Leaf & Spine vs diple.

Your library, your shelf, your reading habit. Leaf & Spine is a calm, distraction-free home for your EPUBs, PDFs, comics and audiobooks. Arrange them on a 3D bookshelf, read with highlights, notes and drawings, listen with the screen off, and watch a daily reading habit take shape. Read for free, or upgrade to Premium for stats, focus sessions, backups and your own servers. BRING IN YOUR BOOKS • Read EPUB, PDF, CBZ and CBR, and listen to audiobooks. Audiobooks require Premium. • Add a whole folder at once, or pick files yourself. • Discover free public-domain books and audiobooks from Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks and LibriVox. • Connect your own server (Premium): Calibre, Calibre-Web, Kavita, Komga, Audiobookshelf, or a WebDAV folder such as Nextcloud or a NAS. Browse it, search it as you type, and download books to read offline. READ YOUR WAY • Highlight, take notes, draw with pen, pencil and highlighter, and look words up in the dictionary or translator. • Listen: the page is read aloud with the sentence lit up, using natural voices made on your device, and an EPUB that comes with a recording plays the narrator. • Focus mode for reading a sentence at a time, and a reading ruler. • Presets, typefaces (including Atkinson Hyperlegible and OpenDyslexic), heading styles and page-turn speed. Premium readers can import their own fonts. AUDIOBOOKS THAT KEEP PLAYING • Keep listening with your phone locked or while you use another app, with play, pause and skip on the lock screen. • Chapters, bookmarks, notes, speed and a sleep timer that works with the screen off. ORGANISE YOUR SHELF • A 3D bookshelf with categories, sub-categories, tags and series, sorted and grouped by author or series, with bookends you can fold into a box set. • Spines take their colour from each book's cover, or customise spines, patterns and covers yourself. • A page for every book: progress, the next in its series, description, chapters and your marks. • Fix a book's details, or fill them in from Open Library (Premium). • The Notebook gathers every highlight, note, drawing and looked-up word from your whole library, and one search covers it all. BUILD A HABIT • Goals in minutes a day or days a week, reminders at a time you choose, and streak freezes so one missed day doesn't erase months. • Home follows the series you are reading, and finishing a book offers the next one. • Home screen widgets with your current book and a highlight worth rereading. • Premium stats: time read and listened, pages, chapters, books finished, genres, highlights and words looked up, by week, month, year or all time. FOCUS SESSIONS (Premium) • Set a timer and read inside an immersive environment: a fireplace, a beach, a waterfall or a rainy window, each with its own ambience and music, which keep playing with the screen locked. YOUR PLACE, EVERYWHERE (Premium) • Back up automatically to iCloud or Google Drive, and keep your place across your devices. • Sync your progress with Audiobookshelf, Komga, Kavita and KOReader. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account or sign-up needed to start reading. • Your books, highlights, notes and progress stay on your device. Backups go to your own iCloud or Google Drive, never to our servers. • Six themes, light and dark (two free), and the app in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. PERFECT FOR • Students who highlight, draw and track study time. • Fiction readers who want EPUBs and audiobooks in one place. • Comic and manga readers with CBZ and CBR collections. • Anyone with a Calibre, Kavita, Komga or Audiobookshelf library. CONTENT NOTICE Leaf & Spine does not sell or host books. Discover lists free public-domain titles from Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks and LibriVox; everything else is your own files and your own servers. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

diple is a reading room, not a feed. Open a book and start reading. No recommendations, streaks, social features, or anything else competing for your attention. The reader is deliberately quiet. Adjust the type size, margins, line spacing, paper tone and accent color until the page feels right. EPUBs, PDFs and saved articles all live in the same library, and diple always remembers exactly where you stopped. READ • Open EPUB and PDF files from Files, iCloud Drive, or the share sheet • Paste a link to turn an article into a clean reading view • Adjust type size, margins and line spacing • Choose from four paper tones, including true black • Read with Atkinson Hyperlegible or OpenDyslexic, included with the app • Pick from five accent themes, each with its own Home Screen icon MARK • Highlight any passage in one tap • Add a note directly beside the text that prompted it • Keep bookmarks for pages you want to return to • Jump through the chapter outline • Search the full text of a book REMEMBER Highlights in diple aren't a dead archive. Browse them by book or across your whole library. Turn a passage into a proper note with Markdown, links, tags, tasks and math. Search books, highlights and notes from one place. Second Read gives you a way back into what you've already read: the passages you marked, the notes you made, and the ideas worth seeing again. If you want, diple can also resurface one old highlight each day. YOURS Your library belongs to you. • No account and no sign-up • No developer-operated server • No ads • No tracking • No analytics SDKs • No reading history sent anywhere iCloud sync is optional and disabled by default. If you enable it, your library is stored only in your private iCloud account. The developer cannot access it. You can export your entire library — books, highlights and notes — as a single JSON file at any time. diple is completely free. No subscription, paid tier, or in-app purchases. It's also open source, so you don't have to take the privacy claims on trust. diple. Read. Mark. Remember.