Everything Lectern does
The complete feature list
Lectern is deep, but calm: sensible defaults up front, real power a tap away. Here is everything, grouped by what you are trying to do — reading, listening, organising, studying and keeping it private.
Reading
- Page-turn or continuous scroll
- Immersive full-page mode
- Focus modes: paragraph dim, line band, sentence reveal
- Quick Read (word-by-word RSVP)
- Auto-scroll pacer
- Reading tints, brightness & warmth
- Tap zones and volume-button page turns
- Custom colours and reading width
Listening
- System, Piper and Kokoro voices
- Downloadable voice packs
- Speed, pitch and sentence pauses
- Lively prosody
- Ambient sound tracks
- Sleep timer and keep-screen-on
- Link external audiobooks
- EPUB3 Media Overlays
Library
- Group by author, series, genre, language
- Your own collections
- Filters and sorting
- Favourites and reading status
- Hidden books
- Edit metadata and covers
- Duplicate finder
- Scan multiple folders
Study
- Colour highlights with notes
- Highlight browser
- Share a quote as a card
- Bookmarks
- WordNet and custom dictionaries
- Vocabulary with spaced repetition
- Pronunciation overrides
- In-book search and contents
Statistics
- Daily reading tracker
- Streaks and best streak
- Reading goals
- Per-book and all-time stats
- Activity heatmap
- Yearly recap you can share
Import & export
- Kindle clippings import
- Highlights to Markdown or JSON
- Restore highlights from a backup
- Full progress backup and restore
- Share-sheet book import
PDF & comics
- PDF reflow to flowing text
- PDF search and night/sepia modes
- Comics in CBZ, CBR and CB7
- Manga (right-to-left) order
- Fit-to-width, zoom and pan locks
Privacy & access
- Works fully offline
- No account and no tracking
- English, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Hindi
- Reduce-motion and e-ink friendly
- Haptic feedback you can turn off
- Lock-screen media controls