A book, continued.

Your reading position travels with you — down to the exact paragraph you were reading, not the nearest chapter or the beginning of the page.

What syncs: your position, your bookmarks, your notes, your library. What doesn't: the way each device is set up to read.

Each screen has its own ideal setup. ContinuousReader remembers them separately — and keeps the reading itself in sync between them.

Start the chapter in the evening, eyes on the page. Step into the car in the morning, switch to Read Aloud. The voice picks up from where you stopped reading — not the nearest chapter, not the beginning of the file, but the paragraph you were on.

Listen for half an hour. Arrive. Sit down with your Mac. The book is already scrolled to the paragraph the voice just finished. Keep reading where listening left off.

Word-by-word highlighting with a soft rounded indicator that glides with the voice. Adjustable speed, pitch, and voice. Change speed mid-sentence — playback picks up from the exact word, not the nearest paragraph.

Most reading apps get typography wrong. Either they pretend the screen is a book, with skeuomorphic page turns and fake paper, or they treat text as a data dump — browser defaults, ragged columns, no hyphenation.

ContinuousReader sweats the details.

Five core palettes — Neutral, Ochre, Celestial, Lime, Rose — each with seven tonal variations: from a pure-white extreme on the left, through five mid tones, to a pure-black extreme on the right. Plus two featured themes for the old-school crowd: Typewriter in ivory and dark brown, and Terminal in white monospace on deep blue (if you recognize the palette — you already know why it's there). Three custom slots where the colors are yours. Forty-one variants in total.

The two extremes on every colored palette — pure white with saturated palette-color text on the left, pure black with the same on the right — cover the harsh cases: full sun on a beach or in bed with the lights off, in whichever color feels right.

Three picker modes. Fixed — one theme, always. Day & Night — pair a light theme with a dark one and the app switches when your system does. Manual override — force any theme regardless of schedule, for a session that doesn't fit the rhythm. On any dark theme, a smooth brightness slider tunes the text down from 100% to 50% — for nights when even the dark themes feel too bright.

Highlight a word. The translation appears in a panel at the bottom of the screen — not as a popup that covers the text, not as a modal you have to dismiss. Keep reading. Another unfamiliar word or phrase? Just highlight it — no extra clicks, no focus lost.

Translate and Bookmark sit at the top of the selection menu — not buried under five other items you don't use. Reorder them in settings, whichever you reach for more often.

Many target languages, provided by Apple's on-device Translation framework. Nothing leaves your Mac.

Every word you look up can be remembered. ContinuousReader tracks the languages you translate between, the words you've seen before, and the books where you needed help most — useful for language learners, researchers, and anyone reading across languages. Turn tracking off, and nothing is recorded. Turn it on, and export the full history as an HTML report.

Your entire library in three views: a detailed list for scanning, covers in a grid for browsing, or a sortable table for the librarian in you. Group by author, by series, or by folder. Tag with color dots. Filter by genre. Pinned favorites. Recently opened and recently added.

EPUB, FB2, MOBI, HTML, TXT, RTF — including ZIP variants. Click a button, drag a file, or drag a URL straight from your browser — the book is fetched and the import dialog opens with metadata, cover, and author already filled in. Or browse OPDS catalogs — Standard Ebooks, Project Gutenberg, Feedbooks, or your own server. Watch feeds for new entries in a series you follow.

Track your reading time per book, see streaks and patterns, export an HTML report. Bookmarks in seven colors with notes and text highlights. Rich text notes per book. Everything searchable, everything exportable.

Book content is stored as clean HTML on disk, with readable filenames. No cloud-locked database, no proprietary format, no DRM, no vendor lock-in. Back up the whole library to a ZIP file whenever you want. Everything lives in your own iCloud — or, if you don't need sync, point the app at any local folder and change it whenever you want.

ContinuousReader is built in Swift and SwiftUI — Apple's native languages. That means instant launch, smooth scroll at any scroll speed, native keyboard shortcuts on Mac, proper swipe gestures on iPhone, system-level text selection, and a binary that's a fraction of the size of an Electron build.

On Mac, an island design inspired by System Settings — rounded floating containers on a recessed background — with keyboard shortcuts, floating panels, a Book Card that hovers above the app, and drag-and-drop everywhere. On iPad, native swipe actions and split-view readiness. On iPhone, one-hand-friendly gestures and bottom sheets that feel like iOS, not like a web form.

The heavy lifting comes from the system itself. iCloud stores and syncs your books — your account, not ours. Apple Translation handles in-text translation — on-device, private. The system's voice engine drives Read Aloud, with the voices your Mac and iPhone already speak. Nothing reinvented — only integrated.