Top 10 PDF Book readers

October 21, 2023 | Editor:
These reading apps allow to open and read PDF books. PDF (Portable Document Format) was created by Adobe and is used for electronic version of illustrated paper-books. PDF books may contain a variety of content besides flat text and graphics including tables, interactive elements, layers, rich media. PDF is supported by most ebook readers on PC, Mac, Linux as well as on Android and iOS tablets.
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Windows PC
AlfaReader is a lightweight and fast ebook reader Ideal for reading electronic magazines, student textbooks, medical, scientific, technical books, illustrated books for kids. Includers built-in audiobook player
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iOSAndroidOnline
Tolino relies on openness and leaves it up to you to decide which bookseller you would like to purchase your eBooks from. This way, you always enjoy the complete variety of offers from all available tolino eBook retailers. You can easily download existing EPUB and PDF eBooks to the tolino ereader and read them there; with the tolino cloud synchronization and the tolino library link, tolino offers you particularly practical functions for this.
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Android
Read tens of thousands of books for free, supports multiple online book sites. Read local books for nice experience with real-time smooth scroll and tons of innovation functions. Supports txt, html, epub, pdf, mobi, umd, fb2, chm, cbr, cbz, rar, zip or OPDS
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iOSAndroid
One app to read them all. Bring all your ebooks, comics and audiobooks in the same place, no matter where they're coming from. Import your own EPUB, CBZ or PDF files. Buy all the latest releases and best sellers from Feedbooks, with a catalog that contains over a million references. Built-in support for public libraries, allowing you to easily browse your library's catalog and borrow books from them. Thousands of public domain books from Feedbooks
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iOSAndroidWindows PCMac OS
Adobe Digital Editions software offers an engaging way to view and manage eBooks and other digital publications. Use it to download and purchase digital content, which can be read both online and offline. Transfer copy-protected eBooks from your personal computer to other computers or devices. Organize your eBooks into a custom library and annotate pages. Digital Editions also supports industry-standard eBook formats, including PDF/A and EPUB.
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iOS
i2Reader is an innovative and award-winning eBook reader. Support of EPUB, PDF, RTF, HTML, FB2, DOC and plain text formats. One-way built-in Web server to upload books and dictionaries from your computer. Custom-made PDF rendering engine that reformats the text from PDFs for easier reading on the iPhone screen.
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Android
EBookDroid is a highly customizable document viewer for Android. EBookDroid supports the following ebook and document formats: DjVU, PDF, XPS (OpenXPS), FictionBook (fb2 and fb2.zip), Comics Book formats (cbr and cbz), plus - starting with version 2.0 - EPUB and RTF. EBookDroid 2.0 provides the following extra tools: Text selection and external dictionary support. Text highlighting. Free-hand annotations. Text notes and page notebooks.
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Windows PC
SumatraPDF, also known as Sumatra, is a free and open-source software PDF reader for Microsoft Windows only. The program also opens Open XML Paper Specification, DjVu, EPUB, XPS, CHM, CBZ and CBR, and MOBI files
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Windows PCLinux
Foxit Reader is a small, lightning fast, and feature rich PDF viewer which allows you to open, view, sign, and print any PDF file. Foxit Reader is the only high volume PDF reader providing a complete PDF creation solution, providing the power of PDF creation to every desktop. Foxit Reader comes equipped with comprehensive protection against security vulnerabilities, keeping your system and company safe. Available in English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
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iOSAndroid
ezPDF Reader is the only PDF viewer with the embedded multimedia file playing capability. It also supports the Annotations and PDF Form Filling. Clearly presented without the fluff, documents appear as they would on your PC, but customized to fit your mobile device's screen. Scanned and text based PDFs are all supported, including JPEG2000 and JBIG2 compression. Select Text Reflow, Fit to Text Column, Copy and paste text in PDF view and bookmark as you go.
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Online
Free eBook Reader. Read EPUB, DJVU, TXT, FB2, DOCX, RTF, PDF, CBR, CB7, CBZ, CBC, AZW3, MOBI eBook online. Easy ebook navigation. Fast and powerful eBook reader with a clean user interface
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AndroidLinux
KOReader is a document viewer for E Ink devices. Supported fileformats include EPUB, PDF, DjVu, XPS, CBT, CBZ, FB2, PDB, TXT, HTML, RTF, CHM, DOC, MOBI and ZIP files. It’s available for Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook, Android and desktop Linux.
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Microsoft's web browser that allows to read PDF and EPUB books.
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Android
Librera Reader is a highly customizable and feature-rich application for reading books in PDF, EPUB, MOBI, DjVu, FB2, TXT, RTF, AZW, AZW3, HTML, CBZ, CBR formats on Android devices. With its intuitive, yet powerful, interface, Librera makes ebook reading a veritable pleasure. It even features a unique auto-scrolling, hands-free Musician’s mode. As of today, it can boast more than 10 million downloads to devices running all flavors of Android OS.
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Windows PC
Do everything you expect with a PDF reader, and then some. Create PDF files from any source easily. Sign them securely. Then collaborate with anyone, anywhere. Select the most appropriate Page View for the document you're viewing: Single, displaying one and only one page at a time; Continuous, displaying all pages as a single uninterrupted column; Facing, displaying two pages side-by-side like a magazine or book; and Facing Continuous, with facing pages side-by-side as two vertical columns.
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Windows PC
GooReader is a desktop app that allows you to read and download Google Books, add bookmarks, annotations, create a local Library and save books to PDF. GooReader allows to access your online Google Library and manage your personal bookshelves.
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iOSAndroidWindows PCMac OSLinux
Adobe Reader software is the free trusted standard for reliably viewing, printing, and annotating PDF documents. It’s the only PDF file viewer that can open and interact with all types of PDF content, including forms and multimedia.
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iOS
Not only an eBooks, Comics reader but also a tons-of-free-ebook-downloader, with dictionary inside for you to studies languages.
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Linux
A simple, focused eBook reader for Linux. Read the books you love without having to worry about different format complexities like epub, pdf, mobi, cbr, etc.
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Android
ReadEra is an Android application for reading books and viewing documents, free and without ads. Open and read book files in EPUB, FB2, PDF, DJVU, MOBI, DOC, RTF, TXT and CHM formats. Automatically detects and displays the list of all supported documents on your device, Identifies duplicate files. Support for a table of contents, bookmarks, visual styles. Automatically saves the current reading position, even if the files are moved or temporarily deleted.
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Android
eReader Prestigio: Book Reader is a multi lingual, multi format text and audio books reading app. Intuitive interface in over 25 languages and an in app store library with over 50,000 text (for children and adults) books and Text-To-Speech (read along) functionality.
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iOS
Bookman is the super fast PDF/Comic reader that is optimized for reading scanned PDF and Comic book archive files. You can download eBooks from websites with a built-in web browser. Contains online bookshelves for downloading, uploading, and moving and renaming files on DropBox. Supports PDF, ZIP,RAR, CBR, and CBZ.
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Windows PCMac OSLinux
Okular is a universal book viewer based on KPDF for KDE 4. This means Okular works on multiple platforms, including but not limited to Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, *BSD, etc. Okular combines the excellent functionalities of KPDF with the versatility of supporting different kind of documents, like PDF, Postscript, DjVu, CHM, XPS, ePub and others.
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iOS
Imagine holding your comic library in your hands; with Comic Zeal, you don't have to imagine. Your iPad is the perfect device for reading comics, but reading comics and manga isn't like reading books. You need a specialist app that can organize your comics by series, don't look through hundreds to find the one you want.
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Mac OS
Cisdem Document Reader is a professional program to view a variety of file types on Mac, including DjVu. It accommodates a set of tools for excellent reading experience, also has additional features to convert, print, extract, zoom, bookmark, rotate, or search the files with ease.
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iOS
CloudReaders (TM) is a free book/comic/movie viewer, fully optimized for iPad (and now supports iPhone/iPod touch too!). It supports PDF, CBZ, ZIP, CBR, RAR, MOV, MP3, M4V, MP4 and 3GP format. It allows you to read any book/comic files in either PDF, ZIP/CBZ or RAR/CBR format transferred from your PC/Mac or downloaded from the Internet. CloudReaders also comes with a "cloud bookshelf", where you can download public domain books and comics for free (the number of books is small at this moment, but we are going to add a lot of books soon).
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Linux
Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats. The goal of evince is to replace the multiple document viewers that exist on the GNOME Desktop with a single simple application.
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Windows PC
Get ready to rethink your choice of free PDF reader. Nuance PDF Reader enables you to do much more than just view PDF files. You can convert PDF files to Word, Excel, and RTF via a hosted web service. Use annotation tools to highlight, cross-out, and underline text for more effective collaboration. Even fill out and save PDF forms. Nuance PDF Reader takes up less disk space, is more secure than Adobe Reader, and works with virtually any PDF file. Best of all, it's absolutely free, proving that you really can get a whole lot of something for nothing.
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Windows PC
Those wishing to View/Modify or perform simple editing and even OCR Image based PDF files on their Windows PC's now have a FREE pdf reader alternative to the Adobe Reader! The PDF-XChange Viewer is smaller, faster and more feature rich than any other FREE PDF Reader/ PDF Viewer/ PDF Editor available. This free pdf viewer download also allows users to try the extended functionality offered by the PDF-XChange Viewer 'PRO' in evaluation mode - for free.
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Download eBooks or import your own via SkyDrive. Read internet news stories with News Stream. Enjoy reading anywhere with Nokia Reading on your Nokia Lumia. Import your own DRM-free ebooks (in EPUB or PDF format) into your Nokia Reading library via SkyDrive. Create your own personal web magazine with News Stream by accessing RSS streams from popular newspapers, magazines, fansites and blogs. Download eBooks straight to your smartphone in seconds and take them wherever you go. Start reading and seamlessly continue where you left off - we automatically save to the last page read. Adjust settings to the way you want to read - change the font size, the screen orientation and switch between day and night mode.
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Android
RepliGo PDF Reader enables PDF viewing, annotating, printing and form filling. Review documents on the go by adding highlights, cross outs, underlines, sticky notes, arrows, lines, ovals, rectangles, freehand drawings and text boxes. Comments are stored as standard annotations in the original PDF file, just like Adobe Acrobat. RepliGo PDF Reader also makes a great eBook reader with features like reflowed text, color themes, text-to-speech and brightness settings.
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Online
Online reader, No need to install, open and use, computers, tablets, mobile phones.
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Android
VuDroid is a djvu and pdf document viewer based on code base of DjvuDroid and PdfDroid viewers. New VuDroid viewer will offer redesigned DjvuDroid features: zoom by slider drag, progressive tree rendering, fast orientation change, page num visualization while scroll and more
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iOS
GoodReader is the super-robust PDF reader for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. With GoodReader on your iPad/iPhone, you can read virtually anything, anywhere: books, movies, maps, pictures. Use it once and you’ll be hooked. If you work with documents, soon you'll be wondering how you ever managed to use your iPad or iPhone without GoodReader. Besides reading, you can also sync your files with remote servers sync with Dropbox, SkyDrive, SugarSync and any WebDAV, AFP, SMB, FTP or SFTP server
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iOSMac OS
ComicBookLover for Mac OS X enables comic fans to view, collect, and organize CBZ, CBR and PDF format digital comics. Other features include: browsing by cover artwork, smart lists, image adjustment for color and sharpness, and various viewing modes like single page, double page and Western or Manga mode.
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Windows PC
The world's smallest PDF viewer/reader to view, print, extract, crop, and convert PDF files to TXT, BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, WMF, EMF, EPS, TIFF. It is only 1.07MB for download and doesn't need lengthy installation, just download and run. Freeware!
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Read PDF, XPS and CBZ files on your Windows Phone 8 device, opening them from SD card, SkyDrive, internet, etc. With this app you will be able to open files from SD card, share files via Skydrive
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iOS
Finally a comic reader for iPad done right! ComicFlow was designed with one goal in mind: providing the best experience for comic fans with large collections. Features: Polished interface, Can handle very large comic collections (1,500+ comics and dozens of GB) without crashing or becoming unusable, Imports new comics in the background, Doesn't need to pre-process comic files before you can read them, Supports .cbr, .cbz and pdf files
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Linux
zathura is a highly customizable and functional ereader. It provides a minimalistic and space saving interface as well as an easy usage that mainly focuses on keyboard interaction. zathura now uses a plugin based system for supported document types which makes it possible for you to choose which file formats you want your version of zathura to support. This also makes it possible to use different backends for the same document type: For instance we provide a plugin for PDF documents using either the poppler or the mupdf library.
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Windows PCLinux
Xpdf is an open source viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are also sometimes also called 'Acrobat' files, from the name of Adobe's PDF software.) The Xpdf project also includes a PDF text extractor, PDF-to-PostScript converter, and various other utilities.
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Linux
ePDFView is a lightweight PDF document viewer that only uses the GTK+ and Poppler libraries. It is currently under development, but already opens most PDF files (even encrypted), save copies of documents, and has support for printing using CUPS.
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PDF and DjVu reader/viewer for Symbian OS. It supports single and multi-page files, zoom, export to BMP files, and more.
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Linux
KPDF is a pdf reader based on xpdf for KDE 3. Being targeted to home users it has some very unique features to enhance your reading pleasure in addition of doing everything you can expect from it.