Paste any link. Download every chapter. Read offline, listen on the move. Arc Reader turns any web novel into a clean, pocket-sized library — quietly, without an account wall.
He woke to the same ceiling, the same pale rectangle of morning on the wall, and for the third time he did not yet understand why. Outside, a cart was rolling past the dormitory.
Somewhere beneath him, the kitchens had already begun to burn the bread. If he was quick, and if he took the north stairs, he could reach the library before the hour learned to turn.
Every feature in Arc Reader maps back to one of these three ideas. If it doesn’t, it doesn’t ship.
Download a whole novel in one tap. Every chapter lives on your device — not a temporary cache you can lose on a bad signal. Read on planes, in subways, in the middle of nowhere.
Paste a URL, or share a link directly from your browser — the app resolves title, author, cover, chapters, and hands you a ready-to-read preview. No forms. No account wall.
A deeply customisable reading UI and native text-to-speech that plays in the background with lock-screen controls — including a sleep timer that fades out like the end of a chapter.
Drop a chapter link from Royal Road, WebNovel, NovelFull, AllNovel, NovGo, or any supported source. Arc Reader resolves the title, author, cover, and full chapter list in under a second — then hands you a preview sheet you can add with one tap. Or use the system share sheet from Safari, Chrome, or any reading app and skip the copy-paste entirely.
He woke to the same ceiling. The same pale rectangle of morning on the wall. For the third time, he had returned to the hour before the bell, and for the third time he did not yet understand why.
Outside, a cart was rolling past the dormitory, the way it always did, at the pace it always kept. Somewhere beneath him, the kitchens had already begun to burn the bread; and somewhere further, a student was cursing softly at a door that would not open.
If he was quick — if he took the north stairs this time, and if he remembered not to greet the girl on the landing — he could reach the library before the hour learned to turn.
He sat up. The loop was patient. He would have to be patient too.
Four themes — Light, Dark, Sepia, and AMOLED Black. Three font families. Three margin widths. Three line-heights. A font-size slider that goes from intimate to generous. Paginate with a page-turn, or let it scroll. Your position saves every three seconds, so you never lose a line.
The quiet moment on this page — the reading room flips to sepia, just this once, so you can feel it.
Native text-to-speech keeps reading when your eyes can’t — on a commute, on a run, just before sleep. The sentence being read is highlighted in sync. Lock-screen controls give you play, pause, and chapter-skip without unlocking. And the sleep timer fades out like the end of a chapter.
Queue hundreds of chapters in one tap. Watch a real-time progress bar as the batch flows in — no polling, no stale state. Start reading once progress hits 10%. Wi-Fi-only by default, because no one wants a surprise data bill.
Opens chapter N, silently pulls N+1..N+4 in the background.
A “read now” button appears once progress hits 10%.
Already-downloaded chapters are kept. Nothing is wasted.
A local notification when a batch finishes — no polling, no pulling to refresh.
A short catalog of the smaller things that keep the app honest, day to day.
Reading, Completed, On Hold, plus custom tags. Filter the library by tag — or by the last time you opened it.
Long-press to select, pick from four colors, attach an optional note. Review every highlight per novel later.
The app checks for updates on launch and surfaces new chapters with a quiet badge — never a push.
Reading position is written to local storage every three seconds. Reopen and you are exactly where you left off.
Daily login pays 5–40 coins on a 7-day ladder. Spend them on bigger batch downloads.
Post and read comments right inside the reader. Guests read; signed-in users post. Nothing between you and the page.
A nickname and emoji avatar are generated on first sign-in — no forms. Customise anytime from 70 curated glyphs.
Sign in on another device and your library + progress merge automatically. The latest change always wins — no manual merges.
Your reading data stays on your device, first and always. We keep the library private by default — no trackers, no sell-throughs.
We started Arc Reader because every other reading app had started to feel like a shopping mall — gamified, interrupted, always selling. We wanted a private room instead. A place where you can paste a link on a Tuesday night, download the whole thing in one tap, and have it waiting for you, ad-free, on a plane three days later.
So the library lives on your device, not in our cloud. Comments sit quietly inside the chapter, not on a feed. Premium is a single price, never a coupon. And the reader — the room itself — was the first thing we designed, and the last thing we’ll ever compromise on.
— The makers · Est. 2026
Everything core is free — forever. Premium removes the ads, gives you unlimited batch downloads, premium cloud voices, and a monthly coin allowance.
Billed via App Store or Google Play · cancel anytime, one tap
Still curious? Reach out from the in-app feedback sheet — a human writes back.
Correct. Open the app and start reading immediately. A guest JWT is fetched silently so your progress still syncs across relaunches. Register an email later if you want to sync across devices — we’ll migrate your local library for you.
Yes. Chapters are stored directly on your device — not as a cache that can be evicted. The reader never makes a network call to render a downloaded chapter. Airplane mode is a first-class state, not a degraded one.
By default, zero — downloads are Wi-Fi-only. Toggle cellular downloads in Settings if you’d rather. Reading itself uses no data once a chapter is on your device.
Everything you downloaded stays on your device forever. You lose ad-free, premium cloud voices, unlimited batch downloads, and the monthly coin credit — nothing more. No lock-outs, no dark patterns.
Yes, once you register an email account. Library, progress, highlights, and bookmarks merge both ways — the latest change always wins, on either device. Your Premium subscription restores across platforms with a single tap.
Sign-in credentials live in your phone’s secure enclave — never plaintext, never in analytics. Your reading data stays on your device by default. Nothing about your library is sold, shared, or rented out. Ever.
Paste a link. Download every chapter. Read on the couch, on a train, or at the end of the world.
Or open the reader in your browser · app.arcreader.io