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BookOrbit: The Official App is #69 in Books Grossing in Germany and charting in 3 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 9 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperIla Chandel
CategoryBooks
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 5.0 (6)
Version1.7.0
Age rating4+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)5k+ worldwide
BookOrbit: The Official App update history & changes
Last change · 32 events since 18 Sep 2026Full timeline ↓✏️New iPad screenshots✏️New screenshots📦Updated to version 1.8.0📈Charting in a new country📦Updated to version 1.7.0📈Entered the top 100🆕First spotted by AppInsider🆕Released on the App Store
Full timeline · 32 events
- ✏️BookOrbit: The Official App: new iPad screenshots· DE, CA
- ✏️BookOrbit: The Official App: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 8) · DE, CA
- 📦BookOrbit: The Official App updated to version 1.8.0New
- Use BookOrbit in German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, and Simplified Chinese.
- Read comics panel by panel with Guided View.
- Pick up a book with Story Recap and explore its spoiler-safe cast with Constellations.
- Find a paper page with the camera, identify books from covers and shelves, and search from Spotlight and Siri.
- Look back with Year in Review and the redesigned Reading Insights experience.
- Fall asleep to audiobooks with Bedtime mode.
Also improved
- Refresh changed covers and metadata reliably.
- Keep Read Along audio playing across chapter boundaries and handle audio-route changes more safely.
- Improve reader navigation, page controls, book lookup, iPad layouts, and iPhone Duo behavior.… more - 📈BookOrbit: The Official App charting in a new countrySouth Korea
- ✏️BookOrbit: The Official App: app got bigger75 MB → 83 MB (+11%)
- 📦BookOrbit: The Official App updated to version 1.7.0New
- Ebook pages can turn like paper: choose Curl under Page turns. It follows the reading direction and turns two-page spreads like a book.
- Reading History lists every finished read, rereads included, with ratings, notes, sharing and export.
- Achievements are rebuilt as medals, opening on the latest unlocks with hints for what is closest.
- The book page gives the Timeline its own row and shows the rating as a number.
- Filter the Library by Read Along books.
- Smart scope date filters can use rolling “older than” dates.
- Book Request releases link to their source page and can be held for review before filing.
- Metadata searches return more provider results.
- BookOrbit adapts its layout around the fold on iPhone Duo.
Fixes
- Continue Listening, Home, widgets and the library quick action resume a book as an audiobook or Read Along, the way it was last played.
- Downloaded audiobooks show their saved chapters while offline.
- Sleep Timer options are readable in dark mode and open beside the moon button.
- Orbit Voices retries dropped or refused connections and reports what still fails.
- A reading position saved offline no longer replaces a newer one from another device.
- Page curls respond more reliably near chapter edges, with right-to-left books and during hesitant drags.
- Narrated EPUB bookmarks save the sentence being read.
- Requests made from a book’s page show the book’s cover.
- Invalid server addresses now explain more clearly when the address does not host BookOrbit.… more - ✏️BookOrbit: The Official App: new screenshots8 screenshots (was 8) · GB
- 📈BookOrbit: The Official App entered the top 100Top Grossing · Books · SA
- 📈BookOrbit: The Official App charting in a new countrySaudi Arabia
- 📦BookOrbit: The Official App updated to version 1.6.0NEW
• Connect through Cloudflare Access, Pangolin, and custom-header access gates
• Add multiple verified addresses for one server, so BookOrbit can connect at home or away
• Update outdated downloaded books in place without removing and downloading them again
• Choose squiggly highlights and see each highlight style in the picker
• Audiobook chapter lists now open at the chapter currently playing
• Siri can resume the audiobook you last listened to, whether streamed or downloaded
• Read Along starts faster by streaming narration instead of downloading every audio file first
• Each narration engine now has its own named playback speeds
• AZW3 books now show their chapters in Contents
• Read Along titles display their book and audiobook covers together
• Read Along books now appear as audiobooks in CarPlay
• When another device moves an audiobook, BookOrbit can ask before following the newer position
FIXES
• Vertical-writing EPUBs and mixed reading directions now turn pages correctly
• Briefly locking the screen or switching apps no longer splits one reading session into many
• Paused Read Along books recover correctly after a long time in the background
• Adjusting a text selection keeps the highlight menu available
• Highlights changed on another device refresh correctly, including highlights shared between editions
• Scrolled reading keeps the selected text size and no longer treats a short flick as a page turn
• Large tables of contents open without freezing
• PDF and comic scrolling, fitting, progress tracking, and interrupted downloads are more reliable
• Audiobook positions and bookmarks sync more safely across devices
• Book Requests and uploads remain current and recover more reliably from interruptions
• Widgets, Activity, Home, offline search, Apple Watch, and CarPlay receive additional reliability improvements… more - ✏️BookOrbit: The Official App: new screenshots8 screenshots (was 8) · BR
- 📦BookOrbit: The Official App updated to version 1.5.0NEW
• Rebuilt Home Screen widgets for every iPhone and iPad size, plus Control Center controls
• Edit every book field, including ISBN, and match values from metadata providers
• Follow the narration as text in the audiobook player
• Read Along can keep playing in the mini-player while browsing the app
• One player replaces the reader footer while narration runs
• Request an ebook and its audiobook together
• Filter Library and Search by book language
• Keep the screen awake while reading ebooks
• Book covers keep their original shape
• Saved metadata search results are marked, with an option to search again
• Comics can be included in ebook request preferences
FIXES
• Orbit Voices text to speech works again
• Read Along resumes correctly after a pause
• Watch audiobook progress syncs back to the phone and server
• Reader pages and the book panel keep their layout when returning to the app on iPad
• Continue Reading includes books with progress but no reading status
• Refreshed ISBNs are applied and reminder preferences stay in sync
• EPUBs with a malformed package now open
• The book page stays smooth while downloads run… more - 📈BookOrbit: The Official App entered the top 100Top Grossing · Books · IN
- 📈BookOrbit: The Official App charting in a new countryIndia
- 📦BookOrbit: The Official App updated to version 1.4.0NEW
• A new Notebook brings each book's highlights, notes, bookmarks, review and journal together
• Search and review your Notebook across the library, star favourite highlights and name your colours
• A rebuilt Search on iPhone and iPad, with a top result, quick actions and clearer filters
• Review uploads before sending, with book previews and a library choice for each file
• Choose an upload library from the share extension
• Scan a book's ISBN barcode to find it or request it
• Request managers can approve and reject requests, pick releases and follow downloads
• A reading timeline for every book and Listening History in the audiobook player
• Read KEPUB books online and offline
• Choose edge taps, one-handed tapping or swipe-only navigation for ebooks and comics
• An optional page footer shows pages left in the chapter
• Read Along gains Voice Boost and an option to turn off automatic playback
• At the end of an ebook, PDF or audiobook, open the next book in the series
• Home shows available app updates and server updates for administrators
FIXES
• Smoother ebook page turns and transitions into the next chapter
• Nearby chapters load ahead of time in streamed ebooks
• KEPUB books open with their own saved progress and compatible shared annotations
• CarPlay opens Now Playing when the book is ready and keeps chapter and speed controls current
• Read Along progress stays intact when using text to speech
• Clearing a highlight note and editing EPUB bookmarks sync correctly
• Cached covers stay visible when switching between them
• Upload queues keep moving after a file is refused
• Book Request searches, queue updates and decisions stay in step
• Clearer feedback when a book cannot be deleted… more - ✏️BookOrbit: The Official App: description updated· CA
- ✏️BookOrbit: The Official App: new screenshots8 screenshots (was 8) · CA
- ✏️BookOrbit: The Official App: new screenshots8 screenshots (was 8) · 4 countries
- 📈BookOrbit: The Official App entered the top 100Top Grossing · Books · CA
- 📦BookOrbit: The Official App: now updating weekly4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- 📦BookOrbit: The Official App updated to version 1.3.0NEW
• Lifetime owners can now add Family Sharing with the Lifetime Family upgrade
• CarPlay: listen to your audiobooks in the car
• PDF and comic settings move to a compact tune bar, so the page stays in view
• At the end of a comic, open the next issue in the series
• Comic pages slide under your finger on iPhone
• A rebuilt book page on iPhone, lit by the book's cover
• Downloads on iPhone is now a list sorted by reading progress
• Chapter progress on the Lock Screen and in Control Center
• A new Silver Orbit app icon for Premium
FIXES
• Pinch to zoom on comics stays anchored under your fingers
• Read Along starts from the page you are on and shows its chapter and cover in Now Playing
• Resuming a Read Along book opens the right file
• Recently opened PDFs open faster
• Comics keep your page in scroll and webtoon modes
• Downloaded audiobooks play from Home without your server
• Audiobook playback stops when you sign out or remove its download
• Audiobook chapter countdown and resume position are more accurate
• Playback speeds are kept per book for each account
• Clearer messages when an audiobook download cannot start
• Fewer repeated controls across the readers and player… more - 📈BookOrbit: The Official App entered the top 100Top Grossing · Books · FR
- ✏️BookOrbit: The Official App: app got bigger45 MB → 65 MB (+43%)
- ✏️BookOrbit: The Official App: description updated· 4 countries
- ✏️BookOrbit: The Official App: new screenshots8 screenshots (was 8) · 4 countries
- ✏️BookOrbit: The Official App: description updated· DE, AU
- ✏️BookOrbit: The Official App: new screenshots8 screenshots (was 8) · DE, AU
- 📦BookOrbit: The Official App updated to version 1.2.0BookOrbit now runs natively on iPad.
iPAD
• Every screen is designed for the larger display and follows your window in portrait, landscape, and resizable windows
• Two pages side by side in the reader, with a side panel for contents, notes, and search
• PDF and comic readers with page spreads, a Pages panel, and find in PDF
• A Library with a sidebar of libraries, series, authors, smart scopes, and collections
• Book Details that keep the cover and actions in view
• Now Playing, Downloads, Activity, Search, Book Requests, and Settings rebuilt for iPad
• Keyboard shortcuts, trackpad swipes, and pointer support
NEW
• A Home Screen and Lock Screen widget to pick up your current book
• Home adds Up Next in Series, Want to Read, pinned smart scopes and collections, and a daily Discover pick
• Open books with the reading controls hidden
• Choose the statistic shown in the page footer
• Set page margins in 1% steps
• Zoom and pan images in books
• Turn off the offer to return to your last listening position
• An author's books are listed in series order by default
• Hide Book Requests when your library does not use them
FIXES
• An open book no longer rolls back reading progress made on another device
• Tapping a highlight no longer also turns the page
• Manga and other fixed-layout books turn pages with edge taps and swipes
• Changing the page direction no longer leaves a book stuck on "Opening book"
• Comic pages no longer disappear while you read
• PDF search results are marked on the page… more - 📦BookOrbit: The Official App updated to version 1.1.0Customize EPUB reading with new display controls, per-book settings, and more font choices. Manga EPUBs now have improved reading options. Enjoy refreshed audiobook screens on iPhone and Apple Watch, plus confirmation before removing downloads. This update also improves downloaded EPUB playback and includes reliability fixes.… more
- 🆕BookOrbit: The Official App first spotted by AppInsider#85 in Top Grossing · Books · United Arab Emirates
- 📦BookOrbit: The Official App version 1.0.2No release notes
- 🆕BookOrbit: The Official App released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
5.0 ★
6 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#69
Books GrossingMeasured
New ratings a week
5.2
▲ +56% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
BookOrbit: The Official App on the App Store
App details
App ID
6811807346
Publisher
Ila Chandel
On the store since
Sep 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 26.0+
iPhone 11 and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad · Watch
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
1
EN
Size
83 MB
Also listed in
Books
BookOrbit: The Official App downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where BookOrbit: The Official App's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | BooksGrossing | #69 |
 India | BooksGrossing | #97 |
| Germany | BooksFree | #149 |
 Canada | BooksGrossing | #98 |
| Canada | BooksFree | #186 |
Apps near BookOrbit: The Official App on the chart
Books Grossing, around #69.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
5.0 ★
6 ratings
Measured
Ratings
6
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
5.2
▲ +56% vs the 2 weeks before
Lifetime rating
4.6★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
78/100
faster than 83% of Books apps
New ratings by country (3)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 1.2 | 35% | – |
 United Kingdom | 1.2 | 35% | – |
| Germany | 1 | 29% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
About BookOrbit: The Official App
BookOrbit is your private reading space for books, comics, PDFs, audiobooks, and podcasts. Connect to your BookOrbit server and keep your library close whether you are online or offline.
READ YOUR WAY
• Browse and search your library
• Read EPUB, MOBI, AZW, AZW3, FB2, PDF, CBZ, CBR, and CB7 files
• Listen to audiobooks with chapter navigation and playback controls
• Turn supported ebooks into audio with text to speech
• Add bookmarks, highlights, notes, and reading progress
BUILT FOR OFFLINE
Download books and audio for reliable access away from your server. Changes are saved locally and synced when your server is available again.
YOUR READING LIFE
Track activity, sessions, progress, achievements, pace, and reading patterns in one place.
APPLE WATCH
Take supported audio with you and listen offline from Apple Watch.
iPAD
BookOrbit is designed for iPad, with two-page spreads in the reader, a side panel for contents and notes, and a library, activity, and settings that use the whole screen in portrait, landscape, and resizable windows. Keyboard shortcuts and trackpad support are included.
PREMIUM
BookOrbit Premium unlocks unlimited downloads, Apple Watch listening, every app finish, advanced text to speech, and advanced activity insights. Choose a yearly subscription with a two-week free trial for eligible new subscribers, or a one-time Lifetime or Lifetime Family purchase.
BookOrbit requires access to a compatible self-hosted BookOrbit server. Server availability, content, and storage are managed by you or your server administrator.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://bookorbit.github.io/bookorbit-ios-support/privacy/
Support: https://bookorbit.github.io/bookorbit-ios-support/support/
READ YOUR WAY
• Browse and search your library
• Read EPUB, MOBI, AZW, AZW3, FB2, PDF, CBZ, CBR, and CB7 files
• Listen to audiobooks with chapter navigation and playback controls
• Turn supported ebooks into audio with text to speech
• Add bookmarks, highlights, notes, and reading progress
BUILT FOR OFFLINE
Download books and audio for reliable access away from your server. Changes are saved locally and synced when your server is available again.
YOUR READING LIFE
Track activity, sessions, progress, achievements, pace, and reading patterns in one place.
APPLE WATCH
Take supported audio with you and listen offline from Apple Watch.
iPAD
BookOrbit is designed for iPad, with two-page spreads in the reader, a side panel for contents and notes, and a library, activity, and settings that use the whole screen in portrait, landscape, and resizable windows. Keyboard shortcuts and trackpad support are included.
PREMIUM
BookOrbit Premium unlocks unlimited downloads, Apple Watch listening, every app finish, advanced text to speech, and advanced activity insights. Choose a yearly subscription with a two-week free trial for eligible new subscribers, or a one-time Lifetime or Lifetime Family purchase.
BookOrbit requires access to a compatible self-hosted BookOrbit server. Server availability, content, and storage are managed by you or your server administrator.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://bookorbit.github.io/bookorbit-ios-support/privacy/
Support: https://bookorbit.github.io/bookorbit-ios-support/support/
Latest updates
1.8.0
New
- Use BookOrbit in German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, and Simplified Chinese.
- Read comics panel by panel with Guided View.
- Pick up a book with Story Recap and explore its spoiler-safe cast with Constellations.
- Find a paper page with the camera, identify books from covers and shelves, and search from Spotlight and Siri.
- Look back with Year in Review and the redesigned Reading Insights experience.
- Fall asleep to audiobooks with Bedtime mode.
Also improved
- Refresh changed covers and metadata reliably.
- Keep Read Along audio playing across chapter boundaries and handle audio-route changes more safely.
- Improve reader navigation, page controls, book lookup, iPad layouts, and iPhone Duo behavior.
1.7.0
New
- Ebook pages can turn like paper: choose Curl under Page turns. It follows the reading direction and turns two-page spreads like a book.
- Reading History lists every finished read, rereads included, with ratings, notes, sharing and export.
- Achievements are rebuilt as medals, opening on the latest unlocks with hints for what is closest.
- The book page gives the Timeline its own row and shows the rating as a number.
- Filter the Library by Read Along books.
- Smart scope date filters can use rolling “older than” dates.
- Book Request releases link to their source page and can be held for review before filing.
- Metadata searches return more provider results.
- BookOrbit adapts its layout around the fold on iPhone Duo.
Fixes
- Continue Listening, Home, widgets and the library quick action resume a book as an audiobook or Read Along, the way it was last played.
- Downloaded audiobooks show their saved chapters while offline.
- Sleep Timer options are readable in dark mode and open beside the moon button.
- Orbit Voices retries dropped or refused connections and reports what still fails.
- A reading position saved offline no longer replaces a newer one from another device.
- Page curls respond more reliably near chapter edges, with right-to-left books and during hesitant drags.
- Narrated EPUB bookmarks save the sentence being read.
- Requests made from a book’s page show the book’s cover.
- Invalid server addresses now explain more clearly when the address does not host BookOrbit.
1.6.0
NEW
• Connect through Cloudflare Access, Pangolin, and custom-header access gates
• Add multiple verified addresses for one server, so BookOrbit can connect at home or away
• Update outdated downloaded books in place without removing and downloading them again
• Choose squiggly highlights and see each highlight style in the picker
• Audiobook chapter lists now open at the chapter currently playing
• Siri can resume the audiobook you last listened to, whether streamed or downloaded
• Read Along starts faster by streaming narration instead of downloading every audio file first
• Each narration engine now has its own named playback speeds
• AZW3 books now show their chapters in Contents
• Read Along titles display their book and audiobook covers together
• Read Along books now appear as audiobooks in CarPlay
• When another device moves an audiobook, BookOrbit can ask before following the newer position
FIXES
• Vertical-writing EPUBs and mixed reading directions now turn pages correctly
• Briefly locking the screen or switching apps no longer splits one reading session into many
• Paused Read Along books recover correctly after a long time in the background
• Adjusting a text selection keeps the highlight menu available
• Highlights changed on another device refresh correctly, including highlights shared between editions
• Scrolled reading keeps the selected text size and no longer treats a short flick as a page turn
• Large tables of contents open without freezing
• PDF and comic scrolling, fitting, progress tracking, and interrupted downloads are more reliable
• Audiobook positions and bookmarks sync more safely across devices
• Book Requests and uploads remain current and recover more reliably from interruptions
• Widgets, Activity, Home, offline search, Apple Watch, and CarPlay receive additional reliability improvements
Store changes
What BookOrbit: The Official App changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
New iPad screenshots
New screenshots
10 screenshots (was 8)
App got bigger
75 MB → 83 MB (+11%)