README

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 Android beta testers needed: The official BookOrbit Android app is in closed testing. Join the Google Play beta and stay enrolled for at least 14 days to help unlock its public release.




  
  BookOrbit


A self-hosted library and reading platform for ebooks, PDFs, audiobooks, and comics.











!Android coming soon



!BookOrbit dashboard showing reading stats, widgets, and book shelves


  Overview •
  Live Demo •
  iOS & Apple Watch •
  Features •
  Quick Start •
  Managed Hosting •
  KOReader •
  Docs




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 📚 What is BookOrbit?

BookOrbit organizes your books and lets you enjoy them anywhere: on iPhone, Apple Watch, the web, Kobo, or KOReader. Your reading progress, highlights, and status stay synchronized, so you can start a chapter in one place and continue in another.

Around that core sit 14 metadata providers, reading statistics and achievements, OPDS and Send-to-Kindle delivery, multi-user accounts with OIDC/SSO, and automatic sync out to Hardcover, Readwise, and StoryGraph. All of it runs on infrastructure you control.





 🚀 Live Demo

Try the live instance before you install. No account required.



 Note: The demo includes a sample library of public domain books. Some administrative features are limited in the public demo. Self-hosting BookOrbit provides the full experience.



 📱 BookOrbit for iPhone and Apple Watch

Take your library anywhere with the official native BookOrbit app. Read ebooks, PDFs, and comics; stream or download audiobooks; use text to speech; and keep reading offline. The app connects directly to your self-hosted BookOrbit server, while Apple Watch brings downloaded audiobooks and synchronized playback progress to your wrist.

!BookOrbit on iPhone showing the home screen, Read Along, and audiobook playback alongside the Apple Watch library






Requires BookOrbit v3.0.0 or later and iOS 26 or later. Apple Watch features require watchOS 26 or later.




Explore all 14 screenshots

 iPhone

!Ten BookOrbit iPhone screens showing the home experience, Read Along, audiobook playback, book requests, appearance customization, text to speech, reading activity, achievements, shelves, and offline downloads

 Apple Watch

!Four BookOrbit Apple Watch screens showing the offline library, the app menu, audiobook playback, and playback settings





 ✨ Features

 Reading Experience & Sync

- Built-in Web Readers: Ebooks (EPUB, KEPUB, MOBI, AZW3, AZW, FB2), PDFs, comics (CBZ, CBR, CB7), and audiobooks (M4B, MP3, M4A, OPUS, OGG, FLAC), with no extra plugins required.
- Native iPhone & Apple Watch Apps: Read, listen, download, upload, and synchronize with your BookOrbit server from a native, offline-capable iPhone app. Send audiobooks to Apple Watch for independent offline playback and later progress reconciliation.
- Three-Way Sync (Kobo + KOReader + BookOrbit): Progress and annotations flow bidirectionally between Kobo devices, KOReader, and the BookOrbit web re