Hyphen. App Reviews

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.

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!

Fantastic ebook reader — far more powerful and flexible than iBooks.

This is a great app for reading --Ive tried a dozen or more reading apps and this one is my favorite at this point. There is one problem with it that hopefully theyll fix -- all of the books I have from one publisher dont have a table of contents even though the books do in other reading apps. Other than that its a great app.

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.

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.

As someone who has an obsessive need to control about every bit of aesthetic in his ebook reading experience, I greatly appreciate when a new contender comes along that tries to cater to my needs. As it stands, a lot of the epub/mobi reading apps have some great features, and would ALMOST be perfect if they gave us more control. But alas, they don’t. Hyphen in my mind is easily the best reader I’ve tried since KYBook and Marvin and for an initial release holds a lot of promise. Lot’s of control options and pretty seamless though sometimes counter-ios controls are baked in (swiping up from the bottom doesn’t just bring up your menu without bringing up the shortcut tray of ios). The organization could use some improvements as well. But hey it’s version one. Also I’m a bit weary of the price points as $6 dollars might discourage a lot of people from buying it. I think you are right at $3 with the addition of allowing people to do a trial/light version. As to what I’d LOVE/NEED to see to give this a five star and above score would be the inclusion of other formats such as mobi. A few apps in the store do both epub/mobi and honestly I don’t know why people don’t think this can be done in the same reader… Also fluid page turning animations like in iBooks. Again, a few apps have this and it just makes reading feel more fun and fluid. Like I’m REALLY reading a book. Lastly, dynamic page numbers in correlation to font size. I noticed that the pages always seemed static even when I greatly tweaked fonts and sizes. Keep up the great work!

A very good reader with a lot of options for reading, it almost is too much. I would like some presets, or the ability to save some. I also really miss having a scrolling mode, especially on the phone. It is hands down the best for adjusting things to how you like it, and on my iPad Pro with two columns its like a real book. Looking forward to seeing how it develops.

The in app control of format still needs work. Nice app but Marvin is the app to beat. Fonts are just not as nice as Marvins.

Theres plenty of eReaders in the App Store, but Hyphen is the best as far as giving me control over background colors, fonts, etc., provides just the right services (I love the Goodreads integration), isnt bloated with extra integration that Ill never use, and the developer is open to suggestions and feedback. Take it from someone who has already paid for many other apps: this is the best.

I really like the variety of ways in which the author of Hyphen allows the reader to personalize his/her reading environment. As someone who is somewhat visually challenged, I really appreciate this. I also like how easy it is for me to copy passages (from a DRM-free ePub) to put into my Day One reading journal. I like being able to access my extensive library (which I keep in Calibre in a Dropbox folder), but currently, the ordering of the files is by how recently accessed. I cant rearrange them alphabetically, etc. That needs to be fixed. Also, in reading a book on my iPad Pro I noticed that when a page (like the page after the title page in the particular book Im reading) cannot fill up the two-column spread, material appears twice, which is a bit annoying. I also tend to pick up and reading an ebook on a variety of iOS devices: My iPhone 6 Plus, iPad Mini, and iPad Pro. I would like the app to track where I am in the book for me so that if I open it on another device I am offered at least the option of proceeding to the furthest point read. Nit-picking aside, this app is off to a great start, and I hope that the developer continues to actively develop it!

Easy to use. Easy to move your books from other ereaders such as Marvin, which appear to no longer be supported. Clean and fast. If you read a lot on an iOS device, you should try this ereader!

Simpler than Marvin, easy on the eyes. Hyphen is my new ePub reader of choice.

This is the best alternative to the capricious and disappointing iBooks that I have found. It is lovely to look at and pleasant to use. It is similar to iBooks in many respects. I have only been using it a week and dont know yet how it will hold up to heavy use (as in thousands of books). It has some great features that iBooks lacks and the developer is very responsive, so I am hoping Hyphen will continue to improve and be stable.

The control of typography is great. Highlighting and annotation are great. Sharing is great. Very smooth and fast. It does split view for taking notes, which is beautiful. My only quibble, and its certainly not a small one, is that I cant sync my reading position or annotations between devices. I would love this feature, but I know its a big thing to implement.