Lector

Lector is an open-source Android application in the Reading & Writing category. It turns personal documents and pasted text into a paged reading view and can read the content aloud. The application is free to use and is licensed under GPLv3.

Users can open a TXT, Markdown, EPUB, or PDF file, select a whole folder, paste text, or share text to Lector from another application. It can scan a folder to create a library that remembers the books it contains, and it resumes each document where the reader last stopped. A page view and slider provide a way to move through an entire book.

While reading aloud, Lector highlights the current sentence and uses the text-to-speech voices already available on the Android device. Playback includes adjustable speed, a sleep timer, and controls designed for use while the application is in the background. These features support both silent reading and listening to documents without requiring a separate voice service.

Lector is designed for private, local reading, with no ads, accounts, trackers, network access, or permissions, and the text stays on the device. MirrorNest distributes the official build directly from its own storage and scans it for malware before publishing. This makes the catalog entry an Android download for an open-source reading tool while preserving its stated offline and privacy-focused operation.