Marvin is proud to be pretty much the most powerful eBook and comic book reader for iOS. Refined by years of reader feedback and suggestions, version 3 is the sequel to the acclaimed eBook reader for iPhone and iPad.
Take a moment to check out all the incredible things, that Marvin can do:
- Built from scratch for iOS 9 with a brand new interface
- Opens DRM-free EPUB books, CBX and CBR comics
- Format books any way you like
- High fidelity rendering
- Full support for all the latest iOS devices including iPhone 6s, 6s Plus, and iPad Pro
- Supports Split View and Slide Over on compatible devices
- ’Now reading’ today widget
- Touch ID and startup password
- Dark UI with optional automatic light/dark switching
- Spotlight integration to find and open any book from the home screen
- Zero-configuration, reliable iCloud book location sync
- Book location sync supports more than two devices
- External Bluetooth keyboard and remote control support including customisable key commands for in-book navigation and control
- A selection of beautiful reading fonts
- Side-load your own fonts
- Virtually unlimited combinations of text, background colours and page textures
- Reading statistics
- Reading session time reports
- Morning and evening reading reminders
- Six, optional, app UI colour themes
- Book and author info web searches straight from your library
- Customisable web and image search providers (Bing/DuckDuckGo/Google)
- Customisable external web browser, including in-app Safari with readability mode and content-blocker support
- Multi-column support on compatible devices, including 3-column landscape on iPad
- Publisher layouts and embedded fonts
- Full book search, with results exportable to PDF
- Control page warmth and dimming in addition to brightness for comfortable night-time reading
- Customizable gestures, swiping to control brightness, page turn directions, snapping to bookmarks and chapters, etc...
- Reading timers
- Multi-colour bookmarks
- Powerful highlighting and annotation tools
- Create and reorder unlimited custom commands with presets to integrate with Google Maps, Bing Images, Tweetbot, IMDb, Lingvo, Goodreads, Facebook, Wikipedia, the Merriam-Webster dictionary, and more
- Offline and online dictionaries
- Normalised language-specific dictionary lookups
- Context-aware scrub bar for long lists
- Social network sharing templates
- Swipe left and right in any text field to move the cursor/caret
- In-app help in settings, book, and comic screens to explain each setting available
- Undo/redo location tracking
Reading modes
- Paginated reading
- Vertical scrolling, with auto-scroll, and guide bars
- Text-to-speech
- Karaoke (speed reading)
- Guided zig-zag comic mode
Marvin Side-by-Side (SxS)
- Run a second instance of Marvin
- Keep a separate library (great for shared devices in the family)
- SxS libraries can be protected using a password and Touch ID
- Read or study two books side-by-side on devices that support Slide Over and Split View
- Easily transfer books to and from Marvin and Marvin SxS
Comics
- Natively supports CBR and CBZ comics
- Pinch to zoom, and zig-zag viewing modes
- Customisable and automatic matte colours
- Supports warmth, extra dimming, and image tinting
- Image sharpening, contrast, and exposure corrections
- Thumbnail navigation
- Zoom widget
- Bookmarking
- Metadata and library management
- Navigation scrubber with page previews
Karaoke (speed reading)
- Customisable reading speeds up to 720 words per minute
- Customisable words per line
- Large text mode
- Intelligent auto-pause for sentences, punctuation, and long words
- Sentence rewind
- Automatically follows paragraphs and chapters in book
- Karaoke honours reading font, paper and text colours
- Colourise first letter
Discover and learn
- Artificial intelligence that reads your books and helps you discover great things about them, their authors, characters, places, events, and everything else (English only)
- Build character summaries as separate EPUBs in seconds
- Export named entities to a PDF file
- Automatically build a vocabulary as you look up words in the dictionary
- Offline and online dictionaries
Organise
- Incredibly powerful library management tools
- Custom and smart collections
- Wall, list, and cover library views
- Sorting, filtering, and grouping
- Group books by word count
- Reads calibre and extended metadata (subjects, series, and tags)
- A metadata editor that also lets you choose new covers
Annotations and journal
- Keep a reading journal
- Reading maps
- Export annotations to EPUB and PDF journals
- Tag annotations
- Book title, author, and, optional, location auto-tagging for journal entries and annotations
- Add photos and pictures to annotations
- Standard, satellite, and hybrid map viewing modes
- Filter journal entries and annotations by type and colour
Share
- Virtually all the content you see, create and find can be exported and shared
- Extensive export to CSV, EPUB, and PDF
- All exported content can be opened in web browsers and word processors for further reference
- Share status, progress, pictures, text selections and highlights to Facebook and Twitter
Your books, everywhere
- New Dropbox browser with improved performance and new sort options
- Download all books in your Dropbox in one tap
- Improved iOS cloud picker support to access your documents from iCloud, OneDrive, Google Drive, Box, and other services
- OPDS catalogs
- Auto-OPDS catalog detection
- Web downloads
- iTunes and email side-loading
Improved export and interchange
- Custom text menu commands configured on a device can be AirDropped or sent to another device
- Custom fonts, including font files, configured on a device can be AirDropped or sent to another device
- Web browser favourites on a device can be AirDropped or sent to another device
- OPDS favourites on a device can be AirDropped or sent to another device
- Book annotations and bookmarks can be AirDropped or sent to another device
Notes
- Marvin opens DRM-free EPUB books with basic support for EPUB 3
- Marvin opens DRM-free CBR and CBX comics
- Dropbox support requires a Dropbox account
If you're into DRM-free books, we've worked hard to make Marvin the best way to enjoy them.
(available for iPhone and iPad)