iPad ScrollWizard -- free EPUB and PDF reader for iOS

[SuperComfySoft]

ScrollWizard 1.0 -- free EPUB and PDF reader for iOS



SuperComfySoft's first release, posted to MobileRead for testing

The Company

SuperComfySoft makes comfy software. ScrollWizard is its first release.

The Product

ScrollWizard reads EPUB and PDF files on iOS. Version 1.0.2 includes:

• Per-book typography overrides -- font, size, line height, letter spacing, word spacing, margins, alignment, hyphenation
• Five-colour highlights with notes
• Annotation export to Markdown, Obsidian, Notion, Logseq, JSON
• Smart collections with rule-based filtering
• OPDS catalogs -- Calibre, Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks, ManyBooks, Feedbooks
• iCloud sync to a user-visible folder
• Reading-width control -- target line length in characters; caps the column on wide screens
• Custom themes
• Built-in dictionary -- tap to define, save to a personal list, export to CSV / TSV / JSON
• Full-text search inside any book
• PDF theming
• Reading statistics -- daily and weekly charts, streaks, goals

Full feature list

Spoiler:

• EPUB (reflowable) and PDF, in one library
• Distraction-free paginated reader; tap zones or swipe to turn pages, configurable
• Reading time, chapter, page and progress tucked into the safe area around the notch
• Footnotes and endnotes open in place, so you never lose your spot
• Continue Reading card resumes your last book
• Lock Screen Live Activity and Dynamic Island: chapter, progress and time remaining
• Page-turn animation: none, slide or fade
• Typography: font family, size, line height, letter and word spacing, alignment, paragraph indent and spacing, hyphenation, and a publisher-styles toggle
• 12 fonts, including Literata, Source Serif and OpenDyslexic, plus a "keep the publisher's font" option
• Reading Width slider sets line length and centres the column on wide screens
• Independent top and bottom margins
• Every visual setting can be set per book or globally
• 5 built-in themes (Light, Dark, Sepia, Solarized Dark, Nord) plus unlimited custom themes
• Character-precise position anchoring (CFI): bookmarks, highlights and resume land on the exact words across font-size, device and layout changes
• Table of Contents with Contents, Bookmarks and Highlights tabs
• 5 highlight colours (rename their meanings), highlight or underline, optional note per highlight
• Notes panel: every highlight and note across all your books, newest first
• Full-text search inside the open book (EPUB and text-based PDF)
• Knowledge Export: all highlights and notes out to Markdown, Obsidian, Notion, Logseq or JSON
• Tap any word to define it, in EPUB and text-based PDF
• Dictionary sources: online Free Dictionary, a bundled offline Webster's 1913, and an optional custom dictionary
• Save words with their definition, part of speech and the sentence they came from; export to Anki-compatible CSV, TSV or JSON
• Library opens to a cover grid; sort by last read, title, author, date added or progress
• Import via file picker, the share sheet, or AirDrop; batch import mixing EPUB and PDF
• Domains (colour-coded shelves), tags, and self-updating smart collections with 5 presets
• Metadata editing and batch move, tag and delete
• Books searchable from iOS Spotlight
• Your books are ordinary files in a visible iCloud Drive folder, not a locked database
• PDF: theme-aware colour remap, pinch-zoom, brightness, nested outline, page slider
• iCloud sync of books, position, bookmarks, highlights and notes — no account, no login
• Human-readable sync-conflict resolution
• No ads, no analytics, no tracking across apps or websites, no recommendations
• Crash reporting is opt-in and off by default, crash-only, EU-hosted (Germany), with identifying data stripped
• OPDS catalogs (Project Gutenberg, ManyBooks, Feedbooks; Standard Ebooks with a paid membership) and your own Calibre content server
• Reading statistics: today's time, 7- and 30-day charts, days read, and annual goals
• OpenDyslexic font and low-light themes; hardware keyboard shortcuts on iPad
• Localised in 12 languages
• Advanced Wizard Mode (optional one-time $4.99 in-app purchase): RSVP speed reader (100–1500 WPM) on EPUB and text-based PDF, iPad Split Reader (two EPUBs side by side with linked scrolling or navigation), custom font import, and a "Speed Read" share action from other apps

Advanced Wizard Mode -- $4.99, one-time

• RSVP focus reader -- words one at a time, 100--1500 WPM
• Split reader -- two books side-by-side on iPad, draggable divider, paragraph-proportional sync

Recent Updates

ScrollWizard 1.0.2

• Improved sharing books into ScrollWizard from other apps
• More reliable reading position, including from Live Activities
• Clearer sync conflict details
• Broader translations and overall polish

Happy reading. 📖

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ScrollWizard 1.0.1

Metadata changes

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ScrollWizard 1.0.0

Initial release.

MOBI, AZW3, and CBZ are not on the roadmap. Calibre converts these formats to EPUB. SuperComfySoft will not be reimplementing Calibre.

Revenue

The $4.99 upgrade. No subscription, no ads, no analytics.
(Localized prices may differ)

Data Retention

ScrollWizard transmits no reading data to SuperComfySoft and runs no analytics. The single exception is a crash reporter, disabled by default, which the reader may choose to enable; when enabled, anonymized crash reports are sent to a third-party service on servers in Germany, with name, email, IP address, device identifier, book titles, and file paths removed. The library is EPUB files in an iCloud folder.

Correspondence

Defect reports are received by email at ihaveabugreportandcareenoughtosendan...llwi zard.com. The thread is for questions, feature requests, and general correspondence.

Download link
Search for ScrollWizard on the App Store or click here.

https://scrollwizard.com/

[SuperComfySoft]

More Screenshots

[JSWolf]

Why don't you allow adjusting the font weight and installing the fonts we want to use? When you add these features, I'll give your app a try.

[SuperComfySoft]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Why don't you allow adjusting the font weight and installing the fonts we want to use? When you add these features, I'll give your app a try.

Installing your own fonts is already supported: ScrollWizard reads imported .ttf and .otf files, with the control in Settings under Custom Fonts; imported fonts then appear in the font picker while reading. SuperComfySoft has not publicized this with adequate vigor. The feature is part of Advanced Wizard Mode, a single one-time purchase of $4.99; the app itself is free, and there is no subscription. Font weight is not currently adjustable; the reader exposes font family, size, line height, and letter spacing. The request has been noted.

[DJUNGELSKOG]

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[DJUNGELSKOG]

I tend to avoid vibe-coded apps like the plague but I decided to install this one and it couldn’t even open a book that I’m currently reading.

Back to Yomu

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DJUNGELSKOG

I tend to avoid vibe-coded apps like the plague but I decided to install this one and it couldn’t even open a book that I’m currently reading.

Back to Yomu

It's an AI coded app?

[DJUNGELSKOG]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

It's an AI coded app?

The OP’s posts and the app’s description in the AppStore look AI generated, this leads me to an assumption that the app is vibe-coded.

[SuperComfySoft]

Both fair, yes I'm using a specific corporate tone I personally find funny, but that's maybe the wrong register for Mobileread. The corporate tone in the first post and the App Store text is a deliberate bit: one developer doing a straight-faced "SuperComfySoft Communications Dept." Cold, with no context, I can see it reads too much AI instead. It's weird but my kind of funny.

@DJUNGELSKOG a reader that won't open a book is the worst thing this app can do, so I'd genuinely like to fix the one you hit. Anything you can tell me about the file would help and what actually happened. Was it a blank page, error, crash, hang? Title or the file itself is even better. If it's a real parsing bug I'll chase it down. "Won't open" is exactly the class I care most about and I've collected a lot of bad epubs that are being unit tested at the moment.

In the end I'm just making an app that's solving my problems with other reading software. I appreciate the installs and I'll try to be better.

[DJUNGELSKOG]

Originally Posted by SuperComfySoft

Both fair, yes I'm using a specific corporate tone I personally find funny, but that's maybe the wrong register for Mobileread. The corporate tone in the first post and the App Store text is a deliberate bit: one developer doing a straight-faced "SuperComfySoft Communications Dept." Cold, with no context, I can see it reads too much AI instead. It's weird but my kind of funny.

@DJUNGELSKOG a reader that won't open a book is the worst thing this app can do, so I'd genuinely like to fix the one you hit. Anything you can tell me about the file would help and what actually happened. Was it a blank page, error, crash, hang? Title or the file itself is even better. If it's a real parsing bug I'll chase it down. "Won't open" is exactly the class I care most about and I've collected a lot of bad epubs that are being unit tested at the moment.

In the end I'm just making an app that's solving my problems with other reading software. I appreciate the installs and I'll try to be better.

I am not comfortable with sharing the file as it’s something that I’ve “liberated” from CloudLibrary against my own principles.

That being said, I’ve imported it into the app through iPadOS share sheet from Pocketbook app like I always do, and I suspect that this is the part where it went wrong because I could see the book’s cover and the title in the app, but the author was being displayed as “unknown author”. When I tried to open the book by clicking on its cover, the library screen has flashed and nothing else happened. I’m on iPadOS 16.7.15 if that matters.

I use Pocketbook as a replacement for Calibre Companion that stopped working a few years ago.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DJUNGELSKOG

I am not comfortable with sharing the file as it’s something that I’ve “liberated” from CloudLibrary against my own principles.

That being said, I’ve imported it into the app through iPadOS share sheet from Pocketbook app like I always do, and I suspect that this is the part where it went wrong because I could see the book’s cover and the title in the app, but the author was being displayed as “unknown author”. When I tried to open the book by clicking on its cover, the library screen has flashed and nothing else happened. I’m on iPadOS 16.7.15 if that matters.

I use Pocketbook as a replacement for Calibre Companion that stopped working a few years ago.

Do the following. Use calibre with the Scramble Ebook plugin and try to load it. If the scrambled version doesn't load, you can attach it in this thread,

[SuperComfySoft]

Alright I've uploaded 1.0.2 to the App Store, after the review it will be available to download. (This can take up to a week, but usually much quicker).

I've looked at DJUNGELSKOG's description and I found some quirks when sharing from other apps (like Pocketbook). This is solved with some other improvements in that area. I can't reproduce errors without access to the file that is causing the error so I can't guarantee your specific problem is solved now but maybe you can check it out again. If you'd like to collaborate on solving the issue, please contact me directly at bugreport@scrollwizard.com

The changelog for 1.0.2 is:

ScrollWizard 1.0.2

• Improved sharing books into ScrollWizard from other apps
• More reliable reading position, including from Live Activities
• Clearer sync conflict details
• Broader translations and overall polish

Happy reading. 📖

[SuperComfySoft]

I've updated the main post to include the full feature list, I don't think the features were very obvious in my original post and I've updated the screenshots to actually fit forum width.

Here are the features as well as of version 1.0.2 for reference:

Spoiler:

• EPUB (reflowable) and PDF, in one library
• Distraction-free paginated reader; tap zones or swipe to turn pages, configurable
• Reading time, chapter, page and progress tucked into the safe area around the notch
• Footnotes and endnotes open in place, so you never lose your spot
• Continue Reading card resumes your last book
• Lock Screen Live Activity and Dynamic Island: chapter, progress and time remaining
• Page-turn animation: none, slide or fade
• Typography: font family, size, line height, letter and word spacing, alignment, paragraph indent and spacing, hyphenation, and a publisher-styles toggle
• 12 fonts, including Literata, Source Serif and OpenDyslexic, plus a "keep the publisher's font" option
• Reading Width slider sets line length and centres the column on wide screens
• Independent top and bottom margins
• Every visual setting can be set per book or globally
• 5 built-in themes (Light, Dark, Sepia, Solarized Dark, Nord) plus unlimited custom themes
• Character-precise position anchoring (CFI): bookmarks, highlights and resume land on the exact words across font-size, device and layout changes
• Table of Contents with Contents, Bookmarks and Highlights tabs
• 5 highlight colours (rename their meanings), highlight or underline, optional note per highlight
• Notes panel: every highlight and note across all your books, newest first
• Full-text search inside the open book (EPUB and text-based PDF)
• Knowledge Export: all highlights and notes out to Markdown, Obsidian, Notion, Logseq or JSON
• Tap any word to define it, in EPUB and text-based PDF
• Dictionary sources: online Free Dictionary, a bundled offline Webster's 1913, and an optional custom dictionary
• Save words with their definition, part of speech and the sentence they came from; export to Anki-compatible CSV, TSV or JSON
• Library opens to a cover grid; sort by last read, title, author, date added or progress
• Import via file picker, the share sheet, or AirDrop; batch import mixing EPUB and PDF
• Domains (colour-coded shelves), tags, and self-updating smart collections with 5 presets
• Metadata editing and batch move, tag and delete
• Books searchable from iOS Spotlight
• Your books are ordinary files in a visible iCloud Drive folder, not a locked database
• PDF: theme-aware colour remap, pinch-zoom, brightness, nested outline, page slider
• iCloud sync of books, position, bookmarks, highlights and notes — no account, no login
• Human-readable sync-conflict resolution
• No ads, no analytics, no tracking across apps or websites, no recommendations
• Crash reporting is opt-in and off by default, crash-only, EU-hosted (Germany), with identifying data stripped
• OPDS catalogs (Project Gutenberg, ManyBooks, Feedbooks; Standard Ebooks with a paid membership) and your own Calibre content server
• Reading statistics: today's time, 7- and 30-day charts, days read, and annual goals
• OpenDyslexic font and low-light themes; hardware keyboard shortcuts on iPad
• Localised in 12 languages
• Advanced Wizard Mode (optional one-time $4.99 in-app purchase): RSVP speed reader (100–1500 WPM) on EPUB and text-based PDF, iPad Split Reader (two EPUBs side by side with linked scrolling or navigation), custom font import

[SuperComfySoft]

Hi all,

I've tried my hand at implementing font weights. In order to avoid cluttering the Quick Settings, you must enable it by navigating to Settings > Advanced Section. Standard offers a few standard buttons and Precise offers fine-grained controls for variable fonts that support it. Please check it out!

As always, I've uploaded it to the App Store and after a review it should hit your update screens within a few days.

Changelog 1.0.3:

• New font-weight control in Advanced Settings lets you fine-tune how bold and italic text renders. To enable controls in Quick Settings: enable Font Weight in Settings > Advanced.
• Also includes bug fixes and improvements.