Developer ID-signed and notarized by Apple
Finder is your library. Linger over every page.
No library to manage. Nothing to import. A native EPUB reader for Mac and a simpler Apple Books alternative that puts you in control of the typography — light, quiet, and immersive.
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WHY SILVERLINGER
Keep your books where you want them.
Your books stay in your own folders—no importing, no duplicate files. Double-click any DRM-free EPUB, drag it in, press ⌘O, or use Open Recent. Even if you move or rename a file, Silverlinger can usually tell it’s the same book and restore your place, bookmarks, and notes.
Native windows, menus, and keyboard shortcuts.
Every book opens in its own Mac window, complete with a clean table of contents and in-book search that remembers your recent searches. An overlay sidebar keeps contents, bookmarks, and annotations close at hand without squeezing the page. In page mode, turn pages with your mouse wheel or trackpad; for horizontal text, click the left or right margin to go back or move on. Silverlinger loads chapters only while you’re reading, with no background helpers left running when you close a book.
Set your body font without losing the book’s styling.
Read in any font installed on your Mac, and fine-tune size, line height, letter spacing, and margins. See your current font, text size, line height, and letter spacing at a glance—reset a single setting, or return the book to its original typography with one click. Keep distinctive styling in block quotes and verse, or apply your font across the entire book. For Chinese books, common Windows font names automatically match fonts available on your Mac. Settle in with light, warm, or dark themes—or match your system appearance. The title bar, sidebar, and panels take on the page color too.
No account, no tracking, no changes to your books.
No sign-up, no ads, and no reading analytics. Your reading progress, bookmarks, highlights, and notes stay on your Mac. Silverlinger opens EPUBs read-only, leaving your original files untouched.
A quote from the book, paired with a note of your own.
Highlight a passage that stays with you and jot down your thoughts. Silverlinger formats the quote, your note, and the book’s title and author into a clean image card—ready to copy, save, or AirDrop. Choose from six color styles and adjust alignment, line spacing, and aspect ratio to fit wherever you share—Silverlinger remembers your choices for next time.
Follow your curiosity without losing your place.
Select any word and choose Look Up from the context menu to check the macOS dictionary. Click a footnote or cross-reference, then jump right back to where you were in one click—so looking things up never breaks your flow.
LESS IS MORE
To keep Silverlinger focused and lightweight, we’ve left these out on purpose:
Finder, Spotlight, folders, and tags are already the best tools for organizing files. Why force your books into a closed, redundant grid?
Designed exclusively for open, DRM-free books.
We focus on doing reflowable EPUB typography exceptionally well, rather than offering half-baked support for other formats.
Keep your books wherever you prefer — whether in iCloud Drive, Dropbox, or a local folder. No proprietary cloud service, no account to create.
Deep, immersive reading shouldn’t be interrupted by AI pop-ups or algorithms. To look up a word, Silverlinger uses the built-in macOS dictionary.
SPECIFICATIONS
Mac App Store · Silverlinger 1.6.3
Get Silverlinger from the Mac App Store, or download the Developer ID-signed and Apple-notarized ZIP directly.
Open the App Store link, choose Get or Install, then open Silverlinger from Applications. No ZIP file to unpack.
Quit Silverlinger, then drag the new app into Applications and replace the old app. Your reading data and EPUB files aren’t affected.
GOT QUESTIONS?
Silverlinger recognizes a book by its contents, so as long as the file is unchanged, it reconnects to your existing reading state. If you move the file to another drive, access to it is lost, or it’s deleted, you may need to select it again; your reading state is restored once Silverlinger confirms it’s the same book.
No. Silverlinger opens only DRM-free EPUB files. Kindle formats, DRM-protected books bought on Apple Books, and PDFs aren’t supported. Sites like Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks, and some publishers that sell directly, offer DRM-free EPUBs. Where to find free, DRM-free EPUBs →
You can keep books in iCloud Drive and open them on any of your Macs, but reading positions, bookmarks, highlights, and notes stay on the Mac where you created them. They don’t sync between devices.
Silverlinger is currently tested and supported on Apple Silicon Macs only. The download also includes Intel code, so it may run on an Intel Mac, but that isn’t tested, and fixes for Intel-only issues aren’t guaranteed.
The same app, distributed through different channels; available features depend on the version you install. The Mac App Store version can update automatically through the App Store. The direct download doesn’t update itself: starting with version 1.3.8, choose Check for Updates… from the app menu to see whether a new version is available, then download it and replace the old app.
Yes. Silverlinger can follow your system appearance, or you can choose a white, warm, or dark theme. The reader’s title bar, sidebar, and popovers take on the matching page color.
You can highlight in yellow, underline, add notes, and export a book’s highlights and notes to Markdown. Multi-color highlights aren’t supported yet. There’s a length limit when creating or merging annotations—the app will let you know if a selection is too long. Existing annotations export in full.
Email the developer at [email protected] with a brief description and screenshot. If helpful, include the book’s approximate size, language, or whether it contains complex images and layout.
Silverlinger turns a quote and your note into a clean image card that you can copy, save, or AirDrop to share wherever you like. The app never connects to social accounts or posts on your behalf.
In page mode, turn pages with the keyboard, the mouse wheel, or a trackpad swipe. For horizontal-text books, you can also click the left or right page margin to go back or move on. In scroll mode, just scroll as usual. If the sidebar or a popover is open, close it before clicking the margins.
