A modern ePub reader for macOS
Open .epub book files on your Mac with a beautiful and distraction-free reading experience.
For Apple Silicon. Other versions coming soon.
Advanced reading features that you will love
Parallel reading
A scratch space for exploration
When you read a physical book, you might read with a notebook open, have a finger in the back of the book, or dog ear pages.
With Valla, alongside the main text is a sidebar that gives you a place to read in parallel, queue up passages to annotate, or keep things open as reference.
Markdown support
Your annotations, in markdown
Valla saves your notes and highlights in a simple markdown file, one per book. They're synced in real-time so you can edit notes in an external editor.
If you're an Obsidian user, you can configure your annotation files to save directly inside an existing vault.
Keyboard navigation
Read with your keyboard
Get around a book using only your keyboard.
Command+K support allows you to quickly search or navigate to a particular part of a book.
Roadmap
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- Note-taking
- Keyboard navigation
- Improved ePub rendering
- Linux and Window builds
- Annotation management
- Annotation exporting
- Reading progress tracking
- iOS app (iPhone and iPad)
- Android app
- Augmented reading features
- Syncing service
- Integrations for annotations (speced-repetition systems, note-taking apps, etc)
- Book library management
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Contact
Valla Reader is built by Andrew Louis. Please get in touch by email or by joining the Discord server.