Roadmap

Follow the next milestones for Andrea Reader, the DRM-free reader built for comics, manga, EPUB, PDF, and large personal libraries.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Milestone 01

Public beta

Start with a public beta because Andrea Reader is a serious project. Test it with real users to ensure it works and provides real value.

  • Launch a public TestFlight beta first

Milestone 02

Listen, fix, repeat

This milestone is about building a tight feedback loop and iterating fast.

  • Collect and triage community feedback from early users
  • Iterate continuously — things you do not like get addressed, not ignored

Milestone 03

Reading features expansion

Expand the reader with deeper controls and more customization.

  • Improve EPUB rendering performance and speed
  • Text selection with color highlighting, save quotes and notes with annotations
  • Zoom controls and further reading customization

Milestone 04

Official release

Andrea Reader launches officially on the App Store.

Current

Milestone 05

A rock-solid 1.0

An early update that hardens 1.0 into a rock-solid, bug-free base — so everything planned afterwards can ship fast.

  • A first wave of bug fixes to make 1.0 rock-solid, plus the internal groundwork so new features ship quickly and cleanly from here on
  • A cleaner reading menu — highlight actions and more move into a single native menu instead of scattered icons, keeping the reading UI tidy
  • In-book search to find any word or passage inside a book
  • Favorite pages and bookmarks, with a brand-new Bookmarks widget — one of the most requested features
  • Craft your own chapters: build a custom index with your own chapters and parts for any book
  • Above all, make the core app run flawlessly — performance tuning and refinements for large collections, polishing anything that looks or behaves off

Milestone 06

Notes, reinvented

A full overhaul of how you capture and revisit notes.

  • Tap any highlight or note to edit it in place — recolor it, remove it, or refine what you already captured
  • Three annotation types from one selection: highlight (actual), highlight + note, and highlight + quote
  • Create sticky notes you can drag anywhere on the page, recolor them, and add as many as you want per page
  • Create native stickers while reading comics and manga, and use a crop selection to capture any area of the page and turn that screenshot into a note or quote, as the comic and manga equivalent of highlighting
  • Export notes, stickers and quotes to Obsidian, Notion, Word and more

New Feature

Andrea Next

A premium-only space for experimental features before they are fully ready, so you can preview what is coming next.

Milestone 07

More remote servers & streaming

Connect to more clouds and read straight from the server.

  • New providers — Mega, Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive and more, alongside today's OPDS, WebDAV, SMB and SFTP
  • Stream books directly from an OPDS server, without downloading them first
  • A dedicated icon and view to manage all your servers in one place

Milestone 08

History & storage, rebuilt

A rebuilt reading history, plus a per-collection storage manager.

  • A new reading history from scratch — what you read, how many pages and when, per book, saga, collection or section
  • Global stats with interactive charts and monthly progress: books, ebooks, manga and comics finished, plus total reading time
  • A dedicated Storage view per collection, with tools to find and remove duplicate files across your whole file system

New Feature

Reading Memory

A simple home for your highlights, quotes and notes.

  • Show a random quote or note from your books when you open the app
  • Choose what appears first from a simple settings view
  • Browse a dedicated quotes and notes view

Milestone 09

Reading settings

Better controls for the way you read.

  • More control over taps to go forward or back while reading
  • Custom touch padding from the left, right, top or bottom edges of the screen
  • Better zoom controls, including double-tap to zoom in and out
  • Press-and-hold zoom options and finer reading sensitivity controls

Milestone 10

A library that knows itself

Let Andrea Reader fill in the rest, automatically.

  • A dedicated in-app search view to find books directly from Andrea Reader, including ISBN lookup and other metadata
  • Smart Data Gathering — auto-fetch covers, titles, descriptions and metadata from public sources for a book, a section or a whole collection in one tap
  • Alternative Covers — search the web for other covers and pick your favorite, right inside the app

Milestone 11

Immersive reading

Make every page — comic panel or paragraph — feel effortless.

  • Guided panel-by-panel view, image upscaling, right-to-left and double-page modes for comics and manga
  • Crop mode to trim page borders and fill the screen
  • Paper-style backgrounds, plus a built-in dictionary and Wikipedia lookup for EPUB
  • Read-aloud (text-to-speech) for hands-free, accessible reading
Start of Android Development

iOS remains the main focus, and Android development will grow alongside it.

Milestone 12

More formats & real-time tools

Open more of what you already own, and tidy it up as you read.

  • More formats — FB2, AZW3, TXT, Markdown and Word
  • Real-time page cleanup for comics and manga — remove white spines and borders, delete pages
  • Real-time translation of images and pages, saved as a new page (experimental)

Milestone 13

Track your reading

Keep your progress in sync with the communities you already use.

  • Sync progress to AniList and MyAnimeList (manga) and Goodreads and StoryGraph (books)
  • Reading goals, streaks and yearly challenges
  • Richer stats across books, series and collections

Milestone 14

Sync, backup & accessibility

Your library, safe and available everywhere — and usable by everyone.

  • Full sync between iPhone and iPad through iCloud — library, progress, notes and settings
  • Complete library backup and restore, independent of sync
  • A full accessibility pass — VoiceOver, Dynamic Type and reduce-motion support

Milestone 15

At home on iOS

Weave Andrea Reader into the rest of your iPhone and iPad.

  • Home and Lock Screen widgets to jump back into what you're reading
  • Shortcuts and Siri, Spotlight search and Handoff
  • Focus filters for distraction-free reading time

Milestone 16

Andrea Reader on Mac

Bring Andrea Reader to the Mac, so your library works across iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Milestone 17

Android, early access

Start rolling out an early Android version of Andrea Reader.