BookReader app icon

Every document you own,
in one calm reader

BookReader opens PDF, EPUB, Word, text and HTML files straight from your phone — offline, without an account, and without handing your library to anyone.

Get it onGoogle PlaySee what it does ↓

Free on Android · no sign-up required · works offline

BookReader home screen showing a reading streak, a Continue Reading card and recent documents

What it does

A reader that respects your time and your files

Everything below works on a phone with aeroplane mode on. Signing in is optional and adds sync — it is never the price of entry.

One app, every file

Opens the formats you actually have

PDF, EPUB, Word .docx, plain text and HTML all open in the same reader, with the same controls and the same place-keeping. Reading mode reflows text to your chosen size and spacing so long documents behave like a proper book. View mode preserves the original layout exactly as authored, with a page slider for jumping around a long PDF.

  • Reflowed Reading mode and layout-accurate View mode, toggled per document
  • Position is remembered per file, so you always resume where you stopped
  • Full-text search inside the document you are reading
View mode preserving original document layout with a page position slider

Built for long sessions

A reader that gets out of the way

Paper, Sepia and Night themes cover daylight, evening and bed. Font size, typeface, line spacing, letter spacing and text alignment are all adjustable, so you can tune a cramped PDF into something readable rather than squinting at it. Pages turn by horizontal or vertical swipe, whichever matches how you hold your phone.

  • Paper, Sepia and Night themes
  • Adjustable font size, family, line spacing, letter spacing and alignment
  • Horizontal or vertical page-turn
Reader settings panel with Paper, Sepia and Night themes and page-turn options

Keep what matters

Highlights, notes and bookmarks that stay put

Mark a passage as you read, attach a note to it, or drop a bookmark to come back to. Annotations stay attached to the document itself rather than scattering across other apps, and they are listed together so you can review everything you marked in a book without paging through it again.

  • Highlight passages and attach your own notes
  • Bookmarks for positions you want to return to
  • A combined Highlights & Notes view per document
Reading mode showing reflowed text on a paper-toned background

Momentum, measured

Streaks, daily goals and reading stats

Set a daily reading target and the app tracks minutes read, documents finished, your daily average and your current and best streak. A weekly activity chart shows where the time actually went, and achievements mark the milestones. It turns reading from something you mean to do into something you can see yourself doing.

  • Daily goal with progress toward it on the home screen
  • Current streak, best streak and a week-at-a-glance view
  • Total minutes, documents read, daily averages and achievements
Stats overview with total minutes, documents read, daily average and best streak

Everything in one place

A library that stays organized

Your documents land in one searchable library, split into Recent, Favorites and Downloads. Star the ones you keep coming back to, search across the whole collection by name, and pick up the last thing you were reading straight from the home screen.

  • Search across your whole library
  • Recent, Favorites and Downloads tabs
  • Continue Reading card for instant resume
The Documents library with search and Recent, Favorites and Downloads tabs

Hands free

Read-aloud and a built-in dictionary

Have any document spoken aloud using the text-to-speech voices already on your device, at a speed and voice you choose. Playback keeps going in the background with notification controls, so you can pocket the phone and keep listening. Hit an unfamiliar word and look it up without leaving the page — language detection runs on-device, and you can save words to come back to.

  • Text-to-speech with adjustable voice and speed
  • Background playback with notification controls
  • In-page dictionary lookups with saved words
BookReader home screen showing a reading streak and recent documents

Optional, never required

Sync across devices only if you want it

The whole app works without an account. If you do sign in with Google, your library details, reading progress, highlights, notes, reading activity, preferences and reminders follow you to your other devices. Your actual book files stay on your phone unless you explicitly switch on cloud backup for a specific book.

  • Full functionality with no account at all
  • Optional Google sign-in syncs reading data, not your files
  • Per-book cloud backup, off by default
Streaks screen showing a 14-day streak and the week of completed reading days

A closer look

Screens from the app

Swipe through the reader, library, themes and reading stats.

BookReader home screen showing a 14-day reading streak, a Continue Reading card and recent documentsThe Documents library with search and Recent, Favorites and Downloads tabsReading mode showing reflowed text on a paper-toned backgroundView mode preserving original document layout with a page position sliderReader settings panel with Paper, Sepia and Night themes and page-turn optionsStats overview with total minutes, documents read, daily average and best streakStreaks screen showing a 14-day streak and the week of completed reading days

Privacy

Your files stay yours

BookReader is offline-first by design. The documents you open are read from your device’s storage and are not uploaded, scanned or copied to our servers as part of normal use. You can use the entire app without ever signing in.

If you do sign in, only reading data syncs — titles, progress, highlights, notes, stats and settings — never the files themselves, unless you switch on cloud backup for a specific book. Everything we collect and why is set out in the privacy policy, and you can remove your data at any time from the account deletion page.

Questions

Frequently asked

Do I need an account to use BookReader?

No. The reader works fully offline and signing in is entirely optional. Without an account nothing is stored on our servers — the app opens files from your device and keeps your reading data on it.

Are my books uploaded anywhere?

Not during normal use. Your documents are read directly from your device storage. The only exception is cloud backup, which is off by default and applies only to books you explicitly choose to back up.

Which file formats does BookReader open?

PDF, EPUB, Word .docx, plain text and HTML, all in the same reader with shared settings, annotations and progress tracking.

Does it work without an internet connection?

Yes. BookReader is offline-first: your files are read straight from device storage, so reading, highlighting, notes and progress tracking all work with no connection at all.

Can it read documents out loud?

Yes. Read-aloud uses the text-to-speech voices installed on your device, with adjustable voice and speed, and playback continues in the background with notification controls.

Is BookReader free?

Yes. The app is free to download and use, and is supported by banner ads. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland a consent form is shown before personalised ads are used.

How do I delete my account and data?

Open the Profile tab and tap Delete account, or Delete cloud data to clear the synced copy while keeping your account. Full instructions and a breakdown of exactly what each option removes are on the account deletion page.

Start reading tonight

Free on Google Play. Install it, point it at a file already on your phone, and you are reading — no account, no setup.

Get it onGoogle Play