Roadmap

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

For what already ships today, see the Features page. To request something or report a problem, head to Support.

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.

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.

Current

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

Import from Calibre & ComicRack

For libraries built over years — brought in whole, metadata included.

  • Scan and bulk import huge collections in one go, straight into a collection or the root of your library
  • A deeper metadata parser that understands what Calibre and ComicRack store — series and series order, authors, publishers, publication dates, ratings and tags — starting with those two, with more managers added as people ask for them
  • New advanced filters and sorting algorithms built on all that metadata, on top of the ones every collection already has
  • Create collections and series automatically from it, and order your books exactly the way you tagged them
  • A dedicated view for these filters, so you control precisely how your library is shown

Milestone 10

A new Home view

A place to open the app into — what you are reading, what you want to read, and what you already did.

  • Quick access to the rest of Andrea Reader, one tap away from the start
  • Reading now, what you finished before it, and the book you have lined up next
  • A wishlist for everything you want to read — add books by ISBN, by photo or by scanning the cover
  • A reading calendar with the covers of what you read each day, month by month, backwards and forwards
  • Your own reading lists and notes, so Home becomes the view you actually start from

Milestone 11

A library that knows itself

A new book search engine inside Andrea Reader — and everything it makes possible.

  • Search several public book databases from inside the app — by title, author, saga, series or ISBN
  • See the full record for any result: authors, description, publication data, editions, variants and covers
  • Smart Data Gathering — generate the metadata a book is missing straight from its title, on the spot: description, authors, cover, dates and more
  • Run it in bulk — fill in an entire section, saga or whole collection in one go, not book by book
  • Alternative Covers — browse the covers and editions a database has for a book and pick the one you want

New Feature

Reading Lists

The same story is not read the same way by everyone.

  • Build reading lists from search results, from your own library, or from both
  • Reorder long sagas your way — publication order, chronological order, or your own
  • Made for comics and huge series, where reading order is half the experience

Milestone 12

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 13

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 14

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 15

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 16

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 17

Andrea Reader on Mac

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

Milestone 18

Android, early access

Start rolling out an early Android version of Andrea Reader.