FBReader
E-reader application.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Pay once)
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- No Tracking
- No registration required
- Dark Mode
- Cloud Sync
Calibre integration- iPhone/iPod sync
- Multiple languages
- OPDS Client
Tags
- ebooks
- e-reader
- e-book-readers
- e-readers
- EPUB Reader
- fb2
- ereader
- EPUB
FBReader News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about FBReader
Popular ebook reader FBReader now supports DRM-protected ebooks in its 2.1 versionFBReader, a widely-used cross-platform ebook reader, has launched its version 2.1 for macOS, Window...
Recent activities
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What is FBReader?
FBReader is an e-book reader for various platforms.
Features:
Supported e-book formats are: ePub, an international e-publishing standard. fb2, a Russian e-books standard de facto. Non-DRM'd version of Mobipocket, a popular commercial e-book format (http://alternativeto.net/software/mobipocket-ebook-reader/). plain text is supported, however FBReader might not always correctly split text into paragraphs. some subsets of RTF and MS Word Doc.
Direct reading from tar, zip, gzip and bzip2 archives. (Multiple books in one archive are supported.) Automatic library building. Automatic language and character encoding detection is supported. Automatically generated contents table. Embedded images support. Footnotes/hyperlinks support. Position indicator. Keeps the last open book and the last read positions for all opened books between runs. List of last opened books. Automatic hyphenations. Liang's algorithm is used. The same algorithm is used in TeX, and TeX hyphenation patterns are used in FBReader. Patterns for Czech, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian are included in the current version. Text search. Full-screen mode. Screen rotation by 90, 180 and 270 degrees.
Currently FBReader works on
Linux desktop. Windows XP/Vista computer. MacOS X (port of Stanislav Gobunov). FreeBSD computer. Various linux-based mobile devices: Sharp Zaurus with Qtopia-based ROMs, pdaXrom or OpenZaurus ROM. Archos PMA430. Siemens Simpad with Opensimpad 0.9.0/Opie ROM. Nokia 770/N800/N810 Internet Tablets (maemo). PepperPad 3 handheld web computer. Motorola A1200 smartphone. Motorola E680i/A780 smartphones. (This port is available from the third-party site.) IRex iLiad. (This port is available from the third-party site.)
FBReader information
Developed by
Geometer Plus Licensing
Proprietary and Freemium product.Pricing
One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $0 + free version with limited functionality.Alternatives
107 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
- Czech
- French
- German
- Italian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Chinese
- Spanish
- Ukrainian
AlternativeTo Categories
News & Books, Office & ProductivityApple AppStore
- Updated
- 3.7 avg rating
Comments and Reviews
It's absolutely amazing and completely portable. Easily one of my favorites. Plus, there's a TTS add-on and a paid option, but I've seen no need for thet.
This looked like a great option since it was cross platform. Then I saw the lack of development for desktop OSes. The last Windows release was 10 years ago (in 2010) with a beta promised five years ago.
Windows version is long discontinued. And for Android I found ReadEra to be more easily and better customizable, and "bookshelf" view is available in free version.
Windows version is not discontinued. Just checked their website news. The versions for Mac/Windows/Linux were released in 2023, 2024 and 2025
Yes, looks like my bad, not sure why I thought it hasn't been updated in forever. I remember checking for new windows versions every now and then and it seemed to be totally abandoned. Maybe the link here was pointing to a different (outdated) website.
Extremely quick, very slim and easy to use. I’m only missing an option to choose a font from those installed on my computer. BUT: it behaves funny after a fresh install of GNU/Linux, distribution Xubuntu 20.04: there is a dash behind every word, which makes it unusable for me now.
Easy, lightweight, multi platform and fast.