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Summon it from anywhere
One shortcut slides Edgeleaf out over whatever you’re doing, even a full-screen app. Press it again and it’s gone.
The margin reader
Edgeleaf
A book that waits at the edge of your screen. Pull it out for a page, tuck it away, and pick up exactly where you left off.
Reading on the side
Always a moment away, never in the way.
Or rest on the edge
Leave your cursor on the screen edge and a small tab peeks out with the book you’re reading. Click it to open.
esc
Click away to tuck it
Go back to your work and Edgeleaf slips out of sight, keeping your place to the paragraph. Pin it to keep it open beside you.
Try it here
The real Edgeleaf, right on this page.
This is the app itself, running in your browser with a few example books. Open one and read, select a sentence to highlight it, or look around the library. Nothing here is saved.
Made for reading
Everything a good book needs, nothing it doesn’t.
One continuous scroll
No page turns. EPUB, PDF and plain-text books flow as one long page, and PDFs reflow to fit a narrow panel.
Typeset like a book
Chapters open with a drop cap and a small-caps first line, under a running head that always knows where you are.
Highlights and a notebook
Mark passages in four colours, add notes, leave a mark where you stopped, and keep a notebook for every book.
Define any word
Select a word to see what it means, from your Mac’s dictionary or Wiktionary.
Shelves and sets
Arrange your own shelves, or browse by genre. Bind a series into a set that stands as one and opens in reading order.
Fix the text
Correct a typo, mend a broken paragraph, or remove every page number and site notice at once. The file itself is never touched.
Four themes, fine type
Paper, sepia, dusk and night, with typefaces chosen for long reading. Auto-scroll when your hands are busy.
Private by design
No account and no tracking. Your books, highlights and notes stay on your computer.
Opening it for the first time
One extra click, once.
On a Mac
Edgeleaf isn’t signed with an Apple developer certificate yet, so macOS asks you to confirm it once:
- Open the download and drag Edgeleaf into Applications, then open it.
- macOS says it can’t check the app. Click Done.
- Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway.
From then on it opens like any other app, and lives in your menu bar.
On Android
Open the download. The first time, Android asks whether your browser may install apps: tap Settings, switch on Allow from this source, go back and tap Install. If Play Protect calls it an unrecognised app, tap More details → Install anyway.
Updates install the same way, over the top, keeping your books.
On Windows
Run the installer. If Windows shows “Windows protected your PC”, click More info, then Run anyway.
Edgeleaf lives in the system tray (it may be under the ^ arrow). Its icon turns to an outline while it’s tucked away.
Edgeleaf is free.
No trial, no ads, no account. If it earns a place at the edge of your screen, you can buy me a coffee.
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