Open EPUBs, MOBIs, and PDFs in a clean, paginated reader. Highlight passages, attach notes, and drop bookmarks. Your books and annotations live on your device, synced only if you choose.
Free license includes the full local app. No credit card required.
A custom rendering pipeline paginates ebooks cleanly, and PDFs open right alongside them with zoom and page navigation. No separate viewer apps.
Select any passage to highlight it or attach a note. Annotations are first-class: kept with the book, browsable in one place, and synced with your library.
Pick up exactly where you left off. Your place, bookmarks, and progress travel with your library across devices over end-to-end encrypted sync.
Tune the type until it feels right, read in light or dark themes, and let focus mode clear the chrome away so it is just you and the page.
Pull classics from Project Gutenberg, browse Open Library and the Internet Archive through Discover, or import your own files. They all land on the same shelf.
Books live beside your notes, tasks, and calendar. Open one in a split pane next to your reading notes, all searchable in the same private workspace.
Ask Pax about what you're reading: they see the current page, read chapters or the whole document in careful bounded passes, search the text, walk your annotations, and jump you to the right spot without ever changing the book.
You stay in control of what Pax sees: mark any file, folder, or tag as read-only or hidden, and review every restriction in Settings.
No store lock-in: blackbear reads the open formats you already own, and your books, highlights, and reading habits stay on your device instead of a retailer’s cloud.
blackbear works on every platform and keeps annotations in the same private workspace as your notes, not siloed inside a system app on one vendor’s devices.
Calibre manages libraries; blackbear is where you actually read: clean pagination, annotations, and encrypted sync in one app, no plugins required.
Everything here lives in the same private workspace: searchable together, linked together, and synced together.
Rich markdown with tables, wiki-links, and templates.
Daily entries with prompts, templates, and streaks.
Google + iCloud sync, recurring events, and reminders.
Priorities, due dates, and natural-language scheduling.
Formulas, charts, kanban boards, and saved views.
End-to-end encrypted chats and calls, no phone number.
An infinite canvas with drawing, diagrams, and live embedded files.
Non-destructive photo editing with filters, kept on your device.
Paginated documents with tables, images, and live co-editing.
Presentation decks with live co-editing, and Pax composes slides with you.
Voice memos with on-device transcription, music, and mixing.
Slides, video calls, image editing, and Pax, your AI companion.
A private home for your books: EPUB, MOBI, and PDF with highlights, notes, and bookmarks. Free. Private. Yours.
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