The complete tour
Every feature, in service of one thing: reading.
Aurora Reader is packed — but never busy. Here's everything it does, grouped the way you'd actually use it.
Open anything
Six formats, zero fuss
Most readers handle one or two formats. Aurora Reader opens the six that actually matter — with a dedicated engine behind each.
- .epub Reflowable & fixed-layout
- .pdf Powered by a fast PDF engine
- .fb2 FictionBook 2.0
- .mobi Classic Kindle format
- .azw3 Kindle KF8
- .txt Plain text, smartly paginated
The reading experience
Typography you can feel
Tune the page until the interface vanishes and only the words remain.
- 7 fonts — System Default, Serif, Sans Serif, Monospace, OpenDyslexic, Literata, Merriweather
- Font size 12–32pt · line spacing 1.0–2.5× · adjustable margins
- Left, centered or justified text alignment
- Page-curl, slide, fade — or distraction-free vertical scroll
- Tap-zone gestures & optional volume-key page turns
- In-app brightness & blue-light filter for night reading
On Reading Slowly
The northern sky unfurled in slow ribbons of green and violet, and for a while she forgot the cold entirely.
She turned the page the way one turns a thought over — gently, unhurried, letting the light do its quiet work above the pines.
Somewhere far below, a single lamp glowed in a cabin window, the only warm thing for miles.
Ten reading themes
A light for every hour
Your library
A shelf that stays tidy
Collections & favourites
Group books into custom collections, star favourites, and jump back into recently-read titles.
Smart import
Add books from your files or via "Open with". SHA-256 hashing quietly skips duplicates.
Search & sort
Find by title or author; sort by date, name, progress or format. Covers are extracted automatically.
Active reading
Think alongside the text
Highlights in 10 colours
Mark passages by meaning, with optional notes attached to each highlight.
Bookmarks with previews
Save your spot with a snippet of surrounding text so you remember why it mattered.
Notes you can tag
Capture free-form notes, tag them, and search across everything you've written.
Full table of contents
Hierarchical chapter navigation parsed from EPUB, FB2, MOBI and AZW3.
Tap-to-define dictionary
Instant definitions, parts of speech and synonyms — without leaving the page.
Inline translation
Translate a tricky passage on the fly while you keep your place.
Listen Premium
Your books, read aloud
Rest your eyes or keep reading on the move. Built-in text-to-speech narrates any book with adjustable speed, pitch and volume — and keeps playing in the background with full media controls.
How text-to-speech worksNow reading · Chapter 7
Insights Premium
Gentle motivation to keep going
Reading statistics
Time read, pages turned, sessions and your most-read books — visualised in clean charts.
Goals
Set daily, weekly or monthly goals in pages, minutes or books, and track progress.
Streaks & milestones
Build a habit with streaks and milestones from 3 days all the way to a full year.
Year in Review
A beautiful annual summary of everything you read — your personal reading wrapped.
Sync & backup Premium
Your data, in your Drive
Keep reading progress, bookmarks, highlights, notes and settings in sync across devices — stored privately in your own Google Drive. There's no Aurora Reader server in the middle, so your library stays yours.
- Metadata kept in a hidden app folder (no quota used)
- Optionally sync the book files themselves
- Last-write-wins merge keeps devices consistent
Free books Premium
Thousands of classics, built in
Browse OPDS catalogs from Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks and Feedbooks, and download legal public-domain titles straight into your library. Learn about OPDS →
For every reader
Accessibility, built in
OpenDyslexic font
A dyslexia-friendly preset with the OpenDyslexic typeface, larger text and looser spacing.
High contrast
A high-contrast white-on-black preset plus the AMOLED theme for maximum legibility.
17 languages
The whole interface speaks 17 languages, from English and Vietnamese to Arabic and Hindi.
Ready to read?
Free, no ads, all six formats — with a 7-day trial of every Premium feature.