Quire
A quiet place to read.
An Android reading app for EPUB, PDF and plain text.
No account. No sync. No analytics. No ads. Quire does not declare the
INTERNET permission at all — so your books cannot leave your
device, whatever anyone later decides.
Free and open source, MIT licensed. Android 8.0 and above.
A promise the operating system keeps
Most apps promise privacy in a policy. Quire's manifest removes the
INTERNET permission outright, and a test fails the build if it ever
comes back — including through a dependency, which is how it got in the first
time. Android then refuses the socket. There is nowhere for your reading to go.
What it does
Reflows PDFs into real text
A PDF becomes actual paragraphs, so type size and themes work on it — rather than a fixed page you pinch at.
Sets type properly
Justified, hyphenated, first-line indents, no paragraph gaps, a measure capped for readability, and stranded lines pushed to the next page.
Keeps your place exactly
Position is stored by character, so it survives changing the type size, the font, or the theme — and resumes where you actually were.
Five real themes
Paper, Sepia, E-ink, Night and Black — researched against what e-readers and real electrophoretic panels do. E-ink is strictly greyscale.
Highlights and quote cards
Long-press a word, drag to choose a passage, keep it — and share it as a picture dressed in any of the app's palettes.
A reading habit
A daily goal, a streak, and home-screen widgets. One gentle reminder a day, and none at all on a day you have already read.
Honest about scans
A photographed book has no text to reflow, so Quire shows the pages as they were printed and says so — rather than OCR inventing words the author never wrote.
Yours to change
MIT licensed, built in the open, with the reasoning for each decision written down in the repository rather than lost.