Releases
Every released version and what changed in it. Written by hand, published only after the version is actually out.
iPhone, iPad, Mac
Useful and leisure reading, a reading rhythm, and a key for Windows and Linux (iPhone, iPad) — reading statistics now split your reading into useful and leisure: a Useful / Leisure / All switch sits at the top of the screen. Useful is non-fiction books and articles; leisure is fiction. Mark a book with the Fiction switch on its card; books you have read but not marked are gathered under “Read books not marked”, with a Mark button. Articles get their own summary: how many you opened and finished, the time spent on them and their highlights. The Rhythm card counts how long you read material with the tag you choose under Goal… this week (the default goal is two hours) and how many weeks in a row you met it.
A key for Windows and Linux — bought Beresta on the App Store? The key for Windows and Linux is free: Settings → Purchase → Get the key for Windows and Linux. Beresta confirms the purchase with Apple, shows the key and, if you enter your email, sends it to you.
Also in this build (iPhone, iPad): tapping the left edge on the first page of a chapter sometimes took you to the start of the previous chapter instead of its last page. It now turns back exactly one page.
Useful and leisure reading, a reading rhythm, and a key for Windows and Linux (Mac) — reading statistics now split your reading into useful and leisure: a Useful / Leisure / All switch sits at the top of the screen. Useful is non-fiction books and articles; leisure is fiction. Mark a book with the Fiction switch on its card (a checkbox on the Mac); books you have read but not marked are gathered under “Read books not marked”, with a Mark button. Articles get their own summary: how many you opened and finished, the time spent on them and their highlights. The Rhythm card counts how long you read material with the tag you choose under Goal… this week (the default goal is two hours) and how many weeks in a row you met it.
Also in this build (Mac): clicking the left edge on the first page of a chapter sometimes took you to the start of the previous chapter instead of its last page. It now turns back exactly one page.
iPhone, iPad, Mac
A primary file for books with several files, clearer Support buttons and the selected item in your theme (iPhone, iPad): a book with several files now has a primary one, and Read opens it. To choose it, tap Read on that file’s row in the book card: the file opens and becomes primary, and its row is marked Primary file. Before, only one device remembered this choice; now it travels through sync, so your Mac, iPhone and iPad all open the same file. If the primary file has not reached this device yet, Beresta will not open another file in its place: the card offers Download for that very file. A book added to a reading list asks your other devices for its primary file, too. Books without a primary file open as before. Importing from Zotero on the Mac makes the PDF named after the item itself primary — a lecture, say, rather than a book among its attachments.
Also in this build (iPhone, iPad): the level buttons under Support Beresta are now filled with the theme’s accent and show the level’s name and price, so it is clear you can tap them. The selected item in the shelves panel is filled with the theme’s accent too, with a color of its own in dark Galley, so you can see where you are at a glance. Books, articles and the rest of the panel are separated by lines. You can now get back from a footnote opened in full: after the jump to the note, the bottom bar shows a back button with how far you had read, such as “← 64%”, as after any other jump in the book.
A primary file for books with several files and the selected sidebar item in your theme (Mac): a book with several files now has a primary one, and Read opens it. To choose it, click Read on that file’s row in the book card: the file opens and becomes primary, and its row is marked Primary file. Before, only this Mac remembered the choice; now it travels through sync, so your Mac, iPhone and iPad all open the same file. If the primary file has not reached this Mac yet, Beresta will not open another file in its place: the card shows Download for that very file. A book added to a reading list asks your other devices for its primary file, too. Books without a primary file open as before. Importing from Zotero makes the PDF named after the item itself primary — a lecture, say, rather than a book among its attachments. Importing again sets a primary file for items imported earlier that do not have one yet, and leaves your own choice alone.
Also in this build (Mac): the selected sidebar item is now filled with the theme’s accent instead of the system highlight, with a color of its own in dark Galley, so you can see where you are at a glance. Books, articles and the rest of the sidebar are separated by lines. You can now get back from a footnote opened in full: after the jump to the note, the bottom bar shows a back button with how far you had read, such as “← 64%”, as after any other jump in the book.
iPhone, iPad, Mac
Full-screen images, grouped settings, a review on the book card and new footnotes (iPhone, iPad) — you can now open a picture in a book full screen: tap it and a viewer opens over the reader, where you pinch to zoom and drag the image with your finger, and a double tap switches between Fit to Window and Actual Size. Settings on iPhone and iPad are now grouped: Appearance & Reading, Library & Sources, Sync & Obsidian, Service. On iPhone each section has its own icon and its own screen; on iPad the sections sit in a column on the left with their content on the right, and there is a single Done button, above the content. The book card now has a review: under How I read it there is Write a review, and you can change the text, paragraphs and all, at any time with Edit review. You can write a review at any stage of reading, not only once you finish: while a book is in progress it goes with the current reading. A footnote now opens as a card in the page’s own colors: a border and a hard shadow in the text color, a Footnote label on top, and buttons as underlined words. On Sepia, Night and the theme’s page, the footnote card matches the page. Settings, Reading statistics, the book card (with the sheet bar on iPad), the highlights feed, reading lists, Golden shelf, To Find, the Antilibrary, catalogs, New Record, Vocabulary and Details from the Web now take the theme’s colors, and Next in Daily Review is filled with the theme’s accent. When the page uses the theme’s colors, the reader’s top and bottom bars do too: in dark Galley they are no longer grey over the page.
Also in this build (iPhone, iPad) — on a large screen a PDF now zooms in further: the zoom limit is counted from fit-to-width instead of being fixed at four times. In Details from the Web, a PDF without an ISBN now takes the number from the book’s own pages — its imprint — and says so. About now links to the user chat on Telegram. Junk titles and authors from a file’s metadata no longer reach the shelf: “16+”, “test”, “Microsoft Word - …”, “Download book …” and the like. Tags such as “(Z-Library)” are stripped, and a junk title is replaced with the file name. In a PDF, “Ivanov, Petrov” in the author field is two authors, not “Petrov Ivanov”. An open book card notices when a file arrives through sync: the file row with its buttons appears at once, with no need to reopen the card. Set up syncing in an empty library opens Settings right at the sync section, as on the Mac. Sync: when a server keeps limiting requests even after the pause, as Koofr did, Beresta suggests quitting it for an hour or connecting from another network. Check storage does not go online during a pause and says until what time it is waiting.
Review and rating in Obsidian: export to Obsidian now also takes a book with no highlights if it has a review, a rating or a note about the book. The review and rating of your reading travel with the book. The Calibre rating is no longer exported: a book rated only in Calibre will have no rating in the export.
Full-screen images, a review on the book card, new footnotes and screens in your theme (Mac) — you can now open a picture in a book full screen: click it and a viewer opens over the reader, where you zoom with a trackpad gesture and drag the image around, and a double-click switches between Fit to Window and Actual Size; Close or Esc closes the viewer. The book card now has a review: under How I read it there is Write a review, and you can change the text, paragraphs and all, at any time with Edit review. You can write a review at any stage of reading, not only once you finish: while a book is in progress it goes with the current reading. A footnote now opens as a card in the page’s own colors: a border and a hard shadow in the text color, a Footnote label on top, and buttons as underlined words. On Sepia, Night and the theme’s page, the footnote card matches the page. The settings window, Reading statistics, the book card, Daily Review, the highlights feed, reading lists, Vocabulary, Golden shelf, To Find, the Antilibrary and Details from the Web now take the theme’s colors. On light Imprint, captions, links and the statistics axis that used to be hard to read now have proper contrast, and the grid/list switch uses the theme’s accent. The Duplicate editions window shows, for each book in a pair, its cover, authors, year, publisher, files, where it came from, since when it has been in the library, its status and how many highlights it has, so you can tell a real duplicate from two different books. The Keep switch shows the same summary next to the title, and the report of what will move is written in words.
Also in this build (Mac) — on a large screen a PDF now zooms in further: the zoom limit is counted from fit-to-width instead of being fixed at four times. In Details from the Web, a PDF without an ISBN now takes the number from the book’s own pages — its imprint — and says so, and Find damaged records… suggests the title and author from the imprint for such books. About and the Help menu now link to the user chat on Telegram. Junk titles and authors from a file’s metadata no longer reach the shelf: “16+”, “test”, “Microsoft Word - …”, “Download book …” and the like. Tags such as “(Z-Library)” are stripped, and a junk title is replaced with the file name. Find damaged records… finds such books among those already imported, too. In a PDF, “Ivanov, Petrov” in the author field is two authors, not “Petrov Ivanov”. An open book card notices when a file arrives through sync: the file row with Read and Save a copy… appears at once, with no need to reopen the card. Sync: when a server keeps limiting requests even after the pause, as Koofr did, Beresta suggests quitting it for an hour or connecting from another network, for example through your phone. Check storage does not go online during a pause and says until what time it is waiting. A device that has not yet synced with this Mac is labelled “has not checked in with us yet” instead of an empty space.
iPhone, iPad, Mac
Three themes, book details from the web, Vocabulary and Share to Beresta (iPhone, iPad) — choose from three themes: Wax, Imprint and the new Galley, each with a light and a dark variant (Settings, Appearance). The book page, the iPad shelf column and the iPhone shelf list now take the theme’s colors, and Dark reaches the page too. Book details from the web: the book screen has “Details from the Web”. When you tap Search, Beresta asks Open Library and Google Books and shows a before-and-after comparison, and you tick what to take: authors, year, publisher, description, cover. Your own Google Books key goes into Settings, “Details from the Web”, and is kept in the Keychain. Words you look up in the dictionary now collect in Vocabulary, with the sentence from the book, the meaning and the place you looked them up. It lives in the sidebar, you can edit the meaning, and words go to Anki cards the same way highlights do. Send a page from Safari or any app to Beresta with Share: the sheet shows the title and a tag, and says “Already in Beresta” if you saved it before. Import lists from Pocket, Instapaper and wallabag (CSV): archived items come in as read, favorites and folders become tags, and article texts download in the background with one button. At page 50 a book asks once whether to keep going, put it aside or drop it; turn this off under Reading.
Also in this build (iPhone, iPad): on the book screen, the Read and Download buttons are filled with the theme’s accent and stay legible in any appearance, and captions under covers no longer vanish when you switch themes. iPhone and iPad now measure a book’s length themselves: an EPUB is no longer “not yet measured — time only”, and your reading shows up in statistics as pages, not just minutes. EPUB import no longer lists the translator, editor or illustrator as authors, and “Luhmann, Niklas” becomes “Niklas Luhmann”. In a PDF, “Last, First” in the author field is one person too, not two. A brightness slider in the view menu, next to the page color; the edge gesture stays. Page-turn animation can be turned off. Deleting a hashtag from a note removes its tag. Merging authors updates the name in older highlights too. Tweets and podcasts from a Readwise export are skipped, and the summary says how many. Sync: when a server temporarily limits requests, as Koofr does, Beresta says so in plain words and waits until the stated time instead of extending the limit with more attempts; for Koofr it explains that you need an app password. If the iCloud folder has not finished downloading, Download says the folder is unavailable instead of staying silent. Fixed: Read in the iPad book card opens the book at once, your place no longer jumps ahead when you change the text size after moving with the slider, [1]-style footnotes open in a popup, PDF books no longer close with an error, and the password from an OPDS catalog address is not kept in the library.
A note on a highlight (iPhone, iPad) — adding a note to an existing highlight no longer recolors it with the color picked in the menu: its color and style stay as they were. You can still recolor a highlight with the color circle.
Book details from the web, three themes, Vocabulary, Zotero-style records and Pocket import (Mac) — fill in a book’s details from Google Books and Open Library: the Details from the Web button (the globe) finds editions and shows what would change for authors, year, publisher, language, description and cover, and you tick the fields to take. Beresta goes online only when you press it. If Google Books says the shared limit is used up, add your own key in Settings under Details from the Web: it is kept in your Keychain, with a How to get a key link next to it. Choose from three themes: Wax, Imprint and the new Galley, each with a light and a dark variant, and the book page now takes the chosen theme’s colors too. Words you look up in the dictionary now collect in Vocabulary, with the sentence from the book, the meaning and the place you looked them up. It lives in the sidebar, you can edit the meaning, and words go to Anki cards the same way highlights do. Add an empty record to a collection the way Zotero does: right-click a collection → New Record…, then choose the kind, the type (journal article, chapter, report and more), DOI and publication; a PDF dropped on the card attaches to the record. Import lists from Pocket, Instapaper and wallabag (CSV): archived items come in as read, favorites and folders become tags, and article texts download in the background with one button. At page 50 a book asks once whether to keep going, put it aside or drop it; turn this off in Reading settings.
Also in this build (Mac) — several files dropped on the Dock icon or opened with Open With are all imported, not just the first, with one “Added: N” summary. In the library grid a click selects a book and a double-click opens its card. Captions under covers no longer vanish when you switch themes. EPUB import no longer lists the translator, editor or illustrator as authors, and “Luhmann, Niklas” becomes “Niklas Luhmann”. In a PDF, “Last, First” in the author field is one person too, not two. Length is now counted for EPUB books that used to show zero. Clicking the same highlight again brings it up in the panel again. Zotero import no longer picks up files outside the Zotero storage folder. Page-turn animation can be turned off. Deleting a hashtag from a note removes its tag. Merging authors updates the name in older highlights too. Tweets and podcasts from a Readwise export are skipped, and the summary says how many. Sync: when a server temporarily limits requests, as Koofr does, Beresta says so in plain words and waits until the stated time instead of extending the limit with more attempts; for Koofr it explains that you need an app password. A renamed Mac shows its new name to your other devices on its own. If the iCloud folder has not finished downloading, Download says the folder is unavailable instead of staying silent. Fixed: your place no longer jumps ahead when you change the text size after moving with the slider, [1]-style footnotes open in a popup, PDF books no longer close with an error, and the password from an OPDS catalog address is not kept in the library.
A note on a highlight and phrase search (Mac) — adding a note to an existing highlight no longer recolors it with the color picked in the menu: its color and style stay as they were, and you can still recolor it with the color circle. Full-text search in the library looks for the phrase, like search inside a book: the words in a row, the last one matched by its beginning. Matches are counted in the file of the book that will open, as pages or sections.
iPhone, iPad, Mac
Choose which file to read, the Reading Days widget, Home Screen quick actions and citations (iPhone, iPad): a book with several files — say, an EPUB and a PDF — now shows a row for each file on the book screen, each with its own Read button, and your choice is remembered on this device; a file not yet on the phone comes over with the Download button in its row. The Reading Days widget shows today's goal as a ring, the whole week and your record, and a tap opens your statistics. Touch and hold the Beresta icon on the Home Screen for quick actions: continue reading, review highlights, add a book. The book menu gains Copy Citation — APA, MLA, Chicago, BibTeX and GOST. Reading lists can now be created on the phone and reordered by dragging. Footnotes now scale with the Aa text size. Images in articles with more than nine pictures are fixed. Settings gain a Support Beresta section: three thank-you levels, and any of them unlocks a choice of Home Screen icon — Paper, Sepia, Night, Golden Shelf, Birch Bark or Birch Bark with Ribbon. Articles now scroll independently of books: as a continuous page by default, like a browser, while books keep turning pages; each kind has its own switch. You can now restore your library from a backup on the phone too — from a flash drive or the Files app. iPhone and iPad share your own library over OPDS while Beresta is open. Smart reading lists by tag arrive on the phone. Open in Place in the daily review goes straight to the highlight, and highlights go to Anki from the phone. Highlight cards show the cover and how much you have read. A PDF with your highlights and Pencil drawings can be shared as a copy that any app can show. For a PDF without a table of contents, Beresta finds the printed contents page itself. Tapping a footnote near the page edge opens it instead of turning the page. Yandex Disk connects with one button.
Also in this build — your own fonts: Aa → Custom font → Add Font from File… — .ttf and .otf work, all styles at once. Your own highlight colors in Reading settings: give each of the eight colors your own shade, and existing highlights follow your scheme. Three new widgets: Up Next — what to read next from a series or a list, Reading Week — minutes per day, and a large Continue Reading with three books in progress. Tags and shelves can be edited in bulk: tap Select in the sort menu, mark books, then add a tag or put them on a shelf. A cover can be made from the title with one tap. A hashtag in a note suggests tags you already have. A bookmark lands on the page you see. Markdown export gives every highlight an ^hl-… anchor to link to from Obsidian. Sync writes to the cloud less often when nothing has changed. Diagnostics now shows how many seconds launch takes.
Restore from a backup, Calibre-grade OPDS sharing and citations (Mac) — The Copy of the library window gains Restore from Backup…: Beresta shows what the backup holds and what will happen, moves the book files in, and after a relaunch opens the restored library while setting the previous one aside. OPDS sharing now pages through large shelves, searches, shows sections, announces itself on the network via Bonjour, keeps a fixed port and opens as a page in your browser. The book menu gains Copy Citation — APA, MLA, Chicago, BibTeX and GOST. Reading lists can be reordered by dragging. Footnotes now scale with the Aa text size. Images in articles with more than nine pictures are fixed. Settings gain a Support Beresta section: three thank-you levels, and any of them unlocks a choice of Dock icon — Paper, Sepia, Night, Golden Shelf, Birch Bark or Birch Bark with Ribbon. Articles now scroll independently of books: as a continuous page by default, like a browser, while books keep turning pages; each kind has its own switch. A PDF with your highlights and Pencil drawings can be saved as a copy that any app can show. For a PDF without a table of contents, Beresta finds the printed contents page itself. Right-click the Dock icon to continue your book or open the daily review. Highlight cards show the cover and how much you have read, and highlights already sent to Anki are marked. Clicking a footnote near the page edge opens it instead of turning the page. Re-importing from Calibre no longer creates duplicates when a record was recreated with the same file. Yandex Disk connects with one button.
iPhone, iPad, Mac
Filter by status, a new shelf from the book menu, and the date a book was finished (iPhone, iPad) — the sort menu now has a status filter: show only what you have read, only what you are reading now, or only what you set aside — on top of any shelf or search. The book menu's "To shelf…" section has a new "Create shelf…" item. A finished book's card shows the date it was finished, and you can correct it. "Share" in the book menu now hands the book file to the standard iOS share sheet — previously the item did nothing.
Filter by status, "Show in Finder", a new shelf from the book menu, and the date a book was finished (Mac) — the sort menu now has a status filter: show only what you have read, only what you are reading now, or only what you set aside — on top of any shelf or search; on a shelf the filter is its own menu. The book menu gains "Show in Finder" and, in the "To shelf…" section, a "Create shelf…" item. A finished book's card shows the date it was finished, and you can correct it.
Mac
Beresta now speaks German, French, Spanish, Italian and Kazakh: the app follows the language of your Mac; a different language for Beresta alone can be set in System Settings under Language & Region → Applications. These translations are new: if a phrase reads awkwardly, tell us through the support page and we will fix it in the next update.
iPhone, iPad
Beresta now speaks German, French, Spanish, Italian and Kazakh: the app follows the language of your iPhone or iPad; a different language for Beresta alone can be chosen in Settings. These translations are new: if a phrase reads awkwardly, tell us through the support page and we will fix it in the next update.
iPhone, iPad, Mac
Reading days in a row — statistics now show how many days in a row you read, your best streak and today's bar: "3 of 5 min". You choose what counts as a reading day, from one minute to an hour, and it is the same on every device. Optionally, an evening reminder if today doesn't count yet.
New widgets: "Reading Days" on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen. "Daily Review" shows how many highlights are waiting. "Random from Antilibrary" shows one unread book from your shelf, a new one every day. "Continue Reading" now shows your streak.
Highlights from Readwise — import a Readwise CSV: highlights go to their books, or to an entry in "To Find" if the book isn't there. Notes and tags come along, and importing again never duplicates anything.
Your own dictionaries: add StarDict and DSL dictionaries and look words up right from the selection bar, offline. The list and its order sync between your devices.
PDF themes: sepia, paper and night now work for PDF too, in the "Aa" panel.
Sync: a device updated later than its neighbour now receives everything the neighbour wrote with the new version.
iPhone, iPad
Volume buttons: if the volume buttons turn your pages, they now keep working after you come back to Beresta from another app, from Control Center or after locking the screen — no restart needed. Thanks to the reader who spotted it.
iPhone, iPad, Mac
Series — the series line in the book card opens the whole series: books in order, what you have read and what you have started. Mark a book as read and Beresta suggests the next unread one. Series come from the FB2 and EPUB files themselves and from OPDS catalogues.
How far you are: the book card shows a progress bar; a book made of several files gets one per file. Progress is combined across all your devices.
Statistics, closer (iPhone, iPad): the statistics button sits right on the library shelf instead of in Settings. Charts use Beresta's own colours.
iPad: Daily Review, Highlights, Reading lists, the Golden shelf and the other sidebar items open again when tapped.
Small things: tapping an entry in a PDF's own table of contents no longer closes the app. To Find and the Antilibrary pick up an edited book title straight away.
Statistics in the main window (Mac): "Statistics" is in the sidebar and the toolbar, right in the library window. Charts use Beresta's own colours.
iPhone, iPad, Mac
Other libraries: connect an OPDS catalogue — Calibre, Komga, Project Gutenberg — and browse, search and take books right in Beresta. Your password goes only to your own server. Connected catalogues sync between devices.
To Find — books without a file: what you want to read, read on paper or are weighing before buying. "Find in catalogues" looks for a record in every connected library.
Antilibrary, in Taleb's sense: the unread books you own. Not a backlog but a map of what you don't know yet; "At random" opens one of them.
Kindle highlights — Import My Clippings.txt: highlights go to the book, or to its To Find record if you don't have it yet. Importing again duplicates nothing.
Reading statistics: pages per day for a week, month and year, total time and pace, and "How I read it" in the book card.
Sync: covers changed on one device reach the others; a network hiccup no longer damages the storage marker.
Safari clippings (Mac): if Beresta is closed, the page waits in the browser and goes by itself.
iPhone, iPad, Mac
Highlights travel right away: highlight a passage or write down a thought — the change leaves for sync within seconds, not on a timer. On your other devices it shows up right inside the open book: no need to close and reopen it.
Changes no longer get lost on the way: syncing between several devices could occasionally lose fresh highlights after a library snapshot. The cause is found and fixed; a stuck sync now heals itself.
Golden Shelf: both shelves at once — a book can go to both “Rereading” and “Recommend” from one sheet. A shelf the book is already on says so: “already there”.
Lists live in the main window: The Golden Shelf, the daily review, the highlights feed and reading lists open as screens inside the library with the usual Back button, not as sheets on top. A book opens straight from any of them.
The book card no longer crashes (iPhone, iPad): a book description with HTML markup no longer brings the app down when you open the card.
Recovery code — sync settings now have “Show recovery code”: the code is shown again after you enter your passphrase. On iPad the code sheet no longer closes on its own.
Switching sync storage: when you switch from a folder to the cloud or back, the current pass stops right away and the new storage connects without waiting. A file that iCloud has not finished downloading is no longer read blindly. A wrong passphrase for an empty storage is no longer accepted silently.
iPhone, iPad, Mac
The bottom-bar arrows walk chapters (iPhone, iPad): “‹” and “›” take you to the previous and next chapter; in a PDF they follow the table of contents, or pages when there is none. They dim only at the very start and end of the book.
How many pages a book has: next to the progress figure in the bottom bar — “120 of 340”. These are the book’s own pages: the same on Mac, iPhone and iPad, and independent of the font size.
“Back” after a jump: jumped through the table of contents, a link, a search hit or a bookmark — the bottom bar shows “← 64%”. One tap returns you to where you were reading; on the Mac the history arrows in the top bar stay as they were.
PDF highlights stop flickering (Mac): the bar above selected text no longer disappears while you are still holding the mouse button.
A library copied from another device: the app notices that the library arrived from another machine and continues syncing under a new device name, without mixing up the two copies. The dates in Settings tell you when that happened.
The Obsidian folder in Files (iPhone, iPad): under the prompt to pick a folder, the app now says where the vault lives in Files — no hunting.
Reader failures, in words: an empty or unreadable book file is named in plain words, not with a code.
iPhone, iPad, Mac
Turn pages with the volume buttons (iPhone, iPad): volume up — next page, volume down — previous. Turn it on in Settings; there is also “Reversed” if pressing down feels more natural. While a book is open the sound volume stays put and comes back when you close the book; read-aloud still uses the buttons as usual.
Brightness by gesture (iPhone, iPad): slide your finger up or down along the edge of the page to dim or brighten the screen. After the book, brightness comes back if you asked for that: the switch and the words are in Settings.
The seek slider in the bottom bar: a long press on the bar picks up the slider that moves you through the book; a short tap does nothing, so you will not turn a page by accident.
Highlight menu as icons (iPhone, iPad): actions in the highlight menu are icons now — captions no longer get cut off.
Obsidian vault folder (iPhone, iPad): the folder picker opens right after Settings closes — every time, not when it feels like it.
Join with a recovery code: join a shared vault from another device with its recovery code, no passphrase needed.
An empty library offers to sync (iPhone, iPad): if your books already live on another device, the phone offers to bring them over right away.
Your place in a PDF holds: opening a PDF no longer jumps back to the first page after you have set your place.
A failed save of your place says so (Mac): if your reading place could not be saved, the app tells you instead of staying silent.
iPhone, iPad, Mac
Books that would not open, now open (iPhone, iPad): some files were treated as broken over small quirks in how they are packed — a stray byte at the end, or an unusual record inside the archive. Those books read fine now, and a book that did not finish downloading says so in plain words, instead of an error about ZIP.
Adding a book is always at hand (iPhone, iPad): the add button now lives in the toolbar, not only in the empty-library hint. Shelves open with a swipe from the left edge — the button is still there too.
A thought about the book: every book now has room for your thought about it as a whole — not about a quote, but about the book. It travels into your Obsidian note as its own block, and whatever you add there is kept.
Your place in the book stops getting lost: if you read on another device and opened the book here before the data arrived, the app no longer locks in the old place for good.
Reading speed counts reading: jumping through the table of contents or to a bookmark no longer counts as your fastest reading ever.
Mac
First release for Mac. Beyond reading: search across the whole library, import from Calibre and Zotero, tags and editing a book's details.
iPhone, iPad
First release. A book library, reading, highlights and notes, exports to Obsidian, sync through your own storage.
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