New chapter out? You’ll know.
Your shelf checks for updates, sends a notification, and can download new chapters the moment they land.
Web novels, offline audiobooks
Paste a link. Listen offline.
Arc Reader pulls a whole web novel onto your phone, every chapter, then reads it aloud with natural voices that run on the device. No signal needed, no account needed.
How it works
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Find a novel
Paste its link, search across sources, or browse a site in the app. Sharing a page from your browser works too.
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Download it all
Every chapter comes down in the background, over Wi-Fi, and stays on your phone. New ones follow on their own.
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Read or listen
Open it anywhere, even in airplane mode, or tap Listen and let a voice on your phone read it to you.
01Import from the web
Any web novel, on your shelf.
Give Arc Reader the novel’s page and it finds every chapter, downloads them in the background and keeps the text clean for reading and listening. Close the app; the download carries on.
- Paste a link, search across sources, or use the in-app browser
- Share a novel straight from Safari or Chrome
- Every chapter downloaded, not streamed, Wi-Fi only by default
- The same novel from another site, when one is further ahead
- Missing a site? Request it from inside the app
Reads from
- Royal Road
- Scribble Hub
- Novel Updates
- Chrysanthemum Garden
- Creative Novels
- Honeyfeed
- WTR-Lab
- FanMTL
- NovelFull
- NovelBin
- Light Novel Pub
- Novel Fire
- LNMTL
- Story Seedling
- Readhive
- Baka-Tsuki
- Shanghai Fantasy
- Skydemon Order
- Wuxia Spot
- ReadNovelFull
- NovelHi
- Novelight
- Archive of Our Own
- 小説家になろう
- カクヨム
- AlphaPolis
- pixiv
- NovelUp+
- Akatsuki
- Novelpia
- 起点中文网
- 番茄小说
- 飞卢小说
- UU看书
- Rewayat
- KolNovel
- Chireads
- Novel France
- Novelas Ligeras
- SkyNovels
- Central Novel
- Novel Mania
- RanobeLib
- Ranobes
- Sakura Novel
- Novel Gecesi
- Project Gutenberg
and many more
Your own books too.
EPUB, PDF, MOBI, TXT and DOCX, read on the device with pictures kept. Link a folder, or pick from thousands of free classics.
02Offline text-to-speech
Your novel, now an audiobook.
Tap Listen and the chapter is read to you by a natural voice that runs on your phone itself. No internet, no streaming, no per-minute cost. It carries on from the lock screen and rolls into the next chapter.
- 140
- natural voices
- 31
- languages
- 0
- internet needed
- Every spoken word lights up as it is read
- Tap any paragraph to move the voice there
- Sleep timer, speed control and lock-screen controls
- Every voice already on your phone works too
Fix a name once. Fixed everywhere.
Pronunciation rules stop character names and cultivation terms being butchered, across a whole novel.
Rain, a fire, or soft piano.
Play a calm sound under the narration. It dips when the voice speaks.
03Reader
And when you’d rather read.
Themes, a dozen reading fonts, backgrounds and a paper page curl. Shape the page once and every novel opens that way.
- Light, sepia, dark, true black, or colours you mix yourself
- Paper page curl, slide, or one long scroll into the next chapter
- E-ink mode for Boox and other e-paper screens
- Volume keys turn pages; two-page spreads on tablets
04Translate
Read the raws in your language.
Connect your own AI key and Arc Reader translates the chapters ahead of you, keeps names consistent, and can set each translated paragraph under the original.
- Translate as you read, or a whole novel at once
- A bilingual layout: original and translation together
- Gemini, OpenAI, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Groq or any compatible service
- A dictionary and flashcards for the words you look up
Also in the app
Made for long nights and no signal.
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Download ahead
The next chapters are already on your phone as you read.
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Highlights and notes
Mark a line, note a chapter, and keep a notebook per book.
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Stats and ranks
Finished chapters earn points; a weekly leaderboard if you want one.
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Save as EPUB
Take anything you downloaded out of the app, translation included.
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Cloud backup
Your library backs itself up and returns on a new phone.
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Sync
Your place, highlights and settings on every device.
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Home-screen widget
Your shelf, progress and new chapters at a glance.
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Accessible
VoiceOver and TalkBack reach every screen. Right-to-left text just works.
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12 languages
The app speaks your language and follows your phone.
Pricing
Free to read. Pro if you want more.
Free
$0Import, download, read and listen.
- Import novels and download chapters
- Offline voices and your phone’s own voices
- A few ads while you read
- Earn coins as you read, spend them on voices or an ad-free day
Pro
SubscriptionFor readers who live in the app.
- No ads, anywhere
- Every neural voice unlocked
- Unlimited downloads
- Sync across devices
- Automatic cloud backup
- Save novels as EPUB
Cancel any time. Everything you downloaded stays on your phone.
Questions
Things you might ask.
Still curious? Write to us from the feedback sheet in the app. A person answers.
Which sites can I import from?
Hundreds of web novel and light novel sites in many languages, from Royal Road and Syosetu to Qidian. Paste the novel’s main page, the one that lists its chapters. Missing a site? Request it from inside the app.
Does read-aloud work without internet?
Yes. Offline voices run on your phone once they are downloaded, so listening needs no connection and uses no data. The voices built into your device work too, and playback carries on from the lock screen.
Is Arc Reader free?
Yes. Importing, downloading, reading and listening are free. The free version shows a few ads while you read; Pro removes them, or you can spend coins on an ad-free hour, day or week.
Do I need an account?
No. Open the app and start reading as a guest. Sign in later if you want your library on more than one device, and what you already have comes with you.
Can I really read offline?
Yes. Downloaded chapters are stored on your phone, and the reader never needs the network to open them. Downloads use Wi-Fi only unless you change it in Settings.
How does translation work?
AI translation runs on your own API key from Gemini, OpenAI, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Groq or any OpenAI-compatible service. Translations are saved with the chapter, so you never pay twice, and the original is one tap away.
What happens to my data?
In the app, what you read stays on your device by default. Sign-in details are kept in your phone’s secure storage, and nothing about your library is sold or shared. This website uses basic analytics for page views; see the privacy policy.
Begin
Your next audiobook is a link away.
Paste it, download the chapters, and listen on the couch, on a train, or somewhere with no signal at all.
Download the APK Android · no Play Store needed