Simple Lore

Simple Lore is a calm reader for the books you already own: EPUB, PDF, CBZ comics and supported audiobooks. Read offline, without an account. Every feature is free. FOUR WAYS TO ENJOY A BOOK • Read: settle into the ebook on its own. • Listen: enjoy the audiobook with chapters, speed controls and a sleep timer. • Read & Listen: keep the ebook and audiobook open together, navigating each independently. No narration preparation is required. • Follow Along: highlight matching narration and optionally keep the narrated passage in view. Prepare a paired EPUB and audiobook locally first. Follow Along preparation requires iOS 26 or later, compatible on-device speech recognition hardware and an available Apple speech model. Both editions must be downloaded. Matching depends on the editions and narration; unmatched passages remain plain text. Read & Listen works on iOS 17 and later without synchronized highlighting. READING THAT FEELS RIGHT Choose your typeface, size, spacing, margins and alignment. Pick light, dark, sepia, paper or night themes. Use paginated or scrolling reading, bookmarks, highlights, notes, search and the table of contents. Enjoy facing pages on supported large and unfolded layouts. YOUR BOOKS, TOGETHER Import from Files, iCloud Drive, AirDrop or other apps. Organize titles with collections, series, favorites, reading status, filters and search. Keep ebook and audiobook editions under one title. Read comics with right-to-left navigation and two-page spreads. MADE FOR FOLDING On a foldable iPhone, the outer screen shows your book's cover, ready to keep reading. Open the phone to continue on the large inner display, with facing pages across the fold. YOUR OWN LIBRARY SERVERS Choose between two optional connections. Audiobookshelf offers dedicated catalog browsing, audiobook downloads and streaming, with supported listening-progress synchronization. OPDS connects to compatible book catalogs for browsing and downloads only. BookLore, BookOrbit and Calibre are examples of servers that can provide OPDS feeds, not separate native integrations. OPDS does not synchronize reading or listening progress. Downloads can continue while you use other apps, with optional notifications when they finish. Download content before going offline; remote access depends on your server configuration. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads, tracking, analytics or required account. Follow Along preparation and matching data stay on your device. Optional iCloud synchronization keeps supported reading and listening positions, bookmarks, highlights and notes, plus reading status, favorites, local collections and reader defaults. Simple Lore never uploads your book files to iCloud. Import or download the same edition on each device; positions are not promised to transfer between different editions. Your server connections can sync too, with passwords kept in iCloud Keychain. FREE, FOR GOOD No subscriptions, trials or book limits. Optional tips in Settings unlock nothing extra. Simple Lore reads DRM-free content. It does not sell books or remove copy protection. Books and audiobooks are supplied by you.