2 versions tracked
· earliest snapshot 2026-05-13
· current v26.6.6
Summary
Current version
v26.6.6
Released 2026-06-08
Versions tracked
2
since 2026-05-13
Current rating
3.00★
21 ratings
Current size
17 MB
+2 MB since v26.5.10
Release timeline
2026-06-08
live for 29 days
v26.6.6Current
17 MB
(+2 MB)
· 3.09★ · 22 ratings
What's new in this version:
• Listen to books on Apple Watch with the new Read Aloud experience, including natural voices, chapter announcements, Now Playing controls, cover artwork, and background audio.
• Customize Read Aloud with per-language speech rates, voice quality choices, and preferred voices for each language.
• Keep reading and listening in sync with speech position restore, Follow Speech on Wake, and quick scrolling back to the spoken paragraph.
• Move between chapters during Read Aloud with spoken chapter cues and smarter handling when the chapter title already appears in the text.
• Read Aloud handles startup, pause and resume, interruptions, rapid chapter changes, and auto-scroll restoration more reliably.
• Continue Reading widgets and controls now show book covers more reliably and refresh when cover art changes.
• Improved book import, EPUB parsing, metadata preservation, and cover thumbnails.
What's new recently:
• This is a major update with a fully redesigned and optimized reading experience across iPhone and Apple Watch.
• Continue Reading widgets and watchOS controls now show your current book and reopen the last reading position more reliably.
• Improved bookmarks with multiple recent reading positions per book and more accurate paragraph-based restoration.
• Tune your reading experience with more themes, a clearer theme picker, improved custom color controls, refined Watch reading controls, and better chapter titles.
• Book transfers now show progress percentages, waiting states, cancellation, retry, and clearer availability messages.
• Improved auto-scroll and manual scrolling behavior, including smoother behavior near chapter boundaries.
• Improved TXT and EPUB parsing, including better TXT chapter navigation and support for numbered chapter headings.
• See richer Watch book details, including current chapter, last read time, progress, and storage size.
• Rename local books, delete Watch books, clean up archived books, and filter unsupported imports more reliably with clearer status feedback.
• Search your iPhone and Apple Watch libraries, including matches from chapter titles.
• Pin favorite books on Apple Watch and keep finished books in a separate Done Reading list.
• Manage storage from iPhone with clearer counts, file sizes, cleanup tools, and better controls for local, archived, and Watch books.
• Added Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), and Polish localizations.
• Fixed crashes that could happen when opening some EPUB books and when loading the watch Lock Screen widget.
• Improved library startup performance, transfer refreshes, transient bookmark resets, empty states, haptics, animations, and Liquid Glass layout.
2026-05-11
was live for 49 days
v26.5.10
15 MB
· 3.00★ · 21 ratings
What's new in this version:
• Fixed crashes that could happen when opening some EPUB books and when loading the watch Lock Screen widget.
• Added more reading themes, with a clearer theme picker and improved custom color controls.
• Improved bookmarks so you can keep multiple recent reading positions per book and return to them more accurately.
• Fixed chapter navigation for TXT books, including files with numbered chapter headings.
• Improved auto scroll and manual scrolling behavior near chapter boundaries.
• Unsupported files are now filtered with a clearer import message.
• Added easier cleanup for archived books.
• Added Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), and Polish localizations.
• Added a Continue Reading widget and watchOS control to reopen your last reading position faster.
• This release also includes major user experience improvements and additional bug fixes.
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