Paperback Mobile Downloads & RevenuePaperback Mobile · App Store
11 days old
Paperback Mobile is #1 in Magazines & Newspapers Paid in United States and charting in 13 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperTy Gillespie
CategoryBooks
Price19.99 USD
Released
Rating★ 0.0 (0)
Version1.1
Age rating4+
First seen by us
29 Oct 2026
29 Oct 2026📈New best rank in the overall chart: #40📈Entered the top 100 in 3 charts📦Updated to version 1.1🆕First spotted by AppInsider📦Version 1.0🆕Released on the App Store
Full timeline · 30 events
- ✏️Paperback Mobile added 2 languages+ HU + SK
- ✏️Paperback Mobile: app got smaller19 MB → 15 MB (-22%)
- 📈Paperback Mobile new best rank in the overall chart: #40Top Paid · All Apps · ZA
- 📈Paperback Mobile entered the top 100 in 3 chartsTop Grossing · Books · FR · Top Grossing · Magazines & Newspapers · FR · Top Paid · All Apps · ZA
- 📦Paperback Mobile updated to version 1.1Paperback 1.1 rebuilds text mode for VoiceOver and brings a new PDF engine, documents from links, and support for decades of older files.
VoiceOver
• Text mode is rebuilt for VoiceOver. Read All goes through the whole book, the rotors reach all of it, and lists and tables are real lists and tables.
• Three-finger flicks turn pages, and a three-finger tap gives the page and percentage.
Reading
• A voice, rate, and pitch for each book, from Speech for This Book.
• Keep reading continuously after a Find.
• Text mode is remembered.
• Document Info shows your progress, and an audio book's file count and running time.
• A Language row in Settings, and new Slovak, Ukrainian, and Hungarian translations.
Documents
• Open a document from a link.
• Open password-protected documents.
• Share zipped DAISY books and MP3 audio books to Paperback.
• A faster PDF engine, with better headings and titles.
• Support for older Word, Write, and PowerPoint 95 files, and zipped FictionBook.
• Word lists, footnotes, endnotes, and comments.
Audio books
• Speeds up to 4x, remembered between sessions.
• Volume controls.
• The sleep timer stops audio books.
Fixes
• Many fixes for PDF, RTF, Word, PowerPoint, and DAISY books.… more - 📈Paperback Mobile hit #1Top Paid · Magazines & Newspapers · RU
- 📈Paperback Mobile entered the top 10 in 2 chartsTop Paid · Books · FR · Top Paid · Books · RU
- 📈Paperback Mobile hit #1 in 2 chartsTop Paid · Magazines & Newspapers · FR · Top Paid · Magazines & Newspapers · SA
- 📈Paperback Mobile entered the top 10 in 3 chartsTop Paid · Magazines & Newspapers · RU · Top Grossing · Magazines & Newspapers · RU · Top Paid · Books · SA
- 📈Paperback Mobile charting in a new country in 2 chartsFrance · Russia
- 📈Paperback Mobile entered the top 100Top Grossing · Books · RU
- 📈Paperback Mobile entered the top 100 in 2 chartsTop Grossing · Books · SA · Top Grossing · Magazines & Newspapers · SA
- 📈Paperback Mobile charting in a new countrySaudi Arabia
- 📈Paperback Mobile hit #1Top Paid · Magazines & Newspapers · IN
- 📈Paperback Mobile entered the top 10Top Paid · Books · IN
- 📈Paperback Mobile charting in a new countryIndia
- 📈Paperback Mobile entered the top 100 in 2 chartsTop Grossing · Books · IN · Top Grossing · Magazines & Newspapers · IN
- 📈Paperback Mobile hit #1 in 4 chartsTop Paid · Books · BR · Top Paid · Magazines & Newspapers · BR · Top Paid · Books · IT · Top Paid · Magazines & Newspapers · IT
- 📈Paperback Mobile charting in a new country in 2 chartsBrazil · South Africa
- 📈Paperback Mobile entered the top 100 in 2 chartsTop Grossing · Books · BR · Top Grossing · Magazines & Newspapers · BR
- 📈Paperback Mobile entered the top 10 in 3 chartsTop Paid · Books · IT · Top Paid · Magazines & Newspapers · IT · Top Paid · Magazines & Newspapers · JP
- 📈Paperback Mobile entered the top 100 in 5 chartsTop Grossing · Books · IT · Top Grossing · Magazines & Newspapers · IT · Top Paid · Books · JP · Top Grossing · Magazines & Newspapers · JP · +1 more
- 📈Paperback Mobile charting in a new country in 3 chartsItaly · Japan · Malaysia
- 📈Paperback Mobile hit #1 in 8 chartsTop Paid · Magazines & Newspapers · AU · Top Paid · Books · CA · Top Paid · Magazines & Newspapers · CA · Top Paid · Books · DE · +4 more
- 📈Paperback Mobile entered the top 100 in 6 chartsTop Grossing · Magazines & Newspapers · AU · Top Paid · All Apps · CA · Top Grossing · Books · CA · Top Grossing · Magazines & Newspapers · GB · +2 more
- 📈Paperback Mobile new best rank in the overall chart: #57Top Paid · All Apps · CA
- 📈Paperback Mobile charting in a new countryPoland
- 🆕Paperback Mobile first spotted by AppInsider#65 in Top Grossing · Magazines & Newspapers · Canada
- 📦Paperback Mobile version 1.0No release notes
- 🆕Paperback Mobile 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
0.0 ★
0 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#1
Magazines & Newspapers PaidMeasured
Paperback Mobile at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-07. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Paperback Mobile is a paid, accessibility-focused ebook and audiobook reader designed for users who rely on screen readers or text-to-speech features to consume documents in over twenty formats. The app has achieved #1 rankings in the Paid Magazines & Newspapers category across six major markets including the US, UK, and Germany, while also securing top-three positions in the Books category in several regions despite having zero user ratings recorded.
Similar apps: Voice Dream Reader, Thorium Reader, Apple Books
Paperback Mobile on the App Store
App details
App ID
6775220909
Publisher
Ty Gillespie
On the store since
Oct 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 17.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
18
BS CS NL EN FI FR DE HU JA PL PT RU …
Size
15 MB
Also listed in
Books, Magazines & Newspapers
App privacy Measured
Paperback Mobile declares it collects no data at all — the rarest and most private label on the App Store.
Declared label
Data Not Collected
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Where Paperback Mobile's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Magazines & NewspapersPaid | #1 |
 United Kingdom | Magazines & NewspapersPaid | #1 |
 Germany | Magazines & NewspapersPaid | #1 |
 France | Magazines & NewspapersPaid | #1 |
| United Kingdom | BooksPaid | #2 |
 Australia | Magazines & NewspapersPaid | #1 |
 Russia | Magazines & NewspapersPaid | #1 |
 Italy | Magazines & NewspapersPaid | #1 |
| United States | BooksPaid | #8 |
| France | BooksPaid | #3 |
| Italy | BooksPaid | #2 |
| Russia | BooksPaid | #2 |
 Saudi Arabia | Magazines & NewspapersPaid | #2 |
| Germany | BooksPaid | #8 |
 Brazil | Magazines & NewspapersPaid | #5 |
| Canada | Magazines & NewspapersPaid | #6 |
 India | Magazines & NewspapersPaid | #6 |
 Japan | Magazines & NewspapersPaid | #24 |
| Russia | Magazines & NewspapersGrossing | #14 |
| Russia | BooksGrossing | #26 |
| Germany | Magazines & NewspapersGrossing | #92 |
| France | Magazines & NewspapersGrossing | #91 |
| Saudi Arabia | Magazines & NewspapersGrossing | #43 |
| France | BooksGrossing | #97 |
| Italy | Magazines & NewspapersGrossing | #74 |
| India | BooksPaid | #61 |
| Saudi Arabia | BooksPaid | #40 |
 South Africa | All AppsPaid | #40 |
| Brazil | BooksPaid | #123 |
Apps near Paperback Mobile on the chart
Magazines & Newspapers Paid, around #1.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
0.0 ★
0 ratings
Measured
Ratings
0
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
under 1
4-week average
Lifetime rating
5.0★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
58/100
faster than 64% of Books apps
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.
What users say about Paperback Mobile
From recent reviews.
About Paperback Mobile
Paperback is a fast, fully accessible reader for ebooks, documents and audio books. It opens over twenty formats and speaks fifteen languages.
Paperback has two ways to read a document. In text mode, you read the text with your screen reader. In read aloud mode, Paperback reads the text to you with the voice you pick in Settings, and keeps going in the background and from the lock screen. Switch between them from the More Options menu. Audio books, like DAISY, M4B, and MP3 books, play their own recording instead.
The reading bar
The bar at the bottom of the screen has, from left to right:
• The navigation unit, such as paragraph, heading, page, or link. Swipe up or down on it to change it.
• Previous, play, and next buttons. Previous and next move by the navigation unit.
• The speech rate. Swipe up or down on it to change how fast Paperback reads.
You can also swipe up or down on the play button to move by the navigation unit, without reaching for the previous and next buttons. If that is all you use, the Hide previous and next buttons setting takes them out of your screen reader’s way. The Swipe up moves forward setting picks which way a swipe goes.
The More Options menu is where everything else lives.
• Switch to TTS Mode or Switch to Text Mode: moves between read aloud mode and text mode, described above. In text mode, a Read Aloud item starts and pauses reading aloud without leaving text mode.
• Table of Contents: the book’s chapters, opened at the one you’re reading. Pick one to go straight to it. Entries with chapters under them can be expanded and collapsed with VoiceOver actions.
• Elements: a list of the document’s headings or links. Switch between the two with the Type picker, then pick one to go to it.
• Find: type what to look for, or pick an earlier search from Search History, and choose whether to match case, match whole words only, or use a regular expression. Find Previous and Find Next jump to a match and say where it landed, and Find stays open so you can keep going. In read aloud mode, Find also shows up as a navigation unit on the reading bar, so you can step through the matches from there too.
• Go To: jump to a line, a page, or a percentage through the document. Pick which with the Mode picker.
• Recent Documents: every document you’ve opened, each marked as currently open, closed, or file missing. Each one has two VoiceOver actions: Remove takes it off the list, and Locate lets you find a document whose file has moved. Clear Recent Documents empties the list without deleting any documents.
• Word Count: the number of words in the document.
• Document Info: the title, the author, the file name, and the line and character counts.
• Export: saves the document as plain text, HTML, or Markdown.
• Sleep Timer: stops reading after 5, 10, 15, 30, 45, or 60 minutes, or a time of your own. Open it again while it’s running to see how long is left, or to cancel it.
• Help: opens the readme.
• Settings:
◦ Text to speech: the voice, spee
Paperback has two ways to read a document. In text mode, you read the text with your screen reader. In read aloud mode, Paperback reads the text to you with the voice you pick in Settings, and keeps going in the background and from the lock screen. Switch between them from the More Options menu. Audio books, like DAISY, M4B, and MP3 books, play their own recording instead.
The reading bar
The bar at the bottom of the screen has, from left to right:
• The navigation unit, such as paragraph, heading, page, or link. Swipe up or down on it to change it.
• Previous, play, and next buttons. Previous and next move by the navigation unit.
• The speech rate. Swipe up or down on it to change how fast Paperback reads.
You can also swipe up or down on the play button to move by the navigation unit, without reaching for the previous and next buttons. If that is all you use, the Hide previous and next buttons setting takes them out of your screen reader’s way. The Swipe up moves forward setting picks which way a swipe goes.
The More Options menu is where everything else lives.
• Switch to TTS Mode or Switch to Text Mode: moves between read aloud mode and text mode, described above. In text mode, a Read Aloud item starts and pauses reading aloud without leaving text mode.
• Table of Contents: the book’s chapters, opened at the one you’re reading. Pick one to go straight to it. Entries with chapters under them can be expanded and collapsed with VoiceOver actions.
• Elements: a list of the document’s headings or links. Switch between the two with the Type picker, then pick one to go to it.
• Find: type what to look for, or pick an earlier search from Search History, and choose whether to match case, match whole words only, or use a regular expression. Find Previous and Find Next jump to a match and say where it landed, and Find stays open so you can keep going. In read aloud mode, Find also shows up as a navigation unit on the reading bar, so you can step through the matches from there too.
• Go To: jump to a line, a page, or a percentage through the document. Pick which with the Mode picker.
• Recent Documents: every document you’ve opened, each marked as currently open, closed, or file missing. Each one has two VoiceOver actions: Remove takes it off the list, and Locate lets you find a document whose file has moved. Clear Recent Documents empties the list without deleting any documents.
• Word Count: the number of words in the document.
• Document Info: the title, the author, the file name, and the line and character counts.
• Export: saves the document as plain text, HTML, or Markdown.
• Sleep Timer: stops reading after 5, 10, 15, 30, 45, or 60 minutes, or a time of your own. Open it again while it’s running to see how long is left, or to cancel it.
• Help: opens the readme.
• Settings:
◦ Text to speech: the voice, spee
Latest updates
1.1
Paperback 1.1 rebuilds text mode for VoiceOver and brings a new PDF engine, documents from links, and support for decades of older files.
VoiceOver
• Text mode is rebuilt for VoiceOver. Read All goes through the whole book, the rotors reach all of it, and lists and tables are real lists and tables.
• Three-finger flicks turn pages, and a three-finger tap gives the page and percentage.
Reading
• A voice, rate, and pitch for each book, from Speech for This Book.
• Keep reading continuously after a Find.
• Text mode is remembered.
• Document Info shows your progress, and an audio book's file count and running time.
• A Language row in Settings, and new Slovak, Ukrainian, and Hungarian translations.
Documents
• Open a document from a link.
• Open password-protected documents.
• Share zipped DAISY books and MP3 audio books to Paperback.
• A faster PDF engine, with better headings and titles.
• Support for older Word, Write, and PowerPoint 95 files, and zipped FictionBook.
• Word lists, footnotes, endnotes, and comments.
Audio books
• Speeds up to 4x, remembered between sessions.
• Volume controls.
• The sleep timer stops audio books.
Fixes
• Many fixes for PDF, RTF, Word, PowerPoint, and DAISY books.
1.0
Store changes
What Paperback Mobile changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Added 2 languages
+ HU + SK
App got smaller
19 MB → 15 MB (-22%)
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