An EPUB and PDF reader that gets out of the way — then helps you keep what mattered. Highlights, a dictionary, spaced review and read aloud, all on your phone. No account, no ads, nothing uploaded unless you say so.
Free forever; supported by real people. Signed APK with a SHA-256 checksum on every release.
Import files, scan a folder, or use Android's Open with and share sheet. Duplicates are caught on the way in. Physical books get tracked too — progress, dates, notes and all.
Fonts (including your own), size, line height, margins, alignment, hyphenation, publisher styles, tap zones, volume keys and two-column landscape. Any book can keep its own settings.
Highlights, underlines, bookmarks and notes with hashtag tags. Import Kindle
My Clippings.txt, export Markdown, and turn any passage into a shareable quote card.
Double-tap any word. Save it to a spaced-review deck, see the unusual words in the chapter you're reading, and export your vocabulary to Anki CSV or plain Markdown.
Review your own passages on a spaced schedule: See soon, Got it or Know it well. Come back after a break and a recap waits with a recent highlight.
Sentence by sentence, marked on the page, across chapters. Start from a selection, pick any installed TTS engine and voice, set a sleep timer, and control it from the lock screen.
A Currently Reading card, shelves and series folders, and a two-book Read Next queue that suggests the next in the series — and warns before you break series order.
Preview then apply covers, series, genres and descriptions. Popular quotes appear as dotted marks in the text, kept apart from your own highlights.
Full-text search across titles, authors, series, tags, highlights, notes and chapter names. Prefix matching that keeps Malayalam and other Indic words whole.
Reading time and sessions, streaks, daily and yearly goals, books finished, and each book's started and finished dates with the days it took.
Point Vayana at a private GitHub repo you own. Position, books, notes, shelves and vocabulary travel between devices; book files and covers are encrypted with AES-GCM before upload.
Portable ZIP backup and restore, plus automatic backups to a folder you pick — daily, weekly or every 30 days. Deleted books wait in Recently deleted before they go.
Pick E-Ink as the display profile and Vayana changes how it behaves, not just how it looks — built for Boox and other paper-like Android screens.
Continuous motion is gone. Page-turn animation is off, reading progress is a static squiggle, and the reader clock updates only when you turn a page.
Highlight colours become shapes in solid black, so they stay distinct on a greyscale panel.
Hardware page buttons turn pages in the reader and page through long screens elsewhere — first press only, no runaway auto-repeat.
Library, Notes, Search, Settings, Shelves and Statistics gain corner controls that move one screen at a time instead of smearing a scroll across the panel.
Clear ghosting every chosen number of pages, when the reader menu closes, and on entering a new chapter. Read aloud marks whole sentences, not flickering words.
Bolder text, alignment and hyphenation controls for thin fonts; covers drawn in high-contrast greyscale; solid borders instead of faint tints.
Honest scope: the E-Ink profile uses portable Android behaviour, so it works across devices. Vendor-specific refresh modes such as the Onyx Boox SDK aren't integrated yet.
Your library lives on your phone. There is no Vayana account, no ads in the reading experience, and nothing leaves the device on its own. The dictionary is bundled, statistics are computed locally, and backups are plain ZIP files you keep. Goodreads lookups and sync happen only when you ask — and sync goes to a private GitHub repository you own, with book files and covers encrypted by a passphrase only your devices know.
System, light or dark, true black, or Material You colour. Paper, sepia, mint, sky and rose reader themes with warm-light and brightness controls. Bionic reading if it helps you, bolder text if your screen needs it, fullscreen and keep-awake when you're deep in a chapter. Standard or E-Ink, phone or tablet — the app adapts to the screen you read on.
“A good book asks for your whole attention. Vayana just makes room for it.”
വായന — Malayalam for reading.