Bookloft: Read & Listen

Your EPUBs, PDFs and free classics, read aloud by natural voices made right on your device. No account, no ads, no tracking. Works offline.

Bookloft is a calm, beautiful place to read and listen to your books.

Bring your own DRM-free EPUB, PDF, TXT, HTML or Markdown files, or add public-domain classics in a tap. Then read them on paper-like pages, or press play and let a natural voice read to you — on your iPhone or iPad, offline, with nothing uploaded.

NATURAL VOICES, MADE ON YOUR DEVICE • 15 lifelike American and British voices, women and men, from an open-source AI voice model that runs entirely on your device. • Download the voices once (about 370 MB); after that, narration works offline in every book. • Follow along: the sentence being read is highlighted, and the page turns with the voice. • Keeps reading with the screen locked. Pause from the lock screen, Control Center or your headphones. • Speed control, a sleep timer (minutes or end of chapter) and a pronunciation editor for names.

A READER THAT GETS OUT OF THE WAY • Turn pages or scroll, in Ivory, Sepia, Grey or Dark. • Adjustable text size, line spacing and margins. • Contents, search in the book, go to page, bookmarks and highlights. • Tap any sentence and choose Read from here. • Works upright or sideways, on iPhone and iPad.

FREE CLASSICS • Shelves of 240 hand-picked public-domain classics: Homer, Virgil and Ovid, Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, Greek tragedy and philosophy, great novels, Russian classics, Dante and Beowulf, adventure, mystery, poetry and big ideas. • Popular this week: the books readers are downloading most from Project Gutenberg right now. • Search tens of thousands of public-domain books from Project Gutenberg and add them to your library. • Plays and poems read well: verse keeps its lines, speakers' names stand out, and Read Aloud says who is speaking. • Five Dostoevsky novels and story collections in classic translations are built in and work offline. • Every edition is checked against its Project Gutenberg record. Books still under copyright are not offered.

YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR WAY • Import from Files or open books from other apps. • Text PDFs, scanned PDFs (on-device text recognition) and password-protected PDFs. • Covers for books that don't have one, or choose your own. • Reading time, streaks and progress at a glance.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. • Your books, notes and progress stay on your device.

Bookloft opens DRM-free files only. It cannot open books protected by DRM (such as Kindle, Kobo or Apple Books purchases) and never removes DRM.