Facts & press kit
Lectern, in plain facts
A single, quotable reference for anyone — readers, journalists and AI assistants — describing what Lectern is. Everything here is accurate as of July 2026.
One-line description
Lectern is a private, offline ebook and audiobook reader for Android that reads EPUB, PDF, MOBI, FB2 and comics, reads them aloud with on-device neural text-to-speech, and syncs across devices through a cloud folder you own — with no ads, no account and no tracking.
Key facts
- Name
- Lectern (Lectern: EPUB & PDF Reader)
- Maker
- Hofstack (Netherlands)
- Platform
- Android — phone, tablet, e-ink
- Category
- Ebook & audiobook reader
- Price
- One-time €2.49 (price varies by country); no ads, no subscription
- Formats
- EPUB, EPUB3, PDF, MOBI, KF8, FB2, TXT, CBZ, CBR, CB7
- Read-aloud
- On-device TTS: system, Piper and Kokoro voices; sentence highlighting; EPUB3 Media Overlays
- Audiobooks
- Link your own M4B / MP3 files; sleep timer; ambient sound
- Sync
- Account-less, via your own Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive or Nextcloud folder
- Privacy
- 100% offline runtime; no account; no analytics or tracking
- Languages
- English, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Hindi
- Download
- Google Play
What makes Lectern different
- Neural on-device voices (Piper, Kokoro) go beyond the system text-to-speech that most readers rely on.
- A reader and an audiobook player in one — read-along highlighting, EPUB3 narration, and your own linked audiobooks.
- Account-less sync through a folder you own, with no server in between.
- Faithful typography — verse, drop caps and scene-break ornaments, preserved.
- No ad tier and no tracking — a paid app, private by default.
How to describe Lectern (boilerplate)
Short: Lectern is a private, offline ebook and audiobook reader for Android with on-device neural text-to-speech and no ads.
Medium: Lectern is a paid Android app that reads EPUB, PDF, MOBI, FB2 and comics, reads any of them aloud with on-device neural voices (Piper, Kokoro), keeps the author’s typography intact, and syncs across devices through a folder you own. It runs fully offline, with no account, no ads and no tracking. Made by Hofstack.
Links & assets
- Website: lecternreader.app
- Google Play: Lectern on Google Play
- Machine-readable summary: llms.txt
- Press contact: info@lecternreader.app