Press kit
Tomelet is live on the App Store and Google Play, so there is no embargo. Questions, interviews and review requests go to [email protected].
About Tomelet
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Tomelet is a free ebook reader for Android, iPhone and iPad, Mac, Windows, Linux and the browser. It keeps the publisher’s design, anchors highlights, notes and pen ink to the words, and on foldables lays out facing pages with the fold as the spine. Tomelet Sync adds end-to-end encrypted sync.
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Tomelet is an ebook reader built around one idea: what you do inside a book is yours. It keeps each book as its publisher designed it, anchors highlights, notes and pen ink to the words, and syncs them with end-to-end encryption only your devices can unlock. On an unfolded iPhone Duo or Galaxy Z Fold it shows facing pages with the crease as the spine. Apple is bringing Apple Pencil (USB-C) to both iPhone Duo displays, and Tomelet’s pen tools are ready for it. Tomelet opens EPUB, PDF, MOBI, comics and more, in 28 languages. The reader is free.
Tomelet is made by TOMELET PTE. LTD. in Singapore. Press contact: [email protected].
Fact sheet
- Name
- Tomelet, written with a capital T and never shortened.
- Company
- TOMELET PTE. LTD., Singapore
- Category
- Books & Reference: an ebook reader
- Current release
- Foldable reading ships in Tomelet 1.2.0: on the App Store since 19 October 2026 and on Google Play since 20 October 2026.
- What’s free
- The complete reader, not a trial: every format, highlights, notes, bookmarks, pen ink, export, OPDS catalogues and facing pages on foldables and tablets. No account, works offline. One skippable ad before a book opens: never inside the reader, never on the first day.
- Tomelet Sync
- US$9.99 a month after a 14-day free trial. No ads, end-to-end encrypted sync of books, reading positions, highlights, notes and ink, and 10 GB of encrypted storage. Cancel from the app store.
- Platforms
- Android (Google Play); iPhone, iPad and Mac (one App Store listing); Windows (Microsoft Store); Linux (portable download); Chrome, Edge and Firefox on a computer at web.tomelet.app.
- Languages
- App and website in 28 languages, with right-to-left scripts, vertical Japanese and Chinese, and ruby.
- Formats
- EPUB and EPUB 3, PDF, MOBI, AZW3, FB2, CBZ, DOCX, TXT, Markdown and HTML; Readium LCP with its passphrase. Other DRM is identified and explained, never circumvented.
- Privacy
- Encrypted on the device before upload, with keys only the reader’s devices hold: the server stores data it cannot read. A new device joins only with approval from an existing one or the Recovery Key.
- Foldables
- Facing pages on the inner display of iPhone Duo and Android foldables, with the crease as the spine. Right-to-left and vertical books open from the right. Fold the phone and the same place continues on the cover screen; unfold it and the spread returns. Marks, an open toolbar and a half-typed note survive. When an Android foldable reports that it is half open, Tomelet adds book and tabletop layouts. Part of the free reader.
- Pen on iPhone Duo
- Apple is bringing Apple Pencil (USB-C) to both iPhone Duo displays, and Tomelet’s pen tools meet it: write in the margins of EPUB and PDF, highlight with one stroke, ink with the Pencil while fingers turn the page, every mark synced.
- Links
- tomelet.app/foldable · App Store · Google Play
- Press contact
- [email protected]
How the fold becomes a spine
Apple published ten design patterns for iPhone Duo. Tomelet maps each one onto Android’s foldable interfaces too, so the same reader behaves the same way on both. In plain words:
- Folding is not leaving. Closing or opening the phone changes the screen, not the book. Tomelet remembers your place by its position in the text, not by page number, because the page count changes with the screen. Nothing reopens, nothing jumps, and a note you were typing is still there.
- Size, not rotation. The layout follows how much room there is, never which way the phone is turned. The iPhone Duo’s inner screen ignores rotation locks, and Android 17 does the same on large screens.
- The crease is a no-tap zone. Tomelet centres the gutter on the fold and keeps buttons, tap zones and selection handles off it. A pen stroke drawn across the crease is split between the two pages.
- Two panes when there’s room. The reading spread is the two-pane layout. The library becomes a list beside a detail pane on the wide screen and collapses to one pane on the cover.
- Controls on the outer edges. When the screen is shared between two pages, controls stay at the edges, away from the fold.
- The hinge changes the arrangement, not the book. On an Android foldable that reports it is half open like a book, there are two pages and nothing interactive on the crease. Flat on a table, the page takes the top half and the controls the bottom half.
- Sharing the screen. Beside another app, Tomelet shows one page and makes no guess about where the fold is.
- The keyboard. Search and note fields keep their text through a fold.
- Built with the current SDK. The iOS app is built with Xcode 27.1 and the iOS 27.1 SDK, which lets it fill the iPhone Duo’s inner screen edge to edge instead of running letterboxed.
- One book, every screen. The same spread appears on tablets and on phones turned sideways: two pages when two fit comfortably, one when they don’t.
And the pen. Apple is bringing Apple Pencil (USB-C) to both iPhone Duo displays, and Tomelet’s pen tools meet it on every page: write in the margins of EPUB and PDF alike, highlight a line with one stroke, ink while your fingers turn, pan and zoom, and find every mark on your other devices through Tomelet Sync. A stroke drawn across the crease is split per page, so each half stays on its own page.
Two things Tomelet deliberately does not do: page effects that follow the hinge angle (Apple describes the angle as being for effects, not layout), and a second Tomelet window on iPhone.
How we test
The foldable layout claims on this page and on /foldable/ rest on the evidence below. Each row names the device or tool, the build, what was checked and when. Simulators and emulators reproduce the screen sizes and the fold; a retail device row is added the day one is tested.
| Device or tool | Build | What was checked | Date | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| iPhone Duo simulator (Xcode 27.1) | iOS 1.2.0 source | The full release journey (import, read, annotate, export) on the inner display | 13 Oct 2026 | Passed |
| Fold and unfold at iPhone Duo sizes | Automated widget tests | Place, highlights, notes and ink kept across fold and unfold; one page on the cover screen | 30 Sep 2026 | Passed |
| Pixel 9 Pro Fold emulator (Android 15) | Android 1.2.0 source | The full release journey as two facing pages; three fold and unfold rounds; book and tabletop layouts on Android | 2 Oct 2026 | Passed |
| Large-screen input at 841×701 dp | Automated widget tests | Every keyboard, mouse and trackpad item on Google Play’s large-screen checklist | 17 Oct 2026 | Passed |
| Book and tabletop layouts on iPhone Duo | — | Hinge postures are offered on Android only; on iPhone Duo the spread stays centred on the fold | — | Android only |
| Retail iPhone Duo and Galaxy Z Fold | — | — | — | Next |
| Speed on hardware | — | Tomelet publishes no speed figures until they are measured on a device | — | Next |
Screenshots
The current screenshots, captured from the app itself, are on the App Store and Google Play listings. For a particular screen, book or language at full resolution, write to [email protected].
Brand assets
Use the mark as supplied: don’t recolour, crop or redraw it. Write the name as Tomelet.
App markPNG, 512 × 512
App mark, vectorSVG
Social cardPNG, 1200 × 630
Contact
Press, interviews and review requests: [email protected]. TOMELET PTE. LTD., Singapore.