A free reader for the books you already own — a shelf you arrange, not a database you manage.
A book is already on the shelf when you arrive — you're reading within seconds, no account, nothing to set up. No subscription, ever — pay once for everything around it.
The reader is free — highlights, dictionary, translation, read-aloud, themes, all of it. No trial, no account, no caps. Not a teaser for a paid tier.
Your library, reading position, highlights and files stay on your device or in your own cloud. Fully offline. Never hosted, never tracked, never locked in.
Plus is a single purchase — your cloud shelf, sync across devices, PDFs turned into comics. Pay once and it is yours. There is no monthly anything.
Everything here is free, forever — the whole reader, not a trial of one. No account, no caps, and nothing that stops working later.
EPUB, and the Kindle formats too — MOBI and AZW3, as long as they’re DRM-free. Plus FB2, plain text, HTML and Markdown — and your comics and manga, CBZ, CBR and the rest, on the same shelf. No conversion step and no import wizard: the file you have is the file it reads.
Every format
Real typesetting, not a stylesheet: kerning on, old-style figures in the serif, punctuation that hangs into the margin, and a baseline grid the lines actually sit on. Nine reading themes, all free, including the ones for reading in the dark.
The page
Highlight a line and write on it. Look a word up without leaving the page, translate a passage, or have the book read aloud to you. All of it free, and none of it asks for an account.
While you read
Highlights leave as plain Markdown, whole and readable. Turn one into a quote card to share, and the Journal keeps the rest — what you read, when, and how far you got.
What you keep
Covers to browse, rows to compare, and a Journal for when you can’t decide what’s next. Sort six ways — including by the colour of the spine, so you find a book the way you do on a real shelf: that one was green.
The shelf
Drag in a file, a folder, or a whole Calibre library — hundreds import in the background, covers and metadata intact, while you keep browsing. It all leaves the same way: one file holds the lot, and one button puts it back.
In and out
Tag a book private and it leaves your shelf — and the Journal, the search and your notes with it. One switch brings it back, on that device only.
Private
One license · every device
read.tomen.app, an installable PWA that works fully offline.
The build is done and updates itself — just code-signing left before the public download.
The Android build runs; Play Store billing is the last step. Your one purchase will already cover it.
Books
Comics
Left out, on purpose
That’s what it does. How you work it is the next thing. See the gestures →
Built touch-first, not adapted to it. There is almost no chrome on a page of Tomen because there doesn’t need to be — every control is a gesture, and the gestures agree with each other. Pinch always resizes. Hold always means keep this. Learn one and you can guess the rest.
A page turns from its side — the whole edge is the target, so you never have to aim. The centre brings the reading menu in, and takes it away again.
Pinch always resizes, and only the thing under your fingers changes: covers in Gallery, rows in Sheet, the size of the type in a book.
Hold a book for its menu, right on the cover. Hold the centre of a page to keep your place — a thumb between the pages — then tap Return to come back to it.
On the shelf, the sort steps forward and back. In a book, down brings the menu; up starts selecting text and down leaves again.
In from the left edge for Settings, wherever you are. While you have text selected, they widen or narrow it — word, line, paragraph.
Drop one book onto another and the two become a collection; drop one onto a collection to add it. The shelf closes the gap behind them.
Comics and manga bring their own: pinch to zoom into the art and drag to pan, edges that turn the page — flipped for a right-to-left manga — and a layout that can be a single page, a spread, or one continuous scroll.
Good out of the box — Auto follows your system — and it rewards tuning. Nine themes and three reading faces are free; save any look as a profile. Accents, four experimental themes and photographic filters come with Plus.
Reading themes
Accent colour
Text size
Line height
Dark
The lamplighter moved house to house as the evening thinned to blue, and where he touched the flame the street woke one window at a time.
She watched from the landing — the hour she liked best, the one she could fold up and keep in a pocket against the colder months.
The reader is free and complete. Plus is for everything around it: your Dropbox shelf, PDFs turned into comics, every device on the same page. One payment, forever.
Point Tomen at the Dropbox folder your books already live in — a Calibre library, a decade of comics — and the whole shelf appears, sorted and searchable. Nothing downloads until you open a book. Your files never move, and access stays read-only: Tomen can’t change a thing you own.
Most graphic novels arrive as PDFs. Tomen turns one into a comic itself — no converter, no second app, no uploading it anywhere. Full quality, on your device; it takes a few minutes and you can keep reading while it works. What comes out is an ordinary comic on the same shelf as the rest.
Turn a page on one device and it lands on the others in about a second — position, highlights, notes, tags, collections. Only your reading state travels; your files never leave your device.
Tag a book with whatever it means to you — a mood, a course, a someday — then filter the shelf by any one of them. Your tags follow you across devices.
Group books into custom collections: a series, a course, a to-read pile. They follow you across every device.
The full accent palette, four experimental themes, photographic filters, and per-book typography — a serif for the novel, monospace for the manual, reopened exactly so.
On desktop, browse and download straight from your own OPDS catalog server — Calibre-Web, Komga, Kavita, anything that speaks OPDS.
Try all of it, free for 30 days.
No card, nothing to cancel. When it ends, you go back to the free reader.
No subscription — one payment, yours forever. Read everywhere: the web today, Windows and Android on the way.
No card required. 30 days, then back to the free reader. Trial survives a reinstall.
Not to read. An account is just an email, no password. It only carries your Tomen Plus licence and syncs your reading across devices.
Your books, progress and highlights live on your device. No ads, no tracking, nothing sold. Your files are never uploaded. Sync moves only your reading state, scoped to your account.
With Plus, your position, highlights, notes, tags, wordbook and collections stay in sync. Your other open devices update in about a second. Only your reading state travels; the book files never do.
It reads it, and nothing more. Tomen asks Dropbox for read-only access — the permission screen will say so — so it cannot edit, move or delete anything, even by accident. You pick the folder in Dropbox’s own window, and a book you open comes straight from Dropbox to your device; no server of ours ever sees it.
That's the point. Sideloaded EPUBs with broken metadata, odd encodings, big comic archives: Tomen is built for the real-world files a library accumulates, not just pristine ones. DRM-locked files are the one exception.
Yes — a comic or graphic novel PDF, which is what most of them are. Tomen turns it into pages on your device: no separate converter, no second app, and nothing is uploaded anywhere. A long one takes a few minutes and you can keep reading while it works. What you get is a comic — fixed pages you can zoom into — not reflowable text, so a text-heavy PDF is better served by an EPUB if one exists. Reading comics is free; converting a PDF into one is part of Plus.
You keep reading. Tomen is local-first: the reader works offline, your books are on your device, and one file backs up your whole library — the same file restores it, on this device or the next. Every highlight and note exports as plain Markdown besides. If sync ever stopped, you'd lose a convenience, not a page.
Yes. Turn on e-ink mode (Settings → Appearance) and Tomen redraws itself for the panel — real borders instead of the faint tints e-ink can’t show, no shadows or frosted glass, stronger quiet text. Your theme, type and layout are untouched. Free, like the rest of the reader.
No. No chatbot, no “summarise this chapter”, no generated anything. Tomen is a reader — it shows you the book and gets out of the way. Dictionary, translation and read-aloud use your device’s own tools, not a model of ours.
Email [email protected] and a real person answers — bugs get fixed, and good suggestions get built. For purchases, see the refund policy.
Tomen is built by one person. No ads, no tracking, nothing to sell but the reader itself. If something’s broken or missing, tell me — I read every message, and a lot of Tomen exists because a reader asked.
The complete reader is free, no account needed. Tomen Plus is a one-time $39. Yours on every device, forever.
