Pages, not scrolls.
Books are laid out as real pages and turned with a swipe. Change the type mid-chapter and the words reflow without losing your place.
Athene.
A reader for your own books.
Coming to the App Store. Free. EPUB and PDF, on iPhone and iPad.
EPUB and PDF, laid out as pages. No account, no shop.
White, Sepia or Night. Your typeface, your size, your margins.
Ask the Owl about the page you are on. It runs on your device.
Your calibre library on the shelf, over your own network.
Mark it up.
Press and hold to highlight or add a note. Bookmarks, the table of contents and search are a tap from the page.
Ask the Owl.
A reading companion for the passage in front of you: who this character is, what that word meant in 1890. It runs on your device with Apple Intelligence, on your own Ollama server, or with an API key you bring.
Your calibre server, on the shelf.
Point Athene at your calibre-web or OPDS library and browse it as if it were on the device. Downloads cross your own network and nobody else’s.
Free. Forever.
Everything Athene does today is free, with no subscription and nothing collected. No account. No analytics. No server but yours.
Read the privacy policy
Still on iOS 6? So is Athene.
The wooden shelf and the page curl, for the iPad you kept. Free from Adi’s Repo.
Athene for iOS 6Tech Specs
| Reads | EPUB and PDF, paginated, with hyphenation and justification. |
|---|---|
| Library | Files you add from anywhere on the device, or a calibre-web or OPDS server you run. |
| Reading | White, Sepia and Night. Typeface, size, measure, line height and margins. One column in portrait, two in landscape. |
| Marks | Highlights, notes, bookmarks, the table of contents and search across the book. |
| The Owl | Apple Intelligence on the device, an Ollama server you run, or an API key you bring. |
| Price | Free. Everything Athene does today stays free. |
| Requires | iOS 26 or iPadOS 26. iPhone and iPad. |