Roadmap
What I'm working on, what comes next, and what I've parked and why. Plans change, so there are no dates.
Updated 12 November 2026
Now
What I'm building.
Reading
Book Guide
Who's who and what just happened, spoiler free. Next up: cards for the characters on the page when you bring up the controls, and one cast shared across the books of a series.
Next
What I'll start after that.
Apple Watch
Audiobooks on Apple Watch
Listen from your Watch with your iPhone left at home.
Read & Listen
A clearer, cooler Read & Listen setup
Preparing a book shows its stage, saves as it goes, and runs cooler.
iPad
iPad: the last pieces
Apple Pencil notes, a two-pane Notes screen, and Settings for the big screen.
Parked
Ideas on hold, and why.
Comics
Comic guided view
Reading a comic panel by panel.
Why it's parked I tested the panel finder on real comics, and it gets too many pages wrong to ship.
Library
Edit permissions for each library
Only offer Edit Metadata where your account can edit.
Why it's parked BookOrbit doesn't tell apps your access for each library yet.
Browse
Book counts on smart scopes
A book count on each smart scope in Browse.
Why it's parked BookOrbit doesn't send the count yet.
Shipped
Newest first.
Book Detail improvements, and safer sign-in when a server changes
The Book Detail card looks better and runs faster, and Apogee notices when your BookOrbit server is rebuilt at the same address.
Works with BookOrbit 3.7.0, and an early look at the new Book Detail card
Fixes for BookOrbit 3.7.0, and Book Detail as a card that slides up over where you were.
Book Guide and bug reports are back
Build 412 mistook itself for an App Store install on most devices, which hid Book Guide, the readers' bug report button and the feedback card in More.
Earlier
- Build 412
Reading
Book Detail as a sheet, characters on the page, and Reading History
Book Detail opens as a sheet everywhere, so on iPhone the cover gets more room. With an ebook's controls up, cards show who's named on the page, and Stats lists every book you've finished. iPhone and iPad readers get the Duo's controls, comics open DjVu, and on iPhone Duo folding no longer closes an open book.
- Build 410
Reading
A new Speak voice picker, and smoother swipes
Speak's voices open in a sheet: your server's voices first, with a sample when you tap one, and this iPhone's voices below as a fallback you can trim. With Slide, a page you let go of mid-swipe slides on to rest, and a quick flick turns it. Every reader has a scrubber while the controls are up, and on iPhone Duo the page stays put when they show or hide.
- Build 393
Fanfic Updates
AO3 styling, banners at the top, and PDF fixes
Fics from Fanfic Updates keep their AO3 styling, such as tweet threads and text messages, and fics you downloaded earlier can get it back. Messages from Apogee drop in as one banner at the top of the screen. In PDFs, selecting text opens the highlight card, and highlights sit on the words you chose.
- Build 391
Reading
The highlight card, series downloads and story arcs
Select text in a book and a card opens with highlight colours, a note, copy, look up, share, Speak, translate and web search. Long-press a series in the Library to download all of it, group a comic series by story arc, and pair an audiobook with its ebook even when their chapter titles don't match.
- Build 385
Speak
Speak offline, a storage bar, and Home shelves
Your server's voice reads about a quarter of an hour ahead, so Speak keeps playing for a while offline. Downloads shows a bar of what Apogee keeps on your phone, and you can pin smart scopes and collections to Home.
- Build 382
App Store
Apogee 1.1: Speak, and a faster library
Read Aloud is now Speak, with a full-screen view that shows just the sentence being read. The library opens much faster, comics show two pages side by side on iPad, and there are actions on the Home Screen icon, controls for Control Center and the Lock Screen, and Shortcuts actions. It's on the App Store now.
- Build 380
Widgets
A rebuilt Continue widget, and play from the widget
The Continue widget is rebuilt for every size and can start or pause an audiobook without opening the app. Headphone and car skip buttons can skip by time, and translations lost their stray English.
- Build 379
App Store
Apogee 1.0 is on the App Store
Apogee Reader is live on the App Store for iPhone and iPad. It's free, with no in-app purchases.
- Build 379
Sign-in
Guides in Settings, and sign-in buttons for your provider
Settings opens the guides on this site. If your server lists sign-in providers such as Authelia, Authentik, Keycloak or Pocket ID, the sign-in screen has a button for each.
- Build 378
Library
Covers for books without art, and a short setup
Books with no cover art get a generated cover, and a new profile gets a short setup after sign-in. Every step can be skipped.
- September 2026
Website
This website
The guides, support page and privacy policy moved here from GitHub.
- Build 377
Read & Listen
Read & Listen on streamed audiobooks
Read & Listen works without downloading the audiobook first. Read Aloud highlights each word, and the app now comes in your phone's language.
- Build 373
iPad
A new iPad layout, and 1.0 is free
Home opens on your latest book, and a book's page floats over your shelves. Apogee 1.0 is free.
- Build 337
Profiles
Profiles and a new Reading Stats
Add another BookOrbit user and switch between them from Home. Reading Stats has a new design, and sign-in errors say what went wrong.
- Build 323
Read & Listen
Prepare Read & Listen, and book requests
Apogee can prepare books for Read & Listen ahead of time, even overnight while your phone charges. You can also ask your server for a book from inside the app.
- Build 319
Sign-in
BookOrbit 2.9 support
Apogee works with BookOrbit 2.9, including servers that only allow SSO sign-in.
- Build 310
Audiobooks
The words, as they're narrated
The player shows the line being read, and book pages show community ratings.
- Build 302
- Build 279
- Build 278
Library
Custom metadata
Fields you define on your server show on the book page, and you can edit them.
- Build 275
Reading
Read Aloud on the Lock Screen
Read Aloud keeps going when you lock the screen, and the Lock Screen shows the book and a play button.
- Build 271
Read & Listen
Read & Listen
Play the audiobook and the ebook follows along. Finishing a book brings up an end-of-book sheet.
- Build 265
Reading
Reader themes
You can choose the reader's colours, and servers that use passkeys got a way to sign in.
- Build 253
- Build 251
Every build's notes are in Announcements.