From the makers of TESORIN

A quiet room for your reading.

Apricity's bookshelf on a Mac, an iPad, a folding iPhone and an iPhone: the Captain’s Cabin room with navy shelves on a nautical wallpaper on the Mac, white oak shelves in morning light on the iPad, notebooks on a rose wallpaper, and a misty lake on the iPhone

Apricity a·pri·ci·ty · noun The warmth of the sun on a winter’s day.

Some of the best reading happens late, when the house has gone quiet and a single lamp makes a small warm room inside the larger dark one. Apricity is built around that feeling: a reading room for the PDFs and EPUBs you already have, and a desk for the notes you make from them.

For reading

Shelve.

A sunlit shelf for your PDFs.

Add a PDF or EPUB and it stands on a wooden shelf, lit by a desk lamp at night and by daylight in the morning. Name your shelves, search inside any book, and pick up right where you left off.

Read.

Two ways to read every page.

Original shows the page exactly as it was published, recoloured for the light you read by. Reflow sets the words like a book, in the type, size and spacing you choose. Scanned PDFs are read with on-device text recognition.

Mark up.

Write right on the PDF.

Highlight a paragraph, circle a figure, answer the questions on a worksheet. Your writing is kept beside the file, never inside it, so the PDF stays exactly as it was.

Listen.

Tired eyes? Let a voice read on.

Read Aloud lights up the words as they’re read and keeps going with the screen locked, with a sleep timer for bed. Choose Apple’s voices, or Kokoro: 54 natural voices in eight languages, each with a face, that run entirely on your device. In the car, CarPlay reads on from where you left off.

Apricity's bookshelf on iPhone, with a book to continue reading

For writing

Write.

Notebooks that feel like paper.

Every book gets its own notebook, and MySpace keeps the rest. Write with Apple Pencil or a finger and pinch in close; the page stays sharp. Choose from 69 kinds of paper, from Cornell notes to music staff, or bring in a PDF to write on.

Record.

Tap a note, hear that moment.

Record the lecture as you write, then tap anything you wrote to hear what was being said right then. With Premium, a recording becomes a transcript, made on your device.

Review.

Quiz yourself from your notes.

Smart Notes gives you a summary of a notebook, a quick quiz on it, or answers to your questions about it. They’re made on your device with Apple Intelligence, so your notes never leave it.

Settle in.

Make it feel like your room.

Furnish the room in one tap with a theme, from Misty Lake to Rose Cottage, or choose from 16 wallpapers, 13 woods and seven lamps. Then light the fire, start the focus timer, and give your study your full attention.

MySpace: a shelf of notebooks with illustrated covers

One quiet room, on every device

Wherever you read, the room comes with you.

Apricity runs on iPhone and iPad, and on a Mac with Apple silicon as its iPad app. With iCloud sync, your notebooks, notes, highlights, Markup and recordings follow you through your own private iCloud. Your books stay on each device.

At the desk.

Write beside the lecture, then tap a line to hear it again the night before the exam.
In bed, lights out.

A soft night page that won’t wake anyone, or a voice that reads on with the screen locked.
By the fire.

A crackling grate, a bright forest morning or rain on the roof, all made on the device.

Your books stay with you

No account. Nothing to sign in to.

On your device.

Your books, notes, notebooks and recordings live on your iPhone or iPad. We never see them.

In your own iCloud.

Sync travels through your private iCloud, where only you can see it, and you can turn it off in Settings.

No ads, no tracking.

Reading, notes, notebooks, sounds and the focus timer all work offline. The Privacy Policy has the details.

Free

Read and take notes. Keep it free.

Free forever · try everything for 14 days

PDFs, EPUBs & your own shelves
Original & Reflow reading
Highlights, notes & Markup on PDFs
Notebooks with 7 Classic covers
Recording in notebooks
iCloud sync

Download free

14 days free

Premium

Everything in Free, plus listening and more.

Read Aloud with every voice & sleep timer
Transcripts & Smart Notes
Export notes & notebooks
Crafted & Illustrated covers, stickers & washi
Sounds to read by & the focus timer
Furnish the room & use your own fonts

Try it free

Prices shown in USD. Final price appears in your App Store. Apricity Premium is an auto-renewing yearly subscription: it renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and you can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. When Premium ends, nothing you made is deleted. Terms of Use

How do I add a book?

Tap + on the shelf and choose a PDF or EPUB from Files, drag one in from another app, or use Share → Apricity from wherever the book is. Apricity keeps its own copy, so the original can stay where it is. Books protected with DRM by the store they came from, and password-protected PDFs, can’t be opened.

Does Apricity need an account or the internet?

No account, ever. Reading, notes, notebooks, soundscapes and the focus timer all work offline. The internet is used for iCloud sync when it’s on, for the App Store and checking Premium, and to download the Kokoro voice if you choose to.

How does iCloud sync work?

Turn it on or off in Apricity’s Settings → iCloud. Your shelves, highlights, notes, notebooks and reading places sync through your own iCloud to your other devices on the same Apple Account. Your PDFs and EPUBs stay on each device: add the same file on another device and its highlights and notes are there waiting.

How do I cancel Premium or ask for a refund?

In Apricity, open Settings and use Manage Subscription or Request a Refund under Apricity Premium. You can also cancel in your device’s Settings → your name → Subscriptions. Deleting the app doesn’t cancel a subscription.

Pull up a chair, and read by the lamp.

Apricity is free to download, with 14 days of Premium on us.