BookShelves is an EPUB, PDF, and comic book reader with a built-in catalog of 1.5 million free books. Discover public domain classics, organize your digital library, and sync seamlessly across iPhone, iPad, and Mac with iCloud (Pro). WHAT READERS SAY "Phenomenal book reading and management app, 'just works'." "My everlasting search for the perfect ePub reader might be coming to an end." "Among the best and actively developed." DISCOVER 1.5 MILLION+ FREE BOOKS • 1.5 million+ classic works — Pride and Prejudice, Moby Dick, more • 1,100+ premium editions from Standard Ebooks • Internet Archive — millions of historical texts and rare books • 1,200+ Spanish classics from the Biblioteca Nacional de España • 16,000+ Japanese classics from Aozora Bunko • Browse OPDS catalogs from external libraries and servers One tap to download. No account required. POWERFUL READING EXPERIENCE • Paginated or continuous scroll — read your way • 10 themes including Sepia, Dark Academia, Night Sky, and more • 10 bundled fonts including OpenDyslexic for accessible reading • Adjustable line spacing, margins, text justification, and font weight • Highlight in 5 colors and add notes to any passage • Export highlights to Markdown, JSON, or CSV • Dictionary look-up with language detection • Full-text search across chapters • Nested table of contents navigation • Bookmarks (iCloud sync with Pro) • Vertical text (tategaki) for Japanese and CJK books • Right-to-left reading for Arabic, Hebrew, and CJK texts • Full keyboard and trackpad support • Multi-window reading on Mac COMIC BOOKS AND MANGA • CBZ, CBR, and CB7 format support • Two-page spreads for landscape reading • Right-to-left mode for manga with reversed tap zones and swipes • Auto-detected from metadata or toggled manually SEAMLESS ICLOUD SYNC (Pro) • Books and cover images • Reading progress and current page • Shelves, tags, and ratings • Highlights, notes, and bookmarks • Reader preferences (font, theme, layout) Start reading on your iPhone, continue on your iPad, finish on your Mac. SMART LIBRARY MANAGEMENT • Edit metadata -- title, author, series, publisher, ISBN, and cover image • Automatic metadata and cover art fetching • System shelves: All Books, Recently Added, Reading, Finished, Favorites • Custom shelves for any collection • Color-coded tags for categorization • Search and filter by title, author, or tag • Grid and list views • 5-star ratings • Drag-and-drop import, Files app sharing, or OPDS catalogs • EPUB repair — auto-fixes broken navigation and missing metadata • Import from Calibre libraries with best-format selection FORMAT SUPPORT • EPUB — professional rendering with beautiful typography • PDF — native viewer with smooth scrolling and search • CBZ / CBR / CB7 — comic book archives • FB2 — FictionBook 2 format (auto-converts to EPUB) • MOBI / AZW3 / KF8 / KEPUB — auto-converts to EPUB for reading • TXT / Markdown — plain text and Markdown files (auto-converts to EPUB) MAC EXTRAS • Calibre wireless sync — connect KOReader or other devices over Wi-Fi • OPDS server — share your library on your local network PRIVACY FIRST • No account required — your data stays on your devices • No personal data collected • No ads — clean, distraction-free reading • iCloud keeps your library private and secure FREE AND PRO Free: 10 books with all reading features. Pro unlocks unlimited books, iCloud sync, email to Kindle/Kobo/reMarkable, highlight export, and OPDS server. Pro is available as a one-time purchase or subscription (monthly/annual, select regions). Subscriptions auto-renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage subscriptions in Apple ID account settings. Privacy Policy: https://getbookshelves.app/privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Service: https://getbookshelves.app/terms/ All books from discovery sources are public domain or openly licensed.
| Size | 48 MB |
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| Platforms | Mac, iPhone, and iPad |
| Languages | Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, and 25 more |
| Category | Books |
| Website | getbookshelves.app |
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| iPhone | Requires iOS 17.4 or later. |
| iPad | Requires iPadOS 17.4 or later. |
| Mac | Requires macOS 14.4 or later. |
| Apple Vision | Requires visionOS 1.1 or later. |
App's data is regularly updated.
Last update:
Sync -- Reading progress now saves precisely instead of overwriting the entire record, preventing data loss when two devices sync at the same time. Several other sync conflict scenarios that could lose edits or resurrect deleted books have been fixed. Sync -- Duplicate detection preserves covers, custom metadata, and shelf assignments when merging duplicates. Previously, deduplication could silently drop these. Import -- ISBN detection is more reliable, now scanning all metadata fields instead of just the first. Duplicate detection during batch imports is also improved. Discover -- The "Already in Library" badge works reliably with accent-insensitive author matching, and load-more errors show a small retry button instead of a blank screen. Reader -- Fixed several issues with page position: rotating an iOS device no longer jumps to the wrong page, and resuming a book always opens to the correct position. EPUBs with embedded data: URI images now display correctly. Covers -- Placeholder covers have been redesigned with better typography, including correct Arabic and Thai rendering. Downloaded covers are now validated before saving. Send to Reader -- SMTP auto-detection no longer overwrites manually entered server settings, and error messages now distinguish between rejected addresses, spam blocks, and connection failures. Resume Last Book (iOS) -- The app can reopen the last book you were reading on launch. Enable it in Settings > Reader. Deep links and share sheet imports always take priority. Calibre -- Fixed a race condition where a keepalive timer could interfere with an active book transfer, and another where disconnecting mid-transfer could corrupt the session state. Stability -- Numerous reliability fixes across sync, import, cloud storage, reading sessions, and the OPDS server. Improved performance for large libraries through database-level search and sort.