leaf: eBook Reader

Scroll naturally. Read deeply.

leaf is a reading app built for your phone. Read on your own, or let leaf read to you.

Read with a natural vertical scroll, or turn pages with a page curl when you want a more traditional feel. leaf flows through your book the way your thumb already moves.

When your attention keeps sliding off the page, tap play. leaf sets a gentle pace and lights up each line as you go. Turn on the voice and it reads the page aloud while you follow along, or lock your phone and keep listening. Narration uses the voices built into your iPhone, so it's free and unlimited, works offline, and your books never leave your phone.

Browse and download over 70,000 free books from Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks: classic literature, philosophy, fiction, and more. Import your own EPUB, PDF, and Markdown files too.

No reading streaks. No goals. No ads. No noise.

Just you and the book.

READ ALONG AND NARRATION
- Tap play and leaf sets the pace, lighting each line as you read
- Turn on the voice and leaf reads the page aloud as the highlight follows
- Free and unlimited: no hours to count, no account to make
- Runs on your iPhone, works offline, and never uploads your books
- Keeps reading with the screen locked. Pause, play, or skip back 15 seconds from the lock screen or your headphones
- Picks a voice in your book's language. Apple's Enhanced and Premium voices are a free download and sound the most natural
- Change the speed any time, pause with a tap, or step back a sentence
- Works with every reading flow (not yet with PDFs)

READER
- Three reading flows: Page Curl, Slide, or Continuous scroll
- Vertical or horizontal page turns
- Light, Dark, System, and E-Ink themes
- Bookmarks, highlights, and notes
- Multi-paragraph highlighting and sharing
- Search within any book
- Typefaces including Classic, Modern, Lexend, and Atkinson Hyperlegible
- Adjust font size, spacing, and text density
- Set a reading intention for each book
- An exportable Reading Journal is created automatically when you highlight text or write a note

PDFs
- Read PDFs with the same reading flows as books
- Pages follow your theme automatically, in light or dark
- Columns are detected and shown one at a time, so the text is bigger and you never scroll sideways to read a line

LIBRARY
- Organise books into shelves, grouped into sections you can collapse
- Filter by shelf, intention, or reading status
- Sort by title, author, last opened, or shelf
- View books as Grid or List
- Search your entire library
- Drop supported book files into the leaf folder and they'll appear in your library automatically
- Use iCloud to share books between devices
- Continue reading from your current book with the Home Screen widget

FREE BOOKS
- Browse and download from Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks
- Over 70,000 free classic and public domain titles
- The Call of the Wild is included, so you can start reading straight away
- Import your own EPUB, PDF, and Markdown files
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