A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer, built with GJS and Epub.js.

Website: https://johnfactotum.github.io/foliate/

• View EPUB files
• Two-page view and scrolled view
• Customize font and line-spacing
• Light, sepia, dark, and invert mode
• Reading progress slider with chapter marks
• Bookmarks and annotations
• Find in book
• Quick dictionary lookup
• Touchpad gestures: use two-finger swipe to turn the page

For Arch Linux users, two packages are available on the AUR: foliate (stable version), foliate-git (Git version)

For Void Linux users, foliate is available in Void's official repository. Install using xbps: xbps-install -S foliate

Note:xbps will not install gjs dependency. Install it with: xbps-install -S gjs

First, you'll need the following dependencies:

• gjs
• webkit2gtk
• libsoup
• meson

Then run the follwing commands:

meson build --prefix=/usr
cd build
ninja
sudo ninja install

To uninstall, run:

sudo ninja uninstall

You will need the same dependencies listed in this section.

The following commands will build Foliate and install it inside a directory:

meson build --prefix=$PWD/fakeprefix
ninja -C build
ninja -C build install
GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR=$PWD/fakeprefix/share/glib-2.0/schemas ./fakeprefix/bin/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate

Dictionary:

Annotations:

Find in book:

Dark mode:

Book metadata display:

Note: three JavaScript libraries are bundled in this software:

• Epub.js, which is licensed under FreeBSD. The included file is patched to fix futurepress/epub.js#942
• The minified version of JSZip, which is dual-licensed. You may use it under the MIT license or the GPLv3 license. See LICENSE.markdown
• A browserified version of Cheerio, which is licensed under MIT. Cheerio is used to parse and extract data from Wiktionary