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