Data sheet

Everything the app does, in one table.

Formats

  • PDF, EPUB and DOCX
  • PDFs reflow to text, or show their original pages
  • Open files from other apps with "Read in Alexandria"
  • Share files in with "Add to Alexandria"
  • Covers and details fetched from Open Library and Google Books
  • Edit book info and set your own cover

Type

  • 12 reading typefaces, including Atkinson Hyperlegible
  • Size from 11 to 40 pt
  • Leading, paragraph gap, tracking and weight
  • Margins, justified or ragged, indented paragraphs
  • Show or hide images

Light

  • 11 page surfaces, plus a custom page and ink colour
  • Separate day and night surfaces
  • Night mode that can follow the system
  • Warmth filter and super dim
  • Brightness control inside the app

Motion

  • Auto-scroll from 5 to 400 px/s, pausing while you touch
  • Swipe mode: fit to screen or fixed words per card
  • Swipe up or sideways, with auto-advance by WPM
  • Tap zones for turning the page
  • Volume keys turn pages: choose the direction, or switch them off
  • Slide the screen edge for brightness or font size
  • Immersive mode, keep-awake, status line and clock

Navigate

  • Table of contents
  • Search in book
  • Position slider and time left
  • Bookmarks, highlights and notes in one list

Marks

  • Highlights in 5 marker colours
  • Notes on any highlight
  • Bookmarks you can rename
  • Ratings, favourites and reading status
  • Define with a dictionary and Wikipedia, right from the selection

AI companion

  • Uses your own key from Google or Vercel AI Gateway
  • Gemini, GPT, Claude and Grok models, and search for more
  • Chat about a book or a passage
  • Explain a selection, recap what you read, or ask what a book is about
  • Spoiler guard based on how far you have read
  • Simple, clear or expert answers in your language
  • Usage log with tokens, characters and estimated cost

Audiobooks

  • Your own audio files, or free books from LibriVox and the Internet Archive
  • Stream, or download whole books and single chapters
  • Downloads resume after a restart
  • Playback speed, chapters and sleep timer
  • Read along with the attached ebook
  • Timestamped notes, ratings and favourites
  • Background playback with lock-screen controls

Read aloud

  • Your phone's voice, free and offline
  • ElevenLabs voices in 30+ languages, with your key
  • Addis AI voices for Amharic, Afaan Oromo and Tigrinya, with your key
  • Search voices by name, language or accent
  • Speed and pitch controls
  • Keeps reading with the screen off

Podcasts

  • Search the Apple podcast directory
  • Top charts and genres
  • Add any show by RSS link
  • Subscriptions with new-episode counts
  • Reorderable queue and episode downloads
  • Background checks with new-episode alerts
  • Played tracking, plus marking older episodes as played
  • Share cards for shows and episodes

Radio

  • Stations from around the world
  • Country picker with flags
  • Genres from news and talk to lo-fi and afrobeats
  • Favourites, recents, ratings and notes
  • Automatic fallback directory if the main one is down

Find

  • Free EPUBs from Project Gutenberg, downloaded in one tap
  • Open Library catalogue search
  • A want-to-read list
  • Browse by topic, or hit Surprise me
  • Recent searches on every search bar, removable one by one

Organise

  • Folders that hold books, audiobooks and shows together
  • Smart rows for favourites and items not in a folder
  • Folder covers made from what is inside, or your own picture
  • Grid or list, with adjustable columns and sorting
  • Filters for books, audiobooks, podcasts and radio

Stats

  • Daily goal ring and streaks
  • Yearly goals for books and audiobooks, weekly for episodes
  • Time by kind, and 14-day bars
  • Per-book reading speed and time left
  • Four home-screen widgets with your own font and colours

Share

  • 8 card styles, from Spec to Blueprint
  • Sizes for posts, feeds and stories
  • Any background colour and typeface
  • Cards for excerpts, highlights and bookmarks
  • Cards for audiobooks, podcasts and stations

Look

  • Industrial and Zen designs for every screen
  • Monochrome mode
  • Light, dark or system theme
  • 11 accents, or any colour from a full picker
  • Corner radius, five interface fonts and the dot grid
  • Haptics you can turn off

Your data

  • No account and no sign-in
  • Everything stored on your phone
  • Export or import everything as one JSON file
  • Catalogue pages saved on your phone, so they open when offline
  • Keys for AI and voices are yours and only needed for those features