Rune v0.1.0
The first release of Rune — a fast, free, modern PDF reader for Windows.
Highlights
- Fast: instant open, smooth virtualized scrolling through 1,000-page documents, tile-based progressive rendering, strict memory budget
- Modern: Windows 11 Fluent design with Mica, dark mode, and Chrome-style tabs in the title bar
- Keyboard-first: command palette (
Ctrl+K), vim-style navigation (j/k,gg/G,n), full shortcut map - Night mode (
Ctrl+I): GPU-inverted page colors for dark-room reading - Tabs with session restore (reopens exactly where you left off), thumbnails + outline sidebar, links, back/forward
- Text selection & copy, find with highlight-all, printing with preview, document properties
- Powered by PDFium (Chrome's PDF engine) via a from-scratch WinUI 3 shell — GPLv3
Downloads
| File | What it is |
|---|---|
rune-v0.1.0-win-x64.zip |
Portable — extract and run Rune.exe. No install. |
Rune.App_0.1.0.0_x64.msix + rune-signing.cer |
Installed app with .pdf file association. Trust the certificate once (admin PowerShell): Import-Certificate -FilePath rune-signing.cer -CertStoreLocation Cert:\LocalMachine\TrustedPeople then Add-AppxPackage -Path Rune.App_0.1.0.0_x64.msix |
Requires Windows 10 1809+ (x64). Packages aren't size-optimized yet — that's on the roadmap.
Known limitations
- No annotations / form filling / signatures yet (planned for v2)
- Single-file portable and smaller downloads planned