Gerty is optimized for and works beautifully on the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus!
Reading features
- Open books in the EPUB format
- Separate library for paper and eInk books, magazines, and other publications
- Scan barcodes to look up info and covers of your paper books
- Organise your books in shelves
- Bulk manage, sort and filter books
- Advanced EPUB formatting including margins and spacing
- Vastly improved EPUB rendering based on Marvin's fantastic display engine
- Specialty OpenDyslexic font
- Vertical scroll reading design
- Auto scrolling with variable speed and estimated reading time †
- Screen edge detection for paging
- Apply screen warmth for comfortable nighttime reading
- EPUB 3 popup footnotes
- Automatically add definitions you’ve learnt to your timeline †
- Link to custom dictionary apps and web services †
- Create custom commands to integrate with apps and services including Google Maps, Bing Images, Tweetbot, IMDb, Lingvo, Goodreads, Facebook, Wikipedia, the Merriam-Webster dictionary and more †
- One-tap Dropbox access to your EPUB books
- Drag and drop books using iTunes
Journalling & note taking features
- Keep a personal journal, notes, a private blog, marginalia, or write a photo essay while you're reading
- Relive memories by browsing your journal entries on maps
- Save passages and notes as journal entries
- Take photos and process them with stunning effects
- Unified timeline
- Photo and tag browser
- Share journal entries and photos
- Geo-tag entries
- Full screen photo and entry browsing
- All your entries are private
- Export your timeline to an EPUB journal †
Other notable features
- Works beautifully on iPhone 6 and 6 Plus
- Passcode lock †
- Native maps support
- Efficient cloud syncing and backups using Dropbox †
- Sound effects
- In-book reading timers †
- Daily reading and journalling reminders
- Modern iOS features including parallax and motion effects
- Detects GPS and date information from photo EXIF data
- Light and dark UI themes †
- In-book UI automatically switches to night mode when the screen is dimmed †
- AirDrop, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and iMessage sharing
- Powerful URL schemes to integrate with other apps
Notes
- Gerty opens DRM-free EPUB books with basic support for EPUB 3
- Barcode lookups might not work for all books
- OpenDyslexic currently supports the basic Latin character set
- Dropbox access and syncing requires a Dropbox account
† Some premium features are available with a single, one-time, “unlock everything” in-app purchase.
(available for iPhone and iPad)
