Folio — Read & Translate

About Folio — Read & Translate

A quiet place for every novel you want to read.

Folio is a warm, literary reading app that meets you wherever your book is — an EPUB on your phone, a web novel link, a half-finished translation in your Notes app, or a PDF a friend sent. Drop anything in. Folio parses chapters, cleans the formatting, and gives the words back to you on warm paper.

━━━ Bring any novel ━━━
• Upload EPUB, TXT, PDF, DOCX, or HTML — up to 100 MB
• Paste a URL from Royal Road, Wattpad, AO3, or any blog
• Drop in raw text — Folio detects chapter breaks automatically
• Follow web novels for new chapter notifications

━━━ Translate, your way ━━━
• Auto-translate from 40+ languages — Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, French, German & more
• Choose tone: Literary, Faithful, Casual, or Poetic
• Read side-by-side with the original, or tap any sentence to translate inline
• Keep the original safe — always one tap away

━━━ Listen anywhere ━━━
• Natural-sounding TTS for any chapter
• Continues where you left off across devices
• Adjustable speed, voice, and pause-between-paragraphs
• Background playback with lock-screen controls

━━━ Designed for long reading ━━━
• Warm paper, sepia, and night themes
• Serif typography that gets out of the way
• Highlight, annotate, look up words inline
• Real progress: chapters, time remaining, words left

━━━ Yours to share ━━━
• Share a novel by link, EPUB, or pretty quote card
• Public, link-only, or fully private — your choice
• Reading history syncs across devices

Why Folio?
Most reading apps either lock you to their bookstore or treat your library like a Dropbox folder. Folio treats every novel — yours, the web's, or one you're translating — as a real book. Quiet covers. Real chapters. A reader that knows where you are.

No streaks. No "engagement" pressure. No ads inside the page.
Just the book, and you.

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Folio respects your library. Your uploads stay on your device unless you choose to share them. No analytics inside chapters, ever.