Freda

Turnipsoft

In-app purchases

About this app

Freda is a free program for reading electronic books (ebooks) on Windows. Read over 50,000 public domain classic books, free of charge, from Gutenberg and other on-line catalogs. Or read your own (DRM-free) books in the supported formats: EPUB, MOBI, FB2, HTML and TXT.

The program offers customisable controls, fonts and colours, plus annotations and bookmarks, and the ability to look up dictionary definitions and translations, and (new feature) text-to-speech reading. Freda understands EPUB formatting information (bold/italic text, margins and alignment) and can display images and diagrams in books.
Freda can get books from on-line catalogs like the Gutenberg Project. Or if you have an existing book collection, you can use OneDrive, DropBox or Calibre to share it with your phone. Freda can also download books from any website and from email attachments.
You can download books and keep them on your phone, so you can carry on reading when you don't have network connectivity.

Freda is a free, advertising-supported app, displaying advertising at the bottom of its main page. If you don't want to see advertising, there is an in-app purchase option to remove it.

The manual is at http://www.turnipsoft.co.uk/freda .

Ratings and reviews

Love it but room for improvement. Feda is my preferred e-reader mainly because it allows me to switch from reading to listening to epubs and there are a great range of accents, pitch and speed options. BUT I can't figure out how to configure this once it is set and sometimes it losses the settings. I wind up reinstalling so I can reset. It would also be great if it was able to continue to read the text while I'm on another screen on my phone, as it does on my laptop. Fingers crossed!

Good app but bad UI. I wanted a reader on my android which has the read aloud feature and this app name came to my mind since I use it on my pc. I had high hopes. But, I was rather disappointed. The UI could be a lot better. It felt like the app from pc was replicated as it is to Android. Controls were too much, more than half my screen is covered by it. And also, it would be nice if you could name the AI voice as "US Man 1" instead of "en-us-x-tpf-local" which makes it a bit confusing.

Hi!! I love this app very much and I've been using it through all my devices! It's just great and functional and so customizable. But recently i couldn't change the font of my books 😔 I don't know why. It keeps being the Georgia font, and my eyes get very tired very fast from it. The only thing that corresponded to the font change is a page numbers. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling it back, but it didn't work 😞 Please send help ✋😭

What's new

Bug fix minor release