FBReader
Favorite Book Reader
In February 2022, FBReader 2.0 appeared in the Mac Store. It is not a port of the iOS version but a separate application, designed and developed especially for Macs. The app works on both Intel and Apple Silicon chips. Requires Mac OS 10.4 or higher.
The released version is stable and ready to use, but this is still not a final FBReader 2.0. We are working on missing features, such as networks catalogues integration, multiple books operations in the library, and more.
Current version: 2.0β13, a.k.a. 1.999.13 (published 20 April 2022)
The table shows the status of the most significant features in the latest version.
| Reading books | |
|---|---|
| Supported formats | ePub, fb2, fb2.zip, mobi, rtf, MS doc, plain text, cbz |
| Not supported formats | cbr, cb7, pdf, djvu, docx |
| Book reading, styles, hyperlinks, hyphenations | Fully implemented |
| Page header and footer | Fully implemented, is customisable |
| Page turning/text scrolling | Spacebar and right arrow key turn page forward; left arrow key turns back. Up and down arrows scroll text line-by-line. Mouse click on right/left margins turns ahead/back. Mouse/touchpad scrolls page (horizontally) and lines (vertically) |
| Multi-book (multi-window) mode | Fully implemented |
| Two-column mode | Fully implemented. The text switches to two-column mode automatically. You can tune the logic in the “Columns & Margins” preferences section |
| Text selection | Implemented, excluding automatic text scrolling when user selects end of the page |
| Table of contents | Fully implemented |
| Bookmarks | Implemented: adding, removing, style selection, navigation over the bookmarks list, styles adding/editing/removing; to be implemented: text editing |
| Language selection | Automatic language/encoding detection only; there is no way to fix a detection error manually |
| Advanced text navigation | Click on the page footer navigates over the text; undo/redo buttons allow to jump back. The position stack persists between runs |
| Dark theme | Fully implemented; FBReader switch theme automatically according to the system theme changes |
| Library | |
| All titles list | Fully implemented |
| Lists of recently added/opened books | Fully implemented |
| Books by author | Fully implemented |
| Books by series | Fully implemented |
| Books by tags | Not implemented yet |
| Custom shelves | Not implemented yet |
| Book download | Fully implemented |
| Book meta info dialogue | Fully implemented |
| Book deletion | Fully implemented |
| Multiple book selection, group operations | Not implemented yet |
| Network catalogues | Not implemented yet |
| Cloud synchronisation | |
| Titles list from server | Fully implemented |
| Uploading new books to the server | Fully implemented |
| Deleting books | Fully implemented |
| Positions | Fully implemented |
| Bookmarks | Fully implemented |
| Custom shelves | Not implemented yet |
| Preferences | |
| Preferences dialogue | Implemented; some minor pages and options are still missing |
| Settings export/import | Fully implemented |