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Books of pictures

• Manga and comics: CBZ, CBR and fixed-layout EPUB, right to left in spreads with the cover on its own. The direction comes from the file itself (ComicInfo.xml, an EPUB’s page direction) and can be changed on the book card and in the reader.
• Comfort gives books of pictures settings of their own, and no search.
• Page brightness for reading at night.
• F12 twice on the Mac opens a grid of every page with a size slider; a click goes to the page.
• The lens shows the spread itself as you scrub; on the Mac the bubble over Comfort’s bar shows the page under the pointer.
• A picture full screen: pinch to zoom about the point between your fingers, pan with the finger, double tap. The book card gains a thumbnail size slider.
• A book without ComicInfo takes its cover, title and author from the file names; pages in chapter folders come in order.
• Books that are too large get a size dialog with Reduce.

PDF

• PDF import in two forms, as text or as pages; a wizard shows the book as it will be after the import.
• Convert Again… on the book card.
• Text from a PDF keeps its footnotes, captions and verse.
• A password-protected PDF is recognised: the import doesn’t start, and the app suggests removing the password first.
• PDF import settings in JustReader and PlainReader.

Formats and import

• Kindle AZW3 without DRM, Markdown, CBR (RAR).
• JustReader and PlainReader take CBZ and CBR; the download basket takes PDF, CBZ and CBR.
• Archives: an archive with one book is unwrapped and shown as that book; from several, books are chosen in a browser with a folder tree, the keyboard and a preview; an archive with no books says so at once.
• In ContinuousReader and PlainReader several books from an archive, or all of them, go in as a batch with the dialog’s settings; a batch has no Import and Open.
• A long import no longer blocks the app; the dialog shows a spinner.
• No file-size cap on the Mac; the import dialogs check the caps for the book’s kind beforehand.
• On the Mac, Mass Import and the download basket take archives of books.

Languages

• The interface in Simplified Chinese and Japanese in all three apps.
• Chinese books: GB18030 and Big5, the page count, typography.
• Japanese books: Shift_JIS and EUC-JP, furigana, Aozora Bunko texts with their markup.

Reading

• Comfort on the Mac: the percent opens the position card, with Chapters in it.
• Terminal: F10 quits to the library, as in Norton.
• The F1 panel links to the reading mode’s shortcuts.
• Fixed: no phantom last page in Comfort with three or four columns; Go to Image lands exactly after the book re-flows; the desk’s colour rows no longer look live while a picture covers the desk.

Library

• A storage column in the table and a badge on the book card: on this device, in the cloud only, missing, linked.
• A device filter on every statistics surface.
• Tabs switch faster; the book list keeps its book and its scroll.
• Coming back from the reader is faster.
• The genre filter puts the ticked genres on top.
• An Acknowledgements and licences window.
• Watchers: Select, a filter by name, Retry Failed (N), Import New (N).
• The download basket acts on several links at once.
• The sync setup no longer spends minutes “measuring”.
• Fixed: satellite windows no longer drag like elastic on macOS 27; a double click in the table opens the book again; the Folders and Genres windows no longer shrink below their minimum.

JustReader

• Toolbar settings: icons with names or icons only, and Retro on the iPad.
• The home screen from the keyboard; Return opens the book.
• Close Book is ⏏, and its dialog says the file stays.
• The new formats are lit on the welcome screen.
• The read button shows the progress in dots; the focus runs along its rim.

PlainReader

• Toolbar settings; the Import button has a menu.
• Retro on the iPad: keys, LEDs, nameplates for dividers.
• Menus in large rows, a swipe on a book, a ⋯ on every divider.
• The import shows the category from its first step, says “already on the shelf”, and takes every book of an archive at once.
• The book screen in three sizes.
• On the phone a back button on the book screen, and the bottom toolbar stands above the safe area.
• The list runs full height and can be a third wider.

“Make yourself comfortable”

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Thank you, Elli — a reader whose letters gave this release the notes browser and the page turns.

Reading

• Two ways to read: Comfort adapts the page by itself — margins, spacing, columns — with a slim bar that stays out of the text’s way; Professional keeps every panel, dock and setting, and lets you build your own reading IDE. Each mode keeps its own settings and has a door to the other.
• Up to four columns in Pages mode on a wide screen. The number you choose is a ceiling: how many actually fit depends on the font size, because a column is never narrower than a readable line.
• Page turns as a dropdown — None, Slide, Flip, Cards, Sink. Flip turns the spread over like a leaf; Cards revolve every column about its axis (one card the page wide at one column); Sink lets the old page sink into the paper as the new one lands. Typewriter feeds its carriage instead. Slide, Sink and Cards follow the key’s axis — Up/Down, Space and Return move vertically.
• Paper: the page can wear a texture — lined, squared, millimetre, sand or your own picture — on the phone too; three more desk papers — kraft, fibre, laid — and desk presets as a dropdown; the desk under a sheet takes the theme’s tint.
• Text frames: single, double, notched or vintage around the text, following the padding and the columns; Typewriter’s Perforated frame for fan-fold sheets.
• Reader Appearance on six tabs — Typography, Page & Navigation, Theme, Desk, Panels, Shortcuts — with a settings navigator on a double F9. The “Margins” tab is Desk now, and Save / Load Settings became Export / Import Settings — nobody mistakes them for “apply” any more.
• Quiet mode on H: panels shut, docks bare, the title gone — the line and the text remain until a key. The panel selector on a double Esc: every panel with its key.
• The Book Info dock gains Info · Stats — the book’s numbers beside its card.
• The jump lens centres the target line with as much text before and after as fits; in scroll mode a page step marks the line the eye left off with a fading rule.
• Footnotes that link back to the text work in more EPUB and FB2 books; drama tables no longer collapse the speaker column to one letter a line.
• Translate your own text: a manual mode — type or paste, the translation appears after a pause; the selection can be pasted in.

Library

• Full control over tabs: every tab but Library closes and reopens from the View menu; tabs that don’t fit the row drop into a menu; a double Esc opens the tab selector with every tab on its own permanent key, tiles you drag to reorder; the whole row hides on ⇧⌘T.
• An author browser: a column of every author and a page each — a note with the rich editor, the numbers, the books by series with their folders, co-authors as links; spellings of one name joined and split; a folder’s note can move to its author. On the iPad and the iPhone too.
• A series browser: any series or author as a tab of its own — the volumes in order and how many are read.
• Notes & Highlights browser: every note and coloured bookmark of every book, the deleted ones included — the marks outlive the copy on disk and return on re-import; search, bulk recolouring, export as HTML, Markdown or CSV, a delete sheet for the notes and highlights of any books.
• The Reading Journal: every sitting recorded — when, how long, which book, from which page to which; listed by day and by book with search, periods (last 7 and 30 days, calendar windows, all the reading) and export of several days or books; the book card draws the sittings as a timeline.
• Statistics as a tab: a monthly activity curve, three donuts — books, authors, genres — with a period picker, sittings and pace, a book scope; per-book first and last open, last close, last sitting; the report exports as Markdown and CSV as well as HTML.
• Completed: a tick where a bar would say 99 % — a page or two from the end.
• Folder notes on an Edit sheet, shown on the folder’s info panel with live links; a folder’s colour washes under its books; the folder picker closes on a click and opens Manage Folders as a window.
• ISBN read from EPUB, FB2 and MOBI, kept on the card, a hidden table column, searchable with #, in the exports.
• Import from Calibre: metadata.opf and cover.jpg beside a book beat its header — title, authors, series, tags, description, date, cover; one format per Calibre book.
• Watchers: rows with new books stand out; the ignore list and the imports travel between devices; a watcher already known is merged, not skipped.
• The tint reaches the text: the library’s ink carries the palette’s hue; turning the tint off keeps the scroll. On the Mac a book change no longer flickers and table columns keep a layout per tab.
• Sync: turning iCloud on after a local detour pulls everything at once — read marks, reading time, positions; bookmarks left the key-value store for good.

iPad

• The Mac’s keys on the iPad: with a keyboard attached, a double Esc and H work as on the Mac; the tab selector opens as a dialog; the Statistics, Notes and Authors tabs join the tab row; the book selection mode is styled for the dark band; a tap on the reading line between the columns turns the page instead of opening full screen; the way out of a book is always there, whatever the panel layout.
• Native dialogs on the iPad and the iPhone: the export dialogs, the series editor, the OPDS catalog editor and the book card from a catalog, PlainReader’s category and import dialogs now look like the system’s own — a title in the bar, Cancel on the left, the action on the right.

iPhone

• The iPhone gets the same tabs as the iPad: a tab row, a chevron that opens the tab selector, toolbars on the dark band, and the Authors, Journal and Notes browsers laid out for a phone — with export and selection. The tab row works as a history: the Library first, then the tabs you opened, the recent ones nearer; nothing needs closing.
• The full-screen bar is yours to assemble: a settings screen for the island and the bar with a set of readings for every place on it — session time, four kinds of clock, four of battery, four of position in the book — and a live preview. The tiles of the navigation and settings menus fly into place.
• Reading on the phone: the Sink and Cards page turns; text brightness as an indicator in the settings menu and a small panel right over the page; the page texture in the settings; finger-sized buttons, with Reset set apart; the Comfort reader on the phone with one menu and one settings screen.

JustReader and PlainReader

• Comfort by default on fresh installs; Statistics, the Reading Journal and Notes & Highlights as windows of their own on the Mac and full-screen on the iPad and the iPhone, opened by the buttons at the bottom — dimmed with a hint while there is nothing to show; a Library · This book switch on the statistics; About the family at the bottom; the Comfort | Professional switch on the phone; the theme tint together with the reader.
• PlainReader: the book menu gains Read, Book Card and Chapters and bookmarks, and on the iPad the selected category gets a ⋯ button with its menu; the OPDS window in the browsers’ colour and a globe button at the bottom; the divider band in its pure colour at every depth; the phone’s book screen on a rounded card; a nearly empty shelf shows the import and catalog buttons under the books.
• JustReader: the journal names the closed books and lights the current one; Book Card opens the card for a closed book too; the footer in two rows on the phone; Go ▸ Settings and Reader Appearance by name.

Fixes

• A reader’s window that “kept floating all over the place” on a Mac mini after install; the desk under a sheet-on-a-desk page not in the theme’s tint; a gone book’s card offering Cover and Images; the session counter reset on a page reload; a sliver of the next column at the right edge; the textured page left in the old colour after a theme change; the journal’s pages on the phone losing the tint; the OPDS window’s title colour; the shelf list running on under the footer’s discs on the iPad.

“I like to move it”

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• Panels go where you put them: bookmarks, notes, search, translation, chapters and pictures are panels now — dock any of them to any edge of the reader, float it, or hide it until you press its key. Ready-made layouts move every panel at once; pin a dock and the page keeps room for it.
• A separate Search tab in the library: search the whole library or from any folder, and jump to the book — or straight to the place in the text.
• OPDS catalogs and watchers are library tabs now, with filters that reach into the books; a download basket takes a whole list of links and fetches them one after another, retrying after a dropped connection.
• Chapters as a filmstrip, all the pictures at hand, search results as a numbered list with the hits on the page marked.
• Your position, your way: a full progress line, just the percent, a segmented bar or a dial — and a look at the text before you jump, from the progress bar, a chapter or a bookmark.
• iPhone: full-screen reading with active corners — settings at one, navigation at the other, as tiles — and a selection mode of its own along the top edge.
• Folders and genres get management windows; a folder shows everything inside its subfolders as one list; the Trash remembers where things came from; tables fit the window.
• Terminal and Typewriter have night versions; covers can take the reading theme’s colours; quick settings open as a panel with named sections.
• PlainReader: a shelf with dividers — up to 999 books in named, coloured, foldable categories, beside the book or as the home page, selection and multi-file import, the whole shelf from the keyboard.
• JustReader: chapters and bookmarks one tap from the cover; the same reader engine everywhere.

“The Search Is Over”

• Global search — find any phrase in any book you own: text, titles, authors, series, annotations. Results show highlighted snippets with hit counts, and the jump arrow opens the book right at the found place.
• Go To — jump into a book at a chapter or bookmark straight from the library; books now carry their real table of contents instead of invented chapter numbers.
• One Book Card on every device: it opens instantly even on image-heavy books, the gallery pages smoothly, and the Stats tab shows the book’s own reading history.
• Mass import that shows its work: drop whole folders into a resizable window, see every candidate before a byte is written, duplicates marked in advance.
• Interface depth — Flat, Standard, or Deep — plus your accent color in every window and sheet, now on the Mac as well.
• Quick reader appearance everywhere: a floating panel you keep beside the page on the Mac, a full-screen surface on iPhone — no open book required.
• The iPhone library, one tap deep: a dedicated search-and-filter button, a reachable Trash, folder management by swipes, a full-screen book card.
• Sync you can see: the waiting curtain names the book and says how fresh the other device’s position is; the readers sheet lists every device with its live position.
• JustReader: a full-fledged Settings screen, reading statistics, bookmarks and notes that survive re-imports, the Book Card, and chapter navigation right from home.
• Fixes and polish throughout.

“True Colors”

• Folders show up right among the books — first in the list and in the card grid, with their own colors and book counts; move a book into a folder by simply dragging it.
• The iPhone library is rebuilt: reworked rows, separate buttons for folders, sorting, and filters, finger-friendly sheets.
• iPad catches up with the Mac: a full settings screen, a status bar with the active view’s controls, adjustable sidebar folder size.
• Views fit the screen: smooth card sizing, covers at every list detail level, control bars that adapt to the window width.
• The whole app follows the hue of your reading theme — library and reader alike, on Mac, iPad, and iPhone.
• A more responsive library: covers load in the background at the displayed size, large grids scroll without stutters, Mac context menus no longer close on their own.
• JustReader: a new home screen — a round Read button wrapped in a progress gauge — plus a history of the last five books, each reopening on its page.
• Fixes and polish throughout.

“Turn the Page”

• Margins mode comes to iPad: the page floats as a sheet on a themed desk, with its own settings dialog and a fullscreen quick-menu entry.
• Page turns on the margins: the desk around the page turns pages — forward on the right and bottom, back on the left and top.
• Translation settings gain a language-pair picker; the selection menu leads there when the pair isn’t set.
• Mark as Read clears the NEW badge without opening the book — for one book, a selection, or a whole folder.
• Folder tree and per-folder counts on the New tab; subtler New markers on iPhone.
• Fixes and polish throughout.

“Every Breath You Take”

• OPDS Watchers dashboard — watch catalog feeds, check in the background, import new arrivals in one click, with an import log.
• New badges and a New library tab collect books you haven’t started, with per-folder counts.
• Margins mode on Mac: the page floats as a sheet on a themed desk — wood, leather, blueprint grids or your own wallpaper.
• Illustrations match the theme: monochrome engravings blend into the page color, transparent line art stays transparent.
• Cleaner card view: more air, a cover-only mode and reading progress on the card.
• Native multi-select on Mac (⌘-click, ⇧-click, rubber-band) — dragging moves the whole selection.
• Continue Reading: reopen your last book with one shortcut or pick up where another device left off.
• Steadier sync: no more position rewinds after sleep; the Latest tab catches up in seconds.
• A What’s New screen in the app, plus many fixes and polish.

1.0.1 — July 8, 2026

“Fix You”

• Rock-solid two-page reading on iPad — stable across app switching and rotation.
• Battery indicator and configurable status sections in fullscreen.
• Fixed keyboard scrolling jitter with external keyboards.
• Safer book imports and polish throughout.

“Start Me Up”

• First public release: the library with folders and cards, the continuous reader with 41 themes, iCloud sync, OPDS catalogs, translation, Read Aloud and reading statistics — on Mac, iPad and iPhone.