๐Last 7 days+75 installs โ 43% slower than the week before (+132) ยท 8/day since Oct 9
๐Among Books & Reference appstop 11% by installs gained this week (326 peers growing)
โญRating steady at โ 5.00 since Oct 9
๐ Updatesactively updated ยท updated 8 days ago ยท every ~14 days (2 updates tracked)
Installs since launch
+207 installs
ยท +14 ratings
since Oct 9
Update history
1.38.1Nov 2, 2026
๐ Rotating your phone keeps your place and looks calmer: no more jumps to the end of the book.<br>๐ Sync over Google Drive fixed: devices see each other's progress within seconds.<br>๐ง Audio settings redesigned: one voice card, calm icon buttons.<br>๐ฃ๏ธ One "Manage voices" sheet for every engine, speech server included.<br>๐ A slow speech server gets time to wake up, with a clear
1.35.0Oct 19, 2026 ยท seen Oct 24, 2026
๐ฅ๏ธ Connect your own speech server (OpenAI-compatible) and pick its voice per language.<br>๐ Long-press a word to look it up, also while listening.<br>๐ง M4B audiobooks get chapters: list, skip and lock screen title.<br>๐๏ธ EPUB3 audiobooks are followed sentence by sentence.<br>๐ฃ๏ธ Sentence highlight works with every system voice.<br>๐ Paragraphs flow across pages; fewer half-empty pages.<br>๐
Lectern: EPUB & PDF Reader is a books & reference app by Hofstack with 500+ downloads (about 576 estimated). +75 installs in the last 7 days. Rated 5.0 from 55 ratings. Released Jun 13, 2026. Install growth, rank history, SDKs and ad networks.
From the store listing: โOffline text to speech ebook reader. AI voices highlight each spoken sentence.โ
