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BookOrbit

BookOrbit organizes your books and lets you enjoy them anywhere: on iPhone, Apple Watch, the web, Kobo, or KOReader. Your reading progress, highlights, and status stay synchronized, so you can start a chapter in one place and continue in another.

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Cost / License

  • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
  • Open Source (AGPL-3.0)

Platforms

  • iPhone
  • Self-Hosted
  • Docker
  • Apple Watch
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  1.  Support for Themes

Features

  1.  Ad-free
  2.  Works Offline
  3.  Dark Mode
  4.  No registration required
  5.  Text to Speech
  6.  No Tracking
  7. Docker icon  Support for Docker
  8.  Library Management
  9.  Docker Container
  10.  Synchronization
  11.  Metadata Editor
  12.  Audio Books

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  • Licensing

    Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Freemium product.

  • Pricing

    One time purchase that costs $25, and / or subscription that costs $7 per year + free version with limited functionality.

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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Chinese
    • Portuguese
    • French
    • Spanish
    • Hungarian
    • Korean
    • Italian
    • Slovene
    • German
    • Romanian
    • Dutch
    • Polish
    • Greek
    • Russian
    • Japanese
    • Czech
    • Danish
    • Swedish
    • Ukrainian
    • Finnish

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What is BookOrbit?

BookOrbit organizes your books and lets you enjoy them anywhere: on iPhone, Apple Watch, the web, Kobo, or KOReader. Your reading progress, highlights, and status stay synchronized, so you can start a chapter in one place and continue in another.

Around that core sit 14 metadata providers, reading statistics and achievements, OPDS and Send-to-Kindle delivery, multi-user accounts with OIDC/SSO, and automatic sync out to Hardcover, Readwise, and StoryGraph. All of it runs on infrastructure you control.

Reading Experience & Sync

  • Built-in Web Readers: Ebooks (EPUB, KEPUB, MOBI, AZW3, AZW, FB2), PDFs, comics (CBZ, CBR, CB7), and audiobooks (M4B, MP3, M4A, OPUS, OGG, FLAC), with no extra plugins required.
  • Native iPhone & Apple Watch Apps: Read, listen, download, upload, and synchronize with your BookOrbit server from a native, offline-capable iPhone app. Send audiobooks to Apple Watch for independent offline playback and later progress reconciliation.
  • Three-Way Sync (Kobo + KOReader + BookOrbit): Progress and annotations flow bidirectionally between Kobo devices, KOReader, and the BookOrbit web reader. Pick up on any surface where you left off on another, including highlights and deletions.
  • KOReader Plugin: An on-device catalog browser with search, download, and status and rating management, alongside full progress and annotation sync.
  • Annotations & Highlights: Highlights from the web reader, KOReader, and Kobo merge into one searchable hub. Filter by color, style, and source; export as Markdown, CSV, or JSON.
  • Hardcover, Readwise & StoryGraph Sync: Push status, progress, reading dates, and ratings to Hardcover on configurable triggers; status and progress to The StoryGraph; and new highlights and notes to Readwise as you create them, from both the web reader and synced devices. Hardcover read history can be pulled back to backfill blank BookOrbit entries.
  • Statistics, Goals & Achievements: Daily reading time, heatmaps, streaks, and library health, plus yearly goals, monthly challenges, and 50+ achievements across five categories. Reading DNA profiles your reading style from your actual session history.

Library Management

  • Multiple Libraries: Isolate content with per-library folders, custom scan rules, and format priorities.
  • 14 Metadata Providers: Google Books, Open Library, Amazon, Goodreads, Kobo, Hardcover, Audible, Audnexus, Libro.fm, and iTunes, plus ComicVine for comics, RanobeDB for light novels, and Aladin and Lubimyczytać for Korean and Polish catalogs. Cover art is sourced separately from iTunes, DuckDuckGo, and AudiobookCovers.
  • Smart Scopes & Collections: Organize your collection with curated lists and dynamic, rule-based saved filters.