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A calm reader for the books you already own.

Gild opens your EPUB and PDF files and sets them like a well-made book. No account, no ads, and nothing leaves your phone.

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Works offline after the first visit. The Android app is on its way to Google Play.

Moby-Dick open in Gild, with a sentence highlighted in yellow
The Gild library with a book to continue and a shelf of covers
Your shelf, with your place kept in every book.
A highlighted passage with a note attached
Highlights and notes, in three soft colours.
A page in the night theme, light text on a dark page
A night theme for reading in bed.

What Gild does

Pages that look printed
Four reading typefaces, careful spacing and hyphenation, and themes from paper to true black.
Two pages on an unfolded phone
On a Fold or a tablet, Gild shows a spread when each page still fits comfortable lines, and one page when it doesn’t.
Your place, exactly
Change the text size, rotate or fold your phone, and you’re still on the same sentence.
Highlights and notes
Mark passages, add private notes, and export them all as Markdown for your notes app.
Yours alone
No account and no tracking. Books stay on your device, and backups go only where you choose.
EPUB and PDF
Footnotes, contents, search and bookmarks for EPUB; zoom, margin cropping and search for PDF.

We’re designing a Gild reader you can hold.

A small E Ink reader with a paper-like screen that’s easy on the eyes, made to fit one hand and a pocket, with Gild built in.

It’s in development, so there’s no price or date yet. Leave your email and we’ll write when there’s something real to show you.

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