Classic books in short passages. Free, offline, no account, no ads.
Scroll The Classics turns a few spare minutes into real reading. Open the app and you are one tap from the first page of a great book: the original text from a carefully sourced edition, not summaries or quotes stripped of context.
READ THE WHOLE BOOK
Every book is presented in its original order, chapter by chapter, in short passages you move through with a swipe. Go back any time. Your place is saved automatically, so Continue reading always picks up where you left off.
50 CLASSICS IN FIVE COLLECTIONS
Philosophy & Wisdom, Literary Masterpieces, Romance & Coming-of-Age, Mystery, Horror & Adventure, and Science Fiction & Fantasy. Read Pride and Prejudice, Crime and Punishment, Anna Karenina, Moby-Dick, The Odyssey, Dracula, Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes, Jane Eyre, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and many more. Choose the collections you love when you start, and they come first in your Library.
KNOW WHAT YOU’RE OPENING
Each book has its own page with a short introduction, its real opening lines, a note on the author and the edition it comes from.
DISCOVER GREAT PASSAGES
Browse a hand-picked feed of striking passages from across the library. Each one shows its book and author. Tap Read in Context to open the book at that exact place. Browsing never counts as pages read.
SAVE WHAT MOVES YOU
Bookmark a passage and return to it from Saved, right where it sits in the book.
MADE FOR READING
• A calm design with book typefaces made for long reading (Literata, Gelasio, Charis SIL, Crimson Pro)
• Automatic, Light, Sepia, Dark and Black themes
• Adjustable text size that follows your system font size
• Made for foldables and tablets too: your library beside the book when there’s room, and your place kept when you fold or unfold
• Works fully offline from the first launch
• An optional daily reading reminder, only if you turn it on
FREE, NO DISTRACTIONS
No account, no ads, no subscriptions and no streak pressure. Your reading progress and bookmarks stay on your device.
Every book comes from a public-domain edition credited in the app. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas is a historical abridged translation and is labelled as one. A few titles are not yet available in every country.
Neuigkeiten
Find your way around a book:
• Contents: see every chapter, jump to one, and go back to where you were with one tap.
• Search the Library by title or author.
• See roughly how long is left in the chapter and the book.
• Books open faster, with a calm, steady screen while a long one loads.
Plus accessibility improvements and small fixes.