HandyReader: EPUB Ebook Reader

WhiteBear Studio

About this app

**HandyReader: Popular Free Offline EPUB Reader, Ad-Free with AI Voice**

Read or listen with HandyReader – the ad-free offline app with built-in AI text-to-speech (TTS). Open EPUB, PDF, MOBI, FB2, AZW, AZW3, TXT, Markdown and HTML, or enjoy your Kindle books — a lightweight, private reading app for novels and ebooks. No account needed, no ads. Highlight passages, bookmark pages, and customize your experience.

**Read Any Ebook Format – Offline**

Your viewer supports EPUB 2/3, PDF, MOBI, AZW, AZW3, FB2, TXT and more. Fast loading from local storage, anytime — perfect for travel, commuting, or flights. Scan folders and HandyReader automatically discovers all your books — the Android organizer that carries your library in your pocket.

**AI Read Aloud – Turn Any Ebook into an Audiobook**

Turn any ebook into an audiobook with text-to-speech. Download voice models once, then enjoy TTS playback — no internet required. The natural sound makes long sessions pleasant. Adjust speed (0.25x–3.0x), pitch, set a sleep timer, use background playback and sentence navigation. Also works with your device's built-in speech engine.

**Truly Private. No Account Needed, No ADs**

All your books and annotations stay on your device. No account signup, no cloud upload. Your data is never shared. HandyReader works without signup — only you know what you read.

**Annotate, Highlight & Bookmark**

Mark passages with colored highlights and underlines. Add notes to annotate them. Bookmark pages and never lose your place — auto-save remembers your position. Search all annotations from one panel. Share or copy text with one tap.

**Customize Your Reading Experience**

Choose from 10 color themes including Material You dynamic colors, dark mode and light mode. Set custom background images for a cozy feel. Adjust font size, line height, margins, spacing, indent, and alignment.

**Smooth Page Turning Animations**

Pick your style: realistic page flip, slide, scroll or instant. Customize tap zones for one-handed reading, and use volume keys to turn pages.

**Organize Your Collection**

Create custom bookshelves and organize your collection. Sort by title, last opened, progress, or date added. Filter by status and file type. Choose grid or list layout.

**Browse & Download Novels Online**

Discover novels and books from online catalogs (OPDS). Browse Project Gutenberg and more, download straight to your library — then enjoy offline. No ads, no account.

**Track Progress & Write Reviews**

View history and progress per book. See author, publisher, page count, word count. Rate each title 1 to 5 stars and write reviews.

**How to Get Started**

1. Import — Scan folders or open files directly.
2. Organize — Highlight passages, bookmark pages, sort into shelves.
3. Listen — Switch between reading and AI narration.

**What's New – Translate, Dictionary, Fonts & More**

Translate passages instantly with built-in translation — great for foreign-language books. Look up any word in the dictionary and hear its pronunciation. Browse and download fonts, or import your own. Search inside any book to find passages fast. Choose continuous scroll or page-flip modes. Pick background images from your gallery or from the online library.

**Why choose Handy Reader?**

• No account needed — your data stays yours
• Turn any ebook into an audiobook with natural AI voice
• Opens every format — truly private reading
• A versatile novel reader — enjoy fiction and non-fiction alike
• Custom bookshelf for your collection
• Sleep timer and night mode for bedtime listening

Download HandyReader — the ad-free offline ebook reader for novels and audiobooks.

Ratings and reviews

Very useful, no fuss, no ads, does everything I want it to do, which is mostly reading epub files. Enjoying the app immensely, and it doesn't extract unnecessary data from me as a user. It took a second to figure out how to exit a book and go into the app menu (tap the center of the page once). It would also be nice if I could choose what service to define words with (the default is Google search) but it's not often I need to look things up anyway.

Really love the app so far. Missing an option to have the book show in two columns for larger screens like foldables.

Good app. Straightforward. But it lacks continuous vertical scroll in my opinion and if that added it would be a chef kiss.

What’s new

- Added option to invert page turn direction
- Added Sheen Bidi library for enhanced bidirectional text support
- Fixed issue with dictionary and translate panel positioning
- Changed drag handle of text toolbar