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Readest 0.12.16

Modern, feature-rich ebook reader

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About Readest

Readest is a modern, feature-rich ebook reader designed for avid readers offering seamless cross-platform access, powerful tools, and an intuitive interface to elevate your reading experience.

Built as a modern rewrite of Foliate, Readest leverages Next.js 15 and Tauri v2 to deliver a smooth, cross-platform experience across macOS, Windows, Linux, Android, iOS, and the Web.

Whether you're analyzing complex texts, immersing yourself in stories, or exploring new ideas, Readest adapts to your needs with powerful features for deep, thoughtful reading.

Key features include:

• Multi-format support for EPUB, MOBI, KF8 (AZW3), FB2, CBZ, TXT, and PDF (experimental).

• Switch between scrolling or paginated reading modes for your preferred reading style.

• Full-text search across the entire book to find relevant sections quickly.

• Add highlights, bookmarks, and notes to enhance your reading experience and learning.

• Easily excerpt text from books for detailed notes and analysis.

• Instantly look up words and terms with built-in dictionary and Wikipedia integration.

• Translate selected text instantly using DeepL for accurate translations.

• Parallel Reading: Read two books or documents simultaneously in a split-screen view, perfect for researchers, language learners, and multitaskers.

• Customize fonts, layout, theme mode, and theme colors for a personalized reading experience.

• Cross-platform synchronization of book files, reading progress, notes, and bookmarks across all supported platforms.

• Text-to-Speech functionality for a more accessible reading experience.

• Organize, sort, and manage your entire ebook library with advanced library management tools.

• One-click file association to quickly open files in Readest from your file browser.

Readest also includes custom CSS support for personalized styling, and code syntax highlighting for technical books. The application is designed to honor the legacy of deep reading while embracing modern technology for an enhanced experience.

License: AGPL-3.0-or-later
Release info Update on Oct 13, 2026
Release notes Release Highlights
• Text-to-Speech: Added Readest Voice premium read-aloud voices for Plus and Pro, you can now connect your own OpenAI-compatible voice service, and Edge voices work again
• Annotations: You can now handwrite and draw on your pages, and share passages as quote card images
• Library: Books now show their page count with a new Pages sort and filter that syncs across devices, and numbered titles sort in natural order
• Sync: Custom fonts download when you need them and can be removed from the cloud, custom theme edits now sync, and deleted books no longer come back
• Sync: KOReader progress sync and WebDAV sync are more reliable, and signing out only logs out the current device
• Reading: Very large or link-heavy chapters no longer freeze the reader, and fixed layout issues with headings, blockquotes, footnotes, and background textures
• Audiobooks: Audiobookshelf playback now works in the web app, chapters are detected more reliably, and you can pair audiobooks with books streamed from Audiobookshelf
• Linux: Fixed a freeze with two open windows, the main window reopens maximized, and Reveal in Folder works again
• PDF: You can hide page thumbnails in the PDF table of contents
• More: The share sheet opens again on iOS 16, with polish for the drawing tools, bottom sheets, and bookshelf header

What's Changed
• chore(android): link WebView APK downloads in the outdated-WebView dialog by @chrox in https://github.com/readest/readest/pull/6649
• chore(deps): bump DeterminateSystems/determinate-nix-action from 3.22.5 to 3.23.0 in the github-actions group by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/readest/readest/pull/6679
• ui: place the "Log out" item in the second sub menu by @5w5 in https://github.com/readest/readest/pull/6645
• fix(reader): stop link-heavy single-file sections from hanging by @chrox in https://github.com/readest/readest/pull/6678
• refactor(ai): drop write-only indexingStates map in ragService by @irontaek in…
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