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About BookShelves eBook Reader

BookShelves is an EPUB, PDF, and comic book reader with a built-in catalog of 1.5 million free books. Discover public domain classics, organize your digital library, and sync seamlessly across iPhone, iPad, and Mac with iCloud (Pro). WHAT READERS SAY "Phenomenal book reading and management app, 'just works'." "My everlasting search for the perfect ePub reader might be coming to an end." "Among the best and actively developed." DISCOVER 1.5 MILLION+ FREE BOOKS • 1.5 million+ classic works — Pride and Prejudice, Moby Dick, more • 1,100+ premium editions from Standard Ebooks • Internet Archive — millions of historical texts and rare books • 1,200+ Spanish classics from the Biblioteca Nacional de España • 16,000+ Japanese classics from Aozora Bunko • Browse OPDS catalogs from external libraries and servers One tap to download. No account required. POWERFUL READING EXPERIENCE • Paginated or continuous scroll — read your way • 10 themes including Sepia, Dark Academia, Night Sky, and more • 10 bundled fonts including OpenDyslexic for accessible reading • Adjustable line spacing, margins, text justification, and font weight • Highlight in 5 colors and add notes to any passage • Export highlights to Markdown, JSON, or CSV • Dictionary look-up with language detection • Full-text search across chapters • Nested table of contents navigation • Bookmarks (iCloud sync with Pro) • Vertical text (tategaki) for Japanese and CJK books • Right-to-left reading for Arabic, Hebrew, and CJK texts • Full keyboard and trackpad support • Multi-window reading on Mac COMIC BOOKS AND MANGA • CBZ, CBR, and CB7 format support • Two-page spreads for landscape reading • Right-to-left mode for manga with reversed tap zones and swipes • Auto-detected from metadata or toggled manually SEAMLESS ICLOUD SYNC (Pro) • Books and cover images • Reading progress and current page • Shelves, tags, and ratings • Highlights, notes, and bookmarks • Reader preferences (font, theme, layout) Start reading on your iPhone, continue on your iPad, finish on your Mac. SMART LIBRARY MANAGEMENT • Edit metadata -- title, author, series, publisher, ISBN, and cover image • Automatic metadata and cover art fetching • System shelves: All Books, Recently Added, Reading, Finished, Favorites • Custom shelves for any collection • Color-coded tags for categorization • Search and filter by title, author, or tag • Grid and list views • 5-star ratings • Drag-and-drop import, Files app sharing, or OPDS catalogs • EPUB repair — auto-fixes broken navigation and missing metadata • Import from Calibre libraries with best-format selection FORMAT SUPPORT • EPUB — professional rendering with beautiful typography • PDF — native viewer with smooth scrolling and search • CBZ / CBR / CB7 — comic book archives • FB2 — FictionBook 2 format (auto-converts to EPUB) • MOBI / AZW3 / KF8 / KEPUB — auto-converts to EPUB for reading • TXT / Markdown — plain text and Markdown files (auto-converts to EPUB) MAC EXTRAS • Calibre wireless sync — connect KOReader or other devices over Wi-Fi • OPDS server — share your library on your local network PRIVACY FIRST • Your data stays on your devices • No personal data collected • No ads — clean, distraction-free reading • iCloud keeps your library private and secure FREE AND PRO Free: 10 books with all reading features. Pro unlocks unlimited books, iCloud sync, email to Kindle/reMarkable, highlight export, and OPDS server. Pro is available as a one-time purchase or subscription (monthly/annual, select regions). Subscriptions auto-renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage subscriptions in Apple ID account settings. Privacy Policy: https://getbookshelves.app/privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Service: https://getbookshelves.app/terms/ All books from discovery sources are public domain or openly licensed.

Ratings & reviews

3.8

19 ratings

5 ★ 47% 4 ★ 11% 3 ★ 21% 2 ★ 16% 1 ★ 5%

What’s new

Version 1.0.42 · Updated October 26, 2026

Discover -- Explore free books like never before. The new Discover home page brings every catalog together on beautiful shelves, with one search across all of them and the same easy filters you know from your Library. Highlights -- Highlighting feels effortless. Mark any word or passage, including italic, bold and linked text, and every highlight stays exactly where you made it. Your notes are protected with a quick confirmation before you delete them. Search -- Find any passage in a flash. Search takes you straight to the right spot, in page and scroll mode alike. Scroll Mode -- Your place stays put as you adjust text size and fonts, and reaching the last page marks the book Finished. Sync -- Pick up exactly where you left off: BookShelves keeps your latest reading position in step across iPhone, iPad and Mac. iPhone & iPad -- Sort your library your way in grid or list view, and enjoy uninterrupted reading with a screen that stays on while you read. Mac -- New menu bar commands put reading and library tools one click away, and Page Up, Page Down, Home and End glide through PDFs. Import -- Bring in your whole collection at once: hundreds of books from the Files app in one go, EPUBs up to 2 GB, and older Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Korean text files with every character in place. OPDS -- Browse catalogs page after page, with live progress as your books download. iCloud -- Books in iCloud download and open more reliably, and BookShelves lets you know when iCloud Drive needs to be turned on. Pro -- Your Pro features stay with you, even when you're offline. Performance -- Large libraries feel snappier on Mac, plus many refinements throughout the app.

App privacy

The developer, CPE Verm. GmbH, 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, Advertising Data
  • Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data

Used for: Analytics, App Functionality

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