GemReader
The private study reader for Android
What it does
Every Android reader either mangles study material or wants an account first. GemReader does neither. Textbooks, lecture PDFs and interactive workbooks in one offline library. Workbook answers save themselves. Highlights become a spaced-repetition deck inside the reader — no export step — and existing Anki decks import. Everything is encrypted on the device. No account, no cloud, no telemetry, no ad SDK. Everything in the app today is free and stays free.
Free study reader for Android. EPUBs, PDFs and workbooks in one library — highlight as you read, then review those highlights as flashcards. Offline, free.
Textbooks, lecture PDFs, and workbooks in one library. Highlight as you read, then study those highlights as flashcards — without exporting anything or leaving the app. The textbook lives one place, the lecture PDFs another, the flashcards somewhere else. You spend the term moving your own notes between them. Textbook in a reader that won't open PDFs. Lecture slides in a PDF app that can't highlight properly. Flashcards in a third app that knows nothing about either. Notes in a fourth. Create an account. Subscribe. Wait for the sync. Read the book on their terms — then watch access expire at the end of term, and your highlights expire with it. You mark up three hundred pages across a…from gemreader.com
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