Sioyek

Name: Sioyek
Rating: 4 (2 reviews)

Sioyek is a PDF viewer with minimal interface optimized for reading research papers and technical books.

Free • Open Source
PDF Reader

Mac
Windows
Linux

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Avg rating of 4 (2)| 2 comments

What is Sioyek?

Features include:

Ability to click on References and Figures in order to go to their definitions (event if the PDF document doesn't provide links)
Ability to search all the previously opened documents
Browser style history navigation
Ability to mark locations within PDFs using symbols (similar to vim)
Ability to create "portals" between different locations in a document. For example you can create a portal from a paragraph which is talking about a figure to the figure itself. Then when you navigate to the paragraph, the figure will be automatically displayed in a helper window.
Dark Mode
SyncTex support

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Portals show relevant figures to the current location in a separate window

Middle clicking on the name of a figure takes you to the figure, event if the PDF doesn't have links

You can search and reopen all previously opened documents. Your state in each document is persistant.

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Sioyek Features

LightweightSioyek consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
Dark ModeSioyek supports dark mode for comfortable usage in low light conditions.
PDF annotationSioyek support PDF Annotation for highlighting, notes etc
Ad-freeSioyek doesn't contain any form of external advertising.

Keyboard focused

Sioyek information

Developed byAli Mostafavi
LicensingOpen Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.
Written in
C
RatingAverage rating of 4
Alternatives19 alternatives listed

Supported Languages

English

GitHub repository

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151 Forks
117 Open Issues
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Vim-like navigation (hjkl, m marks).

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As of Aug 24 2021 the developer is working on a Mac version and there is is a beta available for testing: https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek/issues/15

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Guest

I love Sioyek because it has blazingly fast update time when a pdf modified. very suitable for latex with (n)vim/emacs user.

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Adobe Acrobat DC

onkoe

It's a minimalist PDF reader for programmers and other such nerds. Includes dark mode, keyboard navigation, and a minimalist UI that allows for great focus.