Silveran Reader

A book reading app for ebooks, audiobooks, and readaloud books, with tight Storyteller integration.

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Implemented Features

• Support for ebooks, audiobooks, and readaloud books
• iOS, macOS, tvOS, CarPlay and Apple Watch support
• Playback readaloud books with audio-text sync (with mid-sentence page flips)
• Storyteller server integration (optional)
• Customizable playback speed (0.75x - 10x)
• Customizable fonts, spacing, margins, and colors
• EPUB and M4B format support
• Sleep timer
• Full text search
• Offline reading

Screenshots

macOS

Reader	Reader

iOS

Library	Reader	Reader

watchOS

Main	Library	Player	Readaloud

tvOS

Library	Reader

Design Goals

• First-class support for reading ebooks with synced audio narration (readaloud books)
• Native look and feel, especially on desktop (macOS only currently)
• Support full integration into a storyteller server, including progress sync
• Support usage as a standalone desktop app
• Allow a highly customizable reading experience

Development Goals

• Cross-platform native desktop experience as a primary target
• Re-use existing ecosystem when possible (foliate-js, storyteller)
• Modular approach to enable the suite to grow into more use cases in the future
• Minimum dependencies, in order to enable a portable cross-platform implementation. Reinventing the wheel is preferable to limiting our target platforms.

Roadmap

Currently the macOS Reader app is the priority (with iOS a close second). However, the hope is to support Linux in the future, with potential plans to expand to Windows in the distant future. I don't read on Windows or Android, so these targets may require an interested contributor.

Building From Source

See the contributing documentation for more information. This project is highly experimental currently, so no pre-built executables are available. This is expected to change once things are more complete.

Swift Package Consumers

Silveran exposes its shared model and app shells as SwiftPM products:

• SilveranKit contains the platform-neutral core library.
• SilveranAppleKit contains the SwiftUI app shells for macOS, iOS, tvOS, and watchOS.
• SilveranContentServer provides the optional macOS local content-server integration.
• SilveranReadaloud provides the optional readaloud alignment engine.

An Apple host app can import SilveranAppleKit and call the platform entry point from its own @main trampoline:

import SilveranAppleKit

@main
enum HostApp {
    static func main() {
        #if os(macOS)
        macAppEntryPoint()
        #elseif os(iOS)
        iosAppEntryPoint()
        #elseif os(tvOS)
        tvAppEntryPoint()
        #elseif os(watchOS)
        watchAppEntryPoint()
        #endif
    }
}

Optional integrations are injected with SilveranEnvironment. Link SilveranContentServer on macOS and SilveranReadaloud on macOS or iOS when those capabilities should be present. Features backed by a missing provider are hidden by the UI.

The entry points install the Apple platform services (audio playback, now-playing and remote commands, keychain, font metadata) automatically. To substitute your own implementations, call SilveranPlatform.bootstrap(...) before the entry point and it will be respected.

Host apps must provide their own bundle identifiers, signing, entitlements, and Info.plist values. The local Xcode project is the reference configuration for keychain access groups, local-network usage text, iOS background fetch/audio modes, CarPlay scene configuration, watch app embedding, and the platform minimums declared in Package.swift.

The bundled reader web assets and Storyteller title font are SwiftPM resources on SilveranAppleKit, so consumers do not need separate Xcode resource phases for WebResources, foliate-js, or fonts.

Privacy Policy

Silveran Reader does not collect any data whatsoever. All your reading data stays on your device (or syncs to your own self-hosted Storyteller server if you choose to configure one).