Rewrap
In closed testing on Google Play

Read PDFs the way
small screens deserve

A native Android e-book reader specialized for PDFs. The page never grows wider than your display — text is enlarged and re-laid out in place, so nothing ever scrolls sideways. Everything runs 100% on your phone.

No cloud No account Works offline Free to read · one-time unlock
Rewrap is in closed testing, so access goes through a tester group — start with the first button. Join the group with the Google account you use on your phone; that is what grants access, and nothing else is asked of you. Then the two green buttons work: on Android opens the app in Google Play on your phone, on the web works from any browser.
One favour, and it is the whole point of a closed test: please keep it installed for two weeks, even on days you do not read. Google counts testers who stay — if the app is removed, the count starts over.
On iPhone? Rewrap for iOS is already running.
Something not working, or a question first? Write to rewrapapp@gmail.com — subject Rewrap tester access — and I will add you by hand.
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Reflow without breaking the page

Not classic zoom (which forces sideways scrolling) and not full reflow (which destroys the layout). Text grows and rewraps in place; images, tables and figures stay where they belong and scale with the font.

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Scans read on the phone

Scanned PDFs and photos of pages are recognized right on the device — no upload. Angled photos are straightened, faint scans enhanced, and the app repairs recognition errors it can prove from the book itself.

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Truly private

No cloud, no account, no server of ours. Your books never leave your phone — and neither do your notes and reading positions, unless you switch on the optional cloud backup yourself. Reading works with the connection off: a scanned book is recognized in airplane mode. Reading is free; the heavy work is a single one-time unlock, never a subscription. What leaves the device, exactly.

Everything it does

Built feature by feature, measured on real books and real devices.

Faithful text

Digital PDFs read exactly from the file's text layer — any language. Scans go through on-device recognition with evidence-based repairs (broken fonts, lost diacritics, phantom accents, end-of-line hyphens). Fix any word yourself — select it with drag handles, correct it, and the fix becomes a durable rule applied to every occurrence in the book, kept even through re-processing.

Formats

PDF, EPUB, TXT and photos — a single photo, a whole folder as one book, or several bound into a PDF. Scan pages with the camera — one session can save several separate documents, numbered automatically — split double-page scans, straighten angled shots. Rewrap also appears in other apps' "Open with" menu — you choose which file types, in Settings.

Read aloud

Natural text-to-speech in the book's own language — choose engine, voice and speed, follow the spoken word on the page, and keep listening with the screen off, from the lock screen or your headphones.

Notes & highlights

Highlight passages and write your own notes: tap a paragraph, type your thought, and a small mark stays in the margin — tap it any time to reread or edit. Both anchor to the text (they hold when you change the font) and both export as text, Markdown, Anki cards or PDF.

Navigate

Full-text search that ignores accents — in Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alike, bookmarks, a table of contents (the book's own or one built from headings), tap-to-define with your offline dictionary, a built-in quick guide, and a remembered position per book.

Export, convert & move

Turn any book into EPUB, TXT or DOCX — real chapters, cover and cleaned text — or a PDF with your highlights baked in. The Rewrap package puts the book and ALL your work on it — position, bookmarks, highlights, notes, corrections — into one file that opens identically on another phone (and is a plain ZIP without Rewrap).

Comfort

Light, Sepia, Night, pure-black AMOLED and custom themes; line/letter spacing; a reading ruler; bionic bold; and a dyslexia-friendly font that works even on scanned books — because the text is re-typeset.

Safety nets

Automatic on-device backups, optional cloud backup you control, portable export/import of your reading data, one-tap restore, and an issue reporter that attaches nothing technical without your explicit consent — plus the "View as classic PDF" pill, one tap away, showing any page exactly as printed.

Quick guide

The same questions the in-app guide answers — tap one to see the answer.

How do I start and stop the automatic scrolling?
Tap the page (or the big ▶ button) to start scrolling; tap again to pause. The scrolling speed is in the gear settings, on the Reading tab. While it scrolls, everything tucks away except the slim bar with the title and page number — and, on a PDF, the “View as classic PDF” pill at the top.
How do I turn pages like in a printed book?
Open the right-hand drawer (the ≡ on the right of the small centre pill) and choose the horizontal arrows under "Turn pages". Then swipe left/right or tap the left/right edge of the screen to turn pages. The vertical arrow brings back continuous scrolling. In page-turning mode the action bar tucks itself away — bring it back with the arrow at the left end of the bottom bar, or swipe up from the bottom.
How do I make the text bigger or smaller?
Pinch with two fingers directly on the page, or use the − + buttons in the right-hand drawer. The size is remembered separately for each book, and the app caps it so lines never get too short to read.
Where is the menu while I'm reading?
The slim bar at the bottom is always there: title, page, percent, search — and an arrow at its left end. Tap the arrow to reveal the action bar, the “‹ Library” button that leaves the book and the two ≡ buttons that open the side drawers; tap it again to tuck everything away. A tap on the page itself only pauses or resumes the reading.
How do I see the ORIGINAL page?
Tap the "View as classic PDF" pill at the top: the book opens exactly as printed, page by page, with pinch-zoom — useful for tables, figures or checking the text. The arrows at its ends choose how you browse: sideways or up and down. It starts on the page you are reading and brings you back to it when you close it. If a single page is better left alone — a cover, a plate, a diagram — the left drawer offers "Show this page as the original": that page alone stays as printed, remembered for next time, and still searchable.
How do I listen to the book being read aloud?
Tap the microphone in the action bar. The voice keeps reading with the screen off, with controls on the lock screen and your headphones. The voice, its speed and the engine are in the gear settings, on the Voice tab.
How do I highlight passages and export them?
Tap the pencil to enter marking mode, then tap paragraphs to highlight them; tap the pencil again to finish. The list lives in the left drawer under "Highlights", where you can jump to each passage, delete it, or export everything as TXT, Markdown, Anki or PDF.
A word from a scan looks wrong — what can I do?
Tap the "A✓" icon in the action bar, then tap the word: a selection box appears with handles you can drag over neighbouring characters; tap the selection to correct it. The fix is saved as a durable rule for the whole book. If a whole scanned book reads badly, turn on "Forced OCR" (right-hand drawer or gear settings, Document tab).
What is there for dyslexic readers?
In the gear settings, on the Text tab: a dyslexia-friendly font (OpenDyslexic) that works even on scanned books, bold word-beginnings for easier focus, a reading ruler that dims everything except the current lines, and wider letter and line spacing (also in the right-hand drawer). Read-aloud can help too.
How do I move my reading data to another phone?
In Settings, use "Export reading data" to save positions, bookmarks, highlights, notes and corrections to a file, then import it on the other phone. Or pack ONE book together with everything on it via "Export as → Rewrap package" — opened in Rewrap on the other phone, the book comes back exactly as you left it.
What is free, and what needs the unlock?
Reading is free forever: digital PDFs, EPUB and TXT, reflowed and enlarged, with all the themes, search, bookmarks, your highlights, your own notes and your corrections. A single one-time unlock adds the heavy work: recognizing scanned books, the camera scanner, read-aloud, converting to other formats and clean reading. Every scanned book has its first pages recognized for free, so you can see the result on your own book. New installs start with a 14-day trial of everything.
Why does the first opening of a book take longer?
On first opening, the app extracts and repairs the text of the whole book (this is when scanned pages are recognized) — with a real progress bar. It happens once — afterwards pages open instantly from the cache.

What's free, and what the unlock adds

Reading stays free forever. One purchase, once — no subscription, no ads, no account.

Free, always

Reading itself: digital PDFs, EPUB and TXT, reflowed and enlarged; all themes, spacing, the dyslexia font, the reading ruler; search, bookmarks, the table of contents and your position in every book; highlighting passages, writing your own notes, correcting words, and exporting your own reading data. No page limit, no book limit, no time limit.

One-time unlock

The heavy work: recognizing scanned books and photographed pages, the camera scanner and perspective correction, read-aloud, converting to EPUB/TXT/DOCX/PDF and exporting notes, and clean reading. Every scanned book gets its first pages recognized for free, so you can see the result on your own book before deciding.

New installs start with a 14-day trial of everything, and the app tells you before it ends.

The reader that does the hard part locally

Reflowing a scanned book, recognizing its text, repairing it, reading it aloud and exporting it — all on your phone, the things other readers send to the cloud or simply refuse to do.

Join the tester group first — that is what opens the two green buttons. Please keep the app installed for two weeks; Google counts testers who stay. Questions: rewrapapp@gmail.com.