What's New in Lectr 4.0 Book Recommendations Get personalised book recommendations based on your reading portrait. Your tags and themes are mapped to generic literary descriptors on-device before anything is sent. The server never sees your personal vocabulary. Thematic Search Search your notes and quotes by concept, not just keywords. Type "power" to find passages about authority, control, and influence (even if those exact words never appear). Powered by on-device NLEmbedding; nothing leaves your device. Book & Quote Sharing Share books and quotes via universal links. Recipients can add shared books to their library with one tap, with automatic duplicate detection. ISBN Scanner Improvements Three-tier metadata lookup (ISBNdb → Open Library) for better coverage of obscure and non-English titles. Now includes a flashlight toggle for low-light scanning.

What's New in 3.2 Reading Portrait A new on-device snapshot of your reading life. See the concepts you return to, how you feel about what you read, the colour system you've built with your tags, and where you engage most deeply — all computed privately on your device. Available from the home screen once you've read 10 or more books. Book-added card When you add a book, a card appears on the home screen with a link to the book and its author. Tap the author pill to jump straight to their other books in your library. Author ordering Multiple authors on a book now maintain a consistent display order. Drag to reorder them in the editor. Colour filtering Consistent colour-tag filtering across Notes, Quotes, and the combined view, with a cleaner "Show" toggle. Research tools Drag to reorder your research tools, and use cursor-aware variable insertion ({title}, {author}, {isbn}) when editing URLs. Stability Fixed a crash that could occur when deleting a book with saved quotes or notes.

Research Tools — configurable one-tap search links from any book detail page, with templated variables for title, author, publisher, and publication date. Settings — default sort order for Library and Notes & Quotes, per-device preferences, review and rating toggle. Performance — Library loads 50% faster, search 37% faster, tested with a 5,000-book library. Plus: refreshed empty states, improved onboarding, and a range of bug fixes.

Redesigned note and quote cards — neutral backgrounds with a coloured vertical strip on the left edge - mark your notes and quotes with a visual indicator Editorial quotation marks on all quote displays — a large opening curly quote gives passages a typographic feel Quotes always render in italics; notes in regular weight, for clear visual distinction Consistent card layout across Home and Notes & Quotes screens — book cover and title at the top of every card Dynamic text editor sizing — the note and quote editors now grow to match your content

2.0 is here. A faster, smarter, and more beautiful way to track your reading. Book Relations: Link related titles and manage connections between books. Rich Visuals: Cover thumbnails are now visible in rows and cards with high-performance caching. Librarian-Approved Sorting: Your library now intelligently sorts by Author Last Name and ignores leading articles (like "The" or "An") in titles. One-Tap Filters: Tap any author tag to instantly see their full bibliography in your collection, or use the new collapsible tag bar for a cleaner view. Inclusive Design: Full support for Dynamic Type and screen readers. Seamless Sync: Improved iCloud logic eliminates list flicker and provides a clear indicator during data imports. The Little Things: Floating labels, improved CSV imports, and a sleek new Privacy page.

v1.6 Release Notes App renamed to Lectr New Features - Swipe-to-delete with confirmation for notes and quotes - Per-book CSV export from the BookDetailScreen menu - Tag section now visible in Library even when no tags exist yet Bug Fixes - Fix double-tap creating duplicate notes and quotes - Fix double-tap creating duplicate books in BookFormScreen UI Polish - Style Save/Done buttons with borderedProminent for visual clarity - Add chevron to StatusBadge

What's New - Voice-to-text dictation — Tap the mic button in the note editor to dictate notes hands-free using on-device speech recognition. - iCloud sync — Your books, notes, and quotes now sync automatically across all your devices via iCloud. - Improved home screen — The home screen refreshes instantly when changes arrive from other devices. - Redesigned book detail — Edit and delete actions moved to a cleaner navigation bar menu. "View all" now sits in the section header for a tidier layout. - Polished cards — Notes and quotes show more text at a glance with a refreshed card design.