One app across Mac, iPad, and iPhone — adapted to each device’s way of working, not mediocre on all three.
Cross-platform apps usually land in one of two places. Either they look the same everywhere — which means they look wrong somewhere. Or they’re three separate apps held together by the same name and a cloud icon.
ContinuousReader is neither. The reading engine, the library, the typography, the themes, translation, Read Aloud — one shared codebase, and it behaves the same on every device. What changes is how you reach it: keyboard and trackpad on the Mac, taps and swipes on iPad, a single thumb on iPhone.
The Mac version takes everything the platform offers. Keyboard shortcuts for anything you do often, resizable panels, drag-and-drop just about everywhere, Book Card windows that float above the app, and an island design borrowed from Apple’s System Settings — rounded panels on a recessed window background.
The version to use when you have a keyboard, a chair, and time.
iPad sits between Mac and iPhone — more room than a phone, more touch than a laptop. ContinuousReader takes advantage of both.
Same island design as Mac, same fonts, same themes. The library looks like it belongs to the same app — because it does.
The iPhone version is streamlined, not stripped. Everything that earns its place on a small screen is here; the things that don’t — the table view, the floating panels, the two-page spread — sit it out, because cramming them in would only make the app worse. In their place: quick settings, tap zones, fullscreen reading, and native sheets.
Same reader, three platforms — how each feature is adapted to each.
| Mac | iPad | iPhone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library layout | Island design, resizable, hover effects | Island design, swipe actions | Compact list, swipe actions |
| View modes | Table, Card | List, Card | List, Card |
| Folders | Nested sidebar tree (F4) | Nested sidebar tree | Bottom panel |
| Info panel | Resizable side panel | Resizable side panel | Push detail view |
| Reader side panel | Integrated left panel | Integrated left panel | Overlay drawer |
| Themes | All 41 | All 41 | All 41 |
| Fonts | All 9 | All 9 | All 9 |
| Typography controls | Full | Full | Full |
| Settings | Popover + Cmd+, dialog | Popover, two-column | Multi-level bottom panel |
| Page modes | Scroll, Page, Two pages | Scroll, Page, Two pages (landscape) | Scroll, Page |
| Chapter map | ✓ | — | — |
| Fullscreen reading | Native macOS fullscreen | Center tap | Center tap |
| Fullscreen clock & progress | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Navigation | Keyboard + trackpad | Touch + swipes + keyboard | Edge swipes + tap zones |
| OPDS | Floating window | Page-sized dialog | Panel |
| Filters | Unified popover | Unified popover | Unified panel |
| Library backup (copy the folder) | ✓ | — | — |
| Custom library location | ✓ | — | — |
| Drag URL from browser | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Mass import | ✓ | — | — |
| Keyboard shortcuts | Full set | Most | Some |
Everything above is included in ContinuousReader for $19.99. Universal Purchase — buy once on any platform, install on all three, sync turned on.
Or try JustReader for free — a single-book version of the reader with the same engine, the same themes, the same translation. Available on all three platforms too.
Two apps. Read a book, or grow a library.