# Cleave for EPUB

> Books

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6767444130](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6767444130)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id6767444130`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Samuel Painter
- **Category:** Books
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (2 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-08
- **First published:** 2026-05-08
- **Size:** 2.06 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cleave-for-epub/id6767444130)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://cleave-whidbey.vercel.app/privacy/](https://cleave-whidbey.vercel.app/privacy/)

## Description

Clean messy EPUB metadata. Edit title, author, cover. Rename by template. All on-device — no account, no tracking, no uploads.

   Cleave is an on-device EPUB metadata editor for iPhone and iPad. Drop a book in, and it cleans up the messy title, author, and publisher fields in seconds — no account, no uploads, no tracking.

   Designed for readers who sideload books onto a Kindle, a Boox, a Palma, a Kobo, or into KOReader and Calibre. If you've ever had a library full of files named "The_Book_(z-lib.org)_(1).epub" with
 title "The Book (z-lib.org) - Copy", Cleave fixes them.

   FEATURES

   • Auto-clean on load
     Strips source-site watermarks from title, author, and publisher. Normalizes author-name order ("Austen, Jane" → "Jane Austen" or vice versa). Cleans file junk like "(1)", " - copy", " final". All
 rules are configurable.

   • Web enrichment
     Fills missing description, publisher, date, ISBN, series, and subjects from Apple Books, Open Library, and optionally Google Books. Anonymous queries — no account, no identifier sent.

   • Cover picker
     Fetches candidate covers from Apple Books and Open Library in one tap. Pick one, revert anytime, or use your own image from Photos.

   • Source-watermark page stripping
     Detects and removes the one-page "downloaded from" ad pages that some redistributors inject.

   • Rename by template
     Rebuild filenames from {author}, {title}, {series}, {seriesIndex}, {year}. Presets: Default, Calibre, Year-suffix, Series-first, Title-only.

   • Directory structure
     Save directly into a Calibre-style Author/ subfolder if your reader expects it.

   • Share sheet integration
     Share any EPUB from Files, Safari, Mail, or another app — Cleave picks it up, cleans it, and hands it back for saving.

   • Batch support
     Drop a bunch of files at once. Cleave walks you through them one by one with a running counter.

   PRIVACY

   Cleave does not collect any personal data. There is no account, no backend, no analytics, and no advertising SDK. The only network requests are anonymous metadata/cover queries to three public APIs
 (Apple Books, Open Library, Google Books) — none of which receive any user identifier.

   File processing happens entirely on your device. Your books never leave your iPhone or iPad.

   For power users: a diagnostics screen shows the share-extension log, the App Group inbox, and all settings. Everything is editable.

   SUPPORT

   Questions, bug reports, feature requests: cleave-whidbey.vercel.app/support
   Privacy policy: cleave-whidbey.vercel.app/privacy

   Cleave is designed by a small team who sideload books every week. If it saves you ten minutes a month, it's doing its job.

## Rankings

- #639,529 — Overall

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