Now on iPhone, iPad, Mac & Web

A quiet place to read
the books you own.

Bokkz is a calm, editorial reader for your own library. Import your books, keep your place across every device, and make notes that stay yours.

Free to read your own books. No ads, ever.
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
On Slow Mountains
I. Okonkwo
Walden
H. D. Thoreau
Meditations
Letters from Paris
É. Vaillant
Marrow & Honey
S. Linde
Twelve Silmarils
L. Beckett
Reading first

The page is the product. Chrome stays out of the way until you reach for it.

Yours, synced

Your position follows you across phone, tablet, Mac and the web in about five seconds.

Notes stay private

Highlights and notes are yours by default. Nothing is shared, mined, or sold.

Books you own

Bring DRM-free EPUB, PDF and MOBI. No store, no lock-in, no subscription to read.

Bring your own books

Your library, not a bookstore.

Bokkz doesn't sell you books — it reads the ones you already own. Drop in DRM-free EPUB, PDF, or MOBI and Bokkz parses chapters, covers, and metadata into a shelf you control.

EPUB · PDF · MOBI
Automatic chapter & cover detection
Organize with shelves and smart rules
Import 4 books
Parsing
Small Repairs
Small Repairs
J. Tomlin
EPUB
A Hand-Drawn Atlas
P. Mehrotra
A Hand-Drawn Atlas
P. Mehrotra
PDF
72%
The Iron Almanac
K. Marsden
The Iron Almanac
K. Marsden
EPUB
40%
A Quiet Shore
M. Halberstam
A Quiet Shore
M. Halberstam
MOBI
12%
Drop EPUB, PDF or MOBI files here
Every device

Put it down here. Pick it up there.

Start a chapter on the train, finish it on the couch. Bokkz syncs your exact position, bookmarks, and notes across iPhone, iPad, Mac and the web — usually within five seconds.

Position syncs in ~5 seconds
Works offline, reconciles later
Per-device reading settings
Walden · Ch. IV
Synced · just now
iPhone
Left off at p. 134
Just now
iPad
Synced to p. 134
5s ago
This Mac
Synced to p. 134
5s ago
Web
Synced to p. 134
6s ago
Notes & highlights

Marginalia that stays yours.

Select a passage with two fingers, choose a color, and write. Your highlights and notes live in one searchable index across every book — private by default, never mined.

Four highlight colors
Searchable across your whole library
Export to Markdown anytime

We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
Repeat until I believe its opposite.
Walden · p. 12
"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!"
Walden · p. 96
"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in."
Epigraph for the draft.
Walden · p. 118

"It's the first reading app that feels like it respects the act of reading. Nothing nudges me, nothing counts my streaks. I just read."

Mara Whitfield · essayist & long-time reader

Bring your books home.

Free to start. Read what you own, on every screen you have.