+ The Tome iPhone app is on TestFlight +
+ ++ Tome now has a native iPhone app: it pairs with your own Tome server and gives you the + library, the series, your reading stats and a reader on the phone. It is in open beta on + TestFlight; a paid App Store release comes later. The beta stays free through the end of 2026. +
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+ No server at hand? "Try a sample library" on the first screen pairs with a small library + built into the app: fourteen public-domain books from Standard Ebooks with a made-up reading + history. Every screen below is that sample library. +
+ ++ Most of the last weeks went into one complaint: screens that loaded in pieces. Covers popped + in, sections pushed each other down, Series and Library could come back half empty for a + moment. Each screen now opens with what it showed last time and updates in place, so what + you see first is what stays. +
+ +Every pair below is the Dark theme on the left and Amber on the right.
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- The cover fan and Continue reading are there at launch, whole. Covers come from the phone's disk first instead of waiting on the network. +
- Pulling down at the top bounces, and the cover wash behind it follows instead of ending in a hard edge. +
- If the server is down, your avatar and the last state of Home are still there. +
Library
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- A Reading now shelf at the top with a progress ring on each cover. +
- Grouped series show as a small fanned stack of the next volumes. +
- The page takes its colour from the first cover on screen. +
Series
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- Each series is a card: the volume you are on (or the next unread one) in front, the read ones behind it, and how far you are. +
- Series with two or more volumes get a strip of all their covers under the card, with the current one marked. +
- The series you are in the middle of gets the large card at the top with a Continue button. +
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- Progress, the series rating and a Continue button for the right volume, then every volume with its read state. +
- The page opens drawn from what the phone remembers and does not shift when the server answers. +
Stats
+ +Stats is rebuilt and split into four tabs: Overview, Books, Habits and Calendar.
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- Overview: total reading time for the range, a year of days as a grid, the last seven days, and the headline tiles. +
- Every chart has a readout: hold and drag across it to read the exact value. +
- Calendar: tap a day in the year grid to see what you read that day. It also shows reading by weekday and your best month and best day. +
- Books: completion by type and re-reads, next to what was already there. +
- It scrolls smoothly now, which it did not before. +
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- Habits: reading time and pages per week, weekdays and time of day, recent sessions hour by hour, your streaks with the dates they ran, and reading time by language. +
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- EPUB and PDF are read with Readium; comics (CBZ) have their own pager with left-to-right, right-to-left and vertical modes. +
- Opening a book is one move now: the reader appears at the tap on the cover's colour with the title, and the page fades in once it is laid out, instead of a black screen with a spinner. +
- The reader's own themes (dark, sepia, light) are separate from the app theme; the right-hand shot uses sepia. +
Settings
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- Five app themes: Dark, Ember, Black, Light and Amber. +
- Storage shows what is on the phone right away, plus the size of the cache and a button to clear it. +
Home in the Light theme.
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- When the server cannot be reached, screens keep showing what the phone remembers, with a small notice saying so, how old it is, and a retry. +
- After you change a status or a rating, screens no longer show the older copy from the phone's memory. +
- Caches stay bounded: covers and backgrounds are capped at 200 MB, oldest first, and remembered data for servers other than the one you are using is dropped after 30 days. +
- Dynamic Type: text scales with your system text size, and the larger accessibility sizes rearrange headers and tiles instead of cutting them off. +
- VoiceOver: charts, the year grid, stars, covers and buttons that were silent have labels and summaries. +
- Reduce Motion is respected across the app: pulses, parallax, rolling numbers and springs calm down. +
- Better contrast on accented buttons and coloured cards in all themes. +
- Highlights on a book page sit below the details, so nothing jumps when they arrive. +
Known limits
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- iPhone only. No iPad layout yet. +
- You need your own Tome server. Parts that a server does not support yet (series arcs, some of the newer stats) stay hidden or show a note; keep Tome up to date to get all of it. +
- TestFlight builds expire after 90 days. New builds replace them before that. +
Feedback
+ ++ Bugs, ideas and questions go to the Tome Reader (iOS) category + in GitHub Discussions; Settings in the app has a link to it. If you would rather not + post publicly, mail tome@bndct.dev. Please mention the + version and build number from Settings › About. +
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