Roadmap

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.

Milestone 07

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 08

Sync & backup via iCloud

Your library, safe and available on all your devices.

  • Full sync between iPhone and iPad through iCloud — library, progress, notes and settings
  • Complete library backup and restore, independent of sync
Start of Android Development

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

Current

Milestone 09

OPDS Streaming & Quality Analyzer

Read straight from your server, and get the best out of every comic page.

  • Stream books directly from an OPDS server, without downloading them first
  • Quality Analyzer — compare copies of the same comic, manga or book and see which one looks best, judged by real page resolution, not file size
  • Page quality check — from the smart menu, see any page's resolution, image format and file size. Great for comics and manga
  • Delete pages — remove any page you don't want, right from the reader. Great for comics and manga
Start of macOS Development

Milestone 10

Reading streaks rework & new library views

Track your streaks in depth, and see your library in new ways.

  • Reading streaks, reworked — a complete redesign of the streaks view, with more stats and richer detail
  • Bookshelf view — see your library as a classic, customizable bookshelf, Apple Books style, and arrange the books your way
  • Section view — in the library, open a section inside a collection as if it were a collection of its own, showing only its books
  • Continuous reading — finish a comic or book and jump straight to the next one, without leaving the reader

Milestone 11

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 12

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 13

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 14

Open Library, rebuilt

A free, store-style place to discover your next read.

  • A fully redesigned Open Library view, built like a bookstore — featured picks, categories and collections
  • Free comics and manga alongside free books, wherever legally available
  • Everything free, one tap away from your library

Milestone 15

Audiobooks & text-to-speech

Listen to your library, not just read it.

  • Audiobook support — play, resume and keep your place
  • Text-to-speech for any EPUB, with natural voices
  • Switch between reading and listening without losing your spot

Milestone 16

KOReader sync

Read on your e-ink device, pick up on iPhone or iPad.

  • Send books from Andrea Reader to your e-ink devices
  • Reading progress synced both ways through KOReader Sync
  • Notes and highlights synced too
  • Every session in your stats — including where you read it

Milestone 17

Immersive reading

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

  • Image upscaling, right-to-left and double-page modes for comics and manga
  • Paper-style backgrounds, plus a built-in dictionary and Wikipedia lookup for EPUB. Great for books

Milestone 18

More formats

Open more of what you already own.

  • AZW3, MOBI, DjVu and Word (DOC, DOCX)