Libreri 0.1.0

Libreri 0.1.0 — first public preview

Libreri is a free, open-source desktop app for keeping, reading and studying your books, papers, comics, audiobooks and podcasts. Everything stays on your computer, in ordinary folders you can open without the app. There are no accounts, no tracking and no ads.

This is an early preview. Please report anything that goes wrong in Issues.

NOTE:

⚠️ These builds are not signed yet.

• macOS: the first time, macOS says it "could not verify" Libreri. Click Done, open System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll down to "Libreri.app" was blocked and click Open Anyway. Or run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Libreri.app in Terminal.
• Windows: if SmartScreen appears, choose More info, then Run anyway.

Highlights

Your library

• Drag in files or whole folders. Duplicates are recognised, and books you move on disk are found again.
• Folders, tags, ratings, reading status, smart collections and a Series view.
• Fill in book details and covers by ISBN, DOI, arXiv id or title, or scan a barcode with your phone.
• Search inside every book, scanned pages included (OCR).
• Stays smooth with 10,000+ books. Automatic backups and a health check.

Reading

• PDF, DjVu, EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, FB2, Markdown, RTF, comics (CBZ/CBR/CB7/CBT) and audiobooks.
• Tabs, split view, nine page themes, dark PDFs, focus mode, two-page spreads, manga and webtoon modes.
• Look up a word or name you select (Wiktionary and Wikipedia).
• ADHD-friendly reading: bionic reading (on PDFs and scans too), a line highlight and a reading mask.

Notes and study

• Highlights, comments with maths ($x^2$), and a Markdown notebook for every book.
• Pen and shapes on PDF pages, handwriting canvases, paper notes from your phone's camera, and voice notes with dictation.
• Daily review: your highlights become flashcards on a spaced schedule (FSRS), with export to Anki.
• A reading calendar with goals, streaks and due dates, and a study timer.

Listening

• Read aloud with natural voices made on your computer (Kokoro and Piper).
• Audiobooks linked to their ebooks, so the page follows the voice.
• Podcasts with transcripts, chapters and Up next. A show without a transcript can be written down on your computer, and Note this moment saves a quote into your notebook.

Research

• Feeds for arXiv, journals and blogs. Download papers and articles and add them to your library with their details already filled in.
• Edit PDFs safely: reorder, rotate, crop, merge, redact and fill in forms. Every save keeps the previous version.

And more

• Profiles with PINs, plus Kids and Guest profiles.
• 100+ changeable keyboard shortcuts and a command palette (Ctrl+K).
• Import from Calibre, Zotero, Mendeley, Goodreads and StoryGraph. Export to CSV, Excel, BibTeX, Obsidian and Anki.
• Updates itself after asking you first.

Download

System	File
macOS (Apple Silicon)	Libreri_0.1.0_aarch64.dmg
macOS (Intel)	Libreri_0.1.0_x64.dmg
Windows	.msi or -setup.exe
Linux	.AppImage, .deb or .rpm

These builds are not signed yet.

• macOS: the first time, right-click the app, choose Open, then Open again.
• Windows: if SmartScreen appears, choose More info, then Run anyway.

Privacy

Libreri goes online only when you use a feature that needs it (book details, feeds, podcasts, look-up, downloads, update checks), and it never sends your books, notes or reading habits.

Libreri is free software under the GNU GPL v3 or later.See the notes below for what is new.