Stanza Redux vs GitaVani

Read a chapter on the train, find your next book in an online catalog, or settle into a two-page spread at your desk. Stanza Redux is a free, open-source EPUB reader for phones, tablets, and computers. Bring your own EPUB files or browse OPDS catalogs, including Standard Ebooks, Project Gutenberg, and Ebooks Gratuits. Explore authors and subjects, see book details and covers, and download books into your library. You can add, validate, rename, and reorder your own catalogs. Browse your library by title, author, or genre. Search your books, return to recently opened titles, and keep reading without an internet connection. Your reading position is saved on this device. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is included to get you started; you can remove it at any time. Make the page comfortable: choose a typeface and text size, adjust margins and line and paragraph spacing, and switch between light, sepia, dark, or custom colors. Use a single column or a two-column layout on wide screens. Turn pages with taps, swipes, or keyboard arrows. Save bookmarks, search the table of contents, and jump within a chapter without losing your previous position. No ads, purchases, subscriptions, or account required. Your library stays on your device; browsing a catalog contacts that catalog’s server. Supports unencrypted EPUB files up to 64 MB. DRM-protected books, PDF, audiobooks, and cloud synchronization are not supported. Version 2 uses the Day framework with native controls on each platform. The interface is available in 13 languages. Source code: github.com/Stanza-Redux/Stanza-Redux

GitaVani is a clean, ad-free reader for the Bhagavad Gita. Read all 701 verses across 18 chapters with Sanskrit text, transliteration, and translations from 12 renowned scholars in Hindi and English. Listen to Sanskrit verse audio to practice pronunciation. Explore 11,000+ commentaries from 17 scholars in English, Hindi, and Sanskrit. Built for focused, distraction-free reading and listening of the Gita. FEATURES • Sanskrit verse audio: Listen to all 701 verses chanted in Sanskrit — play, pause, and follow along with the text • Complete Bhagavad Gita: All 18 chapters, 701 verses • Sanskrit shlokas in Devanagari with optional Roman transliteration • Translations from 12 scholars including Swami Sivananda, Swami Ramsukhdas, Sri Shankaracharya, and others • Hindi and English translations with author picker • 11,000+ commentaries from 17 scholars in English, Hindi, and Sanskrit • Search across all verses — find by keyword in Sanskrit, transliteration, or translations • Save favorite verses and browse them with sort by recent or chapter order • Share verses as beautiful themed image cards • Swipe between verses — navigation flows across chapters • 4 reading themes: Sattva (light), Parchment (warm), Dusk (dark), Lotus (saffron) • Adjustable font size with Dynamic Type support • Bookmark your place — resume reading where you left off • First-launch onboarding and built-in help PRIVACY No ads. No tracking. No analytics. No internet required. All data is stored locally on your device. Your reading is entirely private. DATA SOURCE Verse data sourced from the Vedic Scriptures project by Pt. Prashant Tripathi, used under LGPL-3.0 license. Original Sanskrit shlokas are ancient public domain text.