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Hyphen. app for iPhone and iPad


4.2 ( 4832 ratings )
Utilities Book
Developer: Mattitiah Curtis
2.99 USD
Current version: 1.2.3, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 21 Nov 2015
App size: 43.21 Mb

Hyphen is a powerful, easy-to-use ePub reader designed from the ground up with you in mind, with cross-device syncing, super-fast rendering, effortless customization, and intuitive annotation features.

■ CROSS-DEVICE SYNCING

Start on one device, finish on another. Your entire library - books, annotations, bookmarks, and all - is synced between devices via iCloud.

■ PERSONALIZE YOUR READING EXPERIENCE

Hyphen comes packed with a ton of options for custom colors, fonts, font sizes, line heights, paragraph indentations, margins - ...well, you get the idea. You can even use styling on a per-book basis.

And if that’s not enough, you can also add your own CSS. Cool, right?

■ HIGHLIGHT AND ANNOTATE EFFORTLESSLY

Tap-and-drag or use the selection handles to highlight in any one of several available colors. Write notes for a highlight and refer to them any time you need to. You can also share highlights as images and post them to Twitter or Facebook, or export all your highlights for use elsewhere.

■ GOODREADS INTEGRATION

Use Goodreads? Weve got you covered - shelve books, make status updates and post quotes, all right from the app.

■ ADD BOOKS WITH EASE

Add ePubs using your favorite cloud services - Dropbox, Google Drive, OPDS servers, and more. You can also use the in-app web browser to download ePubs, or add them using iTunes.

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OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES:

■ NIGHT MODE
Transition Hyphens reading interface to soothing, darker colors at night.

■ METADATA
Edit the title, author, subjects, covers and more of your books. Hyphen can even lookup book covers and metadata for you.

■ SHELVE & SORT
Add books to custom shelves, and sort by author, title, last read, or date added.

■ CUSTOM CSS & FONTS
Hyphen lets you import both your favorite fonts for use while reading, as well as CSS.

■ DEFINE & TRANSLATE
Translations of the text youre reading are only a tap away. Lookup words and terms in Wikipedia, Dictionary.com or Google.

■ TWO COLUMN SUPPORT
Got one of those large, spacious, king-sized, oh-my-lord-this-screen-is-so-big-I-shouldve-gotten-an-ipad-mini-instead,-its-so-big, why-is-it-so-big-sized screens? Use this setting to make reading more comfortable. You can also optionally only use two columns when your device is in landscape orientation.

■ VOCABULARY
Add words to a vocabulary list and export them easily.

■ INTERACTIVE
Tap and hold a link to open it in the in-app browser, or Safari. Images zoom in, letting you see every detail. Swipe through and jump between images throughout the text with the Image Viewer.

■ ADE PAGES SUPPORT
Hyphen utilizes ADE pages, so you’ll always have a cross-reader compatible way of finding and noting where you are in a book.

■ INCREDIBLY FAST
Download and import books in the blink of an eye. Hyphen’s ePub Rendering System is optimized so that there’s the least delay between you and the text.

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CONTACT & SUPPORT

Need help or have a question? Tweet me @hyphenreader on twitter, or email me at [email protected].

Pros and cons of Hyphen. app for iPhone and iPad

Hyphen. app good for

Hyphen my favourite ePub reader. The possibility to keep a vocabulary list (Hyphen can also automatically add words you lookup in the dictionary to your vocabulary list) is my favourite feature. Although currently the app crashes each time I try to export the list. Only downside is the gender-biased pre-selection of books from male authors only, that comes with Hyphen. This one should be easy to fix, though.
Great reading app for epubs. Love the extensive customization options. So many fonts! Tried the free version first. This version allows multiple books. Had to have it. Has swipe brightness control, dropbox and goodreads integration. Really well done.
Fantastic ebook reader — far more powerful and flexible than iBooks.
Hyphen is my new favorite ereading app (after having used iBooks, Marvin, MapleRead, Bluefire Reader, Mantano/Bookari, Aldiko, Kybook, Kindle, Nook, etc. in the past). • Being able to sync not only current page, but also annotations, bookmarks and my entire library of books via iCloud is too awesome for words • So many fonts to choose from, including light-weight and bold-face fonts • Easy to customize font-size, line-height, margins, background color, text color, more ... • Page-curl animations when turning a page!! Yay! • Adjust brightness with a vertical swipe — you choose whether the adjustment affects just the app or your entire device • Highlight, make notes, and export your annotations with ease • Customize what happens when you tap the left and right margins: turn to next page, previous page, or nothing at all — plus you choose how big the tap-zones are • ADE page numbers! • Did I mention the syncing thing? So awesome :) There are a lot of other features, including some I dont use, but will surely appeal to others. And yet, even with all of its many, many features, Hyphen is intuitive, easy to use, and doesnt feel overwhelming to set up.

Some bad moments

When it works its great, hangs and crashes regularly. iPad retina, IOS 9.3.4. Would be great if it wasnt so unstable, and no updates. Really!
Thoroughly enjoyed using Hyphen. Its easy to use, clean, and far more elegant than the default books App for iOS. Got me back into reading too. The Martian proved to be a great book, and Hyphens support for night mode and custom text colors made it easy to read late at night where some of my other apps seemed to harsh to look at. Would recommend!
First ios reader app Ive used that isnt awful. you can configure the text and adjust line spacing as well as line height.
Good to see the ebook reader app market heating up. Hyphen has a good start with an excellent interface. Customizations are endless. One major critique - getting books into it is a terrible experience. I utilize calibre and keep over 1200 books in a Dropbox folder. When you import from Dropbox, you are limited to one view - sorted by date modified. There isnt even a way to search. So I switched over to Marvin (another excellent iOS e-reader) & then sent it to Hyphen. IMHO, this should be built into the app. At least give me a search option.
Fantastic reading experience that allows you to fully customize everything. Really looking forward to version 2 which the developer says will include syncing before devices. Even now though, Im so happy to have an ereading app where my notes and highlights are actually useful and not just wasted effort.
After reading a review on MacStories I took a chance and purchased this app. I like some of the ideas this app has, like book syncing with services like Dropbox and settings specific for a given book. However, I found some issues that stopped me from using it on a daily basis. Links within books dont work at all. Tapping anything from a chapter link, footnote link, or a link to an external site either led nowhere or changed the page to the previous page. Also, like the MacStories reviewer noted, tapping to change pages on the edges is just too sensitive and leads to too many accidental page changes. Very frustrating and needs to be refined. Will revisit the app to see how its been improved. Till then Ill stick with iBooks.