Gerty - eBook reader for epub, journal, notes, photos and maps
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Free | Appstafarian Limited | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
READING FEATURES
- Open books in the EPUB format
- Separate library for paper and eInk books, magazines, and other publications
- Scan barcodes to look up info and covers of your paper books
- Organise your books in shelves
- Bulk manage, sort and filter books
- Advanced EPUB formatting including margins and spacing
- Vastly improved EPUB rendering based on Marvin's fantastic display engine
- Specialty OpenDyslexic font
- Vertical scroll reading design
- Auto scroll with variable speed and estimated reading time (*)
- Screen edge detection for paging
- Apply screen warmth for comfortable nighttime reading
- EPUB 3 popup footnotes
- Automatically add definitions you’ve learnt to your timeline (*)
- Link to custom dictionary apps and web services (*)
- Create custom commands to integrate with many apps and services (*)
- One-tap Dropbox access to your EPUB books
- Drag and drop books using iTunes
JOURNALLING & NOTE TAKING FEATURES
- Keep a personal journal, notes, a private blog, marginalia, or write a photo essay while you're reading
- Relive memories by browsing your entries and notes on maps
- Save passages and notes as journal entries
- Take photos and process them with stunning effects
- Unified timeline
- Photo and tag browser
- Share journal entries and photos
- Geo-tag entries
- Full screen photo and entry browsing
- All your entries are private
- Export your timeline to an EPUB journal (*)
OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES
- Works beautifully on iPhone 6 and 6 Plus
- Passcode lock (*)
- Native maps support
- Efficient cloud syncing and backups using Dropbox (*)
- Sound effects
- In-book reading timers (*)
- Daily reading and journalling reminders
- Modern iOS features including parallax and motion effects
- Detects GPS and date information from photo EXIF data
- Light and dark UI themes (*)
- In-book UI automatically switches to night mode when the screen is dimmed (*)
- AirDrop, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and iMessage sharing
- Powerful URL schemes to integrate with other apps
NOTES
- Gerty opens DRM-free EPUB books with basic support for EPUB 3
- Barcode lookups might not work for all books
- OpenDyslexic currently supports the basic Latin character set
- Dropbox access and syncing requires a Dropbox account
(*) Some premium features require a single, one-time, “unlock everything” in-app purchase.
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Reviews
Dropbox no longer supported
Thepopeboy
Due to a dropbox upgrade, currently Gerty does NOT support dropbox sync. The ONLY reason I purchased.
Perfect for me
sandimacd
I was looking for a reader that can handle Gutenberg Project books by verticals scrolling. I read on my iPad, have had cataract surgery and require 3.5 readers. I have problems with only the center of my glasses being in focus- the rest of my screen is not a clear- so I prefer verticals scrolling. I can keep my eye focused in one place and move the text rapidly into that field of vision. It's especially useful in portrait mode if I am reading in bed on my side before falling asleep. I like the ability to size the font and space the lines and adjust the color of the page and brightness. Combined, these features very much improve my reading enjoyment. It's very easy to find an epub format of free online books and then "open" it in this app. Nice library of icon-images of the books. I don't really use any other features. I am a fast reader, often finishing it in a couple of days.
Best ebook reader
Discard77
It is easy to switch color modes and change text sizes. I love the auto scroll.
App Support?
tinathetinytaco
I can’t get the dyslexia font to work. When I went to try to contact support, I was just redirected to their page with no info on how to contact support. I was really excited to use this app because of the font.
Zero Support
Janniel
Bought app, had a problem, multiple tries to get in touch with support, was ignored.
OK for reading - BAD for notes
daaav75
Came here for auto scroll but disappointed by how the note taking is handled. This app could use serious update: Sharing/Copy/pasting text only results in pasting the cover image of the book in your text document/email. If you stay within the app, it works alright but then it gets hard/impossible to organize your notes when you’re a writer doing research etc and need to move your text around. If you dont need anything else than reading, maybe that app is for you.
iPhone X support
Bebrntnnrntdnr
Please update for iPhone X support. I can’t say how much I like it, as I just downloaded it. Thank you!
Dropbox Syncing
Jewjsheoxh
Dropbox syncing does not work and their website provides not information as to how to troubleshoot it nor is their tech staff responsive.
Was great but doesn’t get support anymore
Katainthedark
App hasn’t been updated in 2 years, Dropbox downloads no longer works, all my ebooks are there so it’s useless now if I can’t retrieve them. Not as useful as it used to be. I loved this app and super disappointed that it’s been abandoned. Looking for something better now.
Not a replacement for Marvin
CaffeineIV
I'm not sure if the developer is phasing Marvin out, but this app won't allow users to customize metadata the way Marvin will. The info pane is hard to find, and once found, it links to web services like wikipedia without offering the option to edit the information presented. This makes it extremely difficult to correct an issue with sorting, such as author by first name first vs last name first in the author sort field. I had hoped that this app would allow more complete management of my library than Marvin does, but Gerty also only offers one level sorting. Ideally, I would be able to manually sort my cover view, or sort by author, then series. Both apps stop at one level of sorting, though.
