Questions and answers

Downloading is free. The first 7 days you have every feature; after that Lexory is bought once, for $9.99 or the equivalent in your currency, and stays yours. There is no subscription and nothing is charged automatically.

No. The only purchase is the lifetime unlock. The free trial is also an App Store purchase — at $0 — which is why the App Store asks you to confirm it.

No. The trial is tied to your Apple ID, so it is one trial for all your devices, and reinstalling doesn’t reset it. When it ends, the app shows the purchase screen until you buy or restore.

Install Lexory on the iPad with the same Apple ID and tap Restore Purchases on the purchase screen or in More ▸ Lexory Pro. A purchase belongs to the Apple ID that made it and can’t be moved to another one. Lexory is not shared through Family Sharing.

Make sure the iPad or iPhone is signed in to the App Store with the Apple ID you bought with, then tap Restore Purchases. If that doesn’t help, write to us with the support code from More ▸ Lexory Pro — it lets us find the purchase without any personal data. Refunds are handled by Apple, not by the developer.

Books: EPUB, FB2, TXT, PDF, and DRM-free Kindle formats — MOBI, PRC, AZW, AZW3 — including inside ZIP archives. Audiobooks: MP3, M4B and M4A, as single files or whole folders.

Only if they are free of DRM. Lexory doesn’t remove copy protection; it reads files you own and can open in the Files app. Public-domain books from Project Gutenberg, books from Calibre, Standard Ebooks and DRM-free bookshops work.

There is no bookstore in Lexory. Through OPDS catalogs you can browse and download books from Project Gutenberg (built in) and from your own Calibre, Calibre-Web, Kavita or Komga server. All other books you add yourself — see How to add books.

Two public-domain books are in the library on first launch: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Chekhov’s The Lady with the Dog.

Yes. The iOS voices on your device work offline, and so do the neural voices you download once in the Speech sheet — for all eight languages of the app — and the enhanced and premium iOS voices you add in iOS Settings. Cloud voices — OpenAI, Yandex — are optional: Lexory uses them only if you choose them and agree to send the text, and OpenAI and Yandex need your own key.

Yes. Save a chapter or the whole book as an audiobook: an M4B file with chapters is created on the device and appears in the Audio tab. The files are also visible in Files ▸ On My iPhone ▸ Lexory ▸ Audiobooks.

Yes. Audiobooks and read-aloud continue in the background, with controls on the Lock Screen, in headphones and in CarPlay. The player has chapters, speed, bookmarks and a sleep timer.

Double-tap a word for a quick translation, or touch and hold a word or a phrase, then Translate. By default Lexory uses Apple Translation on the device — iOS may ask to download a language pack once; its language list is Apple’s. You can switch to DeepL, Google Cloud Translation or Yandex Translate with your own API key. Translations are saved to your Dictionary with the sentence from the book and reviewed with flashcards.

English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Dutch, Italian and Russian. Lexory follows the device language; to change it for Lexory only: Settings ▸ Apps ▸ Lexory ▸ Language.

Through your own iCloud, on by default. Reading and listening positions, bookmarks, highlights, notes, words, collections and settings sync automatically. Book files sync when Store Books in iCloud is on (More ▸ Sync); they are stored in your iCloud Drive and count toward your iCloud storage. Sync can be turned off in More ▸ Sync.

None. No account, no ads, no analytics, no server of ours. The one exception is the purchase of the app itself, which is verified by RevenueCat with an anonymous ID — no name or email. Text is sent to a cloud voice or an online translator only if you choose one and agree first. Details are in the privacy policy.

Deleted books stay in Recently Deleted for 30 days. Lexory also keeps backups of your library data in its folder on the device.

Lexory is an iPhone and iPad app for iOS 18 and later. On a Mac with Apple silicon it installs from the Mac App Store and runs as the iPad app — with keyboard, trackpad, drag and drop and multiple windows; it doesn’t run on Intel Macs. There is no Android or Windows version.