Paste any link. Download every chapter. Read offline, listen on the move. Arc Reader turns any web novel into a clean, pocket-sized library — quietly, without an account wall.
He woke to the same ceiling, the same pale rectangle of morning on the wall, and for the third time he did not yet understand why. Outside, a cart was rolling past the dormitory.
Somewhere beneath him, the kitchens had already begun to burn the bread. If he was quick, and if he took the north stairs, he could reach the library before the hour learned to turn.
Every feature in Arc Reader maps back to one of these three ideas. If it doesn’t, it doesn’t ship.
Download a whole novel in one tap. Every chapter lives on your device — not a temporary cache you can lose on a bad signal. Read on planes, in subways, in the middle of nowhere.
Paste a URL, or share a link directly from your browser — the app resolves title, author, cover, chapters, and hands you a ready-to-read preview. No forms. No account wall.
A deeply customisable reading UI and native text-to-speech that plays in the background with lock-screen controls — including a sleep timer that fades out like the end of a chapter.
Paste a novel’s URL from Royal Road, WebNovel, NovelFull, AllNovel, NovGo, or any supported source. Arc Reader fetches the title, author, cover, and the full chapter list in under a second — then pick which chapters to download for offline reading. Or use the system share sheet from Safari, Chrome, or any reading app and skip the copy-paste entirely.
He woke to the same ceiling. The same pale rectangle of morning on the wall. For the third time, he had returned to the hour before the bell, and for the third time he did not yet understand why.
Outside, a cart was rolling past the dormitory, the way it always did, at the pace it always kept. Somewhere beneath him, the kitchens had already begun to burn the bread; and somewhere further, a student was cursing softly at a door that would not open.
If he was quick — if he took the north stairs this time, and if he remembered not to greet the girl on the landing — he could reach the library before the hour learned to turn.
He sat up. The loop was patient. He would have to be patient too.
Four themes. Three font families. Three margin widths. Three line-heights. A font-size slider that goes from intimate to generous. Paginate with a page-turn, or let it scroll. Your position saves every three seconds, so you never lose a line.
Settings sync only when you ask. Until then, every choice stays exactly here — on this device, in this room.
Native text-to-speech keeps reading when your eyes can’t — on a commute, on a run, just before sleep. The sentence being read is highlighted in sync. Lock-screen controls give you play, pause, and chapter-skip without unlocking. And the sleep timer fades out like the end of a chapter.
Queue hundreds of chapters in one tap. Watch a real-time progress bar as the batch flows in — no polling, no stale state. Start reading once progress hits 10%. Wi-Fi-only by default, because no one wants a surprise data bill.
Opens chapter N, silently pulls N+1..N+4 in the background.
A “read now” button appears once progress hits 10%.
Already-downloaded chapters are kept. Nothing is wasted.
A local notification when a batch finishes — no polling, no pulling to refresh.
We started Arc Reader because every other reading app had started to feel like a shopping mall — gamified, interrupted, always selling. We wanted a private room instead. A place where you can paste a link on a Tuesday night, download the whole thing in one tap, and have it waiting for you, ad-free, on a plane three days later.
So the library lives on your device, not in our cloud. Comments sit quietly inside the chapter, not on a feed. Premium is a single price, never a coupon. And the reader — the room itself — was the first thing we designed, and the last thing we’ll ever compromise on.
— The makers · Est. 2026
A small app, a small audience — people who keep coming back. Here’s what they leave in the stores: unedited words.
I’ve tried every reader on the store. Arc is the first one that doesn’t pop a banner, beg for a rating, or rearrange my library overnight. Paste, download, read. That’s the whole loop — and it’s perfect.
Batched the entire backlog of Shadow Slave over a coffee. The progress bar inching across each cover is genuinely satisfying. Lost signal somewhere over the Pacific — didn’t notice for two hours.
I read at night and the warm theme actually feels designed for that. Margins, line height, footnote tap targets — nothing’s an afterthought. It’s the first reading app I’ve seen that respects the page.
Auto-advances chapter to chapter while I cook. Pacing is humane, the highlight follows the sentence. I’ve listened to fifty hours of Mother of Learning like an audiobook. No subscription required to start.
Beautiful app. Guest mode meant I was reading in twenty seconds flat. My only ask: more sort options on the shelf. The team replied to my email within a day saying it’s in the next build. That’s already more than I expected.
I cancelled three other apps after a week with Arc. Pasted a link from Safari and it just worked. Highlights stayed in the chapter where I made them. I forgot apps could feel like this.
Still curious? Reach out from the in-app feedback sheet — a human writes back.
Correct. Open the app and start reading immediately. A guest JWT is fetched silently so your progress still syncs across relaunches. Register an email later if you want to sync across devices — we’ll migrate your local library for you.
Yes. Chapters are stored directly on your device — not as a cache that can be evicted. The reader never makes a network call to render a downloaded chapter. Airplane mode is a first-class state, not a degraded one.
By default, zero — downloads are Wi-Fi-only. Toggle cellular downloads in Settings if you’d rather. Reading itself uses no data once a chapter is on your device.
Everything you downloaded stays on your device forever. You lose ad-free, premium cloud voices, unlimited batch downloads, and the monthly coin credit — nothing more. No lock-outs, no dark patterns.
Yes, once you register an email account. Library, progress, highlights, and bookmarks merge both ways — the latest change always wins, on either device. Your Premium subscription restores across platforms with a single tap.
Yes. Long-press a line to translate it inline, or translate the whole chapter into your language in one tap — Vietnamese, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, German, French, Portuguese, and more. The original is always one tap away, and translated chapters are cached so you only pay once for each.
Sign-in credentials live in your phone’s secure enclave — never plaintext, never in analytics. Your reading data stays on your device by default. Nothing about your library is sold, shared, or rented out. Ever.
Paste a link. Download every chapter. Read on the couch, on a train, or at the end of the world.