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About Marginalist

Marginalist is a focused manuscript reader (and text-to-speech/ manuscript audio player) for book editors, agents, publishers, professors, writing groups, friends-of-novelists, and anyone else who tackles reading long manuscripts. Open a MS Word document (.docx) or PDF, flow it into a beautiful reading experience, add and manage comments, and export back as the original document with all of your formatting intact. Our stay-out-of-the-way AI helps you keep track of your reading experience with three powerful features (Recap, Character Index, Ask) without generative nonsense. FEATURES: - Import MS Word (.docx) or PDF files (Files app, Dropbox, drag-and-drop and via share-sheet integration) - Adjust your perfect reading environment (font, theme, margins, etc) - Add comments with ease - or use one of our 'quick-action' comments - View your reading stats, search the manuscript, or connect an external keyboard - Three powerful non-generative AI features: - 'Remind me what happened' - get a recap of what's happened over the last handful of pages - 'Character index' - Marginalist automatically builds a character index with the associated passages so you never have to ask: 'Who is Robert again?' - Ask a question about the book - Read Aloud - Marginalist will read the manuscript to you - Author's Note - an in-app scratchpad / author's note can be optionally appended to the manuscript - Export the manuscript back into your workflow, with all of the original formatting intact - and all of your comments. Free to download and use. No account or signup needed.  Upgrade to PRO for a few extra features. More info: https://marginalist.app Support & Contact https://marginalist.app/support

Ratings & reviews

4.4

7 ratings

5 ★ 86% 4 ★ 0% 3 ★ 0% 2 ★ 0% 1 ★ 14%

What’s new

Version 2.9.0 · Updated October 24, 2026

** Big reading improvements - Read like a book. In Pages mode, Mac, iPad in landscape and iPhone Duo now show two facing pages. A new page slider in the toolbar takes you anywhere in the manuscript. To start, choose Pages in Settings (AA) › Reading. - Justified text Even right edges, with hyphenation. Turn it on in Settings (AA). * Easier to find things Search matches now stand out more clearly. Lots of quality-of-life improvements Previously in version 2.8: - New: Marginalist for Mac. Download our native Mac app to keep editing manuscripts when you're at your desk. - New: Pages. Read a page at a time instead of scrolling. Swipe or tap the edges to turn the page. Swipe up/down to show or hide the controls. Turn on in settings.

App privacy

The developer, Ben Parzybok, reported these privacy practices to Apple.

Data Not Linked to You

The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:

  • Identifiers: Device ID
  • Usage Data: Product Interaction
  • Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data
  • User Content: Other User Content

Used for: Analytics, App Functionality

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