Garden Reads | Ebook Audiobook

Read more. Listen more. Understand more. Distraction-free.

Garden Reads is a calm, distraction-free reader for people who want to relax or study a good book. Lose yourself in a quiet nature-inspired aesthetic. The app isn't just pretty, it's packed with all the tools you would need for understanding anything in a book. From definitions and translations to an on-device AI you can ask anything related to the books you're reading. No account. No data ever leaves your phone.

- Read Everything, Listen to Anything
Import EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, PDF, TXT, and MD — plus CBZ/CBR comics and M4B/MP3 audiobooks — from anywhere on your device. Connect a Calibre library over OPDS, or stream from your Audiobookshelf server. Switch between reading and listening with a single tap, and organize everything into custom shelves by genre, series, or language.

- On-Device AI That Reads With You
Ask about characters, themes, plot points, or a tough passage and get answers instantly — entirely on your phone, no internet, nothing leaving your device. Powered by Google's Gemma 4 running locally via LiteRT. Select any word or passage and ask anything — the AI reads it in the context of your book.
• Deep Think for richer, more analytical answers;
• No Spoilers mode that respects where you are;
• Replies automatically in your book's language;
• 100% optional — Garden Reads works beautifully without it.

- A Reading Experience Unlike Any Other
A clean, distraction-free page with the control serious readers want: adjustable fonts, size, weight, line height, and margins; paged or scrolling modes; page-curl, slide, and animations. Choose Light, Dark, Sepia, or true-black OLED — or the seasonal themes (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter) to fit your mood and realistic paper textures.

- Highlights, Notes & Vocabulary
Highlight, underline, and attach notes — all saved per book with a full review screen. Tap any word for an offline dictionary lookup, save it to your personal vocabulary list, or send it to Google Translate. Turn any highlight or definition into a beautiful shareable quote card.

- Audiobooks & Text-to-Speech
No time to read? The app provides a full audiobook player with chapter navigation, adjustable skip intervals, earmarks, rewind-on-resume and a sleep timer. Prefer your ebooks read aloud? Text-to-speech works on any book.

- Free Books & Audiobooks
Just starting out and you don't know where to get books from? Browse and download from over 70000+ free classics directly in app and start reading or listening in seconds — no account required.

- Secure Library
Keep private books away from prying eyes, locked behind biometric authentication, hidden in a special shelf dedicated to them.

- Sync Across Devices
Back up your annotations, vocabulary, reading progress or optionally, your whole library to your own Google Drive and switch devices in one tap — or export a single backup file locally to move everything off-grid, without internet.

- Available in 11 Languages
Fully translated into English, Romanian, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Turkish, Russian, and Polish, with a language-aware dictionary that opens the right dictionary for whatever you're reading.

- Garden Reads Pro — One-Time Purchase
Because the whole point of the app is to lose yourself in a good book, Garden Reads has only a one-time Pro Purchase, so you don't have to worry about subscriptions, ever. Upgrade once and own it forever — remove ads and unlock all current and future Pro features. The way software used to work.

More features:
• Home screen widget to jump back into your current book
• Insights: hours read, books finished, daily streaks
• Zen Mode: activates do not disturb only when reading, so notifications don't bother you and optionally hides the status bar, for distraction-free reading.
• Privacy-first and can work fully offline.

Recent changes:
Support for .svg covers.
Better handling of failed download files.
Implemented background downloading for books.
Audiobook play speed is now persistent.
Fixed a bug with shelf deleting zone.
Changing app language is now instant.