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. DISCOVER 1.5 MILLION+ FREE BOOKS Browse and download from curated public domain sources: • 1.5 million+ classic works — Pride and Prejudice, Moby Dick, and thousands more • 1,100+ premium editions from Standard Ebooks with professional formatting • Internet Archive — millions of historical texts and rare books • 1,200+ Spanish classics from the Biblioteca Nacional de España • 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: Light, Dark, Sepia, Quiet, Vintage Paper, Night Sky, Forest, Ocean Mist, Midnight, Dark Academia • 10 bundled fonts including OpenDyslexic for accessible reading • Adjustable line spacing, margins, text justification, and bold text • 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 with iCloud sync • Right-to-left reading for Arabic, Hebrew, and CJK texts • Full keyboard and trackpad support • Multi-window reading on Mac COMIC BOOKS AND MANGA A dedicated comic reader for your collection: • 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) Your entire library syncs automatically across all your devices: • 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 • 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 CALIBRE WIRELESS SYNC (macOS) Connect KOReader or other Calibre-compatible devices over Wi-Fi. Reading progress syncs both ways. OPDS SERVER (macOS) Share your library on your local network. Any OPDS-compatible reader can browse and download your books. 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. FEEDBACK We'd love to hear from you: getbookshelves.app/feedback 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 | 44.3 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:
Reader -- Books with obfuscated fonts now display correctly instead of being rejected as DRM-protected. Both IDPF and Adobe font obfuscation methods are supported. Reader -- Fixed scroll mode breaking stylesheet images and backgrounds when navigating between chapters. EPUB -- More accurate metadata. Books using EPUB 3 title-type are now parsed correctly, multi-rootfile containers pick the right content, and manifest items with missing media types are handled instead of dropped. OPDS Catalogs -- More reliable connections to password-protected servers. Covers, search, and re-authentication now work correctly on servers that use cookies or basic auth. Fixed a stall when loading large Calibre libraries. Import -- Fixed manga and comic series being flagged as duplicates when importing multiple volumes. Comics -- SVG covers are now rendered on iOS, where they previously showed a generic image. Performance -- Replaced the third-party reading engine with a custom-built one. Books open faster, the app launches quicker, and the download size is smaller. Stability -- Hardened archive handling against oversized or malformed files, and fixed decompression failures on some EPUBs with slightly misreported file sizes.