BookStax
Sven Uwe Hanold Productivity iPhoneiPadiPod touch
BookStax is a free Productivity app for iPhone and iPad by Sven Uwe Hanold. Rated 5.0/5 from 1 ratings. Requires iOS 18.6. Updated October 17, 2026.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 1 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 16 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 17
- 2026 · v2.3
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About BookStax
BookStax brings your self-hosted BookStack wiki to iPhone and iPad as a native app. Read, write and search – directly on your own server. Read • Shelves, books, chapters and pages – the same structure as in BookStack • Images, callouts, tables and collapsible blocks look like they do on the web • Favorites and recently opened pages on the home screen Write • Markdown editor with preview, or the visual editor • Upload images, add tags, insert callouts • Quick Note: capture an idea – without a connection it is uploaded later Search • Full-text search with filters for content type and tag • Find downloaded pages in Spotlight, too Notifications (Pro) • Push notifications from your wiki: new and updated pages, comments, new chapters and books • For admins: keep an eye on new users, registrations, API tokens and changed settings • Choose the events per server – BookStax sets up the webhook in BookStack Offline and widgets • Download books and shelves and browse them without a connection, images included • Widgets for your favorites and an overview of your wiki AI helpers for your pages • Summarize, translate or proofread your own pages • With Apple Intelligence right on your device, or with an AI service you connect yourself Privacy • Your API token is stored in the iOS Keychain. If you like, Face ID or Touch ID locks the app. • BookStax connects to your BookStack server. AI requests go only to the service you set up yourself. • For notifications, BookStack sends events to the BookStax push service. It only forwards the ones you choose to Apple and stores no content. • Anonymous usage statistics (e.g. first launch, server connected) help improve the app – no server addresses, content or personal data. You can turn them off in Settings under "Security". Free and Pro Reading, writing, search, offline reading, widgets and AI are free. BookStax Pro, a one-time purchase, adds: • Notifications from BookStack: pages, comments, books and administration • Shortcuts & Siri: search, open and create pages, fetch content for your own automations • Sharing & export: share page links, export as PDF, Markdown, HTML or text, save text, links and photos from other apps to BookStack • Offline editing with automatic sync • Multiple server profiles • Three premium reader themes, a custom accent colour, one colour per server Requirements • Your own BookStack instance and an API token from your BookStack profile • No server yet? You can try BookStax with the BookStack demo server right in the app. Good to know — BookStax is an independent client and not an official product of the BookStack project. It requires your own self-hosted BookStack server and does not include a server of its own. About the project: https://www.bookstackapp.com / BookStax Pro is a one-time purchase – no subscription, no automatic renewal. Purchases can be restored in the app. / Terms of use (Apple's standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s new
Version 2.3 · Updated October 17, 2026
New in version 2.3 This version brings notifications from your wiki, Shortcuts, an offline library and pages that look like they do on the web. Notifications from BookStack (Pro) • Push notifications as soon as pages are created, updated, moved or deleted, comments come in or a book is created – one tap opens the page. • For admins: also get notified about new users, registrations, API tokens and changed settings. • You choose the events per server. BookStax sets up the webhook in BookStack for you, and you can hide your own changes. Shortcuts & Siri (Pro) • New actions in the Shortcuts app: search pages, open a page, get a page's content (as text, Markdown or HTML), open a book and create a page. • This also works with Siri and Spotlight. Without a connection, search and page content fall back to your downloaded books. Offline library • Downloaded books and shelves now show up in the library even without a connection. Browse by shelf, book and chapter – images included. • Offline content in Settings can now be opened directly. Images & formatting • Images from protected BookStack instances now load reliably – in the reader, the editor preview and downloaded pages. • Headings, alignment and collapsible blocks now look like they do on the web. Sharing & export • Saving from other apps now also works with links and photos. HEIC photos are converted to JPEG along the way. • Saving from other apps, sharing links and exporting are now part of BookStax Pro. Languages • BookStax is now available in 10 languages – new: Italian, Polish, Czech and Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal). • Widgets are now fully translated.
App privacy
The developer, Sven Uwe Hanold, 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:
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
Used for: Analytics
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