Aldiko Next

De Marque

About this app

One app to read them all.

Bring all your ebooks, comics and audiobooks in the same place, no matter where they're coming from:

• Import your own EPUB, CBZ or PDF files
• Buy all the latest releases and best sellers from Feedbooks, with a catalog that contains over a million references
• Built-in support for public libraries, allowing you to easily browse your library's catalog and borrow books from them
• Thousands of public domain books from Feedbooks
• Add your own catalogs, for example using Calibre

Aldiko provides an extensive set of features for both casual and power users:

• Customize your reading experience with multiple fonts and themes
• Full support for dark mode throughout the app
• Highlight any text in EPUB, add your annotations and easily export them to plain text documents
• Organize your bookshelf to your liking with categories and collections

We love open-source and standards at De Marque and Aldiko 4 is built on top of open-source software that we directly contribute to:

• Read EPUB files via a Readium Mobile based reading experience
• Explore catalogs using OPDS
• Full support for Readium LCP based on EPUB, PDF and audiobooks

Ratings and reviews

This app is great in terms of the look, text, clearness, settings and highlight effects. But I've ran into issues with me trying to highlight things. The highlighter will jump from where you're trying to highlight to somewhere else and sometimes if you try to highlight the top area of a page and then drag it through the sentence it will jump back a page or two and have all the previous pages highlighted as well. This issue occurs every two or three pages. Fix this and everything will be perfect.

Excellent features: 1. create & apply categories & collections. 2. keeps playing behind other apps. Known lost feature: 1. Access to US libraries. Desirable features: 1. Filter on two or more elements. (2 separate tags; or collection and tags, for example.) 2. Set the reader to pronounce accented vowels. Appreciated feature: The ability to keep the screen active.

Overall the app is decent however there is one massive flaw that killed my rating for this. If you even so slightly move your finger left or right while trying to scroll up or down it will swipe to the prior or next chapter. When you swipe back youre at either the beginning or the end of the chapter. way too sensitive. A simple integration like the volume button for scrolling would fix this. Still no update and it's been a month. Horrible. Keep losing my place when trying to scroll.

What's new

- Initial support for Material Design 3 with brand new components and colours
- New app colour selector for devices running Android 12+
- Support for read aloud playback in the background
- New options for the read aloud feature: voice selection, pitch and timer
- Improvements to the progression bar and actions while reading
- New reading options: page left in chapter/book and display status bar
- Basic support for keyboard navigation (space bar and arrow keys)