Kitab Reader 0.4.0

Added

• Read aloud, with your system's own voices on Windows, macOS and Linux. Ctrl+Shift+U, the speaker in the dock, the ⋯ menu or the page's right-click menu (Read aloud from here) reads from the selection, the place you click or the top of the page in view, sentence by sentence and page after page. The sentence being read is shaded, its word marked, and the pages follow along. The same key or button pauses and carries on; the stop button beside it ends it. Settings › Reading › Read aloud picks the voice (with a preview), the speed (0.75× to 3×) and the tone. Words broken over two lines are read whole, and a title, its authors and each paragraph are read as their own sentences. On Linux it speaks through speech-dispatcher, which the .deb and .rpm recommend. Nothing is loaded until read aloud is first used.

Downloads

System	File
Windows (Intel, AMD)	Kitab_0.4.0_x64_setup.exe installs for your account, with no administrator prompt. Kitab_0.4.0_x64_portable.zip runs without installing.
Windows on Arm	The x64 downloads; Windows runs them through its emulation.
macOS, Apple silicon	Kitab_0.4.0_aarch64.dmg
macOS, Intel	Kitab_0.4.0_x86_64.dmg
Linux	.flatpak, .AppImage, .deb (Debian, Ubuntu), .rpm (Fedora, openSUSE) or .tar.gz (unpack it and run ./install.sh). x86_64, and aarch64 except the Flatpak.

Or with a package manager: brew install --cask t21dev/tap/kitab on macOS; scoop bucket add t21dev https://github.com/t21dev/scoop-bucket and then scoop install t21dev/kitab on Windows.

Unsigned builds

These downloads aren't code-signed yet. On Windows, SmartScreen may say "Windows protected your PC": choose More info, then Run anyway. On macOS, if the first launch says Kitab is damaged or can't be verified, run xattr -cr /Applications/Kitab.app in Terminal once; or try to open it, then choose Open Anyway in System Settings › Privacy & Security (macOS 15 and later; on macOS 14 and earlier, right-click Kitab in Applications and choose Open). Check any download against the SHA-256 checksums at the end of these notes.

SHA-256 checksums

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f11dd33fde23ff868ecfd6bdb5abd792a0ccd6824ce977445f4c93fb46842c8f  Kitab_0.4.0_aarch64.rpm
10be1ed0814ae2c39e06d000067f81858f05a0e6d283e53063c9da6234547875  Kitab_0.4.0_aarch64.tar.gz
819c8263e0fedc4b7d0f471c3f44a425b299c11c3f4bdf961568429922f117a8  Kitab_0.4.0_amd64.deb
76ff80ad92bd38965866ed7d5ffb78242244f993dac61c803c344505fdd07422  Kitab_0.4.0_arm64.deb
ba698e43be0a583dd73ff69e4ebc32416904b977f8e8ca1aac4d992b88849339  Kitab_0.4.0_x64_portable.zip
1e9000eeaa2585de3900639d9baee7263e14a4e822a9876e766af8228ecfb481  Kitab_0.4.0_x64_setup.exe
80f9fd00b3a250ea2de8ef135f318b3b94e9eed6ef2d99a2cfb3fdeeb49bc65b  Kitab_0.4.0_x86_64.AppImage
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5a8733b063c2c819b0f7ae0492de4c540ab4ce99f1ad591d9cde579214bb5cce  Kitab_0.4.0_x86_64.rpm
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