Text Reader

Pavel Gudkov

About this app

Text Reader is a fast and compact utility for comfortable text reading. Key features are: FB2, RTF, HTML, TXT formats support; reading from ZIP-archives; saving last read position; smooth scroll through pages; view files from arbitrary position; a lot of encodings; custom fonts support; customized color themes; text search.

The program works with text file formats only. If you see unreadable characters on the screen, then either you have opened a non-text file, or do not have chosen the correct character encoding.

You can flip through pages of the text by tapping the top or bottom of the screen. Text position can be adjusted by pressing in the middle of the screen.

To remove some items from the history list, you can use a long press on the corresponding element.

Use volume keys to adjust the screen brightness.

Ratings and reviews

Bizarre interface. Back button to show menu. Searching makes the text before the found word disappear. It gives only two options, "load from beginning" which scrolls to the top, and "scroll a little before" which jumps into some weird location that makes me difficult to see the found word. Why can't it just jump to the found word and allow the user to scroll up/down from there freely, like a normal text viewer?

The interface is weird, but it does seem to be a lightweight app that works as expected. RTF, TXT files work. Still, other alternatives like Office Documents Viewer seem better. I've used this app for years and if all you need is literally just a txt and RTF reader it's great. The UI for long/large documents is just too unintuitive though. It probably means this is showing its age

It's almost comic that in the sea of text reader apps there's only (this) one that that reads text files, remembers the current position within a file, keeps the screen on and is ad free. I've tried tens of text reader apps and, so far, this has been the only one that suits my needs.

What's new

- adjustable margins and line spacing
- added tap zone selection