# The Knowledge Press — Great books, searched offline > Great books, searched offline (iPhone/iPad app by Eric Suchanek.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-knowledge-press/id6812116080 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Eric Suchanek](https://appshunter.io/developer/6812116083) - Category: Books, Education - Price: Free - Rating: 5.00/5 from 1 App Store ratings - Age rating: 12+ - Requires: iOS 26.0 · 776 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-10-28 - Data updated: 2026-11-10 ## What is The Knowledge Press? The Knowledge Press is a library of 261 public-domain books and four diaries that you can search and question, entirely on your device. Ask it anything: what Marcus Aurelius says about anger, how Darwin describes the Galapagos finches, where Pepys was on the day of the Great Fire. The app searches the whole library two ways at once, by meaning and by exact wording, and answers from the passages it found. Every answer shows its sources, and marks which passages the model actually read. WORKS OFFLINE The books, the search index and the language model are all on the device. Nothing you ask is sent anywhere. There is no account, no sign-in, and no tracking. It works in airplane mode. THE LIBRARY Twenty genres: philosophy, English, American, Russian, French, German and Spanish literature, the ancient and classical world, drama and Shakespeare, science fiction, horror, biography, letters, travel, natural history and sacred texts. Plato, Aristotle, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Kant, Nietzsche, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Austen, Dickens, Melville, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Twain, Poe, Shelley, Stoker, Verne, Wells, Darwin, Thoreau, Whitman, and more. Four diaries, searchable by date: Samuel Pepys, John Evelyn (two volumes), and Boswell's journal of his tour of the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson. READ, NOT JUST SEARCH Browse the library by genre, open any book, and read it chapter by chapter. The diaries open by date. Every source passage under an answer can be read in full. THE FOREST Every book in the library grows as a tree in a 3-D forest, one grove for each genre. Drive a cart along the roads, or take the guided tour, which stops at each grove. Open a tree to see its book, read it, or ask a question about that book alone. Each book in Browse and each source under an answer has a Tree button that takes you to its tree. The forest works offline, like the rest of the app. ANSWERS YOU CAN CHECK The app searches first and writes second, and the order never changes. An answer is written only from what the search found, and each passage that reached the model is marked. If the passages do not support an answer, it says so instead of inventing one. The settings let you tune how many passages are read, how closely they must match, and how the model writes, and every answer records the settings that produced it. CHOOSE WHERE THE MODEL RUNS On-device is the default and uses Apple Intelligence on your iPhone, iPad or Mac. Private Cloud is optional: it sends your question and the selected passages to Apple's Private Cloud Compute for a larger model, under Apple's privacy guarantees, and never to us. Or turn answers off and use the app as a search engine for the classics. ASK FROM SIRI Ask The Knowledge Press from Siri and Shortcuts. REQUIREMENTS Search, reading and browsing work on any iPhone, iPad or Mac running iOS 26, iPadOS 26 or macOS 26. Written answers need Apple Intelligence. The Knowledge Press is not affiliated with Project Gutenberg. The texts are public domain; Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive are acknowledged as their sources. ## Is The Knowledge Press safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess The Knowledge Press. ## Is The Knowledge Press legit? The Knowledge Press has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for The Knowledge Press is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 4 releases) ### 1.40.0 — 2026-11-09 A smoother forest and a new icon. - A new app icon, in light, dark, clear and tinted styles. - The forest draws faster, with a shorter top bar and a camera button. Shadows have their own setting. - On iPad, switch between Chat, Browse and the Forest from a bar at the bottom. - Pepys's diary opens from its tree in the forest. - A follow-up question stays in the part of the library you first asked about. - On newer iPhones and iPads, on-device answers read longer passages. - Share as PDF opens faster. - Moots held with your own GutenbergKG worker are now kept on the device. ### 1.34.1 — 2026-11-06 iOS, build 872: The Forest is here. Walk a 3-D forest where every tree is a book, right inside the app and with no network needed. Open a tree and tap Ask about this book to ask that book a question. Atomospheric effects, realistic sky with stars, visible planets, accurate moon phases, and meteor shows! Allow location access to set your latitude and longitude. Also new: - Tree buttons in Browse and on answer citations take you to that book's tree. - Browse search now finds titles as well as authors. - "Ask The Knowledge Press" now works with Siri. - The forest no longer stays zoomed in on iPhone after you tap the query field. Mac (the zoom fix is iPhone only): The Forest is also here! Walk a 3-D forest where every tree is a book, right inside the app and with no network needed. Open a tree and click Ask about this book to ask that book a question. Also new: - Tree buttons in Browse and on answer citations take you to that book's tree. - Browse search now finds titles as well as authors. - "Ask The Knowledge Press" now works with Siri. ### 1.32.0 — 2026-11-03 265 books, ten of them new: Gogol's The Mantle, and Other Stories, the letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and of Charles Lamb, Chekhov's Plays, Second Series, Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, the Raven Edition of Poe (volumes 2-5), and Cicero's De Officiis. - Save an illustration to Photos or Files with the new Save Image button. - Export a chat as a PDF, with its question, answer, quoted passages and pictures, or as Markdown as before. - On iPad, Browse always has a way back to the chat, even on a fresh install. - The layout now follows window width, so iPad Split View and folding iPhones get the right one. ### 1.28.0 — 2026-11-02 No release notes. ## Related topics [knowledge literature](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/knowledge-literature) · [columbia university press](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/columbia-university-press) · [remixing reality](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/remixing-reality) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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