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In a sentence

Foldleaf Reader is a PDF and EPUB reader for iPad, iPhone, and iPhone Duo, with pages that turn like paper, margins cropped away once for a whole document, and a pen and highlighter for the Apple Pencil.

In a paragraph

Most academic papers waste a third of every page on white margins, and most reading apps scroll a document like a web page. Foldleaf Reader treats it as paper instead. Pages turn with a curl that follows the finger, sideways like a book or upward like a wall calendar. Crop View trims the margins off every page of a PDF in one go, so the text fills the screen. Four pens and a highlighter answer the Apple Pencil’s pressure and tilt, a held stroke snaps straight, and everything written can be shared as standard PDF annotations. arXiv and Project Gutenberg are built in, so a paper or a classic is a tap away. There is no account and no tracking, and every feature is free to try for 14 days before a single purchase, not a subscription, unlocks them for good.

Fact sheet

Developer: Tevong You
Based in: London, United Kingdom
Platforms: iPad, iPhone, and iPhone Duo
Requires: iPadOS 18 or iOS 18 or later
Release: Available on the App Store from 8 October 2026
Price: Free to download, with every feature free for 14 days. One purchase of £12.99 (launch price £9.99 for a limited time), or the local equivalent, unlocks everything for good, on iPhone and iPad alike. Not a subscription.
Languages: English. The App Store listing is also in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Portuguese.
Website: foldleafreader.github.io/foldleaf
Press contact: foldleafreader@gmail.com

What it does

Page curl that follows the finger, sideways or upward, for PDFs and EPUBs
Crop View: trim a PDF’s margins once, and the whole document opens that way
Apple Pencil: four pens and a highlighter, pressure and tilt, lines that snap straight
arXiv and Project Gutenberg built in: papers named for their authors and title, free books saved as EPUBs
Edit in Place: annotate a PDF where it lives in Files, iCloud Drive included
Shareable notes: ink and highlights exported as standard PDF annotations
Made for reading: light and dark, paper colours, controls along the top or down the side, fullscreen
Private: no account, no sign-in, no tracking, no analytics