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What's inside

Everything your reading
deserves.

Built from the ground up for self-hosted reading. Comics, manga, novels, PDFs — all on the Apple devices you already own.

Every Format You Read
Comics in CBZ, manga in CBZ or PDF, novels in EPUB, technical books in PDF. RexyServer scans them all and RexyRead presents them in one unified library, sorted however you like.
Self-Hosted, Always
Your library lives on RexyServer running on your own Mac. No cloud accounts. No third-party servers. No subscriptions. No one but you sees what you read.
Page-Accurate Sync
Reading progress is tracked to the exact page and updates in real time. Start a chapter on the phone during lunch, open the iPad after dinner, and you're already on the right page.
Per-User Profiles
Every member of the household gets their own library, their own progress, their own bookmarks. Switch users in two taps from the profile picker, available anywhere in the app.
Offline Downloads
Cache anything for offline reading. The download manager runs in the background even when the app is closed. Failures retry automatically. Resumes cleanly when the network comes back.
Bookmarks & Highlights
Highlight passages in novels with five colors, add notes, drop bookmarks at memorable moments. Everything syncs back to RexyServer so your next device sees the same notes.
Built-in Dictionary
Long-press any word in a novel to see its definition without leaving the page. Works inline with the system dictionary, no extra apps required.
Typography You Control
A mature EPUB rendering engine drives the book reader. Pick your font, size, line spacing, margins, theme, and column count — plus support for accessible font choices.
Comic Reader Built for Comics
Page-flipping canvas with right-to-left support for manga, double-page spreads, fit-width or fit-height view modes, and gesture controls that don't fight you.
QR or Manual Pairing
Scan a QR code from your RexyServer dashboard to pair in seconds, or type the pairing string manually. Each device ends up with its own credentials, listed in the dashboard, revokable individually.
LAN-First Security
TLS certificate pinning to your server, per-device API keys, zero cloud round-trips. Your reading habits stay between your devices and your own machine.
Annotation Export
Export your bookmarks and highlights as Markdown, CSV, or JSON. Take your reading notes with you to any tool that opens text files.
In-Book Search
Find any phrase or passage inside the book you're reading and jump straight to it. Works across pages in EPUBs and PDFs.
Free, Forever
No subscriptions. No ads. No trial periods. There's a tip jar if you love it — the app does everything either way.

Deep dives

The details that matter.

Reading

A reader that respects every format.

Comics and manga get a purpose-built canvas with right-to-left support, double-page spreads, fit-width or fit-height modes, and gesture controls calibrated for one-handed phone reading.

Novels render through a mature EPUB engine so books look the way the publisher intended. Long-press a word for an instant dictionary lookup. Drop a highlight in five colors with an optional note. Bookmark a chapter.

PDFs get their own native renderer with progress tracked the same way as everything else. The reading position is captured by page number and exact scroll offset, so resuming feels natural even on long technical PDFs.

Reading · Comics · Novels
Sync

Pick up where you left off — anywhere.

Reading progress is page-accurate and updates in real time. Start a chapter on your phone during lunch, open the iPad after dinner, and you're already on the right page within seconds of the app opening.

Per-user profiles mean every member of the household gets their own library and their own progress. The profile picker is two taps away from anywhere in the app.

If your server is unreachable, progress is queued locally and flushed the moment connectivity returns — you never lose a page, even if the network dies mid-chapter.

Sync · Progress · Offline
Security

Your library never leaves home.

RexyRead talks directly to your server over your LAN, with TLS certificate pinning to make sure connections can't be intercepted. Pairing happens once, via QR code or a typed pairing string. After that, every request is signed with a per-device API key you can revoke at any time.

For travel, install Tailscale on RexyServer and on each device you want to use remotely. Your devices will see each other as if they were on the same LAN, from anywhere, without opening ports or exposing your home network to the public internet. The per-device keys still apply.

There is no RexyRead account. There is no cloud sync. There is no telemetry. Your reading is yours and it stays where you keep it.

Security · TLS · LAN