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Foliate

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A simple and modern eBook viewer for Linux desktops.

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License model

  • Free • Open Source

Application types

Country of Origin

  • IT flagItaly
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Linux  packages for ArchLinux, Fedora, Gentoo, Manjaro, MX Linux, OpenSUSE, Parabola, Ubuntu (.deb / PPA / Snap), Void Linux
  • BSD  DragonFly, FreeBSD and NetBSD OS'es
  • Snapcraft  supported by the [amd64], [armhf] architectures and older versions for [arm64] [i386] [ppc64el] [s390x]
  • Flathub
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4.9 / 5 Avg rating (14)
52likes
5comments
51alternatives
1news article

Features

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Properties

  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Support for Themes

Features

  1.  Dark Mode
  2.  Text Highlighting
  3.  Built-in Dictionary
  4.  Export annotations
  5.  Text annotation
  6.  Flipping pages
  7.  Works Offline
  8.  Full-Text Search
  9.  Ad-free
  10.  Text to Speech
  11.  No registration required
  12.  Plain text flows
  13.  Multiple languages

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    trertre added Foliate as alternative to EPUB Viewer Online
    about 1 month ago
  • pharoabox, namdx1987 and kenexgro liked Foliate
    about 1 month ago
  • POX added Foliate as alternative to GoRead, epr and epy
    3 months ago
  • bannert1337 and BabaAfrica liked Foliate
    3 months ago
  • zilinux rated Foliate  
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  • zilinux and yyzzuu liked Foliate
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Foliate information

  • Developed by

    IT flagJohn Factotum

  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.

  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.9 (14 ratings)

  • Alternatives

    51 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • German
    • Spanish
    • French
    • Chinese
    • Russian
    • Turkish
    • Portuguese
    • Italian
    • Korean
    • Hebrew
    • Ukrainian

AlternativeTo Categories

News & Books, Office & Productivity, Web Browsers, Education & Reference

GitHub repository

  •  7,161 Stars
  •  318 Forks
  •  220 Open Issues
  •   Updated May 31, 2025 
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Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about Foliate, and it has gotten 52 likes

Foliate was added to AlternativeTo by Hoek Hoek on May 31, 2019 and this page was last updated Nov 15, 2023.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
tuva-hayabi
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Jun 13, 2020
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Wow, this e-book reader has everything you need:

  • themes
  • any font that is installed on the computer can be chosen
  • publisher's font
  • one or multiple columns
  • endless scrolling or continuous
  • sidebar with table of contents
  • and many more options and features
danielmichel
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Jan 6, 2025
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Excellent way to read ebooks on desktop. Love the 2-page layout.

Guest
Nov 16, 2023
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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 ;)

Mr. Anon
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Jun 19, 2023
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Feels very similar to MacOS "Books."

krislissy
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Dec 26, 2020
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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.

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.

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