Foliate

Name: Foliate
Rating: 5 (5 reviews)

A simple and modern eBook viewer for Linux desktops

Linux
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Avg rating of 5 (5)| 2 comments

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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Foliate Features

Dark ModeFoliate supports dark mode for comfortable usage in low light conditions.
Built-in DictionaryFoliate has a built-in dictionary where you can look up broader definitions of words.
Ad-freeFoliate doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
Support for ThemesYou can use themes and templates to change the look and feel of Foliate.
Works OfflineFoliate can be used without the need to connect to the internet.
Full-Text SearchFoliate lets you search for specific words or phrases from inside a document or database.
No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in Foliate without registration.
Text to SpeechFoliate allows you to transform written text into spoken text.

Foliate information

Developed byJohn Factotum
LicensingOpen Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.
Written in
JavaScript
RatingAverage rating of 5
Alternatives37 alternatives listed

Supported Languages

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

GitHub repository

4,056 Stars
206 Forks
155 Open Issues
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tuva-hayabi

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Top positive comment• ago

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

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krislissy

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Top positive comment• ago

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.

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it provides a beautiful ereader with page flip animation, and two page view mimicking paper books that runs on a full computer not a mobile device. unfortunately only works on linux. but very good!

Positive comment• ago

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Apple Books

Lists containing Foliate

Productive Daily-use Linux Setup • Linux Apps • Programs i use ussualy (Linux) • Epub and Comic Readers/Editors

Foliate platform details

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]

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