several adjustments within the app, but I haven’t found any reliable fix. For sustained reading, this is more than a minor annoyance. It makes it impossible to stay immersed and focus in the text. This is the issue I most hope to see resolved soon.
Obs: I noticed this problem is related to the "reading ruler feature". Despite being careful to see if I was touching the ruler or positioning it badly, it keeps skipping.
2. Performance can become sluggish with a large library
The app sometimes slows down and occasionally needs to be force-closed and restarted. My large library may be a contributing factor, although only a small proportion of my books are actually downloaded locally. I’m not sure what causes the slowdowns, but more consistent performance would make a noticeable difference.
3. The focus-reading tools have great potential, but need refinement
The RSVP (“Fast Focus Reading”) feature is promising, but several aspects of its design undermine its purpose.
The context window display isn’t particularly helpful because it’s ugly and small and there’s no option to hide or customize it. Settings and controls also remain visible around the displayed word, creating distractions in a mode that should be designed to minimize them. But more importantly, we need a touch-controlled option, rather than relying entirely on a preset reading speed. Ideally, tapping the screen would advance one word, while pressing and holding would let the words flow continuously on a preset speed. Currently, tapping either pauses the automatic flow or jumps to another paragraph. Neither gives me the direct, word-by-word control.
I’d also like a dedicated guided-highlighting mode within the text, independent of text-to-speech: something that briefly highlights each word or paragraph in sequence, providing a visual guide to pace reading and help maintain attention.
The TTS feature already does something very similar, but its highlighting settings don’t seem to work correctly. Although it offers a choice between word-level and paragraph-level highlighting, selecting individual words still results in whole paragraphs being highlighted in my experience. Instead of helping me follow the text precisely, this becomes another distraction.
Readest already gets a great deal right, especially with EPUBs. Fixing the PDF scrolling bug, improving stability, and refining these focus-reading tools would make an already impressive app much more dependable and enjoyable to use. For now, it’s the best thing I found. It deserves the 5-stars for this precise reason. Yet, the app is still unreliable under these conditions. We need feedback and fixing.
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终身套餐无法异端同步购买云空间内存
请问为什么手机账号上购买的终身套餐云同步空间内容不能同步到同一账号 Mac 上，Mac 上云同步空间只有 500G，不是说跨平台同步嘛？需要解答下我的困惑，谢谢～
Response from developer
看一下Readest账号是不是同一个，打开Readest账户页面最顶上的邮箱看看是不是一个。同一个邮箱登录的所有设备都是同步的。
Can you add support to sync files through iTunes/Finder?
Robust, powerful, pretty, functional reader app. The only reason I’m giving it 4 stars is that I would like to see the ability to sync files from my computer via iTunes/Finder.
Is this the best place to request this, or should I open an issue on GitHub?
Is this the best place to request this, or should I open an issue on GitHub?
Perfect reader
One of the best reader I found. Readset is really a fantastic app to read ebooks in the form of pdf and epubs formats.
Immediately exits the pdf I was reading on turning a page
title.
Response from developer
For some high resolution scanned PDF this could occasionally happen. We already fixed some crash cases and it will be available in the next update. If it still does not work please share the PDF file to readestapp@gmail.com and we will reproduce the issue and fix it.
This project has been sorely needed for so long
But what’s most remarkable is the execution – you folks have really nailed it and produced a fantastic reader that I’d be hard pressed to add features to. Thank you, comrades. You’ve improved my life!
Best app out there
Audibook, ebook, cross platform sync, what else you need? And it's free... Thank you for making this!
Endlich eine passende App
Ich habe schon seit mehreren Jahren, die für mich perfekte Lese-App gesucht und sie endlich mit Readest gefunden. Danke an die Entwickler!
仿真翻页问题
这次的更新没有解决如下问题希望下次更新能解决一下 谢谢！开启仿真翻页后，翻页速度明显会慢半拍，体感不是很好。没有微信阅读和多看那么丝滑。希望能够改善。谢谢！
Response from developer
下个版本会修复这个问题
Better than Books app
This app comes with amazing accessibility features. You can toggle between reading and listening at any point. This is impossible in the default Books app in iOS.
Overall Excellent
Great app overall especially how it works with KOReader. One annoying issue I’ve noticed is that when in vertical scrolling mode it will sometimes suddenly jump when scrolling
Best Reader that exists
I have tried a lot of different apps and this is the best by far
Just wow
Finally managed to replace kindle whispersync with this beautiful piece of software paired with koreader. It’s fantastic thank you to the devs! Deeply appreciate the option to one time pay for storage. Hope the model keeps working.
Exceptional!
So impressed with this app. I haven’t left an app review in years, but I’m so very impressed with the quality of this app. Thank you devs for all you’ve done to make a feature filled reading experience!
目前我最喜欢的阅读软件
希望“行为-键盘快捷键”里可以增加波浪线标记功能。选中已标记内容可否考虑按delete直接删除。
Response from developer
在设置-行为-设备里可以禁用滑动手势调整亮度的功能
o melhor disparado
para mim, não há lacunas
界面有点卡顿
整体上功能是我需要的，也付费支持了，但是翻页和界面有些卡顿，希望能优化
仿真翻页问题
这次的更新没有解决如下问题啊 是不是漏掉了啊？希望下次更新能解决一下 谢谢！开启仿真翻页后翻页速度明显会慢半拍，体感不是很好。没有微信阅读和多看那么丝滑。希望能够改善。谢谢！
Response from developer
下个版本会修复这个问题
继续更新
我觉得应该添加一个全编辑模式来专门用来编辑
Response from developer
在书架上长按书籍在弹出的详情里最后一个按钮可以导出文件
