Foliate
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A simple and modern eBook viewer for Linux desktops.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
EUPlatforms
- Linux
- BSD
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Lightweight
- Support for Themes
Features
- Dark Mode
- Text Highlighting
- Built-in Dictionary
- Export annotations
- Text annotation
- Works Offline
- No registration required
- Ad-free
- No Tracking
- Full-Text Search
- Text to Speech
- Flipping pages
- Plain text flows
- Multiple languages
Tags
- Opensource
- EPUB Reader
- fb2-viewer
Foliate News & Activities
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Recent News
- POX published news article about Foliate
Foliate 3.0 has been ported to GTK4 and comes with many new features and enhancementsFoliate, the well-known e-book reader favored by Linux users, has recently launched its 3.0 version...
Recent activities
- mimumu liked Foliate
- mimumu reviewed Foliate
Lightweight and fast, does what it is supposed to
POX added Foliate as alternative to Handy Reader- forum-poster-69 liked Foliate
zlibrary_app added Foliate as alternative to ZLibrary: eBook reader with AI
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What is Foliate?
A simple modern GTK book reader with many features:
- View .epub, .mobi, .azw, and .fb files in two-page view or scrolled view
- Fetch books from online catalogs using OPDS feeds
- Customize font, line-spacing, margins, and brightness
- Light, sepia, dark, and invert mode, or add your own custom themes
- Reading progress slider with chapter marks and reading time prediction
- Bookmarks, highlights and notes. Find in book feature
- Quick dictionary lookup with Wiktionary, Wikipedia, and dictd
- Touchpad gestures: use two-finger swipe to turn the page
- Basic text-to-speech support with eSpeak NG and Festival
- Supports phones and tablets
- Sync or backup reading progress and notes: Foliate stores your reading progress, bookmarks, and annotations in your XDG data directory as plain JSON files, so you can export or sync them easily. Based on GJS and Epub.js.
Foliate information
Developed by
John Factotum Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
Alternatives
55 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
- German
- Spanish
- French
- Chinese
- Russian
- Turkish
- Portuguese
- Italian
- Korean
- Hebrew
- Ukrainian
AlternativeTo Categories
News & Books, Office & Productivity, Web Browsers, Education & ReferenceGitHub repository
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Comments and Reviews
Wow, this e-book reader has everything you need:
Lightweight and fast, does what it is supposed to
Excellent way to read ebooks on desktop. Love the 2-page layout.
Read the news about brand new magnificent v.3 just gettings out. Installed it. Discovered it does not support PDFs (contrarily to all competitors)... Most of my ebooks are in PDF format. Was unable to open the first EPUB I gave it... = apt purged ;)
Feels very similar to MacOS "Books."
In my opinion the best desktop epub reader. I wish they also had a windows version. The interface is clean, you find all the features you expect, such as dictionary, translator, themes, export notes and so on. Amazing app.