Features

Every feature, down to the small ones.

Everything Witbound does today: 360 features in 14 areas. Each one says where it works, on iPhone and iPad, in Witbound for Mac, or on Android.

As of Witbound 1.8.5 for iPhone and iPad, 1.0.13 for Android and 1.5.1 for Mac. Witbound for Mac is free. On iPhone, iPad and Android your first book is free, and Witbound Plus ($9.99 once on the App Store) unlocks the rest.

Read-along

The highlight, and the ways to follow it. 32 features

Word-by-word highlighting: Each word lights up on the page as the narrator says it, in your own ebook with your own audiobook.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Tap a word to listen from there: Tap any narrated word and the audio jumps straight to it.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Edge words jump, not turn: Tapping a word near the edge of the page jumps the audio to that word; only a tap on the blank margin turns the page.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Highlighter on/off: The highlighter button in the top bar hides or shows the moving highlight; the audio plays and the pages still turn either way.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Highlighter colour: Pick the highlight colour: Indigo (the default), Warm gold, Teal or Rose.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Highlight covers: Choose how much lights up as the narrator reads: a Word, a Phrase, a Sentence or the whole Paragraph.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Chunk into blocks: Light a steady block of 2, 3 or 4 words at a time instead of single words (Off by default).; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Lead the narrator: Light the next word a beat early so your eyes are pulled just ahead of the voice (with Word highlighting).; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Reading focus: Dim the page down to a band of 1, 3 or 5 lines around the narrator's line, so your eyes don't wander.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Bold word starts: Bold the first letters of every word to give your eye a fixed point on each one.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Every aid starts off: These reading aids are all off until you switch them on, so the page looks plain until you choose otherwise.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Word marker: Filled, Underline, Outline: Show the spoken word as a filled highlight, an underline or an outline box.; Works on: Android
Reading options preview as you tap: The Aa sheet leaves the page in view, so every change shows straight away, and each choice is saved the moment you tap it.; Works on: Android
Hints in Reading options: If the highlight is off, Reading options says so and offers Turn word highlight on; before the book plays, it explains that highlights appear once it does.; Works on: Android
Highlight waits at pauses: At a comma or a full stop the highlight rests on the last word until the narrator moves on, instead of running ahead.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Sentences split the book's way: Sentence highlighting splits sentences by the book's own language, so a French book reads correctly on an English phone.; Works on: Android
Pages turn by themselves: As the narrator reaches the next page, the page turns on its own and the highlight follows, across chapter breaks too.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Browse while it plays: Page back or ahead while the narration plays; the audio carries on, and the page catches up when the narrator gets there.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Return to narration: When you've browsed away from the spoken word, a Return to narration button takes the page back to it without moving the audio.; Works on: Android
Silent reading: With the narration paused, turning pages carries your listening place along, so Play starts where your eyes are.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Starts at the story: The first time you open a book it skips the front matter and lands on the first narrated word.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Translate: Translate a word or passage into your own language without moving the audio; it works offline once the language is downloaded.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Unnarrated parts stay readable: Chapters the audiobook doesn't read, like maps, contents or copyright pages, stay readable: marked with a muted speaker in Contents on iPhone and iPad, and greyed in the list on Android, where opening one leaves the audio where it is.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
No forced match: If your ebook and audiobook are different editions, Witbound matches what it can and leaves the rest as ordinary text rather than forcing a bad match.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Licence pages left out: Project Gutenberg licences and Standard Ebooks imprints are left out of the sync, so the last chapter reads along like the rest of the book.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Language from the book: Witbound reads the book's language from the ebook and syncs in that language.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Book language: A Book language row shows what was detected (for example “Detected French from the ebook”) and lets you choose Auto-detect or pick the language yourself.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Languages on Apple's newer engine: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese sync on Apple's newer on-device engine; the Mac adds Cantonese.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac
More languages on the dictation engine: Polish and the other languages Apple's dictation covers also sync, labelled as less exact (measured on one Polish book so far).; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac
Languages on Android: The Android language picker offers English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Czech, Ukrainian, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.; Works on: Android
Fallback engine on older devices: Older iPhones and iPads that can't run the newer speech engine sync with Apple's built-in fallback engine.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
No ebook? Audio only: No ebook for a title? Witbound writes the book from the narration, chapter by chapter, and highlights that text as the narrator reads.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android

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Listening

The player, the sleep timer, and keeping your place. 33 features

Play and pause: A big play and pause button sits in the middle of the player.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Skip 15 seconds: Jump back or forward 15 seconds with one tap.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Scrubber: Drag the slider to any point in the book, or in the chapter when the chapter clock is showing, and the page follows.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
In book / In chapter: Tap the time remaining to switch between time left IN BOOK and IN CHAPTER; Android remembers your choice.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Speed presets: Tap the speed to pick 0.75×, 1×, 1.25×, 1.5×, 1.75× or 2×.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Fine speed steps: Use the minus and plus buttons to set any speed from 0.5× to 2× in steps of 0.05, so 1.1× or 1.15× is exact.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Speed remembered: Your playback speed carries over to every book and every time you open the app.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Sleep timer: The moon button sets a sleep timer: Off, 5, 15, 30, 45 or 60 minutes.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Custom sleep timer: Custom… sets any length from 1 to 180 minutes and remembers the last number you chose.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
End of chapter: Stop at the end of the chapter; on iPhone and iPad it follows you if you skip into another chapter.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
+15 min: Add 15 minutes from the timer menu or by tapping the countdown under the text.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Sleep countdown: While a timer runs, the player shows the minutes left and the moon turns orange.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Timer counts only listening: The sleep timer only counts down while the book is actually playing, so pausing doesn't use it up.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Set it again straight away: You can set a new sleep timer straight after the last one fires.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Timer works with the screen off: The sleep timer and the end-of-chapter stop still fire with the phone locked or the reader closed.; Works on: Android
A timer that confirms it took: If setting the timer fails, Witbound reconnects and tries again, and tells you if it still couldn't.; Works on: Android
Resume with a little context: Pressing play after a pause starts a little before where you stopped, further back the longer you were away: 2, 6 or 12 seconds on iPhone and iPad, back to the start of the sentence on Android.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Auto-rewind: Off, Standard, Generous: Choose how far back playback steps after a pause, or turn it off.; Works on: Android
Exact jumps stay exact: After you tap a word, drag the slider or skip while paused, Play starts exactly there with no rewind.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Plays in the background: Narration keeps playing with the screen locked or while you use other apps.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Keeps playing when swiped away: Swiping Witbound out of recent apps doesn't stop a book that's playing.; Works on: Android
Lock screen controls: The lock screen shows the book's cover, title and author with play and pause, in Control Centre on iPhone and iPad and in the notification on Android.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Skip and scrub from the lock screen: On iPhone and iPad the lock screen and Control Centre also skip 15 seconds either way, scrub, and show the elapsed time and speed.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Headphone controls: Play and pause from your headphones or earbuds.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Pulled headphones pause: Unplug or disconnect your headphones and the book pauses instead of carrying on through the speaker.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Calls and alarms: A call, Siri or an alarm pauses the book, and it picks up again afterwards when iOS allows.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
AirPlay and Bluetooth: Narration plays to whatever speaker or headphones you choose in Control Centre, as spoken audio.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Finished stays finished: When a book ends it stays at the end instead of jumping back to the beginning.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
A broken file isn't marked read: If an audio file breaks partway, the book pauses where it stopped instead of being marked finished.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Playback problem banner: If the audio is interrupted, the reader says so in plain words with a Retry button, and the notice clears itself when the sound comes back.; Works on: Android
Controls fade while you listen: A few seconds into playback the bars fade so only the page remains; tap anywhere to bring them back.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Chapters: The chapter list shows every chapter with its start time, marks the one you're in, and jumps there with a tap.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Your place, always saved: Your spot is saved as you listen, when you pause, when you leave the app, when you close the book and when it ends, and the book reopens right there.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android

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The page

How the book looks, and how its pages turn. 29 features

Paper, Sepia or Night: Choose Paper, Sepia or Night pages; they stay as chosen whatever the phone's light or dark mode.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Text size: Make the text smaller or larger one step at a time: 12 to 40 points on iPhone and iPad (the menu stays open while you adjust), 13 to 24 on Android.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Font: Set the page in Georgia, New York, San Francisco or Atkinson Hyperlegible.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Set in Literata: On Android, books are set in the Literata reading serif.; Works on: Android
Line spacing: Line spacing: Tight, Normal, Relaxed or Loose (close to double spacing).; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Paragraph spacing: Paragraph spacing: Tight, Normal or Wide.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Page width: Page width: Comfortable, Wide or Full, which lets the text fill the screen.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Page by page or Continuous scroll: Read page by page or in one continuous scroll; your place is kept when you switch.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Scroll follows the voice: In scroll mode the text glides so the narrator's line stays in view near the top third of the screen.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Scroll by hand while paused: Scroll by hand while the book is paused and Play starts from the text you stopped on.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Scroll into the next chapter: In scroll mode, pull past the end of a chapter to move into the next one, or back to the previous.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Swipe to turn pages: Swipe left or right across the page to turn it.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Pages slide like a book: Pages slide across when they turn, in the direction you're going.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Tap the margin to turn: Tap the left or right margin to go back or forward a page.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Pages run across chapters: Turning past the last page of a chapter goes straight into the next one, and back again.; Works on: Android
Page counter: A small page number for the chapter, like 3 / 12, sits under the text in page mode.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
The book's own styling: Italics, bold and small caps from the ebook are kept on the page.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Book-style layout: Proper chapter titles, italic epigraphs, hyphenation and book-like paragraphs, with a raised capital opening each chapter and justified text on iPhone and iPad.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Pictures, chapter art and maps: Illustrations, chapter art and maps from the ebook appear in place in the text, scaled to fit the page.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Big text stays even: At very large sizes on a narrow page the text is set ragged-right, so letters never get stretched apart.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Your words stay on screen: Changing the text size (and on iPhone and iPad the font, spacing or width, or turning an iPad) keeps the words you were reading on screen.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Book and chapter in the top bar: The top bar shows the book's title and the chapter you're in.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Accented letters: Accented characters and letters like ñ display correctly in Spanish, French, German and other languages.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Full-screen reading: The status and navigation bars hide while you read; swipe in from an edge to see them for a moment.; Works on: Android
Screen stays on: The screen doesn't go to sleep while a book is open in the reader.; Works on: Android
More options menu: On phones, Share progress, Sleep timer and the highlight switch sit together under a … menu so the title stays readable.; Works on: Android
Android tablets and landscape: On Android tablets the text keeps a comfortable line length and every tool sits in the top bar; it works in landscape too.; Works on: Android
iPad column: On iPad the shelf and the reader sit in a centred column instead of stretching edge to edge.; Works on: iPad
Any way up on iPad: iPad works in portrait and landscape, either way up; iPhone stays in portrait.; Works on: iPad

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E-ink

A calm mode for e-paper tablets. 7 features

E-ink display: Auto, On, Off: An e-paper mode for Boox, Bigme, Viwoods, Meebook, PocketBook and other e-ink tablets, switched on by itself when one is recognised.; Works on: Android
Calm e-paper drawing: On e-ink everything is black on white with no animations, fades, ripples or spinners, and pages swap instantly.; Works on: Android
Underline marker on e-ink: E-ink starts with a thin underline under the spoken word, which repaints far less than a filled box.; Works on: Android
Highlight: Word or Line: On e-ink, mark the whole line instead of the word, so a slow panel keeps up with the narrator.; Works on: Android
Fast panel refresh: While narration plays, Witbound asks the e-paper screen for its fast mode on devices that allow it, and repaints only the marker.; Works on: Android
Clear ghosting: Choose how often a full repaint clears e-ink ghosting: every page, every 30 or 60 seconds, or never.; Works on: Android
Simpler options on e-ink: Paper colour, highlighter colour and Reading focus are hidden on e-ink, where they would only cost contrast.; Works on: Android

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Library and import

Getting your books in, from files, your own servers or your Mac. 65 features

Your shelf: Your books sit on a shelf with cover, title and author.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Progress on every book: Each book shows a progress bar and percent, “Finished” on iPhone and iPad when you're done, and hours left or Not started on Android.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Search your shelf: Once you have six or more books, a search box finds them by title or author.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Free sample book: A free sample, A Princess of Mars with its first three chapters narrated, is ready to try straight away.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Remove the sample for good: Delete the sample and it stays gone instead of coming back next launch.; Works on: Android
Remove a book: Press and hold a book on the shelf to remove it.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Add your own book: One Add button opens every way in: from files and your servers on both, plus Receive from your Mac on iPhone and iPad and Google Drive on Android.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Add your first book: The add button says “Add your first book” until your free book is used, then “Add your own book”.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
From files: Pick the ebook, then its audiobook (or all of its parts), in two steps, with a tick as each is chosen.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
From Google Drive: If the Google Drive app is installed, pick books straight from Drive; the picker reopens in the last Drive folder you used.; Works on: Android
Open in Witbound: Open an epub, PDF or audio file in Witbound from Files, iCloud Drive, AirDrop or another app's share sheet and it goes straight into Add a book.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
DRM-free books: Works with DRM-free books, such as LibriVox, Standard Ebooks, Project Gutenberg, Libro.fm, Downpour and your own CD rips.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Copy-protected files explained: Copy-protected audiobooks and ebooks (.aax, locked store ebooks, DRM'd epubs) are turned away by name with a plain explanation; Witbound never breaks protection.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Ebook formats: Ebooks as epub, .kepub or PDF on iPhone and iPad; epub or .kepub on Android; epub or PDF on the Mac (.kepub from Audiobookshelf).; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Text-based PDFs: PDF ebooks work: running headers and page numbers are dropped, broken words are rejoined, and chapters come from the PDF's outline.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac
Audiobook formats: Audiobooks in m4b, m4a, mp3, flac, aac, wav, aiff, caf, mp4 and mov on iPhone and iPad; m4b, m4a and mp3 on Android; m4b, m4a, mp3, FLAC, WAV, AIFF, AAC and MP4 on the Mac.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Every file shows in the picker: The file picker shows all files, so audiobooks with odd names like .m4b.mp4 aren't greyed out.; Works on: Android
Picks survive a reload: If Android reloads Witbound while the file picker is open, the files you already chose are still there.; Works on: Android
Clear the ebook or the audio: Change your mind about a picked file without closing the sheet.; Works on: Android
Split audiobooks: Select every part of a split audiobook at once and Witbound joins them, in order, into one book; on iPhone and iPad each part becomes a chapter.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
CD folders: For a rip split into CD1, CD2 folders, pick the folder that holds the discs and they play in order.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Parts join fast: Joining an audiobook's parts takes seconds, not minutes; on the Mac, parts in the same format are joined without re-encoding, with no change to the sound.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac
Get the ebook from your library: Adding an audiobook with no ebook first offers to fetch the ebook from your own ebook server, before writing the book from the narration.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Files read for what they are: An ebook with no extension or the wrong one, such as an azw3 or PDF named .epub, is recognised from its contents.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
azw3 and mobi on a server: An azw3 or mobi ebook on your server is named in the list with a one-line note, and Witbound offers to write the book from the audio instead.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Unplayable audio named: Audio in a format the device can't play is named, with a suggestion to convert it.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
A bad part is refused by name: A damaged or incomplete part is refused by name, so you fetch it again instead of getting a book with audio missing.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Honest error messages: Problems say what actually went wrong and what to do, such as download the file from the cloud first or sign in past a login page in front of your server, and whether a retry will help.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Not enough space: If the device is short of storage, Witbound says so (on Android, how much the book needs) instead of failing quietly.; Works on: Mac, Android
Problem messages wait for you: A problem raised while you were elsewhere stays on screen until you dismiss it, even across a rotation or relaunch.; Works on: Android
Cancel an add: Stop a book while it's still being added (Close on iPhone and iPad, press and hold on Android) and nothing is added or used up.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Unfinished imports cleaned up: An import that stops halfway deletes the files it copied or downloaded, so nothing is left taking up space.; Works on: Mac, Android
From Audiobookshelf: Connect your own Audiobookshelf server by home address, Tailscale name or any web address, with a password or an API key.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
http or https worked out: Leave off http:// or https:// and Witbound tries both; plain http servers on a domain work too, and home and Tailscale addresses are tried over http first on the Mac.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Audiobookshelf libraries: Switch between your Audiobookshelf libraries with a Library picker; podcast libraries are left out on the Mac.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Sort: Sort by Title A–Z, Title Z–A, Author A–Z or Author Z–A, and the order applies to search results too.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Search your Audiobookshelf library: Search the library by title or author; on Android the search box stays pinned, and on the Mac it matches narrators and ignores accents.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Search finds what's on screen: Books already on screen are always found, even if the server's own search misses them.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Whole library loads: Browsing loads your whole library page by page, shows how far it has got, and picks up again with a tap if the connection drops.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Covers, authors and narrators: Library rows show the cover, author and narrator so you can tell editions apart, and flag books with no audio or no ebook Witbound can read.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Pair or transcribe: For an audiobook on your server, choose Transcribe from audio, pair it with an ebook from any of your Audiobookshelf libraries, or (on iPhone and iPad) with an ebook from your ebook server.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Your catalogue searched for you: Pairing searches your ebook catalogue by the audiobook's title and author, so the right ebook is a tap away.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac
Books in several files on your server: Audiobooks your server keeps as several files are joined in order into one book; on iPhone and iPad they keep your server's part names, with a chapter for each part.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac
Add several at once: Tap one book after another; each shows its own progress, and a banner confirms how many were added and are syncing.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Downloads keep going: Server downloads carry on with the screen off, and a stray swipe can't close them.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Server settings and Disconnect: A gear shows each server's connection, with Edit connection… and a Disconnect (Forget this server) that asks first and leaves your books on the shelf.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Your servers are remembered: Your connections come back the next time you open the library, without signing in again.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Audiobookshelf login kept away from home: Being away from home or a server reboot never signs you out of Audiobookshelf; only a rejected password makes Witbound forget it.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac
Ebook server login kept away from home: Your Calibre or Grimmory login stays saved when you open your library away from home, and the message says why it couldn't connect.; Works on: Mac
Trust this server?: For a self-signed certificate, Witbound shows its fingerprint and asks once; that exact certificate is remembered, and a changed one always asks again.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac
From your ebook server: Connect Calibre, calibre-web, Grimmory, Kavita, Komga, COPS or any OPDS catalogue for the ebook.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Just type the address: Type an address on its own, like 192.168.1.10:8080, and Witbound finds the catalogue on that server itself.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac
Optional login: Turn on a login for an ebook server that needs one; whichever sign-in type your server asks for is handled.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Search your ebook catalogue: Search your ebook catalogue when the server offers it, Grimmory included.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Browse by author, series or shelf: Browse your ebook server by author, series, shelf and its other sections instead of scrolling one long list.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Where you are in the catalogue: A path along the top, like Library › Authors › name, shows where you are and takes you back a level.; Works on: Mac, Android
Format on each row: Catalogue rows show which format will be added and whether the audiobook comes with it; books with only formats Witbound can't read are dimmed and say so.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac
Start from the ebook: Pick the ebook from your server first, then answer where the audiobook is: on the same server, a file on the phone, Audiobookshelf or Plex.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Both from one server: When the same catalogue entry holds the audiobook too, Witbound takes both with the login you already gave it.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
From Plex: Sign in with your Plex account in the browser, by approving a code, and import audiobooks from your Plex music library.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Plex by address: Or type the Plex server's address with an optional token, for a server on your own network.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Plex library tools: Pick a Plex library, search it, choose a different server or sign out; iPhone and iPad also sort, and the Mac shows each album's author and year.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Shared Plex servers: After signing in, pick from your own Plex servers and ones shared with you.; Works on: Android
Plex audiobook, then the ebook: For a Plex audiobook (on Android its parts are downloaded and joined), pair an ebook from your ebook server or a file, or transcribe it from the narration.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Mac tip: A one-time tip on the shelf points to sending books from your Mac; the cross dismisses it.; Works on: iPhone & iPad

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Syncing

Matching the narration to the text, once, on your own device. 32 features

Synced on your own device: Witbound goes through the narration once on your own phone, tablet or Mac and lines every spoken word up with the text; nothing is sent away to be processed.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
One-time speech download: The first sync says when it's downloading the speech engine and shows its progress: Apple's on iPhone, iPad and Mac, Witbound's own model (about 43 MB) on Android.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Read while it syncs: Start reading as soon as the first chapter is synced (“Tap to read what's synced so far”), while the rest finishes.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Sync progress on each book: Each book shows what it's doing and how far it has got, such as Queued to sync, Matching the narration… or Syncing Chapter 3 of 36 with a percent.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Charging badge: A Full speed badge (a ⚡ on Android) shows on a syncing book while the phone is charging.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Plug in overnight: While a book syncs unplugged, the shelf reminds you that plugging in finishes the whole queue overnight.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Syncs in the background: Syncing carries on with the screen off, while you listen or use other apps, and overnight while the phone charges.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Syncing notification: A quiet Syncing your book notification shows the step and percent; tap it to open Witbound.; Works on: Android
Your book is ready: A notification tells you when a book is ready; Witbound asks permission when you start a sync and stays quiet if you're already in the app.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Book sync paused: If Android stops a long background sync, Witbound says Book sync paused and carries on when you open it.; Works on: Android
Cools down when hot: If the device gets too hot, syncing pauses between chapters and resumes by itself.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Low-battery pause: Below 35% battery and unplugged, syncing pauses between chapters and picks up again on its own.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Picks up where it stopped: An interrupted sync resumes from the last finished chapter, and the work done so far is kept.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
One at a time: Add several books and they queue up and sync one after another.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Stops a sync that keeps failing: A book that keeps crashing its sync is stopped with an explanation, so the app stays usable.; Works on: Android
Wrong language caught: A sync that matched almost nothing, for example because the language was wrong, stops with a message instead of leaving a book that never highlights.; Works on: Android
Words matched: A synced book shows how well it matched, like “98% of words matched”, and on Android how many chapters are narrated.; Works on: Mac, Android
Community sync: If another reader has synced the same edition and narration, your book is ready in seconds instead of syncing from scratch.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Classics already instant: Popular public-domain pairs from LibriVox and Standard Ebooks are already on the community network, so they sync in seconds.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Same book, different files: Community sync recognises the same book even from a friend's copy, a different epub edition or audio that was re-encoded.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Partly from the community: When only some chapters match the community's copy, the rest sync on your iPhone or iPad and the shelf says so.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Weak shared maps ignored: A shared timing map that matched under 75% of the words, or doesn't fit your exact book, is ignored and your Mac syncs the book itself.; Works on: Mac
Dictation engine label: A book that syncs on the dictation engine says so on its shelf card.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac
Sync my position with my server: Your place in Audiobookshelf books syncs both ways, so you can stop here and carry on in any other Audiobookshelf app (on by default).; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Asks before jumping: If another device got further, Witbound asks whether to go there or stay here, and never moves you on its own.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Position sync badge: A small cloud in the reader's top bar shows when the book's place is syncing with your server.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
KOReader sync: Keep your place in step with KOReader on a Kobo, PocketBook or reMarkable through a KOSync server, the public one or your own.; Works on: Android
Sync reading position switch: Once signed in to KOSync, one switch turns position sharing on or off.; Works on: Android
Book matching: Choose whether books are matched with your other device by file contents or by filename, and see how many of your books can sync.; Works on: Android
This device's name: Name this phone so your other devices can offer to carry on from it.; Works on: Android
Place sent at the right moments: Your place is sent to KOSync when you pause, turn a page, leave the app or close the book.; Works on: Android
KOSync sign out: Sign out of KOSync with a confirmation; places already on the server stay there.; Works on: Android

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Notes and highlights

Marking up the book as you go. 17 features

Highlights and notes: Keep a passage as a highlight, attach a note to it, and play from there later.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Press and hold to select: Press and hold a word, drag to the end of the passage and let go.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Select across pages: Tap to extend a selection, and hold at the edge of the page to carry it onto the next page.; Works on: Android
Highlight, Add Note, Copy, Translate: The menu over selected text offers Highlight, Add Note, Copy and Translate.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Cancel a selection: Cancel, or the phone's Back button, clears a selection before leaving the book.; Works on: Android
Select a passage…: From the share menu, tap a whole sentence or drag across exactly the words you want, then Save highlight; the narration keeps playing and the page holds still.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Highlights on the page: Saved highlights stay marked on the page with a soft wash and underline in your highlighter colour, and a small dot when there's a note.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Note card: Tap a highlight on the page to read its note, add or edit one, play from there, or delete it (with a check first).; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Highlight saved: A short “Highlight saved” message confirms each save, or “Already highlighted” if you kept it before.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Highlights list: Highlights lists every passage you kept, oldest first, with its note, chapter and date; tap one to play from there.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Swipe to note or delete: In the Highlights list, swipe one way to add or edit a note and the other way to delete.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
No audio marker: A passage kept from text the audiobook doesn't read is marked “No audio”, so you know why it won't play.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Export highlights as text: Export a book's highlights and notes as a plain .txt file.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Copy: Copy selected text from the book to paste elsewhere.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Bookmark this page: Tap the bookmark in the top bar to mark the page; it fills in on a marked page, and a second tap removes it.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Bookmarks beside Chapters: A Bookmarks tab beside the chapter list shows each bookmarked page's opening words, chapter and time; one tap brings back the page and the narration together.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Marks stay on the right words: Bookmarks and highlights are found by their words, so they stay on the right text at any size, font, width or orientation.; Works on: iPhone & iPad

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Stats

Your reading, counted honestly. 11 features

Your reading: A stats page, from the shelf, shows your day streak, best streak, minutes today and time this week; any day with a minute of listening counts.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Totals: Total time, words read, days read and your reading pace.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Last 14 days: A chart of your last 14 days of listening.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
This week vs last: Compare this week's reading time with last week's, with the change in percent.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Novels of reading: See your reading counted in novels, roughly, and the date you started.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Light the flame: A gentle nudge to listen for a minute today keeps your streak going.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Honest counting: Only audio that actually played counts, so pauses and skips don't inflate your stats; on Android, words count only while the page is on screen.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Consistency: A 13-week calendar shows which days you read and how much.; Works on: Android
Pace and projection: Words per minute, daily average, best day, and an estimated finish date for the book you're reading.; Works on: Android
Books: Every book with its progress, how many you have and how many you've finished.; Works on: Android
Milestones: Eight milestones to unlock: 7- and 30-day streaks, first and third book finished, 10 and 50 hours, 100,000 and 1 million words.; Works on: Android

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The app

The parts around the books. 7 features

Light, dark or match the system: A button on the shelf cycles the app between matching your phone, light and dark.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Settings: Settings holds the switches, shows the app version and has a Leave a Review link.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Asks for a review once, ever: Witbound asks for a rating at most once, only after your own book has played for a couple of minutes and you're back on the shelf.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Notifications asked only when needed: On Android 13 and later, permission for playback notifications is asked the first time you open a book, not at first launch.; Works on: Android
New stag icon: A new icon: a folded-paper stag with gilt page edges on its antlers, clear even at the smallest sizes.; Works on: Mac
iPhone and iPad: One app for iPhone and iPad, on iOS 26 or later.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Android 8 or later: Witbound for Android runs on Android 8 or later and is on Google Play.; Works on: Android

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Mac companion

Witbound for Mac, free: the slow part on the computer, the reading on your iPhone or iPad. 75 features

Witbound for Mac, free: A free desktop app that syncs a book on your Mac and sends it to your iPhone or iPad, with no account and nothing to buy.; Works on: Mac
Apple silicon and Intel: One universal app for Apple silicon and Intel Macs on macOS 26 or later.; Works on: Mac
Signed and notarised: Signed with a Developer ID and notarised by Apple, as a disk image you drag into Applications.; Works on: Mac
A long book in minutes: A Mac syncs a long audiobook in minutes rather than the hours a phone can take.; Works on: Mac
Add Books… (⌘O): File › Add Books… opens a picker that takes several files or whole folders at once.; Works on: Mac
Browse Library… (⌘L): File › Browse Library… opens Browse your library from anywhere in the app.; Works on: Mac
Open With from Finder: Witbound for Mac appears under Open With for epub, PDF and audio files, and opening one adds it to the shelf.; Works on: Mac
Drop an ebook and its audiobook: An empty shelf shows a big drop area with Choose files… and Browse your library… buttons.; Works on: Mac
Drop anywhere in the window: Drag books onto any part of the window; a gold outline shows it will take them.; Works on: Mac
Add and Browse buttons: Once the shelf has books, the footer keeps Add books… and Browse library… buttons, with a reminder that you can drop more anywhere.; Works on: Mac
Drop a whole folder: Drop a folder, subfolders included, to add many books at once.; Works on: Mac
Pairs found by name: Witbound matches each ebook to its audiobook by name in any order, even when the files aren't named alike, and a folder holding one of each takes the folder's name.; Works on: Mac
Half a pair waits: Drop one file now and the other later; the lone half waits on the shelf for its partner.; Works on: Mac
No duplicates: Adding the same ebook and audiobook again doesn't make a second copy on the shelf.; Works on: Mac
Title, author and cover filled in: The title and author come from the ebook and the cover from the audiobook's art or the ebook, read in the background so a big drop lands at once.; Works on: Mac
Your Mac shelf: Each book shows its cover, title, author, length and file name, with a coloured status line underneath.; Works on: Mac
Shelf summary: The footer counts your books: how many are synced, syncing and waiting.; Works on: Mac
Shelf kept between launches: Finished books stay on the shelf after you quit, ready to send again when you reopen the app.; Works on: Mac
Remove a book (×): The × takes a book off the shelf, and its tooltip says whether any files will be deleted.; Works on: Mac
Server books go to the Trash: Removing a book that came from Audiobookshelf, Calibre or Plex moves its downloaded files to the Trash, so a wrong click can be undone.; Works on: Mac
Your files stay where you keep them: Books you add from Finder are read where they are, never copied or deleted; only books downloaded from your servers are stored by the app.; Works on: Mac
Books on an unplugged drive stay: If a book's files are on a drive or share that's away, it stays on the shelf marked “The files moved”, comes back by itself when they return, and is never sent while they're missing.; Works on: Mac
Several chapters at once: Three chapters are transcribed at a time, and the status shows which chapter of how many it's on.; Works on: Mac
Progress bar and time left: A progress bar and percent, plus an honest “about N min left” measured from this run (“measuring speed…” until it knows).; Works on: Mac
Step-by-step status: Each book says what it's doing: waiting its turn, fingerprinting the files, checking the community network, transcribing, matching every word, sharing the timing map.; Works on: Mac
Starts by itself: Books start syncing as soon as you add them, and a gold Start button runs anything left waiting.; Works on: Mac
Stop keeps progress: Stop finishes the chapters in hand and keeps them: “Stopped — progress kept. Press Start to continue.”; Works on: Mac
One transcription, several editions: Pair the same audiobook with a different ebook edition and the narration isn't transcribed again.; Works on: Mac
Keeps your Mac awake: Your Mac won't drop into idle sleep while books are syncing.; Works on: Mac
Retry a failed sync: A book that can't sync says why in red and has a Retry button.; Works on: Mac
Intel Macs sync privately: An Intel Mac syncs every language on the dictation engine and keeps those maps off the community network, and the shelf says so.; Works on: Mac
Older syncs fixed for you: Books synced by an earlier version are corrected automatically at launch, without a new sync.; Works on: Mac
Sharing retried later: If the network can't be reached when a book finishes, the shelf says so and the map is shared quietly later.; Works on: Mac
Browse your library: A sheet with your audiobook server on the left and your ebook catalogue on the right: pick a pair, press Add to Witbound, and both download and start syncing.; Works on: Mac
Audiobook row details: Rows also show the number of parts, a book icon when the server has the ebook, the ebook's format when it needs converting, and “no audio” only when the server says so.; Works on: Mac
Uses the audiobook's own ebook: When Audiobookshelf holds the book's epub, PDF or .kepub, it's paired automatically, with a “use its own ebook” link to switch back to it.; Works on: Mac
azw3 and mobi through calibre: A DRM-free azw3 or mobi ebook on Audiobookshelf converts through calibre as the book is added, if calibre is installed; otherwise Witbound says what it needs.; Works on: Mac
Unusable ebooks explained: A comic (cbz or cbr) is explained as having no text to align, and a locked azw3 or mobi says it can't be converted.; Works on: Mac
Suggested ebook: Pick an audiobook and its matching ebook is marked “suggested” and selected; when nothing clearly matches, nothing is guessed.; Works on: Mac
Your pick at a glance: The foot of the sheet shows the chosen audiobook and its ebook, or prompts you to pick one.; Works on: Mac
Import confirmation: The sheet says “Added “Title” — it's queued to sync.”, or that it's already on your shelf.; Works on: Mac
Plex album art as cover: A Plex book uses its album art when the ebook has no cover.; Works on: Mac
Catalogue errors that name the fix: A wrong address, a web page instead of a catalogue, or a rejected password each get a message saying what to type instead.; Works on: Mac
Right password over an https redirect: A server that redirects http to https no longer asks for your password twice or calls a correct one wrong.; Works on: Mac
Send from your Mac, already synced: Send a finished book to Witbound on your iPhone or iPad over your own Wi-Fi; it arrives already synced, with nothing to transcribe on the phone.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac
Send to menu: Pick your phone by name from the Send to menu, or No phone to clear it; a chosen phone that's away shows as offline.; Works on: Mac
Remembers your phone: Your chosen phone is remembered after you quit, even before it reappears on the network.; Works on: Mac
Send each book automatically: Tick “Send each book to [phone] automatically when it finishes” and books go over as they sync; choosing a phone ticks it for you.; Works on: Mac
Waits for your phone: If Witbound isn't open on the phone, the book waits and goes the moment it opens.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac
Choosing a phone doesn't flood it: Picking a phone only sends the books that were waiting for it, never your whole shelf.; Works on: Mac
Gold Send button: Every finished book has a full-size gold “Send to [phone]” button.; Works on: Mac
Send says why it can't: With no phone to send to, the button greys out and says why underneath, such as “Open Witbound on your iPhone, same Wi-Fi”.; Works on: Mac
One phone, no choosing: With one phone on your Wi-Fi and none chosen, Send goes straight to it.; Works on: Mac
Send status: Each book shows Sending…, Sent, “Delivered to [phone] — it opened already synced”, Send now while it waits, or Try again with the reason.; Works on: Mac
Already on the phone: If the phone already has the book, it's marked Sent instead of being copied again.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac
Transfers that survive a drop: The phone downloads in resumable pieces, and a phone that drops off mid-send is retried when it comes back.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac
Works on VPNs and two networks: Sending works when your Mac is on a VPN or has Ethernet and Wi-Fi on at once.; Works on: Mac
What to do next: A line under the phone picker says what to do next, such as open Witbound on your iPhone on the same Wi-Fi, or how many phones it can see.; Works on: Mac
Mac's own Local Network setting: When the Mac itself can't look for phones, it points you to Local Network in System Settings with a link, plus the same-Wi-Fi and firewall checks.; Works on: Mac
No iPhone yet: If no phone shows up for a while, a gentle note covers both likely causes, and it never nags while your phone is just asleep.; Works on: Mac
Receive from your Mac: On the phone, Receive from your Mac shows a ready light that says whether this iPhone is ready, still checking, or blocked by Local Network or Wi-Fi.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Mac can't see this iPhone?: The phone checks it can be reached before it says Ready, and a help panel walks through the three real fixes, with an Open Settings button for Local Network.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Receiving banner: While a book comes in, a banner with a percent shows anywhere in the app, then “arrived — already synced”.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Get Witbound for Mac: The receive screen links to the free Mac app and reminds you to keep the screen open while sending.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Mac says hello: Your Mac greets your iPhone as soon as it sees it and every 10 seconds after, even behind other windows, pausing only while the Mac sleeps or is locked.; Works on: Mac
Phone without the update?: A link opens a page with a QR code and the Mac's address, with a copy button, so a phone's browser can download the files.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Other addresses to try: If the first address doesn't load, the sheet lists your Mac's other addresses, including one for a phone on your Mac's Internet Sharing.; Works on: Mac
Not on Wi-Fi help: If your Mac has only a VPN or shared connection, the sheet explains how to get onto the same Wi-Fi or Ethernet instead of spinning.; Works on: Mac
Browser download page: Your Mac serves a page listing each synced book with Download ebook and Download audiobook buttons, their sizes and match rate, and steps for iPhone, iPad and Android.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
AirDrop by hand: You can also AirDrop the ebook and audiobook from Finder to your iPhone; with community sync on at both ends, the phone picks up the timing your Mac shared.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac
Phone too old: If the phone's Witbound is too old to receive, the Mac says so instead of failing quietly.; Works on: Mac
Update notice: When a newer version is out, a slim banner offers a Download button that opens the release page, and an ✕ hides that version for good.; Works on: Mac
Check for updates switch: A footer switch controls the once-a-day update check; turning it off stops the check and clears any notice.; Works on: Mac
Never installs anything by itself: Download opens the release page in your browser; the app never downloads or installs an update on its own.; Works on: Mac
Readable in Dark Mode: The app keeps its light parchment look whatever your Mac is set to, so every button, menu, switch and field shows up in Dark Mode.; Works on: Mac

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Privacy

What stays on your device, and what goes online. 15 features

No account: There's no Witbound account and nothing to sign up for.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Your books stay on your device: Your ebooks and audiobooks are never uploaded, apart from a short passage you choose to share; on the Mac they leave only to go to your own phone.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
No ads, no analytics, no tracking: No ads, and no analytics or tracking of Witbound's own.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Only a timing map is shared: Community sync shares only the word timings and an anonymous fingerprint of the files, never the book's text or audio.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Community sync off switch: Turn community sync off and nothing is sent or fetched; it's on by default.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Kept private, shared later if you like: On the Mac, books synced with sharing off are marked “kept private”, and switching it back on shares their maps then.; Works on: Mac
Logins stay with your server: Server logins and files go only between your device and your own server, and a catalogue password is only ever sent to that same server.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
Plex sign-in kept safe: Plex sign-in happens on Plex's own page, so Witbound never sees your password; the token is kept in the Keychain on iPhone, iPad and Mac (Sign out removes it) and stored encrypted on Android.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac, Android
KOSync password not kept: Your KOSync password itself is never stored and goes only to the sync server you choose.; Works on: Android
Your reading stays on your device: Your library, your place, your reading stats and your settings are kept on the device.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Discord only: Passages can only be sent to Discord webhooks you added yourself, never to any other address.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Local network only for your devices: Local network access is used only to receive books from your Mac and to reach your own servers: Audiobookshelf, Plex, Calibre or another OPDS catalogue.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Only on your own Wi-Fi: The Mac serves books only while the app is open, over your own network, never through the internet.; Works on: Mac
Anonymous update check: The Mac's update check only reads GitHub's public list of releases, sends nothing about you, and stays quiet when offline.; Works on: Mac
The hello carries only your Mac's name: The hello your Mac sends your iPhone contains this Mac's name and nothing else.; Works on: Mac

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Accessibility

Built in for the eyes, ears and hands that need it. 15 features

Atkinson Hyperlegible: An extra-readable font that keeps easily confused letters like I, l and 1 distinct.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Spoken labels: VoiceOver and TalkBack read every player control by name, like Playback speed, Back 15 seconds or Sleep timer with the minutes left.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
TalkBack reads the page: TalkBack can read the current page's text aloud and offers Next page and Previous page actions.; Works on: Android
Options read as choices: Reading options are announced as headed groups of choices and switches, with the current pick marked.; Works on: Android
Large touch targets: Buttons and choices are at least 48 dp, so they're easy to hit.; Works on: Android
Largest text sizes: At the largest system text sizes, screens rearrange so every word still fits, even on the smallest phones.; Works on: Android
Book text follows your font size: On Android the book's text also scales with the phone's own font size setting.; Works on: Android
Bookmark announcements: VoiceOver says “Page bookmarked” or “Bookmark removed”.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Reduce Motion: With Reduce Motion on, continuous scroll moves to the narrator's line without animating.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Reduce Transparency: With Reduce Transparency on, the Reading focus band dims the rest of the page more firmly.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Haptic feedback: A light tap when you bookmark, and a firmer one when you press and hold to select.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Keyboard shortcuts on the Mac: ⌘O adds books, ⌘L opens Browse your library, and Return runs a catalogue search.; Works on: Mac
Tooltips: Hover over a control on the Mac to see what it does, such as Send, the ×, the update switch or a part count.; Works on: Mac
VoiceOver on the Mac: VoiceOver reads the catalogue's back arrow as “Back”.; Works on: Mac
Copyable addresses: The Mac's addresses in the download sheet can be selected and copied with one click.; Works on: Mac

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Purchase

Your first book is free. After that, Witbound Plus is $9.99 once on the App Store, and nothing renews. 13 features

First book free: Your first book is free once it actually finishes syncing; a sync that fails never uses it up.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
One at a time while trying: On the free tier you add one book at a time; if your first is still syncing, Witbound says so instead of asking for money.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Witbound Plus, paid once: One payment unlocks every book for good: no subscription, nothing renews, nothing to cancel. It's bought separately on the App Store and on Google Play.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Restore purchases: Restore purchases brings Plus back on a new or reinstalled device signed in to the same store account.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Owners see a thank-you, not a price: If you already own Plus, the crown shows a thank-you (“Your shelf is unlocked.” on iPhone and iPad) instead of an offer.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Your free book named: The paywall names which book was your free one, even if you've since removed it.; Works on: Android
Locked books are kept: Extra books on a free shelf stay greyed out with a lock and “Waiting for Plus”; the book, its sync and your place are all saved.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Nothing locks before the store answers: After a reinstall nothing is locked and no paywall appears until your purchase has been checked.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Plus works offline: Once you have Plus it stays unlocked even when Google Play can't be reached.; Works on: Android
Payment pending: A pending Google Play payment is shown as pending, and Plus unlocks when it clears.; Works on: Android
Earlier plans honoured: Anyone still on an older subscription keeps it until they cancel, and the paywall links to Manage subscription.; Works on: iPhone & iPad
Terms and privacy on the paywall: The paywall links to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Android
Mac books and your free book: A book sent from the free Mac app can be your phone's free first book; after that the phone needs Plus, and the Mac says so.; Works on: iPhone & iPad, Mac

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Your first book is free.

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