
Foliate
A simple and modern eBook viewer for Linux desktops
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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Supported Languages
- English
- German
- Spanish
- French
- Chinese
- Russian
- Turkish
- Portuguese
- Italian
- Korean
- Hebrew
- Ukrainian
GitHub repository
- 4,056 Stars
- 206 Forks
- 155 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Said about Foliate as an alternative
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!
Tags
- Ebook Reader
- Bookmark Manager
- Ebook Library
- EPUB Reader
- fb2-viewer
- Opensource
Wow, this e-book reader has everything you need:
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.