One app across Mac, iPad, and iPhone — adapted to each device.
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 the iPad, a single thumb on the iPhone — and two readers to choose from on all three, Comfort and Professional.
The Mac version takes everything the platform offers: a key for anything you do often, panels that dock to any edge, float as windows of their own or pin, the Book Card and the browsers — authors, series, notes, journal, statistics — in windows of their own, drag-and-drop just about everywhere, and an island design borrowed from Apple’s System Settings.
⌘B to bookmark, ⌘F to search, ⌘G for the progress drawer, F2–F4 for panels, Space for quick previewEsc opens the panel selector, a double F9 the settings navigatorThe version to use when you have a keyboard, a chair, and time.
The iPad sits between the Mac and the iPhone, and gets the best of both: with a keyboard attached it is the Mac’s reader — panels, docks, the same keys; put the keyboard away and it reads like the iPhone, full screen with active corners.
Esc, H for Quiet mode, the tab selector and the panel selector work as on the Mac
The same design as on the Mac, the same fonts, the same themes: on the iPad this is not a separate edition but the same app on another screen.
The iPhone version is adapted, not stripped. Everything that earns its place on a small screen is here; the table view and the floating panels sit it out, because cramming them in would only make the app worse. In their place: full-screen reading with active corners, tiles instead of panels, native sheets — and the library’s tabs, browsers included, laid out for a phone.
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, Cards | List, Cards | List, Cards |
| Folders | Nested sidebar tree (F4) | Nested sidebar tree | Bottom sheet |
| Info panel | Resizable side panel | Resizable side panel | Detail sheet |
| Reader side panel | Dock to any edge, float or pin | Dock to any edge, float or pin | Corner tiles and full-screen sheets |
| Themes | All 42 | All 42 | All 42 |
| Fonts | All 9 | All 9 | All 9 |
| Typography controls | Full | Full | Full |
| Settings | Six tabs (Reader Appearance) + ⌘, | Six tabs (Reader Appearance) | Settings sheet |
| Page modes | Scroll, Pages — up to 4 columns | Scroll, Pages — up to 3 columns in landscape | Scroll, Pages |
| Reading modes | Comfort, Professional | Comfort, Professional | Comfort, Professional |
| Fullscreen reading | Native macOS full screen | Centre tap | Always on |
| Full-screen bar, built slot by slot | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Navigation | Keyboard + trackpad | Touch + swipes + keyboard | Corners, edge swipes, tap zones |
| OPDS | Library tab | Library tab | Library tab |
| Filters | Unified popover | Unified popover | Filter sheet |
| Library backup (copy the folder) | ✓ | — | — |
| Custom library location | ✓ | — | — |
| Drag URL from browser | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Mass import | ✓ | — | — |
| Keyboard shortcuts | Full set | With a keyboard: the Mac’s | — |
Everything above is included in ContinuousReader for $19.99. Universal Purchase — buy once on any platform, install on all three, sync turned on.
Or start smaller: PlainReader at $6.99 keeps a shelf of books in coloured categories without a library to maintain, and JustReader is free for one book at a time. Same engine, same themes, same translation — all on three platforms.
A bookFree
A shelf$6.99
A library$19.99
Three apps. Read a book, fill a shelf, or grow a library.