The Notebook.
Every highlight, note and drawing from every book, in one place, with filters and search. Tap one and the book opens at its page. Write what stayed with you after a chapter or a whole book, typed or drawn.
Athene for Android.
A reader for your own books,
now on Android.
Athene is on Google Play. Free. EPUB, PDF and more, on Android phones and tablets.
EPUB, PDF, MOBI, Word and more, laid out as pages. No account.
Every highlight and note from every book, in one Notebook.
Any paper colour, any Google Font. Or let it read to you.
Your Kobo or Kindle in step, through a server of your own.
Pages, not scrolls.
Books are laid out as real pages and turned with a swipe, and from Android 13 a page can curl as it turns. The paper can be white, sepia, night or any colour you mix, and the type any Google Font. Hold a tablet sideways and two pages face each other.
Listen.
Tap the headphones and a book in English, French, Italian or Spanish is read aloud in a natural voice made on your phone, even with the screen locked. PDFs too, scanned pages and all. The voice is a one-time download.
Notes you can draw.
Highlight a passage in one of five colours and add a note, typed or drawn with a tray of pens and inks. On a PDF, mark up the page itself with a stylus or a finger.
Look it up.
Select a word to see what it means and how to say it. The dictionary is built in, and it works offline.
Your e-reader, in step.
With KOReader on a Kobo, Kindle or PocketBook, your books, your place and your highlights, notes and bookmarks stay in step through an Athene sync server you run yourself. Any other KOReader sync server, like CrossPoint’s on an Xteink, keeps your place in step too. Settings shows you how, a step at a time.
More ways in.
Tap + on the Library for the Athene Bookstore’s free classics, books from your computer over Wi‑Fi, a link, an OPDS catalog or your calibre server. MOBI, AZW3, Word, Pages, FB2, TXT and HTML files become books as they arrive.
Free. Forever.
Everything Athene does is free, with no subscription and nothing for sale. No account. No ads. No analytics. No server but yours.
Also on iPhone and iPad.
Athene began on the iPhone and iPad, and it is free on the App Store.
Athene for iPhone and iPadOn Google Play as Athene Reader. Free. Requires Android 12 or later.Tech Specs
| Reads | EPUB and PDF, laid out as pages; MOBI, AZW3, Word, FB2, RTF, TXT, HTML and comic book files are turned into books on the way in. |
|---|---|
| Library | Files, Google Drive or any cloud, Wi‑Fi from your computer, a web link, the Athene Bookstore’s free classics, an OPDS catalog, or a calibre or calibre-web server you run, at home or over a VPN such as Tailscale. |
| Reading | White, Sepia, Night or a paper you mix. Any Google Font, size, line spacing and margins. One column upright, two on a tablet held sideways. Pages slide, fade or, from Android 13, curl. An e-ink mode for e-ink readers. |
| Notebook | Every highlight, note and drawing across your books, with filters and search, and reflections on what stayed with you, typed or drawn. |
| Listen | Books in English, French, Italian or Spanish, and PDFs, read aloud by a natural voice made on the device, with the screen locked. A one-time download of about 340 MB. |
| Marks | Highlights in five colours, notes typed or drawn, bookmarks, ink on PDF pages, search across the book and a built-in dictionary. |
| Sync | KOReader sync through an Athene server you run: books, place, highlights, notes and bookmarks; through any other KOReader sync server, your place. Send to calibre for highlights, progress and finished books. |
| The Owl | Gemini Nano on the device where the phone has it, an Ollama server you run, or an API key you bring. |
| Languages | English, French, Italian and Spanish, following the language your phone or tablet is set to. |
| Price | Free. Nothing is for sale. |
| Requires | Android 12 or later. Phones and tablets. |