Lucid Reader vs Quill

Lucid Reader — A Streamlined PDF Viewer for Focused Reading Lucid Reader gives you a clean, distraction-free way to read PDFs — whether they're standard documents or books you've scanned yourself. No clutter, no complexity. Just your PDF and you. *** Key Features *** • Two-Page Spread — Read like a real book, with an optional standalone cover page. • Flexible Binding — Switch between right-to-left or left-to-right binding, perfect for Japanese-style books and manga. • Optimized Display — Fine-tune the display area and zoom independently for the left and right pages to maximize space and trim away margins. • Intuitive Page Navigation — Turn pages effortlessly with a tap or a swipe, with customizable tap zones. • Page Lock — Keep your view exactly where you set it and prevent accidental shifts. • Full-Screen Mode — Fully immerse yourself with a distraction-free view. • Collections — Group multiple files together for tidy, organized reading. • iCloud Storage — Offload files to iCloud to reclaim space on your device. *** Effortless File Access *** Open PDFs in seconds: • Tap the + icon in the top-right corner of the file list, or • Choose "Save to Lucid Reader" from the share menu in any other app. *** Secret Mode — Enhanced Privacy (In-App Purchase) *** • Create more collections • Protect your sensitive files with advanced privacy tools: • File Hiding — Swipe right on any file and tap Secret to hide it from the list. • Restricted Access — Hidden files stay concealed until you unlock them with Face ID / Touch ID, keeping them private even if someone glances at your screen. • App Switcher Privacy — Secret-mode PDFs are blurred when switching apps, so your private content stays hidden even on the multitasking screen. • End-to-End Encryption — Encrypt secret files with a password directly on your device. Your files remain unreadable without your password, even if your iCloud storage is accessed. Experience the perfect balance of simplicity and control. Lucid Reader is built for one thing — hassle-free PDF reading.

A cosy place for the books you already have. Open a PDF, an EPUB, a CBZ comic or a plain text file, tap to translate the page into your language, and listen to it read aloud in that voice. One lifetime price. Everything on your device. - PDF, EPUB, CBZ and plain text in one library, no conversion - Inline page translation in ten languages, including Ukrainian - Listen mode that speaks the translated page in the locale you picked - Six reading themes including a pure white-page mode - Eight typography presets including OpenDyslexic and Atkinson Hyperlegible - One lifetime purchase, no subscription, no account, no cloud upload Translate the page, not just a word. Tap the globe and the whole page reflows into your language, powered by the Apple Translation framework. The chunked translator keeps the rest of the book flowing in while you read the first chapter. Listen in the right voice. Press play and the page reads itself aloud. When a translation is on, Listen speaks in the target locale automatically, so a French page sounds French. Speed chips from 0.75x to 2x, sleep timer, background audio, AirPods controls, Now Playing on the lock screen. Bring your own files, cosily. Add books from Files, iCloud Drive, AirDrop, a share sheet, a direct download link or a scanned page. Each file is fingerprinted on import so the same book never lands twice. Six warm themes and eight type presets. Paper, Sepia, Dark Sepia, Night, Solar and a pure Snow mode. Type ramps from Readwise Cream to Atkinson Hyperlegible to OpenDyslexic. Slider control for size, line height and margin. Optional paper texture overlay. A quiet journey, not a streak whip. A day-streak ring that celebrates the evening you showed up, a pages-this-week chart with a gentle goal line, finish ETA on whatever you are reading, and a yearly keepsake you can share. The streak is encouragement, never a stick. Privacy that is not a marketing word. Your library never leaves your device. There is no account, no analytics linked to you, no advertising, no DRM, no required cloud. Optional iCloud sync is off by default. Uninstall the app and the files you imported are still yours. About the price. Quill is one lifetime purchase. There is no subscription tier and there will not be one. When v2 ships it will be a separate purchase and v1 will keep working with every update it received. This is a public promise. What Quill is not. Not an Amazon bookstore. Not a manga streaming app. Not a PDF editor with signatures and form fill. Not a TTS service with a daily word cap. Quill reads the files you already have, cosily, in the language you want. Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTDX9pxPOlUJl_skVUHPi99mAw0y2B2BYd_v1mJkoF3xW3rlOcW5KlYd4t93MMbbGhctSTnBTy7d_l6/pub Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/