Kitab: EPUB Reader

Kitab is an EPUB reader, PDF reader and CBZ comic reader for Android. Read offline, organize your library into collections, highlight passages and listen to EPUB books with read aloud.

Enjoy a clean, customizable reading experience. Local reading works without an account, and Kitab remembers where you stopped.

READ EPUB & PDF

Keep ebooks, documents and comics together in one library.

• EPUB and EPUB 3 ebooks
• Reflowable and fixed-layout EPUB books
• PDF documents
• Import supported files individually or from a folder
• Continue reading from your saved position

CUSTOMIZE YOUR EPUB READER

Make every book comfortable to read.

• Switch between paginated pages and continuous scrolling
• Choose light, sepia or dark reader themes
• Select a font, including Literata, Inter and Atkinson Hyperlegible
• Adjust font size, line spacing and page margins
• Customize text alignment
• Control reader brightness or follow system brightness

Typography, text search, highlights and read aloud are available for supported EPUB books.

ORGANIZE BOOKS INTO COLLECTIONS

Build a personal library that feels like yours.

• Create collections for genres, courses or reading moods
• Add a book to more than one collection
• Search your library and manage collection membership
• See book covers and reading progress at a glance
• Return to your current book with Continue Reading

Local collections are free and work offline.

HIGHLIGHT, BOOKMARK & SEARCH

Keep useful passages and find your way through longer books.

• Highlight EPUB text in multiple colors
• View saved highlights and jump to their locations
• Change highlight colors or remove highlights
• Export EPUB highlights as a Markdown document
• Add bookmarks and view reading progress
• Browse the table of contents where available
• Search inside EPUB books

Your saved reading position, bookmarks and highlights remain available when you reopen a book.

LISTEN WITH READ ALOUD

Turn supported EPUB books into a listening experience with text-to-speech.

• Choose from available voices
• Adjust playback speed
• Follow the spoken passage in your book
• Continue listening in the background
• Use Android text-to-speech as an alternative to online voices

With Kitab Pro, download EPUB speech audio for offline listening. Online voices and audio downloads require an internet connection; saved audio can be played offline.

DISCOVER BOOKS IN ONLINE LIBRARIES

Find your next classic with free Project Gutenberg browsing.

• Browse and search the Gutenberg catalog
• View book details and download supported editions
• Read downloaded books from your local library
• Track downloads and retry failed transfers

Kitab Pro also connects to compatible personal OPDS libraries, including supported Calibre, Calibre-Web, Kavita and Komga configurations.

PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF WITH KITAB PRO

Use your own Google Drive to sync across your Android devices.

• Sync books and reading positions
• Keep bookmarks and highlights in sync
• Sync collections and their book memberships
• View sync status and retry when needed
• Choose which supported categories to sync

Kitab Pro adds Google Drive sync, personal OPDS library connections and offline EPUB audio downloads. Core local reading and collections remain available without Pro.

READ WITHOUT DISTRACTIONS

Let your book take center stage. Tap the center of the page to show reading controls, then hide them when you want a quiet reading screen.

From EPUB novels and PDF documents to CBZ comics, Kitab brings your reading together in one modern offline reader.

Supported formats: EPUB, EPUB 3, PDF and CBZ.