1.0 — released 4 September 2026
The first release. Idyllic is an offline-first reader for ebooks and comics: it opens files you already own, keeps them on your device, and asks for no account. There are no ads and no tracking.
Reading
- Opens EPUB, PDF, TXT and RTF books.
- Choose your typeface, text size, line spacing and screen brightness, with light, sepia and dark themes, or set your own colours.
- Read by turning pages, with a page-flip animation, or as one continuous scroll.
- Fixed-layout EPUBs — illustrated and picture books — render as designed, with zoom and facing-page spreads.
- Vertical writing for Chinese, Japanese and Korean books, and optional pinyin above Chinese text.
- Bookmarks, highlights and full-text search inside a book.
Comics
- Opens CBZ, CBR and CB7 archives.
- Read page by page, or as a continuous webtoon scroll.
- Pinch to zoom in both modes, with right-to-left page order for manga.
- Borders around scanned pages can be trimmed automatically.
Listen
- Any book can be read aloud using the voices already on your device — no network, and nothing leaves the phone.
- Playback continues when you leave the app, with title, chapter and cover art on the Lock Screen and in Control Center.
- Choose a different voice per language, and follow along with the sentence highlighted as it is spoken.
Your library
- Organise with folders, tags and favourites, and search across titles, authors, series, tags and publishers.
- Series are grouped together, with a prompt for the next volume when you finish one.
- Reading statistics show what you have read and how much time you have spent.
Getting books in
- Import from the Files app, or send them from a computer over Wi-Fi by opening a page in your browser — no cable and no account.
- Connect to your own OPDS catalogue or WebDAV server.
Privacy
- Books can be hidden behind Face ID or Touch ID. Hidden books are stored separately and stay on this device unless you turn on "Sync hidden books to iCloud" yourself, which is off by default.
- An optional privacy screen covers the app in the app switcher.
Sync
- Optional iCloud sync keeps your library, reading positions and preferences together across your devices, using your own private iCloud storage.
Also
- Translated into 26 languages.
- Ships with five public-domain titles so there is something to read straight away — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 紅樓夢, Grimms' Fairy Tales, and a collection of Japanese woodblock prints from The Met's open access collection.