r/apps • u/Tesorin_App • 16h ago
App [iOS] Apricity: a cozy reader for your PDFs and EPUBs, with a notebook beside every book (free, plus a free Premium year for launch)
Full disclosure: this is my app, from the small team behind Tesorin: Personal Finance.
Apricity is for reading the PDFs and EPUBs you already have, on iPhone and iPad. It sets each book on a shelf in a little reading room, with a lamp, a fire or rain to listen to, and a paper notebook right beside it.
Highlights
- Reflow turns a PDF into text that reads like an ebook, in your size, typeface and spacing. Page numbers and headers step aside, and paragraphs carry on across page breaks. Original keeps the page as published, recoloured for night or sepia.
- Read Aloud lights up each word as it reads and keeps going with the screen locked, with Apple's voices or natural English voices that run on the device.
- Notebooks for Apple Pencil or a finger, with 81 kinds of paper, stickers, and search across your handwriting.
- Markup to write straight on a PDF's pages without changing the file.
- Lecture recording while you write: tap your writing later to hear that moment.
- Smart Notes turns your notes into summaries and quizzes with Apple Intelligence, on the device.
No account and no ads. Books and notes stay on your device, and sync uses your own private iCloud.
Price
Free to download. Reading, highlights, notes, Markup, notebooks, recording and iCloud sync are free for good. Premium is US$14.99 a year and adds Read Aloud, transcripts, Smart Notes, export, more covers and stickers, sounds, the focus timer, room furnishing and your own fonts. Everyone starts with 14 days of Premium.
Launch offer: a free year of Premium for everyone, until end of this month.
- Get Apricity, open Settings, and tap the Tesorin card to download Tesorin, our personal finance app (free).
- In Tesorin, open Settings, tap Help, and send the word Apricity. Leave the email box empty: we only get the word, the time it was sent and that it came from iOS, which is how we match it up.
- Within a day, your year shows up in Apricity's Settings. No card, and nothing renews.
iPhone and iPad only, on iOS 26 or later. No Android version for now, and no Kindle or DRM-protected books.
If a PDF comes out wrong in Reflow (scanned, two columns, another language), tell me in the comments and I'll take a look.
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apricity-read-write-focus/id6821031964