PlainReader: Parallel Reading

PlainReader is a native reader for Mac, iPad, and iPhone, built for people who read several books at once — a technical manual beside a novel beside a textbook — and want keeping them in order to take no effort at all.

One picture explains it: JustReader is the book on your nightstand, ContinuousReader is the library — and PlainReader is the bookshelf between them.

EVERY BOOK HAS ITS OWN PLACE
The shelf is big: a thousand books, and each one carefully keeps its bookmarks, notes and reading position. Don't hold back. On Mac and iPad the list sits beside the text; on iPhone it is the app's main screen.

THE APP REMEMBERS WHAT MATTERS
Take a book off the shelf and bring it back a month later, and everything is where you left off. A history of your last 25 books reopens any of them at the same paragraph.

A READING EXPERIENCE YOU CONTROL
The same reading engine as our ContinuousReader: EPUB, FB2, MOBI, AZW3, PDF, Markdown, HTML, TXT and RTF, including inside ZIP and RAR archives; manga and comics as two-page spreads; Chinese and Japanese books with furigana; nine typefaces and 41 themes across five palettes plus Typewriter and Terminal; continuous scroll, paged, or two-page spread; real hyphenation in Latin, Cyrillic, CJK, Arabic, and Greek; Read Aloud with word-by-word highlighting; on-device translation; full reading statistics.

BOOKS FROM ANYWHERE
Import by file, link, or drag and drop — or browse OPDS catalogs (Standard Ebooks, Project Gutenberg, Feedbooks, or your own) with per-catalog shortcuts.

A BOOKSHELF, NOT A LIBRARY
Managing your shelf is as simple as it gets: drag to reorder, color-code a book. For a full library — folders, collection-wide search, iCloud sync, mass import — there is our ContinuousReader; for a single book on the nightstand there is our free JustReader. PlainReader is the shelf between them.

PRIVATE BY DEFAULT
No analytics, no telemetry, no tracking, no ads. Your books stay on your device.

No subscriptions and no in-app purchases. Universal Purchase: one price covers Mac, iPad, and iPhone. Family Sharing supported.