CrossPoint vs Sheafs

The official companion app for e-readers running CrossPoint or CrossInk. Sign in to the free CrossPoint sync service or to your own self-hosted server. See reading stats, send books to your device, or sync progress to 3rd party connectors, all for free. YOUR READING AT A GLANCE • Currently reading: where you are in each book, synced from your reader. • Reading stats: reading days across the year, pages, time spent reading, and your longest streak. • Clippings: the highlights and notes you made on your reader, book by book. • Shelf status: mark books as reading, paused, finished, or did not finish. • Share cards: turn a clipping or your reading stats into an image and share it. • Home screen widget for the book you are reading. FIND BOOKS AND SEND THEM TO YOUR READER • Browse OPDS catalogs. Project Gutenberg is built in, and you can add Calibre, Kavita, or any OPDS 1.2 or 2.0 catalog, with no login, a password, or a token. • Download books and send them to your CrossPoint over Wi-Fi through the reader's File Transfer screen. • Optionally shrink EPUB images before sending, so books take less space and open faster. • Create sleep-screen wallpapers for your reader from your own pictures. CONNECT THE SERVICES YOU ALREADY USE Link a service once and the sync server keeps it updated as you read. Supported services include Hardcover, Readwise, Spotify, BookFusion, Audiobookshelf, BookOrbit, Micro.blog, and other KOReader-compatible sync servers such as Calibre-Web. WORKS WITH KOREADER The sync server uses the standard KOReader sync protocol, so KOReader devices can sync to the same account alongside your CrossPoint. YOUR DATA, YOUR CHOICE • No ads, no analytics, no tracking. • Run the open-source server yourself with Docker and point the app at it, including on your home network. • Your library stays viewable offline from the last sync. • Change your password, clear your reading data, or delete your account from inside the app. You need a CrossPoint or CrossInk e-reader, or a KOReader device, syncing to a CrossPoint Sync server for your reading data to show up. CrossPoint Sync is open source under the MIT license.

Sheafs is an open-source ebook reader. I wanted one that felt like reading a paperback and worked with the books and servers I already had, so I made one. The code’s on GitHub under the MIT license, and there are no ads, no tracking and no account to sign up for. Bring your own books. Sheafs reads EPUB 2 and EPUB 3. Import them from Files, or point it at an OPDS catalog and download straight from it. If your library lives on a home server, add its OPDS feed and browse the whole collection from the couch. A few free public catalogs are built in, so there’s something to read straight away. Keep your place on your own terms. Sheafs speaks KOReader’s sync protocol, so you can run your own sync server and pick up where you left off, whether you were last reading in Sheafs or in KOReader. Sheafs lays your books out in proper pages, with good type and decent margins. Swipe to turn and the page curls over under your thumb, the way paper does. If that’s a bit much, there’s a plain slide too, or you can turn pages with the volume buttons. Got an iPhone Duo? This is where it gets fun. Closed, you read one page on the cover screen. Open it up and you get a two-page spread, with the fold running down the middle like the gutter of a real book. Fold or unfold halfway through a chapter and you won’t lose your line. Prop it half open on the table and the page sits up top with the controls underneath. Perfect for reading over breakfast. On iPad, turn it sideways for a two-page spread. Pick from nine typefaces, including New York, Georgia, Palatino, Charter and Iowan Old Style, then fiddle with size, spacing and margins until it looks right. Justified or ragged, hyphenated or not. There’s a paper theme, a sepia one, a dark one for late nights and a pure black one for OLED screens, or it can follow your phone’s light and dark mode. Highlight the good bits in five colors, add your own notes, and share them all as Markdown when you’re done. Search the whole book and bookmark the pages you want to come back to. A Home Screen widget gets you back to whatever you were reading. Mark up pages with Apple Pencil, or your finger on iPhone. Underline, bracket a passage or scribble in the margin, and your marks stay with their words when you change the font or text size. Lost track of who someone is? Ask about the book, and Apple’s on-device model answers from only the pages you’ve already read, so it can’t spoil what’s coming. Nothing leaves your device. Ask needs Apple Intelligence and stays off until you turn it on.