Support

Athene for iPhone and iPad

Write to athene@theadipost.com. It reaches the person who wrote the app. If something is broken, say which device, which iOS version, and what the book was; that is usually enough to find it.

Getting books in

Athene reads EPUB and PDF. Open a file from Files, iCloud Drive, Mail or any other app and choose Athene from the share sheet, or use the import control in the library. The book is copied into Athene, so it stays available whether or not the original does.

Athene has no store and never will. It reads books you already have.

Connecting a calibre server

Athene talks to calibre-web and to anything else that serves an OPDS catalogue. In the calibre screen, enter the server’s address, for example http://192.168.1.20:8083, with the username and password you use for that server, and connect.

It can’t reach the server.

Check that the device is on the same network, and that iOS has been allowed to find local devices: Settings → Athene → Local Network. A server reached over a tailnet or the internet needs an https address.

It connects but the shelf is empty.

calibre-web only exposes books over OPDS to accounts that have permission to download. Check that account in calibre-web’s admin.

Downloads stall or fail partway.

calibre-web rate-limits OPDS requests. Athene waits and retries on its own; give it a moment before trying again.

The Owl

The Owl answers questions about the passage you are reading. It can run three ways: on Apple Intelligence, where the device supports it and it is turned on in Settings; against an Ollama server you run yourself, by entering its address in the Owl’s setup screen; or with an API key you bring from Anthropic, OpenAI or OpenRouter.

If the Owl says it isn’t available, the usual cause is that Apple Intelligence is off or still preparing on that device, and no server or key has been configured. One of the three has to be true.

Purchases

Athene sells nothing today. Everything it does is free: the reader, the library, the Owl, your calibre server, your highlights and notes.

Your data

Everything Athene knows lives on your device. Deleting the app deletes all of it, including your library, so export or move anything you want to keep first. The privacy policy sets out exactly what is stored and what is sent.

Reporting a bug

Write to athene@theadipost.com with your device and iOS version, what you did and what happened instead, and, for a book that won’t open or renders wrongly, where the book came from and the file if you are able to share it. A book that fails is almost always a book with something unusual in it, and having the file is the difference between a fix and a guess.