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Lectern: EPUB & PDF Reader Live

Hofstack1 app · 421 installsBooks & Reference$2.39nl.hofstack.lectern

Read EPUB & PDF with offline AI voices and synchronized text highlighting.

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Total installs
421
exact · Play shows 100+
Installs / day
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measured after our second crawl (about a day)
Rating
5.0★
42 ratings · 3 reviews
Released
13 Jun 2026
4mo ago
Last update
3 Oct 2026
v1.32.0 · 8d ago
Countries
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Permissions

5 in 1 group
0 Sensitive2 Notable3 Routine
OtherNotable5

Access to miscellaneous device features that don't fit other categories

  • Start itself automatically as soon as your phone finishes turning onrun at startup · RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED
  • Keep your phone's processor or screen from going to sleep, which can use more batteryprevent device from sleeping · WAKE_LOCK
  • Check whether you are online and whether you use Wi-Fi or mobile dataview network connections · ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
  • Connect to the internet to load content and send datafull network access · INTERNET
  • Check with Google Play that you got this app legitimatelyGoogle Play license check · com.android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE

Sensitive = can reach personal data, location, camera/mic or act on your behalf. Notable = changes how your device behaves. Routine = normal for almost every app. Source: Google Play's permission list for all versions of this app.

Store listing

Full description
Read. Listen. Follow Along. Lectern automatically matches natural sounding offline AI voices to your book's language and highlights every spoken sentence as you read. Lectern is an offline eBook reader for EPUB, EPUB3, PDF, MOBI, AZW, AZW3, FB2, TXT and comics. Read your books or listen to supported books with natural sounding offline AI voices and synchronized text highlighting. No account. No subscription. No ads. No unnecessary permissions. Your books, reading progress and settings stay on your device. Everything works offline unless you choose to connect your own cloud storage or OPDS catalog. 🎧 Read and listen together Lectern lets you listen to supported books using natural sounding offline AI voices powered by Piper and Kokoro while every spoken sentence is highlighted in real time. Perfect for commuting, bedtime reading, language learning or reducing eye strain. Features include: • Natural sounding offline AI voices powered by Piper and Kokoro • Automatic language detection • Automatic voice matching to your book's language • Synchronized text highlighting • Adjustable reading speed • Adjustable voice pitch • Lock screen controls • Notification controls • Bluetooth headset support • Sleep timer • Continue exactly where you stopped 🗣️ Automatic language detection Open a book and Lectern detects its language, then matches it to a natural offline AI voice. Voice matching covers over a dozen languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Hindi. 📚 Read all your books in one app Supported formats: • EPUB • EPUB3 • PDF • MOBI • AZW • AZW3 • FB2 • FBZ • TXT • CBZ • CBR PDF documents can be viewed in their original layout, reflowed for comfortable reading or listened to with text-to-speech when supported. ✍️ Built for comfortable reading Adjust: • Fonts and custom fonts • Font weight • Margins • Line spacing • Paragraph spacing • Hyphenation • Drop caps Built-in reading profiles: • Standard • Bedtime • Dyslexia The Dyslexia profile combines OpenDyslexic fonts, optimized spacing and comfortable colors for easier reading. Themes: • Light • Dark • Sepia • OLED Black 🔖 Highlights, bookmarks and notes • Highlights • Bookmarks • Notes • Markdown export • JSON export • Kindle My Clippings import Organize your library using nested shelves, series, ratings and reading status. 📈 Build a daily reading habit Track: • Reading streaks • Daily reading goals • Reading sessions • Reading history • Average session length • Estimated reading time remaining • Chapter progress • Multi-year reading heatmap 📖 Dictionary and vocabulary trainer Tap any word to view offline dictionary definitions powered by WordNet. Save new words to your vocabulary trainer and improve retention using the proven SM-2 spaced repetition system. ☁️ Sync on your terms Use multiple folders as your library through Android's Storage Access Framework without intrusive storage permissions. Synchronize reading progress, bookmarks, highlights and statistics through shared folders on: • Google Drive • Dropbox • Nextcloud • OneDrive Browse OPDS catalogs such as Project Gutenberg or your own Calibre-Web library. Share books directly to Lectern from any Android app. 🌍 A reader for every language Available in 9 languages: • English • Dutch • German • French • Italian • Arabic • Chinese • Japanese • Hindi Full right-to-left (RTL) support for Arabic together with automatic language detection makes Lectern ideal for multilingual libraries and language learning. Lectern supports reduced-motion accessibility and works beautifully on Android e-ink devices such as Boox and Meebook. Whether you're looking for an EPUB reader, PDF reader, comic reader, text-to-speech reader, AI voice reader, multilingual ebook reader, RTL Arabic reader, ebook library or a dyslexia-friendly eBook reader, Lectern brings everything together in one calm, fast and private reading experience. Read. Listen. Follow Along.

What's new

🗣️ New Supertonic voices: natural offline reading in 31 languages, also on mid-range phones. 🌍 Choose a narration voice per book language; Auto picks the best one for your phone. 🎚️ All voice engines in one list, with a quality label and a warning for heavy voices. 🎧 Opening a second book no longer cuts off audio you just started. ⚡ Speed and pitch stay put when the system voice switches engine. 📜 Voice licences cleaned up; installed voices keep working.

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