62%Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
An EPUB & PDF reader for iPhone and iPad
Your books, beautifully read.
Walnut Reader opens the books you already own — EPUB or PDF, from anywhere — and gives them a page worth sitting down for. Two ways to read, four themes, your own typefaces, bookmarks, search, and a real record of the time you spend. All of it on your device. None of it in the cloud.
Free · No account · No ads · No tracking · iOS 17 or later · 16 classics included
Continue Reading, your shelves, and every book — in one place.
Contents
Chapter I
Your library, kept in order.
The library starts empty, the way a real shelf does. Then it fills — with the classics that ship inside the app, with your own files, with whatever you drop in from the Files app.
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Books you have opened wait at the top of the library, most recent first, each with its cover, its author, and how far in you are. A book joins the moment you open it — you do not have to turn a page first — and it stays until you reach the end. Finish a book and it moves to a Finished shelf of its own; re-open it and it comes straight back.
Sort, shelve, arrange
The full list shows every book with its own progress bar. Order it by date added, title, or author — or switch the whole list to a three-across shelf of covers, for the pleasure of looking at it. Long-press any row to edit the title and author (the file on disk is renamed to match), or to file the book onto one of your collections.
Collections are shelves you name yourself: school, work, a mood, a year. Each shelf card shows the first four covers and a count. Every shelf keeps its own sort order — including a Manual mode that unlocks drag-to-reorder — so tidying a shelf never disturbs the library.
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38%Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
100%Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
12%Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Odyssey
The Odyssey
Homer
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Moby-Dick
Frankenstein
Pride and Prejudice
DraculaBram Stoker
Dracula
The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Chapter II
The page, set your way.
This is the part most readers get wrong: they set the type once and never touch it again. So every control lives one tap away — on a single settings page with a live preview of the page you are actually reading.
Two ways to move through a book
Page Turns lays the whole book into pages: chapters always begin on a fresh page, the toolbar shows “9 / 228”, and a tap in the left third of the page goes back, the right third moves on. Vertical Scroll drops the columns and runs the book as one continuous column, edge to edge, with the chrome floating over the text. Long-press the settings button to flip between them without opening anything.
Set it up in one sheet
Themes, typefaces, size, margins, alignment, brightness — each card updates the preview above it, so you are never guessing what a setting will do. The brightness slider moves your actual screen, not a dimming layer, and the typeface menu accepts a font of your own: drop in a .ttf, .otf, or .ttc and it joins the list.
Size — 18 pt
Page margins
Paragraph alignment
I: Down the Rabbit-Hole
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?”
So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
The text above is the real opening of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland from the app’s bundled library, set with the same numbers the app uses. On iOS one CSS pixel is one point, so 18 pt here is 18 pt on your phone.
Page Turns: a chapter starts at the top of a page, and the counter keeps your place.
One settings page: preview, brightness, theme, typography, layout.
Chapter III
Find your place again.
Three ways back to a line you lost: the book's own contents, a bookmark you dropped, or a search across the whole book — not just the chapter you happen to be in.
Contents
Bookmarks
Titlepage1
Etymology2
Extracts3
I: Loomings12
II: The Carpetbag24
III: The Spouter-Inn31
IV: The Counterpane45
The real contents of Moby-Dick as the app reads them out of the book itself — every entry the publisher wrote — each showing the page it starts on in your current layout, re-measured whenever the type changes.
Bookmarks that toggle
The ribbon in the top bar is solid when the page you are on holds a bookmark and hollow when it does not. Tap once to mark the page, tap again to clear it. Long-press the ribbon and the whole list opens, newest first, each entry labelled with the nearest chapter and waiting to take you back.
Search inside the book
Type a word and the app walks the entire book — every chapter, not the one on screen — showing a snatch of text with your word picked out and the page it lands on. Tap a result and the reader jumps there and flashes the match.
Chief among these motives was the overwhelming idea of the great whale himself.
Presently up breaches from the bottom of the sea a bouncing great whale, with a milky-white head and hump, all crows’ feet and wrinkles.
Both snippets are real lines from the bundled Moby-Dick. In the app, search runs over the whole book on your device and jumps straight to the match.
Chapter IV
Your reading life, counted.
Not a scoreboard. A quiet record of how much you read, and when — kept on your device, kept to yourself.
Today
42m
Reading time
12h 40m
Words read
184,200
Current streak
9 days
Longest streak
14 days
This week
Moby-Dick3h 12m · 214 pages
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland1h 48m · 96 pages
Frankenstein56m · 61 pages
Sample data. Yours will look like you.
Time is counted only while the reader is on screen — the clock pauses the moment you leave — and words are counted as you move forward, never twice for the same passage. A streak survives a day you have not read yet. And when you want the record gone, one row deletes it: books, shelves, and bookmarks stay exactly where they are.
Chapter V
Fill the shelves.
Three ways in, and no store account required for any of them.
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Find Books
Free, and legal
Standard Ebooks and Project Gutenberg open in Safari; the EPUB you download comes back to the app through Add Books. Or tap Add Samples and sixteen classics are in your library a second later.
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2
Add Books
Your own files
Pick several EPUBs and PDFs at once from the document picker — each one imports, and you never have to do them one at a time.
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Files
Drop them in
The app's folder is visible in Files, under On My iPhone → Walnut Reader. Drop a book in and it appears in the library. Or send one from any other app with “Open in Walnut Reader”.
The sixteen bundled classics
- 1Alice’s Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll
- 2Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky
- 3DraculaBram Stoker
- 4FrankensteinMary Shelley
- 5MeditationsMarcus Aurelius
- 6Moby-DickHerman Melville
- 7Pirates of VenusEdgar Rice Burroughs
- 8Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen
- 9The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle
- 10The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas
- 11The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald
- 12The IliadHomer
- 13The Line of LoveJames Branch Cabell
- 14The Mystery of Edwin DroodCharles Dickens
- 15The OdysseyHomer
- 16The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde
Public-domain editions, included with the app and free to keep. The library itself starts empty — the classics arrive the moment you ask for them.
Chapter VI
Private by design.
No account. No ads. No analytics. Nothing leaves your device unless you send it.
no sign-upno serverno trackingno advertsno analytics SDKno cloud upload
There is no Walnut account to make and no Walnut server to talk to. The only time the app touches the network is when you tap a storefront — that opens Safari, and the book you download arrives like any other file. Your library, your place in each book, your bookmarks, and your statistics live in the app's own database on the device in your hand. The app's privacy manifest declares exactly what it touches: your settings, and nothing else.
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Free · iPhone and iPad · iOS 17 or later · 16 classics included · No account needed