Lumen

Now in beta

An EPUB reader for iPad and Android e-ink. Highlight a passage, attach a handwritten note, and tap to move between the two.

Read your books.
Take notes by hand.

Warm reading desk with a book and morning light, evoking the quiet focus of deep readingLUMEN

A reader and a notebook,
in one place.

Most setups split the two: you read in one app and keep handwritten notes in another, and the link between them is lost. Lumen keeps them together — highlight a passage as you read, then write your thoughts by hand in a note that stays linked to it.

Free

Free during the beta, with optional paid sync.

Join the beta

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Lumen library screen on iPhone showing imported EPUB covers

Your own books, your own library

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Lumen reading view on iPad with a highlighted passage and a linked handwritten note

Highlight it now,
write it out by hand.

Read on iPad or e-ink and highlight anything worth keeping. Attach a handwritten note to a highlight and it stays linked to that passage — tap either one to jump to the other. Type size, spacing, and light, sepia, and night themes are there too, tuned for long sessions.

Highlights — mark any passage as you read
Handwritten notes — attach one to a highlight, in your own hand
Notebooks — full pages for writing and sketching
All linked — tap a note, jump to its passage
Lumen notes screen on iPhone gathering annotations from across a book

Everything you marked,
in one place.

Notebooks, right next
to your books.

Start a blank, ruled, dotted, or grid notebook whenever you need one — for a lecture, a sketch, or working a problem out by hand. They live in the same library as your reading, so your books and your notes are never more than a tap apart.

Lumen notebooks screen showing ruled, dotted, and grid page types

Ruled — lecture notes

Lumen notebook page with handwritten Apple Pencil notes

∞ pages

Dotted — sketching a chapter out

Lumen stats screen showing reading and notebook activity

Grid — diagrams

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Your library, on
every device.

Lumen library on iPad, synced across devices
Reading progresssynced
Handwritten notessynced
Notebookssynced
Your book filesstay on device

Read on iPad in the evening, pick up on your phone in the morning, or continue on Android and e-ink. Progress, notes, and notebooks sync across devices through Supabase when an account is used.

Lumen library screen on iPhone

Made for

iPad + Android e-ink readers

Formats

Import your own EPUB files

Notes

Handwritten, anchored to the text

Privacy

No account required for local-only use; optional account sync is available