Apricity: Read, Write, Focus

Apricity (n.): the warmth of the sun on a winter's day.

Some of the best reading happens late, when the house has gone quiet and a single lamp makes a small warm room inside the dark. Apricity is built around that feeling: a reading room for the PDFs and EPUBs you already have, and a desk for the notes you make from them.

YOUR BOOKS, ON REAL SHELVES

Add a PDF or EPUB and it stands on a wooden shelf, lit by a lamp at night and daylight by morning. Name your shelves and move books around. Search inside any book and see how much you've read this week. Furnish the room in one tap with 21 themes, or pick from 21 wallpapers (or your photo), 13 woods and seven lamps; set clocks, plants and photos on the shelves.

TWO WAYS TO READ

Original shows the page exactly as published, recoloured for the light you read by. Reflow sets the words like a book, in the face, size and spacing you choose; EPUBs open there. Scanned PDFs are read too.

WRITE ON YOUR PDFS

Markup puts the notebook's pens on a PDF's own pages: highlight a paragraph, circle a figure, answer a worksheet's questions, and the PDF stays as it was.

SOMEONE TO READ TO YOU

Read Aloud lights up the words as they're read, pauses like a narrator, keeps going with the screen locked and has a sleep timer. It reads your notebooks too. Siri knows it: "Read my book in Apricity." Choose Apple's voices or download Kokoro: ten natural English voices, on your device.

NOTEBOOKS THAT FEEL LIKE PAPER

Write with Apple Pencil or a finger; pinch in close and the page stays sharp. Neat Writing tidies your hand, and shapes snap clean. Scroll your pages or turn them like paper. Pick from nineteen inks at a width you set exactly, with a ruler, tape and laser pointer nearby. Put the pen down to scroll with a finger. Type onto the page, tape over answers to test yourself, and write small with the zoom window.

Pages come in 81 kinds of paper, from lined and Cornell notes to music staff, planners and colouring pages. Bring in a PDF to…