Read any file, from PDFs and EPUBs to Word and comics. Listen like an audiobook. Then continue on any device, at the same line.
Word documents as pages, spreadsheets as sheets, slides at their own layout, Markdown with its maths typeset, notebooks with their plots, code with its colours, comics a page at a time or as one long scrolling strip for webtoons and manhwa. Nothing is converted on the way in and nothing is uploaded to read it, so a file opens the instant you tap it, even offline.
Built for people with a few hundred PDFs and a phone, a laptop, and a browser tab they keep losing books between.
Reading position, highlights, notes and bookmarks sync across devices. Offline, it keeps them on the device and sends them when you're back online.
Keep several books open and switch instantly. "Open with" from Explorer drops a book into a new tab.
EPUBs reflow as ebooks, with chapters and adjustable type. They aren't flattened into PDFs.
Paste a Notion link and get a typeset PDF, subpages and all. Import it again later to pull in your latest edits.
Reorder, rotate, crop, merge and split pages. Every edit is a new version, so you can always go back.
Send a book to a friend, see what they're reading, and keep private shelves private.
Paper, Sepia, Ink, Midnight and more. Page tints for night reading, focus mode, middle-click autoscroll and find in the toolbar.
Any PDF or EPUB, read aloud. Download natural voices that work with no internet, pick a mood like Thriller, Horror, Calm or Study, and follow along word by word with a sleep timer and background play. Scanned pages can be read too.
Start a club with friends or join a public one. Read the same books, see where everyone is, and talk chapter by chapter. Nothing past your page is ever shown to you.
A club reads one book now, lines up the next, and keeps the finished ones. Series stay together, from book one to seven, each with its own talk.
Tell the club how far you've read. Chapters, posts and reactions past that point stay locked until you get there.
A room for the whole club, for each series, for each book and for every chapter. React to the chapters that wrecked you.
Hot takes, theories that get settled, character vs character, book vs book. Vote, argue a side, switch if you're convinced.
Members' highlights and notes gather in one place. Your book stays clean, unless you choose to see everyone's colours or just a few people's.
Characters loved and hated, hot takes, favourite trope, reading personality and badges. Share it as a picture.
Private clubs share books only when their organisers confirm they have the right to, and can keep them inside the app. Public clubs share conversation, never files.
Sign in once and your library is waiting in every one of them.
Installs once, no admin needed. Adds a Start-menu entry and "Open with SynKitab" for 60+ file types.
Download the APK and open it. Android will ask you to allow installs from your browser the first time.
Ubuntu, Arch and the rest. The AppImage runs on any 64-bit distro; the .deb installs properly on Ubuntu and Debian.
No install. The same library in any modern browser, on a borrowed computer or at work.
SynKitab started as a way to stop losing books between devices. It grew into a reader that typesets Notion pages, reflows EPUBs, lets you edit pages safely, and keeps your place across a phone, a PC and a browser.
"Kitab" is Arabic, Urdu and Hindi for book. The rest is sync.
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