Garden Reads

Garden Reads is a calm, distraction-free reader for people who want to relax or study a good book. Lose yourself in a quiet nature-inspired aesthetic. The app isn't just pretty, it's packed with all the tools you would need for understanding anything in a book. From definitions and translations to an on-device AI you can ask anything related to the books you're reading. No account. No data ever leaves your phone.

• Read Everything, Listen to Anything Import EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, PDF, TXT, and MD — plus CBZ/CBR comics and M4B/MP3 audiobooks — from anywhere on your device. Connect a Calibre library over OPDS, or stream from your Audiobookshelf server. Switch between reading and listening with a single tap, and organize everything into custom shelves by genre, series, or language.

• On-Device AI That Reads With You Ask about characters, themes, plot points, or a tough passage and get answers instantly — entirely on your phone, no internet, nothing leaving your device. Powered by Google's Gemma 4 running locally via LiteRT. Select any word or passage and ask anything — the AI reads it in the context of your book. • Deep Think for richer, more analytical answers; • No Spoilers mode that respects where you are; • Replies automatically in your book's language; • 100% optional — Garden Reads works beautifully without it.

• Highlights, Notes & Vocabulary Highlight, underline, and attach notes — all saved per book with a full review screen. Tap any word for an offline dictionary lookup, save it to your personal vocabulary list, or send it to Google Translate. Turn any highlight or definition into a beautiful shareable quote card.

• Audiobooks & Text-to-Speech No time to read? The app provides a full audiobook player with chapter navigation, adjustable skip intervals, earmarks, rewind-on-resume and a sleep timer. Prefer your ebooks read aloud? Text-to-speech works on any book.

• Free Books & Audiobooks Just starting out and you don't know where to get books from? Browse and download from over 70000+ free classics directly in app and start reading or listening in seconds — no account required.

• Secure Library Keep private books away from prying eyes, locked behind biometric authentication, hidden in a special shelf dedicated to them.

• Sync Across Devices Back up your annotations, vocabulary, reading progress or optionally, your whole library to your own Google Drive and switch devices in one tap — or export a single backup file locally to move everything off-grid, without internet.

More features: • Home screen widget to jump back into your current book • Insights: hours read, books finished, daily streaks • Zen Mode: activates do not disturb only when reading. • Privacy-first and can work fully offline.