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A light-novel reader for iPhone & iPad

Read light novels,
beautifully.

Lipex is a reader for iPhone and iPad that gets out of the way. Build a library that is yours, make the page look the way you like, read offline, and watch the hours add up — novel by novel.

Contents

  1. I.Your libraryshelf
  2. II.The readerpage
  3. III.The reading journeyhours
  4. IV.Offline, and out the doorpocket
  5. V.Tracking and backupskeep
  6. VI.Free, and Proterms
Chapter I

Your library

Everything you save lands in one place. Sort it into categories, search inside it, and pick up exactly where you left off — the next chapter is one tap from the cover.

Lipex ships empty on purpose. You connect a repository, and its catalogues appear under Browse. Pin the ones you use; the rest stay out of your way.

Chapter II

The reader

Tap the middle of the page and the controls come up; tap again and they go. Colour presets from paper to pure black, a curated set of reading fonts, text size, line height and margins — and, if you like, a photo of your own behind the words.

In This Life, I Will Be Your Dog · Chapter 11

Despite being praised as the “Goddess of the Sword” for her exceptional swordsmanship, her position was nothing more than a “dog” of the imperial family.

The titles that followed her name were leashes, every one.

64%12h 30m read

Prefer to listen? Text-to-speech reads with the natural voices already on your phone, and the Lock Screen controls work like they do for any audiobook.

Chapter III

The reading journey

Lipex keeps a quiet record of your reading: a streak for the days you showed up, a daily goal if you want one, a ring on the Home Screen widget, and a monthly recap of what you read and for how long.

None of it nags. It is there when you want to look.

Chapter IV

Offline, and out the door

Download chapters from a novel's page and they open with no connection — on the train, on a plane, in the one café with no signal. Chapters you have not downloaded say so plainly instead of showing a broken page, and pick up on their own once you are back online.

Want to keep a novel somewhere else? Export it as a standard EPUB and open it in any reader you like.

Chapter V

Tracking and backups

  • Tracking — link AniList, MyAnimeList, Kitsu or MangaUpdates and your progress follows you.
  • Backups — back up locally, to Google Drive, or to your own server. Restoring merges into the library you already have; nothing is deleted to make room.
  • No account — your library and reading data live on your device and in your own backups. There is no Lipex server holding them.
Chapter VI

Free, and Pro

Reading is free, and always will be — every novel, every chapter, offline or not. Lipex Pro is the customisation on top: app themes, reader themes and custom colours, background images, extra fonts, the widget, deeper statistics, and the alternate app icons.

Pro is a subscription managed by Apple, which means cancelling is the same two taps as for anything else, and it works on every device signed in with your Apple ID.