Tomen — Ebook & comic reader, a library of your own

Built for people who
keep real libraries.

Everything here is free, forever. No account, no caps. The interface keeps quiet; your covers carry the colour.

Library

Gallery, Journal & Sheet

Three ways to see your shelf: a Gallery of covers, a Journal that reads your library back to you, and a Sheet you can sort. Tag, favorite, pin, search.

Bring your library

Your whole shelf, in one drag

Drag in a file, a folder, or a whole Calibre library. Hundreds of books import in the background, covers and metadata intact, while you keep browsing.

Marks

Flag it right on the cover

Favorite, finish or pin a book with a tap. Chartreuse tabs sit right on the cover. Inside, five highlight colours and notes for the passages you keep.

Reading surface

A calm, paginated reader

Pages, not an endless scroll. A chapter bar, an honest estimate of what’s left, contents and full-text search, footnotes that open in place.

Look up

Define, translate, listen

Dictionary, Wikipedia, translation into a dozen languages, read-aloud in your device’s own voices with a sleep timer. None of it takes you off the page.

Yours to keep

Take it all with you

One file backs up your whole library, and every highlight and note leaves as plain Markdown. The door is never locked — that is rather the point.

One license · every device

live

Web

read.tomen.app, an installable PWA that works fully offline.

coming soon

Windows · macOS · Linux

The Windows build is done and updates itself — just code-signing left before the public download. macOS & Linux follow.

coming soon

Android

The Android build runs; Play Store billing is the last step. Your one purchase will already cover it.

Books

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Comics

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Left out, on purpose

PDF, a fixed-layout format rather than a reflowable one

Want comics, real-time sync and more? See what Tomen Plus adds →

Made for
your fingers.

Built touch-first. Fluid on a phone, a tablet, or a trackpad. Every control is a gesture away, and the page stays out of the way.

Pinch to resize

Squeeze the library to size your covers, or the page to step type up and down.

Tap or swipe to turn

Edges turn the page; the centre summons the menu. Comics flip left-to-right or right-to-left.

Swipe for the menu

Pull the reader menu in when you want it: contents, marks, type, look-ups. Then send it away.

Swipe up to study

Enter selection mode with a swipe, then tap to grab a word, a sentence, or a whole paragraph — and nudge each end by a word.

Hold to save your place

Press and hold the centre to drop a return marker, then jump back to it with one tap. Hold an edge to skip a chapter.

Pinch-zoom comics

Drag and zoom into any panel; double-tap to reset. Single, spread, and webtoon flows too.

The page,
tuned to you.

It looks right out of the box, with Auto following your system, and rewards tuning. Eight reading themes and three reading faces come free; save any look as a profile and bring it back in a tap. Accent colours, four experimental themes and photographic filters come with Plus.

Reading themes

Accent colour

Text size

Line height

Dark

The Salt Year

Marisol Vane

The lamplighter moved house to house as the evening thinned to blue, and where he touched the flame the street woke one window at a time.

She watched from the landing — the hour she liked best, the one she could fold up and keep in a pocket against the colder months.

More, when
you want it.

The reader is free and complete. Plus is for everything around it: your Dropbox shelf, comics & manga, every device on the same page. One payment, forever.

Your library, everywhere

A 3 GB library that weighs a few megabytes

Point Tomen at the folder your books already live in, a Calibre library or a decade of comics, and the whole shelf appears, covers and all. Nothing downloads until you open a book, so hundreds of books cost your device almost nothing.

The files never move. You choose the folder in Dropbox’s own window, and Tomen takes read-only access. It cannot edit or delete a thing you own.

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Comics & manga

Books and comics, one shelf

No separate app: your comics sit beside your novels, searchable and sortable like everything else. Single page, two-page spread or webtoon scroll, either direction, pinch-zoom into any panel.

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Cross-device sync

Every device, same page — live

Turn a page or drop a highlight on one device and it lands on the others in about a second. Position, highlights, notes, tags, wordbook, collections, even your look if you ask. Only your reading state travels; your files never leave your device.

Wordbook

A vocabulary that sticks

Save any word you look up, with the sentence and the book it came from. Then browse and export your growing wordbook.

Collections

Shelves of your own

Group books into custom collections: a series, a course, a to-read pile. They follow you across every device.

Make it yours

Colour it your way

Nine accent colours, four experimental themes, photographic filters for your covers and pages, and per-book typography: a serif for the novel, monospace for the manual, reopened exactly so.

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Connect

Bring your own catalog

On desktop, browse and download straight from your own OPDS catalog server — Calibre-Web, Komga, Kavita, anything that speaks OPDS.

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Try all of it, free for 30 days.

No card, nothing to cancel. When it ends, you go back to the free reader.

Start free trial → See pricing

Free to read.
Pay once for the rest.

No subscription — one payment, yours forever. Read everywhere: the web today, desktop and Android on the way.

Free

The complete reader

$0Unlimited books, forever.

All eight themes & full typography
Highlights, bookmarks & notes
Dictionary, translation & text-to-speech
Gallery, Journal & Sheet views
JSON backup of your whole library

Open the reader

Tomen Plus · one-time

Everything, for good

$29One-time · yours forever · no subscription.

Your library, everywhere: read your Dropbox shelf without downloading it
Comics & manga: CBZ / CBR / CBT / CB7
Real-time sync of position, highlights, notes, tags & more
Wordbook: save & export looked-up words
Custom collections
Accent colours · experimental themes · filters
Per-book typography
Connect your own OPDS catalog (desktop)

Start free trial

No card required. 30 days, then back to the free reader. Trial survives a reinstall.

Good to know.

Do I need an account?

Not to read. An account is just an email, no password. It only carries your Tomen Plus licence and syncs your reading across devices.

Is my reading private?

Your books, progress and highlights live on your device. No ads, no tracking, nothing sold. Your files are never uploaded. Sync moves only your reading state, scoped to your account.

How does sync work?

With Plus, your position, highlights, notes, tags, wordbook and collections stay in sync. Your other open devices update in about a second. Only your reading state travels; the book files never do.

What does Tomen do with my Dropbox?

It reads it, and nothing more. Tomen asks Dropbox for read-only access, and the permission screen will say so. That means it cannot edit, move or delete anything you own, even by accident. You choose the folder in Dropbox’s own window, not ours. When you open a book it comes straight from Dropbox to your device; no server of ours ever sees it.

Will it read my messy files?

That's the point. Sideloaded EPUBs with broken metadata, odd encodings, big comic archives: Tomen is built for the real-world files a library accumulates, not just pristine ones. DRM-locked files are the one exception.

What happens if Tomen goes away?

You keep reading. Tomen is local-first: the reader works offline, your books are on your device, and one file backs up your whole library — every highlight and note exports as plain Markdown. If sync ever stopped, you'd lose a convenience, not a page.

Is Tomen an AI app?

No. No chatbot, no “summarise this chapter”, no generated anything. Tomen is a reader — it shows you the book and gets out of the way. Dictionary, translation and read-aloud use your device’s own tools, not a model of ours.

What if something's wrong — or missing?

Email [email protected] and a real person answers — bugs get fixed, and good suggestions get built. For purchases, see the refund policy.

Built for people whokeep real libraries.