Open a Nepali document on your phone and you see g]kfn where it should say नेपाल. The file is not broken. It was typed in Preeti, a font your phone does not have, so every letter is showing as the Latin character that shares its key.
Preeti Reader fixes that. It converts Preeti text into Unicode Nepali on your phone, so you can finally read the document instead of guessing at it.
WHAT IT DOES
• Opens .docx, .xlsx, .pdf and .txt files from your phone, your SD card or your cloud storage
• Turns Preeti text into Unicode Nepali on screen, with one toggle
• Saves the conversion as a new file and never touches your original
• Converts Preeti back to Unicode in Word and Excel files, keeping the document's layout
• Lets you edit the text and save it back into the .docx
• Copies converted text to the clipboard, ready to paste into any app
• Shares a converted file through any app on your phone
• Saves a copy wherever you want it — Downloads, Documents, Drive
EVERYTHING STAYS ON YOUR PHONE
There is no internet code in this app. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is collected, nothing is shared, and nothing is logged. It works the same in aeroplane mode.
It also asks for no Android permissions at all — no storage access, no network, nothing. Files are opened through Android's own file chooser, which hands the app the single file you picked and nothing else.
WHAT IT CANNOT DO YET
Worth knowing before you install:
• Only the modern .docx and .xlsx formats. The older .doc and .xls files that Word 2003 produced are not supported.
• Spreadsheets are converted as whole files. The grid preview inside the app still shows the original Preeti text.
• A spreadsheet that stores its text inside the cells rather than in a shared table cannot be converted; the app will tell you so rather than pretend it worked.
• When you edit a .docx, the paragraphs you leave alone keep their formatting exactly. A paragraph you rewrite takes the formatting of its first run.
• PDFs can be read but not converted or edited.
• There is no PDF export.
WHO IT IS FOR
Anyone in Nepal or in the diaspora who is still sent documents typed in Preeti — students, teachers, government staff, journalists, lawyers, NGO workers, and everyone who has ever opened an attachment and found a screen full of non preeti fonts.
Read and convert Preeti-font Nepali documents on your phone, offline.